/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Is Seihou allowed here?

Just 1cc'd Seihou 1. Pretty good game.

What was your first 1cc, /jp/?

'Beat' IN, though I'm pretty sure a normal ending doesn't count, and I'm not too satisfied.

Then I got EoSD working on my new computer, and beat it.

>>17643997
eosd

>>17644025
if you 1cc'd A, then B shouldn't take too long.

>>17643997
also EoSD

>>17643997
IN

>>17643997
EoSD

>>17643997
PCB, I got carried really hard by SakuyaA with the homing and four bombs every life. I managed to 1cc it later with ReimuB though, so that make me feel better.

>>17643997
TD Normal

Now that I finally cleared SA I can enjoy Touhou again, also I've been playing LoLK a lot these days, currently practicing for a legacy mode 1cc with Reisen.

>>17643997
PCB Normal with ReimuA

>>17644025
Good work! you shouldn't have any problems with Final B, I suggest trying to 1cc TD after you are done with IN.

EoSD

>>17643997
IN Easy. Max lives.

I have no shame

>>17643997
i just cleared ReimuA on EoSD as my first 1cc a couple of days ago
should i keep going on EoSD or move on to another one?

>>17646475
Move on to another one, unless you want to be sure that you have mastery over that game.

>>17646475
spending time with eosd is nice for getting fundamentals, but if you get too used to it the more mechanics and gimmicks of the later touhous will annoy you.

>>17644025
Grats anon. I think B is easier than A in my opinion.

>>17643997
I played TD normal when an anom suggested which game was the easiest to 1cc.

Is it me or is it easier to dodge in the newer games? I swear, there's difficult patterns in DDC that i can dodge perfectly, but PCB/IN have patterns that certainly seem easier, yet I fuck up a lot.

>>17643997
I just accomplished my first 1cc on Normal.

>>17647356
congratulations

>>17647356
Congratulations anon!

>>17647184
I've heard that, but it's one game I absolutely can't beat, maybe it's the lack of resources, or maybe I just can't wrap my head around when and where to use Trance.

I find that taking a break from the games and going back gives me a moment of insight where I am able to do much better.

>>17647375
My problem with TD is accidentally ramming into the bosses/fairies. It's fairly easy to memorize when to use Trance.

>>17647384
>Memorize
So I should actually be using it as a routing sense and not an "Oh shit i'm about to die" sense?

>>17647392
Yep, you should only use Trance when the fairies with the life and bomb thingies appear, as their value is doubled. Or at least that's worked for me.

>>17647348
Everything was blurrier back then.

>>17647410
>>17647392
When I was clearing TD for the first time, I memorized where to use Trance, but used it to skip spell cards rather than collect resources. As long as you can spawn and grab a good amount of the life pieces (remember, that depends on killing certain enemies fast enough), you shouldn't need to worry about doubling them just to get a 1cc.

>>17647484
>but used it to skip spell cards rather than collect resources

That actually makes a lot of sense. Will try that strategy instead of mine next time.

>>17647484
>>17647410
I'll try to use both of those, I need to sit down and figure out which spell cards I want to bomb/trance through and then see how well I can do.

And it was really blurrier? I figured it might be down to window size, or move speed or something.

Last thread there was an anon saying Aya was worse than Cirno and after 1cc'ing HSiFS as Aya with all the seasons (as well as clearing Extra), I can say I disagree. Her speed can come in handy (like when you have to rush over to the PoC and back) and she's evidently not the weakest is since I could capture the spellcards that I couldn't capture as Cirno.

>>17647650
AyaFall is a great shot in my opinion.

>>17647594
I was mostly joking. Newer games have higher-resolution interfaces, but the actual sprites in the play area have always been the same size, so any game played in a 1280x960 window should look pretty much the same.
Still, I've experience the same phenomenon; the first-gen games just seem a little harder to play precisely for some reason.

>>17647703
>the first-gen games just seem a little harder to play precisely for some reason
do you use vpatch

>>17647948
I haven't even heard of it until you mentioned it. Would vsync really make that big of a difference though?

>>17643997
EoSD in Normal

>>17647948
Yeah. I don't think it's anything that blatant, it's probably just that the old engine behaves slightly differently and I'm not as used to it.

>>17647948
>install vpatch into IN
>Immediately dumpster my old high score.
My monitor doesn't even go above 60 frames, and yet it still felt easier to control and just overall better. Now if I can only stop dying to Marisa...

I did both today for the first time. Good day

>>17648277
Good job! I'd move on to phantasm now while the extra is still fresh in your muscle memory, since it's really similar to extra and not that much harder.

>>17648277
>0 lives left
>0 bombs left
radical, Anon

>>17648277
sakuya A or B?

>>17648277
Good work anon, congrats!
>>17648421
That seems to be how most first 1ccs go. That "oh fucking shit" final life burst of adrenaline does some serious shit.

>>17648485
A, like the turboscrub I am

>>17643997
PCB normal

>>17648020
>>17648119
It really does make a very significant difference in many cases.

>>17648175
"Going over 60 frames" is irrelevant. It fixes input lag.

>>17648619
It does? I thought Vsync was making games match what frames you're putting out.

>>17648277
>no lives left

Living life on the edge, congrats anon

>>17648641
You can use the vsync patch to change a game's framerate, but that's not the main purpose: If you set the frame rate to 30, the game will run half as fast, and if you set the frame rate to 120, the game will run twice as fast, so you shouldn't do it unless you want the game to be much easier/harder.

Boxes ticked.

>>17647650
>>17647673
Maybe it's down to different playstyles, but I found Aya absolutely miserable to use, doubly so with Fall subseason. Not only can you not concentrate your fire on bosses to approach Mari-tier damage, but you don't get enough spread to make stages any easier than they are with Mari, so aside from the slightly better bomb, what's the point? Just mobility?

>>17648958
aya and marisa have similar damage, iirc they're practically even.

>>17648958
Scoring and mobility. She can farm season better than anyone else, yeah?

>>17648958
Explain your chart to the class please.

>>17648958
what the fuck

The other day an anon told me I should 1cc SA and UFO since i have been putting them off for a while. Progress is alright so far, I've practiced stage 6 enough where Okuu doesn't give me enough trouble from when i first started. I'm gonna try practice stage 5 some more since that's where I seem to lose the most lives. in my runs where i am forced to continue.

>>17649100
It's the same old chart, just made with Shift-JIS characters. The image is made to look like a text file displayed on a PC-98 terminal, and in principle you could do that, though I actually made this one in Photoshop.

>>17649203
I can tell what's going on because I remember your old chart, but what is the K for and all the other shit

Haven't had the time to play as much but I've been playing the photo games recently.

>>17649313
That's a hella cute chart anon.
I have also been enjoying (and raging) a bit with the photogames, they are quite something.

>>17649313
>all that PoFV
Looking pretty good anon. Wish I had even a basic knowledge of any kind of art, though, so I could try and customize my own chart. Where do you even start?

Does the ritual fapping trick really work? If I'm having trouble with multiple bosses, will it still work?

Regarding photogames, why 58 for DS?
It is 52 for unlocking the Ex
>>17649393
It does work, believe me. That's how I got my first SA 1cc a year ago. I don't recall using it ever since, tho.

>>17649202
I made it to utsuho with one extra life i figured i could get some practice in but ended up 1ccing it in the end. I almost chocked so hard on the last spell card after i accidentally walked into a bullet from the previous spell. I guess I'll work on that ufo clear later this week.

