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what's with the /v/-level op?

>>35268262
I WANT TO BEAT SAKUYA HOLY SHIT

New thread where?

are there any instances where i shouldn't go for red UFOs?

Huh, maybe I'm not as rusty as I thought. It's so weird to be able to bomb through last spells, I remember doing Kanako's stage dozens of times just to get a good enough feel of Virtue.

Thinking of doing HSiFS lunatic next, or going back to UFO hard. I couldn't do that one way back because I hate the floaty item gimmick, I'll never touch lunatic in either UFO or WB.

You must have expressed your hate for Phantasmagoria nearly twenty times already

>>35272760
When you fuck up having two different color UFO it's more efficient to go for rainbow

STINKY Beast and UGLY Creature.
Only one poopy game left!

I can't see shit in 16, man

15 is my favorite game and Doremy Sweet is my waifu.

>>35272760
>>35273398
It's also more efficient to collect green UFOs, but only if you're sure you'll never die with bombs in stock. In practice, you can go for either one, depending on which is easier to get at any particular time.

>>35273948
You won't like 17 then.

>>35275203
I often had to bomb right after bombing just because my bomb that I used to clear my vision blinded me. Wolf Marisa's napalm explosions are pretty cool and satisfying though.

>>35268262
>>35273879
Why you so angry? Just play Medicine/Aya for Faptasmagoria and learn how to get the extra beasts for wbwc

>>35276440
Because his prefrontal cortex hasn't finished developing, pay him no heed.

>>35272760
I recommend alternating between red and green. My route usually looks something like this:
Stage 1: All red
Stage 2: All red with green setup for next stage
Stage 3: All green
Stage 4: All green with red setup (iirc, this one is kinda unnecessary since you start off stage 5 with 3 reds or something but anyway)
Stage 5: All red
Stage 6: All green
This is from memory but I remember this giving me a really healthy amount of resources.

>>35279485
It basically comes down to the same amount of resources, just a matter of preference if you prefer bombspamming or facetanking really
Greens on stage 6 are definitely a must though, the fight is long and the powerloss can be especially brutal

https://files.catbox.moe/852ruu.rpy
I cleared EoSD's Extra without bombing

>>35272760
Green UFOs are entirely inferior to red UFOs unless you are specifically doing a NM run. Green UFOs only give you bombs but Red UFOs give you lives AND bomb if you think about it. Every time you die, you get bombs back, that is assuming you aren't dying with bombs in stock

>>35273879
Nice to see your chart slowly gaining more and more squares over time

Stupid fucking ball.

>>35282226
No. A full green UFO gives you 1.33 bombs, whereas a full red only gives you .5 lives. You get 2 bombs per life, making the red's .5 lives equivalent to 1 bomb. Therefore, over time, you get 33% more bombs from greens.
Now, you might say that getting the actual life from reds, in addition to the bombs that come with it, counts for more. But remember that you lose .93 power on death, which makes tanking hits a poor choice. There's also the fact that you have to complete two full reds to get any useful benefit, whereas every full green will give you at least one usable bomb.
Again, in practice, you sometimes want reds just because they're easier to get in some sections and so will mean that you collect more resources over the course of the game than if you wait to only collect greens. But if you always had an equal choice, then greens are the ones that are strictly better.

>>35287791
Dying with bombs in stock becomes a problem though if you purely focus on greens

If 19 is going to be Phantasmagoria 3, I hope Zun works the card system in there somehow. The gameplay style needs some new mechanics to be fresh.

What the fuck was ZUN thinking with HRtP's bombing inputs? I keep accidentally unloading bombs while changing direction because of retarded left-right-Z combo.

>>35289797
I can't wait for Marisa "charges special gauge quicker" with Marisa Card "charges special gauge quicker" to charge special gauge really quickly and pump out spells every second

I fucking hate this stage.

>>35268598
I WANT TO BEAT OFF TO SAKUYA HOLY SHIT

>>35289873
In retrospect, it explains a lot about VD.

>>35289873
I had no idea that's the bomb input. I thought it was hitting every button at once. lol

>>35272843
Nice, congratulations!
How is a UFO Hard 1CC compared to Lunatic 1CCs?

>>35282028
Koishi fumo is a superplayer! Congratulations!

>>35294032
Harder than the easiest L1CCs, especially if you are starting UFO from scratch

>>35287791
A fed red UFO is 2/3 of a life, though. And 2 bombs + 1 life is basically equivalent to 3 bombs, where the last "bomb" costs you 1 power.
So red is better on paper. In practice, the powerloss shouldn't be neglected, and realistically, if you're doing 1CC attempts, you will die with bombs in stock, which reduces the value of both kinds of UFO.
In the end, I think static UFO placement and convenience (especially during stage 4 spam) should dictate your choice between green and red, more than anything else.
I also like to turn every static blue token into a rainbow summon, since it's fun and clears the screen. If you can feed the rainbow UFO, it's a net ±0 to your non-blue UFO token count, so there is no disadvantage in doing so.

