Touhou/STG thread

[Anonymous No.]

Talk about shooting and dodging things, asking for help, posting replays, posting live streams, whatever.

Just captured this card. Not so hard as i thought. Satori's recollection card may be harder.

[Anonymous No.]

i'm stuck on level 6 of shoot the bullet

i'm really bad at this

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

Still working on TD Normal
I feel good today.

twitch.tv/exxelent

[Anonymous No.]

I had...a bit more trouble with that card. This was awhile ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9445729
Bad at video games.
Real men stubbornly play through Hard on any game even though they can't get past stage 4.

[Anonymous No.]

yay! I finally did it with default lives.

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

>>9445729
Going back at it in about 10 minutes, playing TD music for now while I set it up.

[Anonymous No.]

After playing on 90FPS for a few weeks, now i see bullets on 60FPS moving too slow and i can't stand that. The good thing is i can beat 60FPS any time i want, my skill improved greatly. The bad thing is i constantly want to increase FPS further. Each time i beat a game, i increase 10 more FPS. Guess i'll reach 120 FPS for every games soon.

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>>9447284
wow you are so cool anon.

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>>9446686
>>9445729
Darn i missed it. I was in the other STG thread and didn't know about this one till now. Will you be streaming again anytime soon?

[Anonymous No.]

twitch.tv/asslorder

I will be failing to 1cc PCB for a couple of hours.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9447328
>Sign up or log in to chat

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>>9447328
It's bad enough watching T restart a hundred times when he's trying to set a new record, but you keep restarting before making it through the first couple stages AND you suck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9447328
Borders and bombs. Choose SakuyaB and give the X button some sweet, sweet love.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9447537
But T sucks, too... just not as much as him.

[Anonymous No.]

stop bullying guys

[Anonymous No.]

>>9445995
Congrats!

[Anonymous No.]

Did this run after never playing PCB for several months and using VSync for the first time. Capped all stage 6 cards too. My best Normal 1CC run. This is also my first Reimu B run. I did this run because I wanted to use Reimu B for Extra stages and PCB extra/phant were the last ones on my Touhou kill list.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9448188
It seems I'm an Autistic for not posting replay . . .
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22798

[Anonymous No.]

Stream, please. Somebody! Anybody!

[Anonymous No.]

>>9447327
If I got it right he streams at 5-6pm PST most of the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9447591
If you want to see how somebody really sucks you should follow the guy named Seppo who only plays IN easy since everything else is too hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9448417
The STG thread can't live without a stream for several hours, that is what has become of it.

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>>9448850
Posts are too infrequent nowadays anyway. Might be a reason why it's dead.

[Anonymous No.]

Any tips for Sakuya's misdirection?

[Anonymous No.]

It bothers me how these threads slowly went from playing the games and dickwaving about score to attention whoring through streams. What happened?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9449755
Assuming you mean the midboss spellcard, don't move very much. Each anything is about to hit you move slightly to the right or left.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9449755
Like the other guy said, don't move too much, and also stick to one side of the screen, because that's where Sakuya teleports to.

>>9449857
It's probably just the same 2 or 3 people asking for streams all the time.

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>>9449857
It's better than having an entire thread be derailed by some guy coming in and dickwaving about how shitty everybody is when they can't make it to the TLB in a CAVE game.

Though, it was entertaining seeing the threads go to shit after such posts, it isn't exactly quality discussion. Score discussion is always nice when it's in a civil manner, but that never happens.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9449990
>It's better than having an entire thread be derailed by some guy coming in and dickwaving about how shitty everybody is when they can't make it to the TLB in a CAVE game.
No it's not.

[Anonymous No.]

Well let's get some actual discussion in this thread.
What would you say is your most impressive STG achievement and what is your current goal?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9450016
Most impressive achievement is getting stage 3 of UFO Lunatic down, current goal is to get stage 4 down.

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>>9450016
Most impressive I guess would be my not-abysmal score in DDPDOJ.
My current goal is to play a shmup again at some point.

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>>9450016
I 1cced DDP

Yet I still can't 1cc any of the touhou games yet on normal or harder

[Anonymous No.]

>>9450028
Surely from 1-ALLing DDP you should have learned how to exercise your X button to the full extent of the jam.