>>17649420
That's a pretty fast clear, good job!

>>17649229
>what is the K for and all the other shit
The key in the upper right are special markings. There is no kanji to the left of the uppermost box, just a circle for a regular clear.
Below that there's the first kanji of IN (EIyashou), and indication of which final stage the clear is on.
For TD (SHINreibyou) it's a concentric circle for the secret ending.
For LoLK (KANjuden) it's either K (Kanju (ultramarine orb)? Kusuri (elixir)? Kanzenmuketsu (pointdevice)? I'm not sure) for Pointdevice or L for Legacy mode.
Finally for HSiFS (TENkuushou), it's the first letter letter in katakana of the name of the season sub-shot, Spring (HAru), Summer (NAtsu), Fall (Aki), Winter (FUyu).

hard fucking sucks

>>17648641
That is one extra thing it can do if you use that mode, but generally people use it because it takes control over how the game is rendered and it typically improves whatever input lag the game has (how much you originally have can vary from system to system).

>>17649420
Damn that 0.00 power left, good luck with UFO anon, I found SA to be way more difficult.

>>17650810
The only hard thing about ufo is not fucking up ufo combinations

>>17650832
Yeah it's fucking annoying but when you get used to it you can easily get max lives and max bombs in early stages and proceed to 1cc the game.

Fuck. Finally got a run where I didn't run into some random bullet on stage 4, then died 80% of the way through Virtue of Wind God.
But I'm going to finish clearing this game on Hard before autumn is over, even if it kills me.

All of my 1cc attempts at IN end at Reisen's last spellcard. I don't know if it's a failure to understand Reisen or just dying consistently to Marisa, but god damn. I understand how to dodge Reisen's cards, but it still throws me off.

>>17648277
And another one.
I fucked up Mishaguji-sama the first time I got there, so no epic win on 0 lives this time. Most intense spellcard yet.

>>17652107
Really? I wouldn't even say it's the most intense one in Suwako's fight, which is already less intense than the other two you've done. Were you using ReimuC?

>>17652127
Reimu B.
Idk man, but my heart was pounding super hard and fast on that spell both times I did it. Nothing happened last 2 extras so idk.
I'd argue rationally about it if I could, but I can't. The body doesn't lies.

>>17643997
eosd normal

>>17651989
Reisen is pretty easy to win even in Hard difficulty, Marisa/Reimu is the real deal, I suggest you playing the shit out of those stages in practice mode.

/jp/ is full of huge faggots.

>>17652107
hide your extra bosses, holy shit
Congrats anon, mad progress

working on ufo hard right now. after that I plan on spending some more time in TD for the comfy.

>>17652127
any spell can become the most intense simply be being placed at the end, where victory is so close in sight.

>>17652937
That would look great if the top layer weren't resampled like that. If you want to scale it down to fit on the background image, you could just make the boxes smaller.

>>17652937
This is a really really nice chart anon, nice job at fully completing PCB btw.
I'll drop mine since I'm not sure if it will change a lot after getting 250, got MS hard at least!

>>17643997
IN normal, Team Magic.

fuck

Don't know for sure if this is a right thread but what are some good doujin games? Played and liked AoSC for its music and a decent story, though game was very easy.

>>17653203
>hsifs Reimu
nice try, cheater :^)

>>17653203
>no 1ccs on Reimu
Did you do that on easy or is that a scorefile? Why only lunatics and extras, anyway?

>>17653503
What genre?
For shmups, I suggest Shining Shooting Star, Book of Star Mythology, Concealed the Conclusion, Fantastic Danmaku Festival, and if you're feeling adventurous both the Shoot Shoot Nitori games.

>>17653537
easy cause i couldnt be assed to do lunatic with her. only lunatic & ex cause i cant remember all my N & H

>>17653606
Wouldn't you fill out the squares as you do them?

>>17653608
no cause i cant remember what i did

>>17653570
Thank you, I'll try them.
(I don't mind any genre just want to see a story where canonical characters do canonically uncanonical things)

>>17653617
You never uploaded them?

>>17653795
Touhoumon too then? lol
No meme on that actually though - a full version of gensokyo scenario came out last december and it's pretty good, though it's still only in Japanese.

>>17653992
I did, but that requires me to find where they are.

Okina's fifth nonspell drives me up the fucking wall.

>>17654853
>Follow my lead
Not really, you can go between the lines of bullets to stay under her. I mean yeah it's kind of easy to mess up but it's not really that hard. Plus, you have bombs.

>>17654900
Presumably he's practicing for a NMNB.
In any case, even though that one rotates a lot faster than the winter one, the lanes are so wide that you can pretty safely move up the sides as well, unless her movement RNG really screws you over. Or just remember to start on the right edge.

>>17654900
Thanks for the tip. I tried it once just now, it seems a little more tricky than just taking my chances doing it the intended way, but I'll definitely practice it some more. It's fun to do her winter non-spell like that, too.

>>17654921
>NMNB
Nothing quite that difficult yet, just NM.

Back in the old days we used to "post ur scores" instead of "post ur charts." What the hell happened.

>>17655319
You want to bring another shitstorm into this thread or what's your deal?

>>17655319
For one thing, there are a lot more people who are still trying to clear every game on whatever difficulty than there are people who can play for score. It's just the kind of progress that most people are making at any given time, and of course people want to share their progress.
Also, for me at least, taking some time to make or customize a chart can be a welcome break from grinding whatever goal I'm working on at the time. It's just a bit of fun.
Of course, if you have scores to post, I'm sure there are other skilled players lurking who you could compare with. I've never gotten the impression that that's unwelcome or anything, it's just that almost nobody does. You can start the trend again!

>>17655319
No one's stopping you from posting your scores.

So do it, faggit.

The other guy inspired me to give this Extra another try after a couple years. Maybe my skill has actually increased, since last time I was only able to do it with SakuyaA, but this time it didn't seem so bad.
Now I guess it's time to take the training wheels off and do it with a non-homing shot. Not looking forward to timing out Banquet of Twelve General Gods. Or just getting through the stage, for that matter.

>>17655319
Do it faggot

>>17655549
>>17655819
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=34904

>>17655319
nobody scores

>>17655948
Well I still have the highest HSiFS Demo ReimuSpring Hard score as far as I know.

>>17655966
Probably the only score as well.

>>17655740
Oh, I did it with ReimuB as well just now. The stage was a pain in he ass, but who would have thought Ran would be such a good sport about staying right in front of me the whole time?

>fap to Rin
>1cc SA the next day

So the legends were true.

HSFS english patch when?

>>17656996
Works every time.

>>17657016
We already have it

>>17657016
February 31st.

>>17657038
I've fapped to the entire Gensokyo Rakuen Keikaku series multiple times. Where are my LNNs?

>>17657056
>>17657064
Help me out kudasai, I can't find it, not even on moriyashrine

>>17657085
Nigger the moriya download comes with it

>>17657092
>>17657064
>>17657056
sorry moriya shrine description said it was just in japanese for some reason, thank you for your help >.<

>>17657142
Just use thcrap to patch it?

I beat my first 2hu today, HSIFS on normal. But I got some shitty ending where the boss ran away. Was there some way for me to unlock my weapon during the last spell card; or did I need to get there on one credit?

>>17657413
clear it on lunatic

>>17657413
>But I got some shitty ending where the boss ran away
Oh, anon. You're the one who technically ran away. and the plot continues in the Extra stage so as long as you got a 1CC, you're good.