>>35294120
>A fed red UFO is 2/3 of a life
It is not. Four pieces to each life.

Can I play the fightans with a keyboard?

Fairies in UM can tank master spark.
They can
tank
Master
Spark.

>>35295279
Maybe it will become a genuine plot point that Marisa is growing weaker over time.

>>35295279
>>35295752
She should've settled down before she hit the wall.

>>35295752
Mima confirmed for coming back in 19 and scolding Marisa for slacking off.

Hmmm, today I will finally 1cc touhou 11 normal.

>>35296317
Good luck.

>>35268598
I WANT TO BEAT UP SAKUYA HOLY SHIT

>>35299384
I WANT TO BEAT IT TO SAKUYA HOLY SHIT

I want to beat Misumaru for making this piece of shit.

>PCB bugs out and completely skips the second and third spell card of the prismriver sisters and gives me the spell bonus for free
>still get destroyed by youmu and yuyuko
Not even with glitches can I finish my 1cc.

>>35300968
Serves you right.

>>35294057
idk if I would go as far as to call myself a superplayer since I haven't cleared a game on Lunatic yet but thank you!

>>35294032
Thanks. I've done lunatic on PCB, IN, MoF and now UM, but UFO hard feels harder than any of them.

UFOs force you to play a different game that feels nothing like Touhou, and if you're not at full power every spellcard is way bulkier than it should be. Last run I died on the _fifth wave_ of Nazrin's midboss card, and had to time out Shou's spinny laser thing.

On the plus side, Ichirin and Murasa are surprisingly lenient, and Byakuren isn't that bad aside from the finale. Should be doable once I learn to path UFOs.

Ten Desires isn't hard but the problem is that you get so few resources.

Trying to get EoSD working on windows 2000 and I'm faced with an error where all sprites are literally just silhouettes. In gameplay, the screen is completely black except for the faint purple glow of explosions. Does anyone know how to fix it?

>>35311688
Wrong DirectX version? Unsupported GPU? Just guessing.
According to the manual, you need at least DirectX 8.0, and a compatible GPU with DirectGraphic support and 4MB of VRAM.

>>35311688
You're in a creepypasta and Rumia is going to show up with hyperrealistic eyes.

>>35311800
I'm running DirectX 9
>>35311932
But I can't even see her

>>35311688
Not sure.
How old is the computer? It might need a bit of updating since it's old software.

>>35308725
Pray for more than just traffic safety

>>35312219
Celeron 700 mhz
512 mb ram
4 mb video mem

>>35312437
You should still be able to run it. It seems like a technical problem to me, so it may not be the game itself.
Usually I'd say run it in compatibility mode and work your way up from there (like updating drivers, dll, etc.) until it's fixed. As far as DirectX goes, you should be fine in downloading new versions since they're all unique.

>>35312505
It's a clean install of windows though so I dont know what the issue could be.

managed to 1cc SA today and cried a little from happiness because i never have to fight yuugi again. does anyone else find it easier to time out the stage 5 midboss orin to not have to deal with her spell card?

>>35313450
Wait. You can skip Cat's Walk by timing out her nons?

>>35313455
you can clear the first nonspell for a life piece and time out the second and she'll skip the spell card

How do you genuinely git gud? I suck at vidya and started playing a few months back, 1cc’d EoSD normal and almost hard. I can get to stage 5 normal without losing a continue in most other games but in the later games, find myself sucking more and more (can’t even beat Nemuno lol). How do you all do it?

>>35311946
that's what makes it so scary anon
rumia could show up with hyperrealistic eyes and blood running down them and you wouldn't even know
isn't it just BONE CHILLING

>>35313836
I play phantasmagoria and watch other people's replays to see their method of dodging

>>35308725
Try to get more bombs instead of lives

>>35313836
>can’t even beat Nemuno lol
Beat your meat to Nemuno instead.

Playing without homing shots really makes me realise how much I had to work on positioning.

>>35313836
For now just keep playing and watching replays

Fuck it, I'm playing HRtP with max starting lives. This dogshit poopniggerfaggot cumfart asstwat game is consistently stealing my extends between chapters.

>>35317220
Not sure if I'll have patience for Makai route, ball actively trying to kill you, chapter summary stealing 1ups, (p) spawning near the floor tile and immediately disappearing, janky bombing and all the other evil shit makes it the most frustrating game in the series.