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>>9450028
You lying or something? I only 1cced MoF and I can't get to stage 3 of DDPDOJ without using a continue.

Hell, I can't even get to stage 4 on espgaluda without continuing, and I play it almost everyday (I love the ost)

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>>9450016
UFO Lunatic 90FPS. Now working on GFW Hard 90FPS no freeze, should be delightfully difficult.

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>>9450037
>>9450043
The thing is i'm only good at DDP

give me any other STG and I suck shit

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>>9450028
I've cleared the first loop of Ketsui but I haven't 1CC'd any Touhou on hard because they're too boring.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone have the picture that shows how to do all of rin's spells on normal? I just can't beat this bitch.

[Anonymous No.]

Here you go.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9450016
I found an easy, graze-friendly way to clear the final fairy before Mokou.

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>>9450044
Heh.

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>>9449857
I personally don't post about my scores very much anymore because /jp/ responds negatively when I do. I used to post in these threads constantly, but now I can't muster enough motivation to do much more than observe from a distance.

>>9450044
GFW Normal no freeze is already bordering on humanly impossible. Don't get ahead of yourself.

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>>9450044
> GFW Hard 90FPS no freeze
Is that even possible ?

[Anonymous No.]

Any way to improve response time on Anex86? Controls feel heavily delayed, and feels like my character is on ice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9451607
use T98-Next instead

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

>>9445729
TD 1CC complete!
I really need to stop getting those 0-life 0-bomb endings

[Anonymous No.]

>>9451642
お(・∀・)め(・∀・)で(・∀・)と(・∀・)う！

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck lasers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9451642
Congrats!!

>>9451656
My thoughts exactly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9451642
Congrats. What is next?

[Anonymous No.]

Mystic square is so much harder than lotus land story whyy ;-;. I did a 1cc of LLS with 2 lives left, and I died 8 times. I played MS and after beating shinki I had died 8 times, and had to use a continue. Damn stingy extra lives.
Also the maid stage 5 boss is harder than shinki is what the heck.

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

>>9451731
I'm gonna try out Double Spoiler, since I have shamefully still not played either of the photography games.

Not gonna play it for too long, because my next goal is 1CC SA.

Took me three days to 1CC TD, pretty shameful considering how it's supposedly the easiest Touhou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9451790
I recommend playing StB first, DS's added rotate will spoil you when you play StB.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9451790
How many Touhous have you 1CC'd?

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>>9451630
Oh god, that one is even worse.

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>>9451607
Works fine for me. Get better at the game and stop looking for excuses scrub a dub dub.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452058
>Works fine for me
Then it must definitely mean it works for everyone else.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452171
It means they should make it work. If it works for me it can work for you too.

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

>>9451872
Just two, I've only been playing the games for two months, I was ashamed of that fact and decided to start.
PCB was my first, I played the majority of the games and decided that it would be my first 1CC, I spent probably a month off-and-on to get it.
I just did TD a few hours ago.

>>9451800
I'll probably end up playing both, thanks for the recommendation.

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>>9452190
Funny, because I never said it didn't work. I merely asked for a way to improve response time, and it turns out that ASync was causing the delay. On Sync at 1 in the settings, everything is a lot better. Anyway, thanks for the wonderful help.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452195
>my next goal is 1CC SA
I'd advice you to put that to the last. SA is the hardest to 1cc on Normal.

[Anonymous No.]

When one says "1CC", does that mean beat the game WITH or WITHOUT continues?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452470
1 credit clear.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452470
One credit clear
No continues.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452446
I know, that's why I'm going for it,
>>9452470
It means that you use no continues, "1 Credit Clear", as if you were playing the games on an arcade machine and only put in one quarter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452499
>>9452483
>>9452482
... oh.
my
god.
I've never...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452518
You thought it was "One Continue Clear"?

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>>9452538
she prolly did. let's all point and laugh at her.

ha ha ha

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452518
Spit it out anon-kun

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452546
No need to bully her.

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>>9452546
We should use 0CC to avoid confusing newbie.

Do you guys know anything about game crashing on SA's practice ? My game always crashed when i finish practice Marisa/Alice in any stage. I never got crashed with other teams.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452582
How would you play a game using 0 credits?

