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Oh boy, Danmaku thread!
>MoF
Let's do this.
>Extra Stage
Fuck...

>>2785496
>Extra Stage
>Fuck...
>MoF
(picture related)

I haven't played this stage in weeks. That was horrible.

>>2785496
Try MarisaB if you have it unlocked.

>>2785517

>>2785536
I haven't even beat her yet. I need to beat her first and besides MoF is on my other PC.

Damn her 2nd to last spellcard.
Those bullets look smaller than they really are.

And to think, I was ecstatic to beat EoSD and PCB on normal.

>>2785590
I hate that spell card too. It makes no sense when you get hit. I don't think I would be able to capture it if it wasn't for ReimuB firepower which is enough to only have to dodge it twice.

OP here.

Winner is OP.

Next challenge is Subterranean Animism, Stage 3. All difficult modes open.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Score based round.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 20:00.

Failed the first spell card in the last second. Any tips on that one? It seems that the bullets move randomly without a pattern.

How you guys do this is beyond me. It seems that the more I play, the more I suck. I just don't comprehend this.

I say this because I always get 1 life killed at Icicle Fall unless I use a bomb. Or having hong meiling smash my stupid face when she appears. Or those damn beams Patchuolli uses.

Time to go to bed for me.

>>2785708
Well, first of all I try to focus a lot in what I'm doing. When I finally capture a spell card it start to get easier until I start to capture it most of the time.

There is no real training strategy, maybe you should try harder difficult modes until you get used.

OP here.

Normal mode winner: >>2785730.

Next challenge is Perfect Cherry Blossom, Stage 2. All difficult modes open.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Score based round.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 20:30.

What a mess.

Requesting MoF stage.

OP here.

All modes winner: >>2785880.

Next challenge is Shoot the Bullet, Level 2 Scene 6.

Score based round.

Rules for Shoot the Bullet.
1. You can try all times you want, but the first game that you complete is the one that counts.
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 21:00.

or

Shoot the Bullet, Level 4 Scene 6.You can do both.

Wow, my best yet.

Unfortunately, I'm not particularly good at STB.

Pathetic

Extending 15 minutes.

OP here.

Lvl2S6 winner:>>2785988.
Lvl4S6 winner: >>2785968.

Next challenge is Imperishable Night, Stage 5. All difficult modes open.

Any team or character solo allowed.

Score based round.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 21:30

This is the first time I played StB for scoring purposes, I have enough hard time only beating the spells.

I guess I did ok. Also my first time participating in one of these threads. For the OP, you have my gratitude for making them.

'Tele-Mesmerism' is goddamn impossible.

>>2786059
I have talked with you lots and lots of times about danmaku. It is only that I post as Anonymous out of this threads, I know you very well. Thanks for the support.

I guess I did pretty bad. I got confused on the scoring system halfway through the stage and died a lot trying to do stupid shit. At least I did it on hard instead of normal.

I even failed 'Tele-Mesmerism' on Normal.

I did a mistake on the time limit time. You have until 22:00.

>>2786082
ZUN really likes to start from 0 when talking about scoring systems. Every new game released feels completely different from the last one.

didn't really make much of an attempt at scoring just wanted to play lol.

>>2786107
Can't say I agree... aside from MOF and UFO, the scoring systems are basically modifications of "graze bullets and get big bullet cancels on bosses" in the cases of PCB and IN, stay unfocused as much as possible. 4 5 6 7 8 and 11 are all pretty close as far as scoring systems go...

>>2786107
That's one of the reasons I love touhou.
Each game feels fresh because they all have a different scoring system.

My beloved Reisen is easy no matter in which difficult mode you're playing.

>>2786158
Well, by different scoring systems thats what I mean. The calculations are different, but remember that there is always a new element that involves hi scoring on each game. EoSD can be the average socring system, PCB: Cherry, IN: Time orbs, MoF: Faith, SA: Don't die. All work in different ways as you can see.

>>2786164
I really like the UFO system, no matter what most of /jp/ says. It is a lot of fun for me, it feels like you are playing some kind of weird arcade shmup.

>>2786107

it forces us different habits, though.

PCB? bonkers at cherry border time.
IN? get all point during 100% human mode
PoFV? Bonus Round.
MoF? NOT Die, and bombing to get faith stars
SA? Screw POC, GRAZE FUCKING EVERYTHING!

Gah, sometimes I feel like I'm not improving at general danmaku dodging.

OP here.

Normal mode winner: >>2786158
Hard mode winner: >>2786164.