>>17657431
Oh...

>>17657413
You need to get a 1cc, which character did you use? Other than Cirno, the 'bad endings' in this game are just "What the fuck just happened?" while the good endings, the protag figures out what's going down and then goes into the extra stage.

>>17656154
>Risk Bonus +320
Don't be such a cheapskate, Aya. The bullet is right on top of you.

How to Mountain Faith card on hard?

>>17657431
The heroines don't run away, they're forced out by Okina.

>tfw love LoLK and ULiL

2015 was a great year for Touhou.

>>17657739
Macro the walls, micro certain walls
>>17657780
Did hard mode kill your son or something?

>>17653795
It's tough finding fan games that are both narratively based and true to canon. Fantasy Maiden Wars was ok at it in the first game, but falls off in the sequel.

>>17657796
Naw, went for the skip because I wanted to get to the highest skill level.

>>17657829
Did you reach it or are you still playing Touhou?

>>17653795
If you're one for RPGs, I've been having fun playing Labyrinth of Touhou 2.

>>17657857
This, don't even talk about the highest skill level until you can dodge the rain in real life.

>>17657780
Skipping difficulties is gay. Just like not playing PoFV.

>>17657857
Highest skill level in Touhou, that is, my dear fedora-tipping friend. I have no particular interest in any other STGs as of yet.

>>17657868
Playing all of them is gayer. I'll get to playing PoFV one day. It's not a big deal for a game though.

Guys behind 東方夏夜祭 Shining Shooting Star are releasing their own separate game.

In Chinese only though.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/665270/_/

>>17643997
PoDD

With Marisa

This is the furthest I made it with this many lives.I actually feel confidant in myself for the first time while playing this game.

>>17658190
Everything worked out better than expected. I'm still kind of shaking after that last spell card.

>>17658208
Good job!
My hands shake only when I'm playing SA sixth stage.

>>17657780
Great taste. I'm excited to see what they do with AoCF.

>>17653795
>>17657859
If we're talking about RPGs, then Genius of Sappheiros is a must. I mean it has some fan characters in there, they're all villains though. And there's some fun-in-hindsight stuff like the dullahan enemy and such.

Finished off Ran.
For a minute there I thought that maybe I could do a REAL Extra, but Flan set me straight pretty quick.

>>17658190
Yeah good fucking luck Shou's curvy lasers and decieving spells are the biggest extendumpster in the game. FUCK that shit.
>>17658208
Nevermind, you manag

Can anyone pass me a blank chart? And any tips on how to decorate it?

>>17660668
Wish I could help you on the latter part.

>>17659115
There's going to be a duo system right? I'm sure there'll be duos in the story mode, I'm betting Sumireko will have to team up with Shinmyoumaru, assuming they don't add more DDC characters.

>>17660668
Just blank out >>17644025.
Things with a pixelated aesthetic fits better, but in general just plop whatever 2hu you like onto it.

>>17660683
>>17660688
How do I remove the background was more of what I meant... Any clue on how to help me out?

>>17660707
>remove the background
What background?

>>17660712
The white background, and replace it with something like >>17653203

>>17660731
You'll probably need something better than MSpaint, so I can't help you there. Photoshop layers, maybe?

>>17660744
I'll try, thanks for the help.

>>17660731
If you don't have photoshop you could try using paint(.)net. It's free and it's basically just ms paint with a few additional features like transparency and layers.

>>17660765
I do have PS but I'm really bad at using it. But I'll try my best to learn.

>>17660712
Open pirated Photoshop
Open your background image on one layer, the table on another layer (It's easy as fuck, gets done automatically by copypasting one image over another)
Use the darken layer option with the table, put it over the BG layer
It is done

I'm accelerating!

>>17660774
Just use the Magic Wand. Set the tolerance to 0, uncheck the 'anti-alias' and 'contiguous' options, click on a white pixel, and delete.
If your background is light, you can get away with simply layering the remaining chart on top of it. Otherwise, you can select the text in the same way and invert it.
You should look up some PS tutorials in any case, even basic proficiency is a very handy skill to have.

>>17660434
Shou has killed my run a few times, i just said 'fuck it' and bombed nearly everything she had.

>>17660686
Fixed duos in story mode (with free selection in versus mode) is pretty much a given, I think.
>assuming they don't add more DDC characters.
Probably not, I imagine the added four characters are going to be some oldhu (most likely Yuuka), some LoLK rep (either Seiran or Ringo) and the newhu duo.

>>17647484
Which tactic (resources or skipping spell cards) is better for lunatic?

>>17660707

Is this what you are looking for?

>>17660707
I did somethings in photoshop. will this work?

Now that I finished MS, SA, and UFO I'll probably take a break for a few days. I might try harder difficulties or extra stages when I come back.

What's the best way to fill the time quota in IN anyway?

>>17661759
Stay unfocused on the stage portions, then focus on the boss portions.

>Smash through IN and annihilate my old high score
>manage to get through Reisen despite dying in very stupid ways and bombing through the last spellcard
>Sends me to 6B instead of giving me a choice
>Job immediately.

I didn't realize I needed to 1cc B before it let me try A again, unless there's something I'm missing. And I had practiced 6A so much.

>>17659115
Thanks anon! Giving it some thought, it's unlikely that they'll do it, but I have my everything crossed for Junko to be put in. Girl is going to pack a punch if she's in a fighter.

>>17661881
You will have to 1cc finalB before you get the choice, but with a bit of practice I'm sure you can do it!

How should I approach PoFV extra? Play aggressively to rack up points (and lives) during early stages, play passively on later stages?

>>17663536
Same as with the main game, bash your head against it until the RNG lets you win.

>>17663536
You can get a lot of lives during matches. I've gotten about 6 in one round (the threshold for extra lives is a lot lower). Whenever you die, the timer goes down for the AI. I recommend losing a few to Eiki.

The only advice I have is basically score a lot until you're comfortable. Also, sometimes the AI doesn't die on the timer.

>>17663536
Use the early stages to gain as many lives as possible. You'll probably end up spamming level 2 spells in the first few stages just to get bonuses. Komachi is always awful for extra, so it'll get easier when you move on to Eiki.

I got to clownpiece on point device mode, which cards/nonspells should I use my bombs on?

>>17661280
Thanks for spoonfeeding me anon. This is exactly what I needed.

Mari is killing me. I must have played the Phantasm stage fifty times today, and seen Yukari only twice.

>>17665017
How many do you have now? You won't have time to get many more bomb pieces on stage 6, it has few chapters. For your sanity's sake, save at least one bomb for the very last spell card of stage 6.

I recommend Flash and Stripe and/or Graze Inferno.
I personally found Flash and Stripe harder of the two, but I've only tried Reimu.

>>17665521
5 and 4/5ths, I had 6, but after 100 runs of the second-to-last chapter before Clownpiece, I decided to bomb.

>>17665017
You have unlimited tries

>>17665555
In that case, you'll probably be fine. You can afford to bomb twice on Clownpiece, because you'll most likely get another bomb before the end of the game, leaving you 4.

>>17665584
That's still not helpful for some of her spells.

>>17665584
Be that as it may, I might as well use my bombs. If bombing a certain spell card can save me 100 tries, I'd rather do that, and not waste it on the one that costs only 10

>>17665672
>>17665634
If your budget is two bombs, then you'll need them on "Flash and Stripe" and "Fake Apollo".

>>17665699
Alright, thanks anon.