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>>9451174
>I personally don't post about my scores very much anymore because /jp/ responds negatively when I do. I used to post in these threads constantly, but now I can't muster enough motivation to do much more than observe from a distance.

This. The good players don't bother with these threads any more because of the sperglords that are always screaming about dickwaving and attention whoring. /jp/ can't be helped.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452601
Personally I don't mind. I like the threads for what they are. I't more entertaining to watch livestreams of my friends then watch top score replay #348239.

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>>9452587

A strange game...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9452607
Have to agree with this. Nothing wrong with dickwaving about score either, it definitely means you're better.

[Anonymous No.]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.]

It´s one thing to dickwave and another one to be some asshole. Who says some guys first clear is a piece of shit and he should go kill himself and choke on a dick.
Probably some shitposter on system11

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>>9453009
If you don't get at least 95% of the world record, you're a piece of garbage that should jump off the tallest building in your city.

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>>9453009
why does system11 hate touhou anyway?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9453305
They hate everything.

[Anonymous No.]

anyone would like to stream?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9445746
>I had...a bit more trouble with that card. This was awhile ago.

Get on my level.

9-6 was the worse spellcard of my life. I had just started to play seriously shmup at the time. Just had level 9 unlocked, I went for 9-6 straight. Around 6900 tries to get first clear. This was back in 2005.

Now I can easily 1CC all games in Hard, some of them in Lunatic. Extra all cleared.

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>>9453347
full autism

[Anonymous No.]

>>9453350
Nothing wrong with being determined.

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>>9451790
I don't know why everyone always says TD is so easy. Maybe that's 'cause they abuse Trance mode? TD is extremely stingy on resources, a few mistakes and your run is over. And you're very prone to making mistakes in that game because of collecting spirits and fairy hitboxes...

Anyways, good luck with SA. It's on a whole other level than PCB and TD.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9453725
>abuse

No, the way that lets you win is the proper way to do it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9453725
>It's not easy because I refuse to do it the easy way because of something arbitrary
Stop being silly.

[Anonymous No.]

How do you do this streaming-ish part on stage 4 of MoF? I got through it somehow on normal, but it keeps kicking my ass on hard.

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>>9451174
I'm not getting ahead of myself, I'm just very masochistic and stubborn. I know I'll probably never be able to do 90FPS no freeze GFW Hard, but god dammit, I'll try.

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>>9453854
Don't start on the middle, it makes that part much harder, also due to scoring it's much better to bomb that part than to dodge it.

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>>9453854
Skip it by timing out Momiji.

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>>9453743
In that case, you might as well as always play on easy mode, max starting lives and slow mode on all the time. I bet you're also the type that says IN is easy only because you managed to pull a few crappy 1cc's faster that in the other games.

[Anonymous No.]

I think GFW is the best game. The absence of stage practice actually forces you to become good at it, rather than memotrashing everything.

[Anonymous No.]

Got some time. Will try SA normal couple of times, I guess. I hope that somebody here will help me if anything...

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>>9454757
Meh. Dropped dead at the very beginning of L6. I definitely didn't like the game. Everything is too freaking fast. Seriously.
Oh well, let's go and try some EoSD hard instead...

[Anonymous No.]

bored so going to stream for a little bit

http://www.livestream.com/cutefcchannel

[Anonymous No.]

is riz going to be streaming today?

[Anonymous No.]

I got some UFO Lunatic stage 4 practice in and like to think I didn't have the worst run in the world considering it was my first time. Murasa was a clusterfuck, though. Any tips, /jp/? 'Sides "Don't run into random bullets, faggot," I'm working on that.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22826

[Anonymous No.]

bampu

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

>>9450016
My most impressive achievement would be my first LNBNUFO clear. My first one is still a little closer to my heart than my second one. My current goal is to LNBNUFO with every shot type, counterstop, and achieve a NMNBNUFO run.
>>9451607
There has to be something in the config. If you want, I can upload my version. It's probably not setup perfectly, but it might help. You can also ask someone who plays the PC98 games a lot. I rarely play them.
>>9451790
>Took me three days to 1CC TD, pretty shameful considering how it's supposedly the easiest Touhou.
I don't think it is. Also, three days for any 1cc is great.
>>9452582
I have never heard of such a crash. I would reinstall the game.
>>9453347
>Around 6900 tries to get first clear.
But you felt that you had improved, didn't you? As long as you are dodging intense bullet patterns, I don't think you are doing anything wrong.
>>9453854
Stall Momiji.
>>9455800
I just read this thread for a first time. I am thinking about doing it later today, but I will do it at least in this weekend. Also, you are free to ask me personally. I'm not hiding anywhere.
>>9456047
Let me see...