Next challenge is Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Stage 6. All difficult modes open.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Score based round.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 22:30.

>>2786190
Actually SA involves suiciding as much as possible for bombs for supergrazing, on lunatic at least, heh. But yeah, there's usually a few new mechanics for each game but the general playstyle doesn't really change much, about as much as you'd expect from sequels of the same series, I would say...

Similar scoring systems is not a bad thing though.Raizing will always be the king of scoring imo, and their best two games have nearly identical scoring systems.

>>2786196
It does not most of the time. But every once in a while when I try spell card I couldn't beat, they become really easy for some reason. Eg. Subterranean Rose, I tried for days to capture it. I forgot about it continue playing other games (not only Touhou), when I tried again some time later, I got it in the first try.

I'll pass, I'm playing Touhou 9 with a friend now. Good luck you you guys.

>>2786218
I have noticed the solid score calculation from Raizing games. It doesn't get all screwed up like in Touhou.

And which this two games are? Battle Garegga and ?

>>2786237
Thanks for playing, Good luck!

Wow. I just had a nearly perfect Hard run, used all my bombs for bullet cancels and suicided for bombs. Captured all but the ESPrade ripoff card, when I got to the final pattern I had 0 bombs/0 lives, and then got nervous and choked with only a few pixels of health left.

FUCK.

>>2786263
Batrider, of course!

Batrider is very similar to Garegga, except a few changes: The rank system is not so brutally extreme as it is in Garegga, and you can lower the rank (slightly) by dying or grazing bullets (as opposed to Garegga where dying is the only way to decrease rank) although you still need to suicide in Batrider too. More ships, too.

Damn it. I was so close to capturing Scarlet Gensokyo.

>>2786322
Oh yeah I remmeber that one. We played it in here sometime ago. I remember it quite well because of how some of the buildings just blocked the way on the top.

I'll try it again soon.

Oh also when you stop firing in batrider you get a charge shot, the aura on the front of your ship can be used to kill things. It usually yields points similar to killing with a bomb (in general, you get more points for killing things with bombs than with shot in raizings)

OP here.

Hard mode winner: >>2786335.

Next challenge is Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream. Full run.

Any character allowed.

Score based round.

Rules for Full run game.
1. You can try all the times you want, just make sure to post your score in time.
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 23:30.

>>2786356
Is there a guide to know the basics of Batrider? I found a a really good one for Progear, really useful.

>>2786369
FUCK YEAH

>>2786369
Oh god, this is impossible as always. I'll try again.

This part never fails to make me smile.

Goddamn, Fantasy Legend.

>>2786389
whoa sorry for the late reply i was playing dodonpachi.

there's a thread on shmups' strat forum on batrider: http://shmups.system11.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5349 Icarus' posts have some good info.

But if you don't want to wade through a bunch of shit I can give you a quick runthrough of the basics that you need to know to enjoy batrider (raizings suck until you figure out what the hell is going on):

First off, you probably want to turn on the extra dip switches in the mame menu, they might be called "unused" or "untitled" or something similar, depending on the mame version. These switches will enable a few things:
-Boss Rush mode
-Single Character Select
-Extra Characters

When selecting characters, the button you select with dictates the ship's strength...
-A: Powered up shot, weak options
-B: Powered up options, weak shot
-C: Powered up both, slower speed
-Start: Weak both, faster speed

During gameplay, HOLD START and PRESS B and you will enable a feature that shows you how many points you gain from each thing you destroy, very useful for seeing what yields the most points.

Almost, those crosses are just too much for a useless maid like Kana.

>>2786653 continued

So anyway, as for the scoring system...

Everything gives you points when you destroy it, that much is obvious. However, HOW you destroy it dictates how many points you get. The general rule of thumb is that destroying things with bombs yields the most points, often 10x as much, or more. Some things can ONLY be destroyed with bombs. Some things will yield more points when destroyed by shot, some when destroyed by options. You can see how the start+B feature would be useful here. This also applies to bosses, you always want to destroy each part of the boss before killing the core. Also, sometimes when you destroy scenery with bomb, it will yield a medal.

Medal chaining: Every time you pick up a medal, the value of the medal increases: 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 and a maximum of 10,000. When a medal falls to the bottom of the screen the chain is reset. So it's important that you don't miss a medal. If two medals are on the screen, and one falls but you pick up the other, you keep the chain IF the first one falls before you pick up the second.