>>17665269
What do you know, complaining about it on /jp/ worked!

>>17665887
I told ya. Whining to /jp/ always works.

>>17665887
Seriously? I'll try
FUCKING NUE FUCK SHIT FAGGOT BLUE AND MULTICOLOR UFOS AHHHHHH
FUCKING TIC TAC TOE SPELLCARD

>>17663202
Thanks anon. I'm gonna marathon spell practice for a bit first, just to make sure. I know people say that Reisen is extremely easy, but she's the one character I can't capture any spells from. Everyone else I can get through just fine.

>>17665887
tfw still untalented

I've truly hit a wall trying to get to where I can no-miss (or at least no-death) 4b in IN on normal. I can fairly reliably clear everything through stardust reverie, but everything after kicks my ass. I can't reliably graze through the lines of stars in non-directional laser, I keep getting trapped by the falling stars when trying to lead the laser to one side of the screen in Master Spark, and I can't get a rhythm going in earthlight ray at all.

The 1cc is so close I can taste it but I'll never get it if I keep losing half my lives to this stage. is there some strategy for these cards that I'm missing?

>>17666977
Looks like you're struggling on the same areas I'm on. Are you doing A or B?

>>17667019
B, powerful, against marisa. I heard ahead of time that she's by and large the hardest part of the game until Kaguya, and those anons weren't fucking wrong.

>>17666977
Earthlight Ray isn't so bad if you don't let it psych you out. The stars have small hitboxes, and the lasers are only 'on' during a fraction of their animation, so you have a lot more room than you might think at first glance.
As for strategy, imagine the lasers weren't there: you'd simply stream the aimed stars back and forth, misdirecting them to open up space to cut back on either end, and staying relatively close to the middle so your shots land (assuming Border team, obviously Scarlet gives you more flexibility). Now, all the lasers do is restrict your horizontal movement a little, so you can't go wildly flying back and forth, and have to use some vertical movement to help with misdirection. As long as you stay calm, stream slowly, and get a grip on the lasers' active time, it's perfectly doable.

>>17666965
You and me both, but Yukari is nice enough to provide an entire easy-modo practice stage before hers so you can learn everything ahead of time.

I haven't posted my chart here in a while, so I thought I might as well.
I'm pretty happy with my progress. The chart is a lot more colorful than it was a couple months ago.

>>17667036
I meant ending, but yeah, Marisa is kind of tough. I honestly have more trouble with Reimu and Reisen, though.

>>17667072
I'm going for the good ending. I could probably squeeze a 1cc out my current performance if I was going for finalA, but the more resources I have available to bomb cheese Kaguya, the better.

I was just playing Lunatic Yousei Daisensou because I didn't feel like hustling for a main game 1cc and cleared A1 after missing like 10 times in one run. To whoever said GFW was the hardest game: Get good.

>>17665887
I wish I have enough time to play touhou like I did in the past without school and work destroying my body and mind

>>17667989
You fucked up by moving before hearing the second explosion, didn't you.

Just some general questions from a turboscrub

-Is there something different about the way bullets or hitboxes spawn/work in TD? Despite the low bullet densities it feels like it's a lot easier to get hit. It's the most frequent game where I die and don't know what hit me. In other games it feels like I always know how I died but I never see what hit me in TD.

-What is with the weird disconnect in difficulty in TD from Normal to Hard? Normal is pretty much Easy mode in any other game. Hard is your regular Normal until after the opening stages. Suddenly bullet speed increases are vastly higher and it feels harder than Hard mode in some other games.

-In HSiFS straight after the fight with Lily White in Stage 3 sometimes a few of those orb enemies spawn straight after but it's always in different numbers and sometimes they never show. What triggers it and why?

-Does anyone feel like HSiFS uses a completely different skill set compared to the other mainline Touhou games? It feels more like I'm playing GFW sometimes (which happens to be my favourite game anyway).

-In HSiFS is the Summer sub weapon good for anything? It's the one season release I have no clue how to use or with whom.

>>17668814
>1
There's nothing different in TD specifically, as far as I know. The way hitboxes are calculated was changed in DS, but every game since should behave the same. Maybe you're finding some bullets hard to see/read because of the backgrounds or something?
>3
This isn't unique to Lily, or HSiFS. Many stages with midbosses are programmed to take a set amount of time to complete; if you beat the midboss before her timer runs out, the remaining time before the rest of the stage resumes will be filled with some optional small enemies. See also: lines of spirits after midboss Larva, ring-shooting fairies after Shizuha, sprinkle-spamming fairies after stage 5 Rin.
>5
The main strength of Summer is that releases only uses one gauge at a time. That makes it good for survival, obviously, because you can use it repeatedly. For instance, it lets you entirely skip Narumi's first and third cards. It also doesn't punish you so much for releasing just to survive in some arbitrary part of a stage.

>>17668714
To be fair, I didn't know it worked like that, it's like my second time in the mode. But yeah,
that's what happened
>>17668814
-They way you gotta play TD makes you being in danger constantly unlike other games. It's designed so you gotta stay up and shotgun bosses the most, but this means you are in the are where bullets spawn more frequently. Also, I don't think there are dead zones on TD, you know, when you stand on where a bullet is about to spawn to prevent it from spawning at all.
-I don't think TD's hard mode is particularly hard.
-It depends on how much time it takes you to beat Lily. Happens in most games.
-Personally, nope.
-Summer release does good damage if you use it on top of bosses, and since you can use it multiple times, it can help you get out of trouble more often.

>>17668814
>it's always in different numbers and sometimes they never show
I hadn't noticed that in stage 3, but I had noticed that that happens in stage 1. The music is meant to hit certain parts at, well, certain parts of the stage, so you always have to get to the boss at the same time.

>>17668814
>-Is there something different about the way bullets or hitboxes spawn/work in TD? Despite the low bullet densities it feels like it's a lot easier to get hit. It's the most frequent game where I die and don't know what hit me. In other games it feels like I always know how I died but I never see what hit me in TD.
Nope. You might be playing more recklessly, maybe.
>-What is with the weird disconnect in difficulty in TD from Normal to Hard? Normal is pretty much Easy mode in any other game. Hard is your regular Normal until after the opening stages. Suddenly bullet speed increases are vastly higher and it feels harder than Hard mode in some other games.
I'm not sure I agree with that latter part. TD still feels really easy overall for me.
>-In HSiFS straight after the fight with Lily White in Stage 3 sometimes a few of those orb enemies spawn straight after but it's always in different numbers and sometimes they never show. What triggers it and why?
Enemy spawns and such are controlled by how much time you spent on the stage. So how many enemies show up after the Lily midboss depends on how long you took to beat her. Take your time, and few or none will show up. Do it quickly, and you'll see more. They're there so you have something to do after beating Lily but before the next proper enemy wave starts.
>-Does anyone feel like HSiFS uses a completely different skill set compared to the other mainline Touhou games? It feels more like I'm playing GFW sometimes (which happens to be my favourite game anyway).
It does that a bit because of the season release mechanic, yeah. I vastly prefer it here than in GFW though, it's much less memorization reliant in HSiFS.
>-In HSiFS is the Summer sub weapon good for anything? It's the one season release I have no clue how to use or with whom.
The way the release works gives you up to six minibombs you can use to survive better. In a tight spot but can't/don't want to bomb? Boom, release, now you can escape to a safer spot. There are many spots, like Narumi's last spell, where it's very useful. Do be careful though, as Summer doesn't make you invincible or quasi-invincible like Spring and Fall do.