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>>9450016
>What would you say is your most impressive STG achievement
idk lol

>and what is your current goal
1.4-1.6 billion in Daioujou BL, 1+ billion in Akai Katana Zetsu

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>>9452582

Odd, i've been practicing Malice for a few days prior and it would always crash when I tried to save my replays.

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>>9454481
Don't be an idiot. The world record runs of Ten Desires (excluding Extra) capture maybe 2 or 3 spell cards total. None of the other games allow you to skip through everything like this. Not even MoF or SA.

>>9456047
All her noncards are static relative to Murasa's position. Try to make the waves spawn low during Murasa's second spell, then use your extra room to position yourself in preparation for the next wave. Keep up the pace during the survival so you don't get stuck. There are also rhythmic positioning tricks to make it completely trivial.
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=15104

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>>9459289
Damn, I didn't even watch your replay. It's like you literally saw Murasa for the first time, on any difficulty. Nevermind, none of the advice applies yet, since you haven't even put in enough of your own effort to warrant it.

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>>9459289
>The world record runs of Ten Desires (excluding Extra) capture maybe 2 or 3 spell cards total.
Yes, TD, that's cute and all, but you fully missed the whole point of my highly sarcastic post. I don't blame you, sarcasm and the like are really hard to tell through plain text. And for further caution, I'm not arguing against anything about the WR stuff you said.

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>>9459324
>>9459289
Oops, I worded my post quite oddly. It was the first time I saw Murasa, yeah. What I was asking for was tricks for the stage itself, if there was something I could do to summon more UFOs and such.

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>>9459593
But cheers anyway.

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>>9459593
I assumed that you've seen her on lower difficulties if you were jumping into Lunatic, so I tossed out some general advice based on my assumption of your current skill level and your likely problems. I'm reluctant to give more specific advice about the stage since you have more general problems, like not being able to dodge bullets. Play more, and I'll give you specific tips if you have specific questions, e.g. "How should I approach the midboss orb? Is it static or random? What are the conditions to make it drop an extend instead of a bomb?".

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>>9459636
Yeah, sorry for being a failure. When I started out months ago I thought "If I do this on easier difficulty levels I'll me do shit that won't work on higher ones, right? I should probably start on this Lunatic level!"
I'm doing really well in stages 1-3 though, so I think I can do this with enough autism.

Nue drops an extend if you don't get hit at all in the four waves she fires, right? I think she also waives the 4th wave if you get hit before that. That static or random thing is a good one, though. I heard from Riz it's not static in stage 6, so in the few times I practised stage 4 I assumed it's not static there either. If it's static, I should be able to figure my own way around it.

[Anonymous No.]

anyone streaming?

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

>>9459713
Nope
Tired
Don't want to start SA while tired.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9459713
I could but I've never really streamed before and I want to work out my kinks before putting a sub-par stream up.

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

I grinded EoSD LNB today and I lost a ton of runs at the last minute. I feel like it should be easy for me, but I keep making silly mistakes. I think that I just need to rest and let the practice sink in. I'm sure that I could do it each time I try if I practice a little. I also worked on jp-shmup today. I really need to make some updates for it. It's quite exciting to be able to have fun and play something that I created.
>>9459671
Nue drops an extend if you don't get hit or use a bomb. I'm not even sure if she waives her fourth wave; where did you hear that? Also, Stage 4 Nue-ball is technically non-static because it shifts a few pixels, but that's just a minor detail and negligible in the actual game.
>>9459671
I'll do it tomorrow. I have a friend that I am waiting for to stream with. It should be interesting.
>>9459738
It's not that hard and you can always work on it while you are streaming. The audience can be very helpful in figuring out bugs.

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>>9459850
I might give it a shot tomorrow, my internet tends to be flakey late night because I live in a small town.