Rank:

For those not familiar with rank, the higher the rank the harder the game gets. It's not as extreme as Garegga, but it still gets too hard to handle if you don't control it well. Basically, just don't pick up powerups if you're already at max power. They increase your rank too much to be worth the small point gain, so try to avoid powerups at max power. Dying reduces the rank by a good chunk, grazing reduces it very very slightly.

Err, there's more in-depth stuff but that's the basic stuff you need to know to get scoring. Also, this can almost all be applied to Garegga, except the ship button selection is different.

OP here.

Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream round will stay open for now. Since we have such a lot player count, we are taking a break, unless someone wants to continue.

>>2786653
>>2786657
Just finished reading. Thanks a lot, I'll check the link.

>>2786657 cont
selection screens.

OP here.

Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream round will stay open for now. We have a low player count, so we are taking a break, unless someone wants to continue.

>>2786653
>>2786657
Just finished reading. Thanks a lot, I'll check the link.

Oh. One last thing about Batrider. Default arcade settings are 1,500,000 per extend. When you hit 1.5 mil, the next air enemy you destroy will drop the extend. You cannot hold more than three lives, so if you haven't died, suicide then kill something for a "free" rank reduction.

I found this out the hard way the first time I broke 1.5m on a no-miss. lol.

>>2786753
With '3 extra lives' you mean 1 extra besides the three initial lives. Or the that the three starting lives are the limit.

>>2786760
When you have 1 ship displayed in your extra lives, it is your last life. You start with your ship + 2 extra ships, it shows as 3 ships. You start at max ships, so if you no-miss to the first extend you should suicide before killing anything.

For reference, a decent st 1 score is about 800k-1m. More is possible, but I usually aim for about 900k. Boss milking is pretty prevalent in all raizings but it's a lot more fun than most games' boss milking, in my opinion.

>>2786774
Oh ok. We are going to play some MAME when we get back on topic. Batrider will be there.

bump for players.

OP here.

Let's continue. Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream round still open.

Next challenge is Armed Police Batrider. Play as far as 1 credit can get you.

Any character allowed.

Score based round.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

For the new players, you have can play to get used to the controls, gimmicks etc.

Time limit will be determined by the number of entries.

Sweet, I was beginnning to think you fell asleep, haha.

Oh yeah, I forgot. All difficult modes open.

Oh yeah, I forgot. All difficult modes open.

>>2787147
Luckily, that have not happened in quite a few months now.

I keep forgetting there is no deathbombing at all. I'll continue playing.

>>2786774
Anon, how do you achive 800k on the first stage. I did about 450k. Is it beacause I'm playing on Normal?

>>2787141

Batrider AND Dim.Dream? Awesome games selections man!

Also, how do you do screen shots with MAME? I haven't completely memorized all of the hotkeys.

Oh god lol. Despite all the mechanics explanation and fanboyism, my run went pretty terribly. I suicided before the first extend but then accidentally died AGAIN as the 1-up was falling down and missed that so I basically lost 2 lives and a 1-up, totalling 3 lives lost within about 5 seconds of each other, ahaha. Then I lost my last life to something stupid. Oh well, I always love playing it.

Seriously man, once you start to understand and get the hang of Garegga and Batrider, they're just damn awesome games.

>>2787203
forgot my pic...

>>2787196
>how do you achive 800k on the first stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du3yWyLSOWo
here's a vid of Icarus doing 1.25 mil on Advanced. The same exact strategy works on normal, though. He's using Strawman who is considered to be the best for this stage. The whole stage in one runon sentence: Start out with a bomb to destroy the cars right as you start, collect bomb fragments from the bikers, bomb the car lot, destroy the building behind the sign before you knock the sign down, bomb the glass part, bomb the police cars, collect the cash from the boss, destroy each part.

Basically just remember to kill everything you can, with bomb if possible. Raizing games give out tons of bomb fragments, and for good reason, you need to use them very liberally to score.

>>2787201
I just use prntscrn and then ctrl+v in ms paint. I think there's a screenshot bind for MAME but I don't use it, heh.

>>2787201
I just use Impr Pants function and paste them in Paint. I don't know if MAME have its own way to take screenshot automatically.

>>2787203
>>2787222
I already like Garegga a lot, these are actually pretty much the same game with different weapons and sprites.

I found my problem on first stage, I didn't bomb at all.

I did better this time! Almost clear Stage 5. I died exactly in the moment I took my extend. Was kind of sad.

>>2787201
I just use Impr Pants function and paste them in Paint. I don't know if MAME have its own way to take screenshot automatically.

>>2787203
>>2787222
I already like Battle Garegga a lot. These are actually pretty much the same game with different weapons and sprites. I just have to get used to Batrider's special gimmicks.