Is there any special tactics for SoEW to beat the fuck out of Marisa and Mima without losing lives? I fucking lose it every time i play this. Deathbombing doesn't work, don't have focuse mode, their attacks are slow at first but then furious as fuck.

>>17669039
bomb

I've finally gotten to this bitch, it won't be long before I get her now. Thanks to the anon that mentioned vpatch, because my performance skyrocketed after that.

Too bad this run is doomed, I keep making simple and retarded mistakes to lose lives and bombs.

Just 1cc'd HSiFS in Normal w/ Fall Reimu and feeling pretty happy now. Cheesed the hell out of Junko by bombing the hell out of her timeout spell since I had maxed lives and bombs by then.

Only problem now is I keep reflexively going human bullet mode in the Revenge Stage only to realize I can't headbutt bullets anymore.

Despite everything it's probably one of the funnest Touhou games in a long while and a nice break after the abuse that was LoLK.

>>17670087
>HSiFS
>Junko
>timeout spell

>>17670087
I get Junko is supposed to be Okina, but what timeout spells?

>>17670116
>>17670124
Slip of the tongue there bit tired.

And I mean the last phase when she steals your season release. I'm not sure what to call it, I just assumed that was what you call those since you have to rundown the timer.

>>17670139
It's not a timeout spell, you're supposed to shoot her down.

The only timeout spell in the entirety of HSiFS is the one in Extra that can be glitched to skip it because ZUN was extra drunk that day wwww

>>17670139
>I just assumed that was what you call those since you have to rundown the timer.
you actually timed that out? You absolute fucking madman. I can't blame you though, since I assumed Okina Extra's first spell was survival because I didn't see a healthbar when I used a release.

>>17670155
I honestly didn't even realize you could shoot her down.

I just assumed since there was a different sound effect when you throw a bomb at her and her health gauge virtually never moves it was a timeout that and between concentrating on just not dying.

>>17670165
Yeah I did....I really didn't realize.

>>17670167
That different sound effect is her bomb immunity, anon, her last card is immune to bombs. I don't know how you assumed the healthbar never moved, though. Didn't you notice the notches on it?

>>17670172
Legitimately did not realize she had a bomb immunity, assumed she was invincible from my earlier runs. As for not noticing the healthbar moving I was too busy concentrating on not going PCHUUN so yeah I didn't notice and went for the time out.

>>17665887
It worked too !

Also brb masturbating to abuse doujin of the Nue. I need some karmic retribution on the pain.
This one was much harder than the other ones

Is Okina's 2nd spell just pure RNG on higher difficulties without using releases? I swear that spell is as bullshit as Hidden Breezy Cherry Blossom.

>>17670729
Also did Okina.
I did her as practice and ended up with like 6 lives on the survival spell. I tiltied, stopped caring, and still beat her

>>17670729
Is it true that the stage portion of the UFO Extra is harder than Nue herself is?

>>17670737
Extra Okina is super easy, yeah. Probably because beating her is necessary to actually finish the story plus the game forcing you to adapt to a new, unique season.

>>17670794
>Is it true that the stage portion of the UFO Extra is harder than Nue herself is?
Yes, many resets until you get a run where you get to Nue with enough resources
I mean, it's also hard because you have to go full retard to catch the ufos. It's not that hard once you're at max power or if you're not catching them, but there are parts where you either have a bomb or you lose a life if you're not in "The Zone".
Also Kogasa's spells seem kind of easy but are preety tight. One slip up and she gets you.

I always lost at least a life on the stage, even when I beat her

>>17670735
Yes and no. Once you get the hang of it, you'll be capturing it more often than not. Nothing's as bullshitty as that terribly designed spring spell card. I swear it feels like ZUN didn't even test half of these shitty attacks, including Narumi's second and third non-spells and twins' second non-spell.

>>17670818
>once you're at max power
Don't you start out with max power on most extra stages?

>>17671220
Confirmed not playing any Extra stage before TD

>>17671260
I'm not even good enough to be trying Extras yet.

>>17671405
extra is not something that requires special skills, it is something requiring learning positions that allow you to avoid bullets.

And finally with ReimuA, that's Phantasm done and dusted! Almost a no-miss ruin as well, I just don't have enough practice to reliably do Danmaku Bounded Field.
Back when I first started playing, this stage seemed like some totally crazy, impossible thing that I could never do. Of course, that's mostly because I'd hyped it up in my head and didn't realize it was one of the easiest Extras, but even now, it's a little weird to think that I've actually done it.

Any suggestions where to go from here? I'm thinking Flan or Mamizou would be the next easiest, as I've already done Suwako and Okina.

>>17671210
>Narumi's second and third non-spells and twins' second non-spell.
I won't argue that Hidden Breezy Cherry Blossoms isn't total bollocks, but what's wrong with those you mentioned?

After getting a Normal 1cc and beating the extra stage on 16, I want to go back and play 8. Earlier this year I got a hard mode 1cc and beat both the extra and phantasm stages in PCB, so I kind of just want to continue reworking my way through the series again.

What shot type should I roll with for Hard mode 1cc attempts in IN? I think my old Normal mode 1cc was the Border team.

>>17672472
Border Team is literally the only good shottype in IN, so you know.

>>17672652
I hate people like you.

Which boxes should I try filling in?

>>17672701
STB

>>17672701
PoDD

>>17664976
Finally finished both PoFV extra. Yeah, Shiki is way easier to use than Komachi.

So I unlocked Merlin and Lunasa. Is there anything decent about her or is Merlin really as shit as the stats say?

Oh well

>>17673340
bomb more

>>17673340
Use your bombs. You get three per life, but in that run you only used an average of 1.2. Don't try to be a cool kid, just use them.

>>17673340
Had something similliar just two days before or so

>>17643997
IN easy.
But I've only been playing a month.

Just cleared my first game! EoSD with ReimuB. Would anyone care to watch the replay and give me some advice (about Touhou in general, not just EoSD)?
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=43996

>>17672652
>being a borderfag

anyways yeah border is fucking easy mode for survival but all teams are pretty usable, magic team without using Malice Cannon is kinda shit though. But some people thrive really well with scarlet team, and netherworld team makes stage portions a joke while still being at least passable on bosses.

IN is not like DDC, MoF or UFO where one half is really good and the other half is complete shit, unless you want to include solo shots.

Speaking of solo shots, if you have unlocked those then see pic related.

>HSiFS stage 4 on normal is harder than stage 5 on lunatic
why is this allowed?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I FINALLY DONE IT!

I want to say thanks to this beautiful board. Thank you those anons who recovered my motivation when i thought this was impossible. Thank you that anon who made a webm with patchy lazers, thank you those anons who gave a lot of advices.
Thank you anon.

Dear Jaypee, i am not a scrub anymore.

This feels so fucking good

>>17673532
>>17674586
How long have you been playing before this? Very clean 1cc!
You shotgun bosses, you POC, you have a route for the stages (with one notable exception on stage 4 - maybe you were just caught off-guard).

You even graze, which is perhaps a little enthusiastic for a first survival run but I don't think it ever made you die so if you like being a daredevil it just makes you a little cooler. One example is on stage 5 against Sakuya, you stick very close to the bullets.

On Sakuya's first boss spell card, you failed at misdirecting the knives. You were too high up on the screen, so they spread out too much horizontally and they killed you.