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

>>9445729
Streaming my first time ever playing DS.
Yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9459850
Ah, I just heard that from a friend. Doesn't appear to be so, though.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB went from my least favourite Touhou to my most favourite when I discovered VSync. This spell card is one of my favourites. (screen capped this one myself)

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460064
What exactly does the Vsync patch do?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460083

Removes vsync.

EoSD, PCB, and IN have lag issues where the game will buffer three or more frames ahead. This makes the game look very smooth, yes, but it makes it so all of your input has a delay. Every image you see is what's happening at least three frames ago, so all of your actions share that same delay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9459929
I thought DS stood for Deathsmiles. The fuck is this 2hu shit? Reported.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460089
Too bad DeathSmiles is even shittier

dohohoho

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>>9460093

What he said
>>9460083

It used to have such bad delay that I didn't like the game at all and after the patch got rid of the delay, it quickly became the funnest game of the series (for me).

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460150
It is pretty shitty if you're a fucking casual that only plays for cheesy clears.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460193
DeathSmiles was a horrible game.
>if you're a fucking casual that only plays for cheesy clears.
It´s funny that you say so because it´s the scoring system thats a stinking pile of dogshit in DeathSmiles case.

[Anonymous No.]

Quick hour of practice later I can pretty comfortably make it a bit past Nue midboss without missing or bombing. After that I'm not sure if I should bomb to summon UFOs or... not bomb, to save bombs.

I'm still quite pleased with my progress so far, I usually take a few days to get better at a stage, and that's with replays.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460193
>It is pretty shitty if you're a fucking casual that only plays for cheesy clears.

Whatever makes you feel better about your bad tastes alleged mr "CLOVER-YMN".

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460193
he is a casual because he does not like the games I do.

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

I don't have an explanation for this.

http://youtu.be/t93Bf7UnoGI

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460434
Best part of the stream.

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>>9460258
>the scoring system thats a stinking pile of dogshit in DeathSmiles case.

y

[Anonymous No.]

>>9460434
Fuck, I missed something amazing.

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>>9460279
>one of the Cave's most popular series
>games that have been played extensively by the most elite players in the genre

If you think either of the Deathsmiles games are bad, you don't know shit about shmups.

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>>9461005
You are just repeating what this guy said

>>9460296

Modified a bit though

he does not know shit about shmups because he does not like the games I do


Progear no Arashi was better in everyway to DeathSmiles. Hell Akai Katana Shin is a better game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9461129
At least they're all better than any 2hu.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh god. I... I 1cc'ed PCB. This is my first 1cc ever. This feeling is... truly amazing. But... I know I'm not good and I have much, much to learn.
So... Would be anyone so kind and analyze a bit my gameplay? I'd be very, very glad if someone could say on what should I work on.

Here's my shitty first 1cc:
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22855

And yes, I know I fucked up big time that last spellcard, but I was really excited... I guess I need to be more collected.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9462539
Sure, I'll give you some criticis-
>easy mode
Aren't you just playing around?

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

>>9462539
I don't think you need very much advice. The only thing I can tell you is to break your borders and use bombs more. You didn't break a single border and you didn't use a single bomb until Yuyuko's third-to-last spellcard. I think that you could easily clear this on the higher difficulties. Both your dodging and strategy is good; you just need to practice and get used to the game.
I would also recommend you to watch some replays:
http://score.royalflare.net/th07/levelchar7.html#L0
http://replays.gensokyo.org/index.php?u=&g=7&p=sakuyaa&t=0&d=1&c=1&ch=0

[Anonymous No.]

Which is easiest to 1cc?

EoSD, PCB or MoF?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9462776
MoF

[Anonymous No.]

>>9462776
MoF, by a long shot. You can bomb every single spellcard in the game and still 1cc it.

[Anonymous No.]

What are the rules that govern whether or not certain enemies that drop bomb/life spirits appear?

I'm trying to work my way through TD's Hard mode, and I'm attempting to memorize all the right places to Trance to collect the most resources, but sometimes the amount of resources that the enemies drop is inconsistent.

Specifically, at the end of Stage 2 right before the boss, SOMETIMES there are some enemies that drop Life spirits, but other times only the ones that drop Bomb spirits show up. What's going on?