I found my problem on first stage, I didn't bomb at all.

Also, I did better this time! Almost clear Stage 4. I died exactly in the moment I took my extend. Was kind of sad.

>>2787250
Nice. You'll get a Normal course clear pretty quick if you keep at it. Once you start Advanced though, you gotta start using those Garegga rank control techniques, cause of the higher initial rank and longer game. I can't do Advanced for shit, yet, but I'm workin on it. It'll be a while before I get that Advanced clear, I think...

>>2787274
You will get it done. Just keep playing the hell out of it.

Round ends at 02:15.

OP here.

All MAME rounds will stay open (as well as PoDD round) until the end of the thread. Feel free to submit entries.

Next challenge is DoDonPachi. Play as far as 1 credit can get you.

Score based round.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

For the new players, you have can play to get used to the controls, gimmicks etc.

No time limit, since it will stay open.

What the hell. Did perfect until stage 3 (even had MAX bombs at the end of stage 2), started losing all my lives over stupid mistakes.

doh, lol. Totally didn't even notice the new game round. Dodonpachi is my specialty!

Haha. Pretty average run for me, I guess. A few crucial silly mistakes that stopped me from getting the loop (happens a lot unfortunately) Chief among them being a stupid death on stage 5 during the part where I usually get the big chain for the loop requirement. That, and, of course, dying with 5 bombs on the stage 5 boss. Damn you, stage 6 boss.

>>2787493
>That, and, of course, dying with 5 bombs on the stage 5 boss.

stage 6 boss, I mean...

Also... more players, please. ;_;

Had to download ddp and MAME. I haven't played it in a while, I'm rusty.

Pointless but interesting fact: If you pick laser type, when you activate laser, for one frame, the laser takes the shape of a dragon's head, as seen in pic.

>>2787502
It is mid-week, there are only quite a few danmaku players around here. Actually I didn't expect that much of a response like the thread did today.

Weekend is much better for this threads, but I don't want to leave /jp/ with big spans of time without a thread.

>>2787531
Never noticed that, neat.

>>2787531
Cool. CAVE really did a great job with DoDonPachi.

Next round starts at 04:00.

OP here.

Last challenge for today is Darius Gaiden. Play as far as 1 credit can get you.

Score based round.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

For the new players, you have can play to get used to the controls, gimmicks etc.

No time limit, since it will stay open.

I really do wish that Wine on OS X didn't die hard with danmaku.

EVERY
SINGLE
DEATH
was during a bomb, because I would run into a wall thinking I was 100% invulnerable during a bomb. Haha... ;_;

This game is so great though. The gameplay is nicely paced, the music and graphics are awesome...

>>2787640
AGAIN WITH THE FORGETTING PICTURES...

If you die once in this game ... you're pretty much done for, since you lose all your powerups. Even worse if you die when you're against a boss, there is no way to upgrade in the middle of the fight.

>>2787628
It has problems with framerate or something?

Well it's not as bad as Gradius...

Not sure why I didn't ask earlier but OP, since you like Garegga have you played Ibara?

>>2787640
Best fucking bosses I've ever seen. Hysteric Empress? WHOA I'M FIGHTING A SPIDER CRAB FUCK YEAH.

Also a GULPER EEL
and MANTIS SHRIMP
and HORSESHOE CRAB
SEA ANEMONE
OGREFISH
SPERM WHALE
OCEAN SUNFISH
CROWNED SEAHORSE

Damn I love this game.

fffffffffff got the big chain in stage 5, should have gotten to the 2nd loop

>>2787640
I agree with you, this game has everything. Too bad there are some aspects of the game you must study a lot to actually pull them out, which requires a lot of time and dedication.

A Darius Gaiden player showed me this some time ago. Mindblowing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKafzVxEQfg

>>2787654
Not to mention Titanic Lance... (Zone M). I usually hesitate to use the word "epic" but I don't know how else to describe that one. It's fucking HUGE.

>>2787659
Damn straight it should be. Isn't that thing a belemnite?

>>2787653
I played the PS2 version some time ago, I don't like the using PADs that much, feels weird. Is there a way to emulate it on PC since there is an Arcade version?

>>2787655
Second Stage 6 boss victim tonight with 5 bombs in stock.

>>2787655
you beat my posted score. ;_;

did another one after that but didn't bother posting it (pic related), didn't think it'd get beaten since nobody else is playing. I guess if the one-try rule still applies I lose anyway. ffffffffff

>>2787672
Oh damn, I forgot to edit the rules. Since this rounds are long you can post all the entries you want. Thats the global rule for overnight rounds.