One general piece of advice I'll give you is to more actively seek holes and safe zones in the bullets. This costs you a bomb against this non-spell, and later a life against Scarlet Shoot.
Overall you have a good grasp on the game, be proud of that.

>>17673340
>>17675435
>>17675442
Nice job! I didn't have anything to do with giving you advice, but I'm sure those who did are glad to see that it paid off.

>>17675301
>>17672652
Please treat IN shots equally, they are all great, even including solos, which is a very nice thing for ZUN to include!
>>17675435
>>17675442
Congrats anon, I love the passion, keep it up and play PCB, best girl awaits!

>>17676176
Well you can only value sakuya and alice solos from trash to challenging.

>>17652409
>no focus
More like no fucks.

>>17675391
Yeah no, I don't believe you

>>17675391
post your stage 5 LNNN please

Unless you mean stage portions only, in which case you're still wrong haha

>>17676176
Would have been cool if this was true desu

>>17675391
Do you just need help with the stage or something? https://my.mixtape.moe/prfzub.rpy 1 miss but you should get the idea.

>>17676151
Just to clarify, you are talking to that guy >>17674586, >>17673532 is a different one (me)

Doing the Extra stage with the Magic "Team" is retarded. I might as well be training to do a pacifist run.

>>17643997
IN Route B

>>17678205
What? The have like the easiest time with Mokou, she gets completely destroyed by them. The only thing you need to learn is the stage which isn't very hard to route

>>17678205
Try using the MAlice canon.

>>17678316
I never bothered learning how to do that for the main game, but isn't it just rapidly alternating focus? It seems like that would be very hard to pull off during most of the spells. Certainly on Keine, who's already enough trouble with their big hitbox and imprecise movement.
Presumably >>17678310 is also talking about Malice Cannon, right? Because Alice doesn't do shit.

>>17678352
I wasn't actually, Alice by herself destroys Mokou too. Try to tap focus 2 times per second if you wanna try malice btw.

>>17675435
>>17675442
Congrats! thanks to you for not giving up, a long journey awaits now.

Is SakuyaA's shift spam abuse in DDC on the same level as malice cannon or MoF MarisaB 3.0? As in, are runs that use it devalued by a just a little bit or by a huge amount?

this games terrible

>>17676151
Thanks for taking the time to watch it, I really appreciate it.
>How long have you been playing before this? Very clean 1cc!
Embarrassingly long... I've "beaten" almost every Windows game (with continues) on Normal difficulty, but I never bothered going for 1CCs because I just thought "meh, I suck at these games anyway." As for how long I've been playing EoSD with a 1CC in mind? 2 or 3 weeks, but I already had the first 4 stages pretty much memorized.
>You even graze, which is perhaps a little enthusiastic for a first survival run but I don't think it ever made you die so if you like being a daredevil it just makes you a little cooler.
This is something that has been on my mind for some time: is it better to graze or collect point items? A prime example being the kunai-shooting enemies in stage 3. While I generally don't care about score, I do try to aim for 60M by stage 4 for the extends. Other than that, grazing is fun, so I tend to do it on sections that I can reliably deal with.
Thank you for the advice. I'll be sure to keep in in mind.
Also wondering where to go from here... While I'd like to beat the extra stage, that seems a bit beyond my reach for now, so perhaps I'll try clearing the games in order. Maybe I should start one of those charts too...

>>17678481
Nah, it's awesome. Congratulations btw.

All of my 1cc attempts involve me dying in very clumsy ways. Goddammit.

>>17678544
You're not alone, anon.
>tfw died at least once on every fucking boss (even Stage 1) of HSiFS
>still managed to 1cc
What in the fuck.

>>17678572
HSiFS is easy, though. It's the only game other than Aya in PoFV I've managed to 1cc, and every time i look over my replays, I'm stunned by how bad I am.

>>17678510
Now you should try to 1cc in one of these games: PCB, TD, MoF, IN.

>>17678532
nah desu, this game is really fucked up. im surprised it even works. i'll go for something like 13 million in the future but playing this gives me ass cancer

>>17678544
>accidentally get hit at the end of stage 3 in EoSD
>dodge sakuya's nonspells at full rank

Always the dumbest shit

>>17678472
No, and you're lumping very different things together. MariB is a genuine bug, a math error in the program, so that obviously counts as cheating. Malice Cannon probably wasn't an intended strategy, but it is based on the intended behavior of the shots, so it's legitimate if cheap. And Sakuya's knives work exactly as intended, so that doesn't devalue it any more than than the best shot type "devalues" runs in any game.

>>17678362
I don't understand. Alice has terribly low damage by herself, and no range, so in any spell that doesn't let you stay right in front of the boss (ie, most of them), you have to survive many more waves than normal. And since bombs don't do anything to Mokou, unfocusing to drop a Master Spark is no longer a backup option.

>>17675435
>>17674586
>>17675442
Congratulations! The feeling of adrenaline and sheer joy when you achieve your goal is something very few games and things irl have, if any outside of touhou.

>>17678544
that's why they're attempts, everyone dies to stupid stuff

>>17678683
>Sakuya's knives work exactly as intended
You sure about that? I can't reproduce this all the time and it seems to just plain not work in some instances but I don't think ZUN intended for these speedkills to be possible.

>>17678708
I suppose so, but it's still discouraging when I can get to the final stage with more lives than I had the previous attempts, and still game over at the same location. I hate that I can't practice stages until I've beat them in the older games, this would be so much easier if I could run through Kaguya a few times.

>>17678754
I can't even get that to work at all. If I could, I'd probably have gotten my 1cc on DDC before having to move to try other games.

So Keine's last spell on normal, that is, Ending Sign "Phantasmal Emperor" is partially static, right? The lasers are the same every time, but I notice the bullets themselves are kind of random. Is there any good way to routing it, cause I'm stuck at 50% success rate no matter how much I practice it.

>>17679545
That spell is static, I literally beat it the same way every single time.

Is Len'en allowed here? I finally managed to beat Hard mode on BPoHC with only Lv200.
>inb4 >haze
https://mega.nz/#!xcokFSBL!tLD491DG0tACcKuz0RrrUj7jJxaSRCiclNlTKI9UaR4

>>17679549
I just ran it 50 times, the bullets vary very slightly.

>>17679655
Oh, and it's from 1.20d in case someone cares or it's relevant to viewing the replay.

>>17679545
>50% success rate
I don't know how you're trying to practice it, but you must be seriously overthinking it. Everything is so slow, just stay at the bottom center and micrododge stuff as it reaches you, never moving more than a few taps either direction. I guess if you're using Remi, be sure not to overshoot, but otherwise it shouldn't be a problem.

>>17679827
>micrododge
Not that anon, but I struggled pretty hard with micrododging for a good while when I started getting into the games.

>>17679827
I've been trying to route it, since it feels like i sometimes get caught between lasers and the bullets without being able to dodge at times. I'll try more micrododging, then, I need to get more comfortable with bullet hitboxes anyway.

>>17679659
Just stand in the middle and dont move too much.

>>17679886
>>17679827
Alright, now I'm clearing it over and over without fail. Those bullets are a lot smaller than they look. Thanks, anons.

>>17679903
>Those bullets are a lot smaller than they look.
Took you long enough to realize you're playing a danmaku game

>>17679916
I mean I know they look bigger than they are, I just expected the hitbox to be bigger than it actually was, it just looked that way to me.

>>17678510
>>17674586
It seems to me that you die on stupid stuff, but you have a clear grasp of the game.