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

>>9462791
I think it might depend on how fast you beat the midboss, but I'm not sure.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't get people who do continues. what's the point if you continue?
me, the moment I pres continue I lose all my desire to win and don't even bother to doge bullets

[Anonymous No.]

>>9462842
It allows you to dodge more bullets instead of having to go though 5 stages just to get a chance to dodge them.

Retard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9462842
Sometimes continuing can be nice because you can play the rest of the game more confidently and relaxed. Like, not playing defensively as you would if you were trying to secure a 1cc.
There's not really a reason NOT to continue

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

I just realized that I've been playing for hours and I haven't even eaten breakfast yet. This is not taking it easy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9462791
There are several parts of TD where killing enemies quickly will cause more resource dropping ones to appear.

>>9462842
To learn the later parts of the game.

[Anonymous No.]

Just beat TD on Hard!

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22860

I'm really proud against my fight against Miko. This was my first time ever fighting her on Hard, and I captured all but two of her spell cards! I only died once against her, near the very end on her final spell card. Also, is it just me, or are her nonspells harder than her spell cards? I bombed on a lot of her nonspells when I didn't need to, as I was used to needing to use a bomb on Normal.

This was also my first time ever going beyond the beginning of Stage 4. I'm one of those people who will stop and start over a million times if the beginning doesn't go well enough for my liking, and this was the first one where it felt like everything went right enough for me to continue on.

Anyway, I now have a Hard 1cc of EoSD, PCB, MoF, and TD; only IN, SA, and UFO remain. I'm going to use IN as a breather between playing the latter two, as I'm scared to death of the aforementioned latter two. SA Normal 1cc was a nightmare for me, and common belief is that UFO's Hard is more difficult than SA's Hard. Just trying to imagine SA's Hard mode is a horribly scary thought.

I know I can eventually do it, though. I beat Koishi; I can beat anything!

[Anonymous No.]

>>9463364
Grats brah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9463364
>Just trying to imagine SA's Hard mode is a horribly scary thought.
SA Normal is considered to be tough compared to other games, but its Hard and Lunatic don't scale up like, say, UFO. UFO Hard and Lunatic kick all the other Windows games' asses, while you can still bomb and NoDodge through SA on every difficulty.

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

I knew I should have taken a break before starting stage 6.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9463413
>UFO Hard and Lunatic kick all the other Windows games' asses
If you find bullets that slowly crawl towards you difficult to dodge, yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9463563
You could always try it again on livestream, right?

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

>>9463692
I'll do it later today. I'm going to take a break for now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9463364

Holy fucking shit SA's hard mode is tough. After many, MANY tries, I managed to die just after defeating Satori, dying as her bullets were disappearing. I deathbombed her last spell card like four times in a row! This shit is INSANE.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22863

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

>>9463770
That does seem really hard.
Coming from someone who doesn't like to bomb until after he's dead, there were a couple bombs where I thought you were for sure in the clear.

But nice deathbombs though!

[Anonymous No.]

>>9463596
Sure, Lunatic Most Valuable Vajra and Star Maelstrom have slow moving bullets that are easy to dodge...

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

Starting SA Normal.
This is going to go badly.

http://www.twitch.tv/exxelent

[Anonymous No.]

>>9463829
>Coming from someone who doesn't like to bomb until after he's dead
how's that usually work out for ya

[Anonymous No.]

>>9464348
Why do you start your streams on such a crude hours? It's 02:15AM here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9464440
> Anonymous 07/28/12(Sat)20:15 No.9464440
>20:15
You can't really complain when the site itself is in EST.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9450016
My current goal is to get my computer back in shape, it does not run touhous anymore for some reason. Or I could just forget about going on and quit touhou for good, but quitting never was my thing.

Achievementwise, nothing new. The IN easy clears I am proud of are Border team, Magic team and Yuyuko. Other stuff is not worth mentioning.

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

I feel like my hands are on fire. I play these games a lot. I want to continue, but I'm not doing very well. I guess part of the reason why I have been playing so much lately is my short pilgrimage from UFO. It's just one of those phenomenons that make the games easier to grind. I want to finish this and get back to UFO, but I keep having EoSF moments. I am sure that I could clear this easily if I take a break and come back fresh, but I don't want to stop playing. I am being somewhat masochistic right now, but I'm enjoying myself. As long as I am dodging bullets, I don't see a problem.