They will stay open until tomorrow, if you want to try later on and not right now.

>>2787665
The SH-3 circuitboard games are not possible to emulate, and probably won't be for a while.

Ibara is awesome. It's basically a Raizing game but with a few new features and mechanics, it was programmed by S. Yagawa who programmed Garegga. The Hadou gun (the missile you get when you hold bomb) is just the sickest bomb I've ever seen. Watching a skilled player place Hadous for massive point gain is just draw-dropping. Not sure what to say about using a pad... I used a pad for a while until I got a stick.

>>2787662
My bad. It's apparently an orthocone, more closely related to the nautilus. Pictured is Cameroceras, the largest known orthocone, at over 10 meters, tentacles extended.

>>2787677
Oh, god. I'd be scared shitless if a giant battleship designed after one of those was attacking my home planet...

>>2787682
I'd be more afraid of the lion's mane jellies and the portuguese man o' wars (Curious Chandelier, Area Z boss, comes close, but not too close. ) given those have 30-40 meters of deadly tentacles.

>>2787676
I just played it for a few minutes, I didn't know that much about CAVE and Raizing back then (3 years ago). I did know about Touhou and danmaku games, but got killed so fast that didn't get a chance for a second try.

I'll ask someone to lend me a copy. If you say it feels like Raizing, it must be awesome then. About the PAD, I guess I can get used to it, but I will suck. I can feel it.

>>2787691
And heh, it's not like to you need to spend extra effort to convert jellyfishes into battleships. Some already come as flying saucers. Picture is Benthocodon pedunculata.

But to get back at the thread, which path do you prefer? I usually prefer Ancient Dozer to King Fossil and Prickly Angler to Neon Light Illusion given the choice (The tentacles waving around freak me out) but admittedly I haven't played the game extensively to figure out the attacks.

>>2787704
Most of the time I take a straight route. ABDG. I always die on Zone G anyway. I have tried all the other routes as well to see how the bosses are; still I haven't pass from the fourth Zone I arrive to.

Wide awake and nothing else to do. Guess I'll keep talking about Garegga. If you've never seen the T3-CYR-WIZ replay, you HAVE to see it (http://www.super-play.co.uk/index.php?content=2&gameid=79 first one on the list, might have to right-click-save-as on the little disc icon). It's a rip of an old VHS superplay so the quality is kinda bad but it does give it a nice old school feel, haha. When I first saw this I think my jaw was on the floor the entire video... his final score is J,111,620 (which is 19,111,620) using Gain ABC. The intro montage alone is worth the download, really.

This is the same T3-CYR-WIZ from the Ikaruga superplay... what a beast.

>>2787743
heh what a coincidence, I just downloaded that a few days ago. I've looked at the (ridiculously long) guide about all the scoring tricks for this game on the shmups forums, but seeing someone put in action is something else.

OP here.

>>2787743
Sounds sick ... downloading. Will take a while since my internet is really slow right now.

Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream, Armed Police Batrider, DoDonPachi and Darius Gaiden rounds will be open until tomorrow. Feel free to post all the entries you want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn1AGEV44Zk&fmt=18

Thanks for playing, Happy Danmaku.

Bump!

Fuck you, Bashinet

I just noticed that if you're at max bombs, Small Bombers worth a A LOT.

>>2789744
Yeah, but bombing things will usually yield more points in the long run I think, and collecting items at max is murder for your rank, assuming it works similarly to Garegga (which I'm fairly certain it does)

A Danmaku thread?

FUCK YEAH!!

>>2789766
Bombs sure give a lot of points, but I won't use them for scoring purposes until I can atleast beat Normal.

Another attempt at Batrider after my failed attempt last night. I don't know stage 5 enough to score on it yet, I usually just wing it and hope I get the clear. Broke my medal chain early on stage 4 somehow, I didn't even see anything fall, and it's hard to miss those big ass 10k medals, so I'm not sure what happened.

What are we playing?

>>2789766
Also, I have a question, What type of ship I should start using to beat Normal?

>-A: Powered up shot, weak options
>-B: Powered up options, weak shot
>-C: Powered up both, slower speed
>-Start: Weak both, faster speed

I don't want to get used to a wrong type of ship that is not built for survival runs.

>>2789776

>>2789852
Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream, Armed Police Batrider, DoDonPachi and Darius Gaiden.

You choose. There are already entries for all, so check them out.