>on Normal difficulty
Try setting it to hard or do for-glory challenges like no-bomb, you will inevitably get better at the game. I also watch streamers to learn how they approach the game in practice and runs, mentality and nerves, reflexes, etc. Also, there's zero shame in looking up youtube videos for a route for a particular stage/spell.

Well I got my first true 1cc of IN Normal. I turned off the extra lives for this one, so I'm decently proud of it. My last 1cc of this game was over a year ago, so fuck yeah.

Someone wanna tell me what the fuck was up with lost spells? Those seemed impossible.

Jesus Christ I can't imagine myself beating hard mode like I did on PCB, this seems way more brutal for some reason.

13 million, shit game

Was there some kind of trick to make the bullets in Rin's midboss spellcard fall in straight lines? I remember some image showing how to route some of her spellcards or something, could someone post it? I keep getting to stage 5 with 4 or 5 lives and losing them all, it's driving me insane.

>>17681467
Just bomb it.

>>17681474
I usually run out of bombs before it's over.

There are alternatives to these strategies if they aren't working for you.
For example, on Zombie Fairy the fairies can be lured to the top of the screen and you can then rush to the bottom and stay there somewhat safely.
On her last non-spell I find it easier to enter through the side in the circle than to enter through the narrow hole in the front of the circle.

>>17681467
>Rin's midboss spellcard
Which one, Cat's Walk on stage 5?

>>17681478
Cat's Walk should only take you a single bomb unless you're MarisaA.

>>17681643
Thanks a lot, anon.

>Cat's Walk should only take you a single bomb unless you're MarisaA.
Yeah, I am trying to 1cc the game with MarisaA but I don't find her bombs much useful.

How to you not want to kill yourself when you
>die with four bombs
>die right after releasing
>die DURING the release
>die because you pressed a key for a millionth of a second longer than you were supposed to
This is why I play once a week.

>>17681708
The difference between a master and an adept is that the master has failed many more times than the adept even tried

>>17681771
Thanks Patchy

>>17681708
If you only play once a week, you'll never retain enough to get better.
Either way, stupid mistakes will always happen, you just have to power through it.

>>17681708
You better change that mentality or you will never get good.

Could somebody say how to fix bug with 2 lives in extra stage of SoEW (when it's supposed to be 3), please?

>>17682595
what

>>17682600
It is said that a player has only 3 lives for extra stage in Story of Eastern Wonderland, but, for some reason, I only have 2. I don't know why and would like to fix this.

Do people actually like bombing as a mechanic? Maybe it's good for skilled players doing score runs or something, but as someone just trying to get good at the game I feel like all it does is encourage me to not actually attempt to dodge anything difficult. Because if I try and dodge a difficult spell card when I have lots of bombs I risk losing all those bombs, when I could have just bombed through the card and still had some left over.
I honestly just wish bombs weren't even in the game and they just gave you more lives instead.

>>17682630
3 lives = 2 Icons on the HUD, thats normal.

>>17682644
Well, ZUN said that he creates situations in the games where he makes people use a bomb.

>>17682653
Oh, thank you very much!

>>17682644
You could just not bomb. Plenty of players play without using bombs, but this is fairly high level play. Otherwise, I would say that having to decide on the fly whether to try and dodge and save a bomb for something even harder but risking a death or just using a bomb to get through the current pattern is a decent risk vs reward mechanic.

>>17678683
>Alice has terribly low damage by herself
Wrong, Alice damage is medium-high, and for Mokou, is way higher since when hitting Mokou, you hit her wings too, she takes damage from both hits simultaneously because piercing. Alice is very good at killing most of Mokou' shit.
The only problem would be Keine, but if you know how to dodge one wave of x of her spells then you dodged them all.
>>17680427
Great going anon! Last spells can be intimidating at first but they are very learnable.

So why isn't the DS chart like this?
Given how the game handles the spoiler stage, this seems more appropriated I think.

>>17682644
It adds an element of resource management to the game. Some people like that, some don't I guess.

>>17682661
Source? I mean, every touhou pattern is possible (at least, on non-phantasmagoria. Maybe some PC-98 has some undoable pattern but idk about that. Also Gengetsu rape time doesn't count since you clear it by not dealing shit damage on the previous attack).

>>17680427
Good work anon, hopefully I'll be able to follow up with my own, soon.

>>17682941
>you hit her wings too
Wow, I didn't even realize that was a mechanic. I did manage to get a clear anyway, but spent way more effort than necessary trying to follow her around. That's embarrassing.
As for Keine, I had a hard time resetting to exactly the middle for each wave of her first spell, but eventually just decided it was okay to use a bomb there.

>>17683045
SoEW Hard and Lunatic have a pattern on Mima that's impossible to dodge unless you can predict it and misdirect it.

>>17643997
pcb easy

>>17683091
Indeed anon, it helps them quite a lot, they can even finish the survival card earlier with malice. Alice and Yuyuko solo shots also benefit a lot from this, Alice for obvious reasons, while Yuyuko can hit more streams of her wide shot dealing more damage, and since there are some shotgun opportunities, the better. As for Keine,her familiars shoot different kind of bullets depending on if you are youkai or human, so don't focus/unfocus a lot while she is shooting, it will make the pattern a mess.
Nice progress btw, I like how you added both finals, one of the nicest charts to look at! What are you going for next?

>>17684285
Thanks, spooky dude.
I noticed that Yuyuko finished off Hourai Doll very quickly, but just put it down to ordinary shotgunning at the time. Neat stuff.
>finish the survival card earlier
What?

Anyway, I really want to beat Flan, but the combination of brutal stage portion and lack of quick restart make her a pain to practice. To just go for low-hanging fruit, the next easiest would probably be Mamizou? Or just try Mokou with all the solo shots to get a box-ticking rush.

>>17683045
https://youtu.be/g3C5jMbTtps
or
https://youtu.be/vVBdhADeAAE
Don't remember for sure, but in one of these videos he said it (probably the first as it's longer).

>>17684627
https://youtu.be/sXftzeXjADQ?t=1m40s

ah, I found it

I kinda misintrepeted it incorrectly, I thought you meant that ZUN said that he forces people to bomb things, which confused me. But yeah, "making" and "forcing" are different in this context.

Does anyone experience a "wrong rank" when doing stage practice in EoSD?

I'm almost tempted to install spoileral for correct practice

>>17684377
>What?
I would have made a webm but I suck doing those
This is what I meant http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=44005
I would suggest going for Nue, the stage can be a bit of a pain, but it's doable and Nue herself isn't very hard for Extra standards, good luck anon.

I wanna play the Windows games in Japanese so I downloaded that one big torrent from Nyaa. The English patched Touhou 6 runs ok, but when I start the Japanese version it goes really fast. I tried opening the Japanese settings program and forcing v-sync but it doesn't seem to work, any tips? I'm bad at this stuff.

>>17685553
Sorry, english is not my native language so I didn't think it was important.

>first credit of the day is a game over on stage one.
>on a game I've 1cc'd several times.
It's gonna be one of those days, is it?

I finally got my first lunatic 1cc in TD, and I am happy to move on after 1cc'ing it on normal and extra with all four characters, and on hard and lunatic with Reimu. Which game should I focus on for my next lunatic run (i.e. which game is next easiest in lunatic difficulty)?

>>17687197
HSiFS I hear is the easiest lunatic 1cc, but I'm not a lunatic player yet.