One thing with EoSD is that some of its hitboxes feel SoEW-tier to me, especially on the fairies. I am 100% positive that I will not run into them and I do anyway. It's pretty annoying. Although this is a very minor quirk in UFO, I've had some silly moments with the fairies there as well, but UFO doesn't have fairies chase and ram you like EoSD does. It's a little annoying that I have lost several runs to this. The bubbles are another thing. I don't like very much them in any game. They are some of my least favorite kind of danmaku and EoSD has different hitboxes for them than the newer games, which is something that is hard to get used to. I think UFO executes them well, but I don't like the way they are used in EoSD. It's not as big of a deal if you are just visiting, but it matters a lot more in a LNB run. I probably just need a break.

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

I feel like my hands are on fire. I play these games a lot. I want to continue, but I'm not doing very well. I guess part of the reason why I have been playing so much lately is my short pilgrimage from UFO. It's just one of those phenomenons that make the games easier to grind. I want to finish this and get back to UFO, but I keep having EoSF moments. I am sure that I could clear this easily if I take a break and come back fresh, but I don't want to stop playing. I am being somewhat masochistic right now, but I'm enjoying myself. As long as I am dodging bullets, I don't see a problem.

One thing with EoSD is that some of its hitboxes feel SoEW-tier to me, especially on the fairies. I am 100% positive that I will not run into them and I do anyway. It's pretty annoying. Although this is a very minor quirk in UFO, I've had some silly moments with the fairies there as well, but UFO doesn't have fairies chase and ram you like EoSD does. It's a little annoying that I have lost several runs to this. The bubbles are another thing. I don't like them very much them in any game. They are some of my least favorite kind of danmaku and EoSD has different hitboxes for them than the newer games, which is something that is hard to get used to. I think UFO executes them well, but I don't like the way they are used in EoSD. It's not as big of a deal if you are just visiting, but it matters a lot more in a LNB run. I probably just need a break.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm streaming some Touhou in a couple of minutes. http://www.livestream.com/touhougameplay
I hope you can make it.

[Anonymous No.]

hey /jp/ I suck at this game. I use a joystick, the d-pad. Is that a bad idea? I should not play in normal?
Sometimes the bullet curtain is just too thick and fast, how I am supossed to dodge at those moments? I have to memorize every patron in the game so I can be on position beforehand to dodge it and make the next one go where I want to?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9466364
Find what fits best for you in terms of control. If you do use a D-Pad don't use a cheap one, use a PS3 controller if you have one with DS3 tools. When dodging try not to move more than you have to. The best way to become better at these games is practice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9466383
ok, so no need to mindeslly memorize each pattern, that is good.
I have a ps3 controller exactly.
About bombs, I feel cheap while using them, I try to use them in between bosses and in bosses, when they are not using the spell cards. But is ridiculous, I cant even beat the game and I worry about trying to do spell cards right!

[Anonymous No.]

>>9466397
Actually, memorizing each pattern is exactly what you should do. And don't worry about the bombs, I feel the same way. Sometimes you just gotta survive, even at the cost of your pride.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9466397
You don't get the bonus if you get hit anyway. I used to have the same problem. You just have to let go of it. Dying with bombs and missing out on the spell card bonus is worse than just missing out on the bonus, especially considering your score on your first few runs won't be notable regardless.

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

>>9466364
I would never recommend using anything but a keyboard. Also, you shouldn't worry about memorizing any patterns, especially when you are just starting out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9466446
The difference between keyboard and pad is negligible even at a high level of score competing. He's better off using what he is comfortable with.

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

>>9466345
This stream is very fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9466765
>Who's the girl in red dress?
>Ur mom

It's a bunch of normalfags drinking beer and commenting Touhou.

[cute No.]

>>9466345
>>9466765
so much energy, i'm to drunk for that much fun right now, sorry

[Anonymous No.]

>>9466345
You guys should talk about Touhou more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9466857
It was too scary and vibrant, I prefer LPs that take it easy.

[Anonymous No.]

Does any one have the original SA game ?