>>2789853

>C: Powered up both, slower speed

Survival or scoring, things dying faster is always a good thing. You'll also like the slower speed in some situations, about even with the situations you'll be fucked in due to slow.

>>2789853
I use Strawman C-type single-character. His speed is enough that he can still get around well enough for me with the lowered speed, and he's pretty powerful, not to mention the homing options also help make up for the speed. For survival runs and beginning scoring runs it's personal preference, really. I would generally say base it on the character's speed. If he's very fast, use C, if he's medium speed, use A or B, and if he's really slow, maybe use Start, although you might be too lacking in firepower with Start. Once you start doing Advanced Course for serious scores, you'll want to select your ships more carefully and use multi-character, as certain requirements (like using a different button for each of your 3 characters) unlock extra bosses (such as Black Heart and Glow Squid from Garegga). They talk about it somewhere in the thread linked earlier.

>>2789848
I have noticed how hard is to keep the chain on stages such as Sky High and the Sewage System. Most of the time I get in position to pick them up, but they end up going through since I'm have not get used to the hitbox yet.

>>2789886
I'm used to slow speed, I'll give it a try. Thanks.

>>2789904
That makes a lot of sense. And yeah, already read some of the posts in the thread. Good advices.

>>2789834
Points mean prizes.

Like Progear, it's good to learn to score because periodic extends and a slightly exponential component will result in lots of lives. But it's more important in Raizing games because dying or letting extends fall off the screen reduces rank.

>>2787609
I point out that autofire totally breaks this game. You do about 3 times as much damage as normal.

There's also fairly intense rank (based on main weapon powerup collection I think), so you might want to avoid powering up.

>>2790434
I know, the problem here is that since I haven't learn how most of the enemies (and bosses) attack, most of the time I need my bombs to survive. But you have a point indirectly, I shouldn't use my bombs just because I'm going to die, that will create a bad habit of bombing all the time. I'll try to do some runs without bombing at all.

>>2790462
I haven't seen a difference between the weapon from the third update to the fourth, beside the fact that you drop a missile up.

Rounds end up at 20:00.

>>2790632
couldn't and still can't join due to work, but if you do another thread at the weekend I'll join in again.

>>2790787
The weekend threads are a 'must do' for me. I have been working on something for some months now, so I'm never bored between rounds, that's why I keep making threads.

OP here.

Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream round winner: >>2786656.
Armed Police Batrider round winner: >>2787250.
DoDonPachi round winner: >>2787655.
Darius Gaiden round winner: >>2787644.

Next challenge is Mountain of Faith, Stage 4. Normal mode only.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Faith based round. The player with the biggest amount of remaining faith at the end of the stage is the winner.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 20:45.

Aaahhh, forgot at the middle of 'Tengu Macro Burst' that spell cards bullets don't give you faith.

>>2790994

>Armed Police Batrider round winner: >>2787250.
>>2789848

>DoDonPachi round winner: >>2787655.
>>2787672

Thanks to the person that posted the corrections. Sorry about that.

I don't know how I missed those.

Multiple entries were accepted, right? I think you missed my ddp and apb scores. I'm not too worried, though...

Anyway, I can't do MOF and SA challenges because they don't auto detect my stick's directionals and there's no binds for them in-game. I think I could download some sort of program to fix the problem but I'm too lazy for that...

OP here.

Uh oh, I'll just assume there are not MoF players around.
Armed Police Batrider round winner: >>2789848.
DoDonPachi round winner: >>2787672.

Next challenge is Imperishable Night, Extra Stage.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Special condition based round: Time Orbs. The player with the biggest amount of Time Orbs by the end of the stage is the winner.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 21:45.

OP here.

Uh oh, I'll just assume there are not MoF players around.
Armed Police Batrider round winner: >>2789848.
DoDonPachi round winner: >>2787672.

Next challenge is Imperishable Night, Extra Stage.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Special condition based round: Time Orbs. The player with the biggest amount of Time Orbs by the end of the stage is the winner.

Rules for Extra Stage game.
1. You can try all the times you want, but just make sure you post score in time.
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 21:45.

I dont know this stage at all...

Tried graze milking for time orbs, ended up just getting me killed. I don't have the ambition to try again on a stage I don't like very much unfortunately.

>>2791297
Same, pretty much I just learned how to at least beat the stage. Fujiyama Volcano is a beast.