>>35308725
as a rather inconsistent player that always messes up eventually, this is why I find TD to be the (second, because UFOlmao) hardest of the games
doesn't matter if most of the patterns are easy when one difficult one is like a fifth of your run

>>35317896
Yeah. When I was doing Normal my TD 1cc run, I thought that by the time i finish, it will be a No Miss run. Eventually, I did it with only two deaths.
Just play it until you figure out what are the best routes and where are the best places to use trance. (Spirits collected in trance mode have higher value, so collecting pink spirits while in trance will give you more life pieces and so on)

>>35313455
I accidentally did this once because I had 1 power and took the wrong lanes

>>35317896
Same here
Most non-touhou shmups tend to share the same design philosophy as well and it makes them very unenjoyable

>>35295279
Maybe wait until armor is off then

>>35313455
Why did the Basedjacks get deleted

>>35320494
jannies probably decided they were not based enough.

>>35320494
There's already an annoying twitterfag who skims these threads and screenshots our posts and posts them on his twitter. We don't need even more cancer shitting up the place.

>>35321697
>There's already an annoying twitterfag who skims these threads
Yeah, that's janny.

>>35321697
How did you come upon this knowledge, though?

>>35322084
Someone posted a screenshot of his twitter on /qa/

No onions allowed

>>35321697
That guy is a total cringe loser

>>35320494
That shit doesn't belong here. Go post that shit on some other board.

Taking a break trying to beat 16 on normal. So I decided to try 6 tonight. Was fun.

>>35325703
Good job

>>35325400

>>35327684

What's a good scoring game/category for someone who's never played a video game for score before?
I want to stop being a weak gamer.

>>35336039
In terms of touhou. Games where scoring is closely related to standart survival are a good start. Touhou 6, 10 and 16 come to mind, where you get lives directly for score milestones. At the opposite end, UFO is probably the hardest to score because you have to actively hunt for blue ufo's instead of red/green ones.
Generally, You don't go for WR right from the start. Depending on game, you can set your goal to be like half a million points then a million and so on, until you are satisfied.
There are not many scoring guides on touhou as survival no misses and no bombs are far more popular, but this should cover some of the basic terms and such https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=21606.0..

>>35336039
The game you like the most
The difficulty of scoring is really just how close to WR you want to get, it's much more customizable to your own preferences.

All right, that's UFO hard. I thought the run was a goner because I missed a final life piece, but Byakuren is fairly easy if you bomb like mad. I also had maxed lives by the start of the Murasa fight, but lost like half in Stage 5.

Okina is next. Should be fun, I only played it for a few days after it came out and remember next to nothing about the cards and mechanics. I think Reimu-Autumn was the good shot type, and the dancer sisters had a bunch of cards that are ridiculous if you don't cheese them with the season gimmick.

>>35336565
Nice job Anon
Reimu/Marisa Winter/Fall is the way to go, and yes Okina/Dancers are absolutely ridiculous
Stage 4 as well
Rest of the game is pretty manageable though

>>35336039
I'd recommend HSiFS. I generally don't give a shit about scoring, but in HSiFS it's pretty engaging because it's tied to survival, but unlike other 2hus where you get extends for points you can't get away with just "playing well", season release and bombing has to be very intentional.

>>35336565
The dancers are actually fairly anti-cheese because all their patterns have bullets coming from multiple sources, so only Spring can really delete it all at once and you don't recover as much season from Spring so it isn't nearly as spammable as the others potentially are
it's better to figure out which of them you want to take out for each pattern, especially on the first two non-spells since their first and second spellcard is determined by which one you do more damage to

Trying to remove my rustiness by playing some UM Normal, but wine keeps crashing and I can't be assed to boot Windows. Maybe I'll just go back to working on PCB/PoFV Hard.

>>35336593
>>35336641
Thanks for the heads-up. I guess I'm remembering the dancer fight wrong, I looked it up and I was only thinking of their last card. That one does have a "graze this laser to get enough season items, release it on the follow-up jumpy amulets, repeat" pattern.

>>35336656
I'd second PCB hard, it's really fun once you learn the giveaways. Stage 4 has a shoot/don't shoot rhythm going on, Youmu's noncards need to be redirected, and Yuyuko's ghost knives are almost worse than Resurrection Butterfly for survival runs, but otherwise it's smooth sailing.

MoF hard is another good one if you haven't done it yet. It's just bomb x 60 followed by VoWG.

Which damage cards are the best in UM?

Eiki spent 4 rounds busting my balls and tossing her dildo collection at me and then on the 5th one she just started dashing into bullets like it was going out of style. I guess that knocks Mystia out of the way.
Aya, Cirno, Medicine, Mystia are done, who do I try next?
Reimu crashes my game for some reason.

>>35341401
Someone did an analysis a few threads ago, but IIRC it was both of Mari's options and Saki. Momoyo also gets ridiculous, but of course only if you can use it effectively.