>>17687197
MoF is the easiest because you get 10 million bombs, followed by hsifs and pcb

>>17687220
>>17687284
Sounds like MoF it is, thanks.

>>17687064
Instaretry if you die in stage 1, why even bother?

>>17687197
Lunatic player here, HSiFS is the easiest yet. Not sure which comes next, since after TD and HSiFS they're all high level and not easy, and also require learning to some extent. Probably IN because of how many resources it shits out. Not sure if MoF is among the easiest because of how punishing using bombs is, but even if it's not among the hardest either it does require a bit learning.

>>17687412
I'm honestly not sure. Today and yesterday I've been an absolute jobber, so I suppose I just want to see if I can just work on improving a bit and working on my 1ccs later.

>>17687502
It took me 2 months/20 hours of gameplay after clearing hard to clear lunatic in TD, and it probably took about that long from when I started TD to clearing hard, so I think no matter what I do next it will take a few months.

Playing the Extra stage of SA really highlights how bizarre the resource system is. The only way to get away with dying is to not die, and the only way to shoot enemies down in time to not have to bomb is to never bomb. It's like ZUN realized how forgiving MoF was, then tried to make it and SA average out to a normal difficulty.

What makes you a "lunatic player"?

>>17687620
Playing Lunatic primarily

>>17687589
Hmm. It depends on how much more playing you need before you pick up on the lunatic pacing. I made the switch long ago, and now I can't go back to playing Normal in any of the games, because it feels too slow and not challenging. HSiFS is extremely easy and if you know how to avusr the resource system it shouldn't take too long before you get a 1cc. You barely have to dodge any spell or non-spells.

>>17687620
Getting a 1cc in at least one game, I'd say. You might be a newbie, but you're still a lunatic player nonetheless. A regular lunatic player can clear about any game and can't or won't play a lower difficulty due to a lack of interest (unless it's a lower difficulty with a challenge of some sort, like hard no bomb or something).

>>17687589
Hmm. It depends on how much more playing you need before you pick up on the lunatic pacing. I made the switch long ago, and now I can't go back to playing Normal in any of the games, because it feels too slow and not challenging. HSiFS is extremely easy and if you know how to abuse the resource system it shouldn't take too long before you get a 1cc. You barely have to dodge any spell or non-spells.

>>17687620
Getting a 1cc in at least one game, I'd say. You might be a newbie, but you're still a lunatic player nonetheless. A regular lunatic player can clear about any game and can't or won't play a lower difficulty due to a lack of interest (unless it's a lower difficulty with a challenge of some sort, like hard no bomb or something).

>>17687620
LNN of every windows game

>>17685927
EX Kogasa is one of the most disgustingly blatant resource drains I've ever seen.

>>17688233
shes not even that hard

>>17687596
>The only way to get away with dying is to not die, and the only way to shoot enemies down in time to not have to bomb is to never bomb.
What?

>>17689135
Remember, the only way to get life pieces in SA is by not dying during spell cards and patterns. In total, the Extra has the potential to give you as many lives as any other, but because of the way they're awarded, dying early on is extra-punishing.
For bombs, SA's power-as-bomb system is already stricter than MoF's for obvious reasons, but the Extra stage really magnifies it. Most of the enemies are relatively tanky, but spew bullets in a way that requires they be shot down quickly and precisely to keep dodging reasonable. If you miss any of the rare power items, or mess up your route and have to bomb, it's very easy to get trapped in a repeated-bomb death spiral as your power dwindles away.
Both of those features probably teach you to play better, but my point was just that SA has by far the least survival-friendly resource system. Like, it really feels mean-spirited in comparison to the rest of the series.

What do you know? Bitching about my losing streak on /jp/ helped me break it with another 1cc in HSiFS

>>17685933
Please tasukete

>>17690634
If your executable isn't named 東方紅魔郷.exe, make it that, and then run vpatch on it. Personally on windows 10 I can't play it at all without vpatch.

>>17690854
It's named 東方紅魔郷.exe, yeah. When I double click vpatch.exe the game starts and runs okay, but it's the English version, not the Japanese.

>>17690938
Then you might have renamed the english .exe. Can you post a screenshot of your folder? Mine looks like pic related. STb.dat is just a boss rush patch someone in these threads made so ignore that. I imagine if you just removed all the english patch components and have the jap .exe that there's no way you'd be able to open it in English since it's not hardpatched.

>>17691006
Here's how the TH6 folder looks for me, freshly extracted from the archive and unaltered.

From the "Touhou Project All-In-One Pack, ver. 2016-02-24".

>>17691027
First of all, turn on file extensions, grandma.
Secondly, RTFM. Vpatch will launch whatever is named 東方紅魔郷.exe, so if you want to play the Jap version, just rename it to that.

>>17691027
Parroting what >>17691036 said, rename 102h.exe to 東方紅魔郷.exe and you should be good to go for vpatch. Feel free to remove your current 東方紅魔郷.exe, custom_e.exe and all the th06e_*.DAT files if you never want to play the English at all.

>>17691036
The readme doesn't mention that. Works now though, thanks dood

>>17691064
Gotcha

>>17691067
>Important Notes
>TH06:
>To use vpatch with 6, rename the game executable to 東方紅魔郷.exe.
It's also in vpatch's own readme:
>Rename each individual exe file to th**.exe, where the stars are the game number, except for EoSD and Uwabami Breakers, which must be named 東方紅魔郷.exe and alcostg.exe, respectively.
Still, I'll do my best to make it clearer for the next version.

Is Marisa supposed to be really bad in SA? Even power-wise, both Reimu A and B seem to outclass her and her spread shot-types are not even that useful apart from a few cases.

>>17691151
These are the contents of the English readme in my TH6 folder. Can't access the shrinemaiden website so I don't know what that link does. I did some googling earlier about too many frames per second but that just caused more confusion since I got a bunch of "works on my machine" and old irrelevant discussions for older Windows versions, or discussions about the English executable as opposed to the Japanese one. Whatever.

A scrub in need of advice.

Really struggling against EX-Okina's Sword of the Seven Star, it's giving PTSD flashbacks to Clownpiece's non-spell except here I can't bomb my way through. Is there no easier way through it other than just constant micrododging?

>>17691243
Yeah and make absolutely sure you stay right in the middle of the screen or the lasers are going to fuck you over. Do abuse the release if you get trapped.

The just spam Reisen's bomb legend was real, now DDC is the only game left to 1cc in Normal difficulty.

>>17693130
If you genuinely did that, then you might as well skip straight to Hard or Lunatic for the other games.

Fuck this piece of shit rng game

>>17693261
Which one?

Is there a good way to iron out novice mistakes and shit or do I just gotta keep running the gauntlet until it's second nature? I've heard the photography games are good for practice, but I can't get into them.

>>17693171
Not Lunatic, that's way too much for me, but I'm working on getting Hard in MoF (already gameovered like 5 times to Kanako's last spell). This was my second try at LoLK, having played the game in PD with all the shots and doing Practice mode for stages 4 and 5 helped me a lot, and the run could have been better because honestly, it was terrible, had a lot of wasted bombs in spells I already knew how to capture.

>>17693341
You say that as though it were nothing, but it's actually pretty amazing. Clownpiece's attacks are very, very skill-based, so if you can do them consistently enough to 1cc the game, then any Hard should be a piece of cake with a little practice.

>>17693337
Who the fuck told you that lol

>>17693421
Some people on these threads brought it up a couple times.

>>17693327
EoSD lunatic, Reimu A, specifically on stages 3-4