Kinda sucked, but it's still my highest score, since it's the first score run I've attempted of the stage. I've survived with far more lives before, mostly because I made some really stupid mistakes (died twice on Phoenix's Tail, which is normally an easy capture, and used a normal bomb rather than a counterbomb with 1 bomb left, which made me die to the rapealicious noncard). Captured Hourai Doll, and basically captured Possessed by Phoenix, which I died on at the very beginning because I was using unfocused movement and ran straight into one of 8 bullets total on the screen. I fucked up most of the other remotely hard cards.

>>2791372
>Special condition based round: Time Orbs.
Ohwat. I wish you would make this more obvious. I always miss it and play normally when you put special rules in.

OP here.

>>2791379
I'll move the based round over character and weapon selection.

Winner: >>2791306.

Next challenge is Perfect Cherry Blossom, Stage 6. All difficult modes open.

Lives > Bombs > Score.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 22:30.

First time I use ReimuB for this stage. Some of Yuyuko's spell cards are a pain without a homing weapon.

>>2791480
Really? I like Reimu B a lot, my favorite character in this game. My first clears for each difficulty were all Reimu B. Her power is insane, and her overpowered almost-half-sized hitbox is just too good for survival.

>>2791536
Forgot to add: the power of Reimu A gets me killed a lot. Some cards just take FOREVER to kill, where B just plows through them.

>>2791536
>overpowered almost-half-sized hitbox
I've actually never noticed the difference. The extra pixel or two doesn't even come close to the increase in counterbomb time in usefulness. The difference between being able to counterbomb on reaction and not is HUGE.

>>2791543
You can actually make up for a lot of the difference by using her focused and unfocused shots correctly. Her unfocused shots do way more damage when you're directly under her, and even more if you're closer, while her focused do more while you're not directly under. Reimu A can actually finish some of the cards quicker than the more powerful characters, especially if the enemy moves around a lot, like in Chen/Ran's extra midboss fight.

I can't even count how many times I've almost died with Reimu and practically gone through the hitbox, lol. Reimu's hitbox is only 12 pixels while others' are 21, or so I've read. (Reimu's is 4x4 with the corners cut off while everyone elses' are 5x5 with the corners cut off, the hitbox rotates, you can actually see it rotating if you look closely, I believe.)

OP here.

Hard mode winner: >>2791525.

Next challenge is Subterranean Animism, Stage 5. All difficult modes open.

Score based round.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 23:00.

Sorry bro can't play SA, hopefully someone else joins in.

>>2791543
You're right, ReimuA takes forever to finish up spell cards. That why I never use her.

>>2791566
It must take a lot of skill to do that (going unfocused most of the run).

>>2791583
Hopefully, /jp/ is sleppy right now.

Orin's a tough girl.

>>2791572
7 deaths. How the hell I got through with 2 on my hard 1cc....

Let's Play some Danmaku. = Let's Play Touhou

>>2791644
meet
>>2787141
>>2787348
>>2787609

>>2791644
>>2791660
I laughed.

OP here.

>>2791660
Pretty much this.

Normal mode winner: >>2791614.
Hard mode winner:>>2791625.

Next challenge is Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Stage 2. All difficult modes open.

Score based round.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 23:30.

>>2791660
>>2791666
>>2791701
Very few, if any, people play those other games. Let's not kid ourselves here... this is /jp/.

>>2791707
gb2/bridge/

>>2791707
I get a nice response from people when playing MAME games. The discussion is good as the games are great. Those are only things we should care about.

Cirno really gets a difficulty boost with lunatic. Only thing I managed to capture was Hailstorm.

Hard mode.

>>2791749
Haven't played it on Lunatic yet. Is it really that hard?

Amazing run.. I missed a few hundred thousand from collecting some point items below the collection line and ending her first noncard early, but everything else was near perfect.

Hard mode.

>>2791749
I haven't played on Lunatic yet. Is it really that hard?

>>2791793
Did you used MarisaB's Master Spark to collect items? I did bomb all the stage to collect point items and barely made it to 80.

>>2791793
And Hard. Messed up the graze spots and you can't graze her first noncard, so I was shit out of luck there, plus I don't know the stage as well.

>>2791835
And Lunatic. Went fairly well, only real fuck up was dying on perfect freeze.

>>2791812
Honestly it's just that the bullets are much denser. It makes it hard to navigate with Marisa.

Also using master spark isn't just enough for this stage, you'll want to take out Daiyousei as fast as you can to increase the amount of bonus birds immediately after her.

OP here.

Normal mode winner: >>2791793.
Hard mode winner: >>2791835.
Lunatic mode winner: >>2791749.

Next challenge is Shoot the Bullet, Level 3 Scene 2.