I want to reinstall it to get rid of crashing after Malice practice. All the English versions i found didn't work. Although my game crashed with both th11.exe and th11e.exe, i still hope that the original version works.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9467916
Try the batch torrent on nyaa.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9467916
I was under the impression that this was just a bug with SA.

[Anonymous No.]

I have a challenge for you guys:
- Stage: SA stage 1
- Team: Reimu/Aya
- Difficulty: Practice on Normal or above
- Condition: Pacifist + no focus + no bomb

That means you have to use Aya ability all the time. I just tested on Normal 90 FPS, lost 8 lives.

- Extra condition: 90 FPS + no death.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469295
Well after doing Koishi's Danmaku Paranoia at 90FPS without focus as Reimu/Aya, I just may give it a shot...

By the way, is there any trick to Divine Virtue of Wind God (Lunatic)? No matter for how long I shoot, Kanako's life just doesn't end, and I just keep dying because I keep getting walled, it's just saddening...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469295
I'll pass. Just tried it at 60, and while I was able to get to parsee just fine, I died to Capture Web + The noncard after + Filled Miasma once each in pretty quick succession because of the movement speed. I can't imagine trying to do that at 90 fps, honestly. With a bit of practice I could probably clear the stage at 60 without the no-death restriction, but it's just not worth my effort right now.

(For the record, the hardest part before Parsee was probably trying to avoid crashing into the waves of fairies right before her, I think)

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469295
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22872

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469295
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22873

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469295
90 FPS was fun with one fluke death, maybe I'll try again later.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469343
>- Stage: SA stage 1
>I was able to get to parsee

?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469295
That was ridiculous
Never again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469694
Oh. Not Parsee.

Yamamae. I mix them up a good deal because I don't really care for either one. Good stage themes, but that's really about it for either of their stages as far as I care

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469536
Taking noobs to school.

[Riz !5.t9CxHR0g!!5lTr5XeDmip No.]

Let's play some Touhou. http://www.livestream.com/stouhou

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

>>9469906
I almost went to go take a shower

[Anonymous No.]

I feel like I've hit a wall and I really don't know what to do anymore. Should I keep grinding stage practice, or actually do some full runs for once?

[Anonymous No.]

Doing a bunch of Stage Practice for SA on Hard. I've managed to figure out how to get through Stage 2 and Stage 3 with no deaths, so managing that on an actual run should give me more than enough lives to force my way through Stage 4, unlocking it for practice. I'm bombing twice at the beginning during Stage Practice to simulate the fact that I don't start off with 4.00 Power on Stages 2 and 3 during an actual run. I'm gaining confidence; maybe it won't require a miracle to 1cc this after all.

>>9470163

Stage Practice, figure out where your problems are, figure out whether you can get through those places after a bit of practice or whether you need to bomb there, get the Stages consistent, then do full runs. That's my method.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9450028
I'm the same. I've 1cced DDP and DDDF and have gotten up to stage 6 of DOJ without continuing. Yet I can't beat Touhou 10 or 11 on Normal without continuing at least once. I guess you really do have to practice the patterns.. you aren't just "good at shooters"

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469295
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22884

Normal, 60fps since I fucking suck.

It was fun. I don't have hard stage practice open, and I could not find a proper route through the pre-Yamame portion on lunatic (I know there is one), so I just did one run on normal.

Maybe some day, I'll beat T.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9471108
>have gotten up to stage 6 of DOJ without continuing
>stage 6 of DOJ

[Exxel !Myon.xlUgo No.]

TD Normal, gonna get it with Marisa this time.
www.twitch.tv/exxelent

[Anonymous No.]

>>9469295
For this, hard isn't really a problem for no-death. Lunatic, on the other hand is murderous. Yamame's non spells are ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.]

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22889

Please, wise sages of /jp/, tell me all the ways in which I suck that I may work to change it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9472232
I've made it to stage 10 of DOJ without continuing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9472491
You can collect items on the PoC without full power, by focusing above the PoC line. You should also stay focused most of the time during boss fights, to deal more damage. You kill fairies that have familiars way faster with the focused shot type as well.
You need practice on Keine. Don't change between unfocused and focused during her nonspells, it only makes the patterns harder. On her first card, destroy the familiars she shoots out with your human form. Use spellcard practice and practice mode to learn the stages.