Score based round.

Tengu crow only.

Rules for Shoot the Bullet.
1. You can try all times you want, but the first game that you complete is the one that counts.
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 00:15.

>>2791812
I bombed right at the beginning and once after Daiyousei to collect power items and put me at max. For the stage before Daiyousei, you can sit at the collection line and move back and forth collecting the items. After Daiyousei, you can auto-collect if you got enough power in the first half of the stage. That plus memorizing certain enemies (most notably the ones that shoot puffs of red balls that make it hard to get into the top half of the screen) should let you collect most of the items without bomb spam. I DID just bomb spam in my hard and lunatic runs, though, since there are a lot more bullets on screen.

or

Shoot the Bullet, Level 6 Scene 4. You can do both.

I wanted to play normal, but icicle fall is really hard for me...
Oh, and should 1 second spell card timer = 1 second real time? For some reason, EoSD's timers run down a lot faster for me.

>>2791856
>>2791869
Wow, why I didn't think of that before. I use to graze Daiyousei almost timing her out.

This one's a doozy to get proper nice shots for.

Youmu is annoyingly fast. There were times where I took an instant shot and Youmu was already more than halfway through the screen.

Oh god, I had an awesome 130k shoot. Had to ruin it.

>>2791931
It happens a lot, it is hard to time the moment she is going to dash.

Screwed up last shoot. Took it too early.

Second completion.
>>2791947
Here's a tip for Scene 6-4, you generally score higher if she's coming from the bottom of the screen.

Fuuuuuuuuuck. I just died in Garegga with like 4,998,000 points (2,000 pts from an extend. Not as bad as when I watched KET die with x,999,500 though lol). Somewhat relevant to the thread, just thought I'd let you all laugh at my misfortune. Run was going so well and then those weird bus things in stage 4 just fucked my day up like it was their sole purpose in life.

Also you'll laugh when you realize what the picture is.

OP here.

Lvl3S2 winner: >>2791924.
Lvl6S4 winner: >>2791931.

Next challenge is Mountain of Faith, Stage 5. All difficult modes open

Faith based round. The player with the biggest amount of remaining faith at the end of the stage is the winner.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 01:00.

>>2792016
Oh wow, it really does suck when you're about to get an extend and die. Happens to me a lot in DoDonPachi and Garegga.

I did not realize that the faith meter becomes so blurry when the clear screen shows up.I think my faith was around 195k.

>>2792030
How many scenes have you not yet completed? I was a bit surprised to see that you had not yet cleared 3-2.

It's late, I'm going to bed and play Progear on psp until I fall asleep.

>>2792016
I'm trying really hard thinking who is the one on the image. It does look like Stage 4 first phase and Stage 5 bosses.

>>2792075
My old .dat got obliterated when my computer died. Couldn't get anything back from it. Had 76 scenes completed.

>>2792091
Only way to go. Thanks for playing.

>>2792110
That's bad luck, but with your improved touhou skills in general, your new scores are probably going to be higher than the ones you had back then. How many scenes completed have you gotten your new .dat to?

>>2792130
It was on 54, got it 67 already. And yeah, I will probably just play all the scenes again to get a good score in all of them.

>>2792110
Black Heart, stage 5 boss (or BH Mk 2, final stage boss)

OP here.

Winner: >>2792074.
If you say so.

Last challenge of the thread is Undefined Fantastic Object, Stage 1 to 3. All difficult modes open.

Lives > Bombs > Score.

Any character and weapon allowed.

Rules for standard game.
1. You only have one try (that means no second chances and no restarts).
2. No replays (the run must be played by you and at the moment).

You have until 01:45.

>>2792202
I'm surprised I got it right. Most of the time I don't reach stage 5 boss in my first continue, so I don't see it frequently.

As a side note, I'll redo my current run, forgot it was going to be Lives > Bombs > Score based.

Agghh ... 1 piece for full lives stock.

I have the worst luck.
I lost 3 lives to the last spellcard.

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OP here.

>>2792346
You should have used a bomb, you already had lost bonus anyway.

Winner: >>2792300.

And that's all for this thread, I'm exhausted. Thanks for playing.

>>2792368
and you're a tripfag since when?

>>2792377
Hey, yeah, what the hell

>>2792377
He uses a tripcode when ending threads, just in case something bad happens.
Stop worrying about tripcodes too much, dear Anon.

Looks like I missed a complete thread this time ;_;
I hope I can see you next time, danmaku guy.

Does it really matter?

>>2792399
I'm doing another thread on weekend. Don't worry.