>>35341401
Momoyo if you use the eiki + yachie or eirin + patche strat (you can use both if you're insanely lucky)

I'm so tired of HRtP's bullshit. Accidentally bomb just because I decided to change run in opposite direction too quickly for game's liking, (P) is falling down, I can't move because fuck you, bombs are here to make your life harder, (P) disappears, PIV resets, I'm down 1 bomb and 99999 potential lives.

>>35342854
Ever notice how the acronym looks like Hurt Pee?

>>35342854
JUST HAPPENED TWO MORE TUIMES FUCKING NIGGER CUNT ASS BITCH TRASH GAMESADKAS"DJDGKLJFL:GKJDFGLKJ:LGKJDFGKL:JDFGLKDJFGLKDJFGKLJDFL:GJ
WHAT THE FUCK
HOW DO I AVOID THIS SHIT
IS THERE A WAY TO SOMEHOW BLOCK SIMULTANEOUS INPUTS ON ARROWS
I DON'T WANT TO PLAY ON A CONTROLLER FUUUUUUUCK AAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>35341415
>Reimu crashes my game for some reason.
thcrap?

>>35343757
Yeah

>>35342913
Take your meds

>>35343852
Just wanna let you know that this will probably happen with other games as well if you continue to use cringe thcrap instead of based static patches.

>>35343867
I refuse.

How is second ability card slot unlocked? Do I need 1CC playthrough or credit feed clear is fine too?

Not the usual autist, but I fucking hate MarisaB in UFO, my rage is a like a thousand of suns right now

>>35348959
Clear the game on any difficulty, with or without continues. This will unlock second card slot and new Chimata's blank card. Buy this card at the end of Stage 5 and beat Chimata to unlock third card slot.

>>35348974
Well then, don’t use it?

>>35348974
People always diss Super Shortwave, but for me, the game was so much about routing and UFOs, and so little about doing damage, that I found every shot type about equally as difficult. I practiced for days and days as ReimuA to get my first 1cc, and then the rest came immediately one after another.

>>35349386
But that's the last shot type I need to clear

>>35268262
How'd I miss this thread? I needed this a few days ago.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to get PoFV to run without the frame rate issue? It's honestly my favorite in the series, I'm not fucking around.
I really need this game to work again it's the only one I have that won't run.
>>35348959
>>35349011
What are your thoughts on actually using those slots?
I feel like you'd be making it easier for yourself but I'm tempted to clear Easy once just to get that 2nd slot for Hard.

>>35350152
Each slot makes the game significantly easier

>>35350152
>Using card slots makes the game easier
Of course. Not limiting yourself will always be easier.
If you don't want to use unlocked card slots, you don't have to equip any card in them.

How does one do a Legacy 1CC in Touhou 15 on Normal?

>>35350504
graze as much as you can to get more resources

>>35350504
You use Reisen Udongein Inaba

>>35350559
This but unironically

>>35268262
pofv was my first ever 1cc on lunatic

>>35350504
Reisen

>>35350559
>>35350841
>>35351447
Reisen is nice and all until you get to stage 5, where her bombs do nothing to help you against lasers and also do no damage, IIRC.
I haven't tried it myself, since I'm never playing that godforsaken game again, but back in 2015 people were saying the better choice was to play Sanae and use her bomb to supergraze, constantly turning your three bombs per life into three life pieces, while skipping all the hardest, densest parts.

Am I weird for thinking EoSD's Extra is easy but every other Extra is hard?

fuck

>>35351719
Nice job

>>35351727
Thanks anon!
I forgot to add nb in the filename kek

>>35351733
Yuyukofag is that you?

>>35351742
No.

>>35351750
Anyways keep trying, and if you do get the LNN, post the replay

>>35336871
Noted, might give PCB Hard a go soon.
I'm trying to do them by numerical order, but MoF's Hard is pretty famous for how approachable it is. Also MoF setting is pretty cozy for this season, think I'll try to cheese my way with Marisa B's 3.0 or something similar.

>>35351761
Thanks again, and will do.

>>35351828
If you do get it, I will celebrate it in a certain way

>>35351719
Are you homegrown or a discordfag looking for extra attention?

Got my first NB run done, real easy when it comes to UM. Will probably try to NB with Sakuya again because last time I tried I choked at the last second.

>>35352669
What was your card setup?

>>35352693
Momoyo + Suwako (hat frog) + Marisa Missile + Eirin + Yachie + Takane

>>35352728
Nice, good job

>>35352728
>Yachie
I mean Eiki. I mix those cards up a lot.

>>35352745
Ty fren

>>35352635
I don't use discord. This board is the only place I post touhou-related stuff.

>>35352635
/jp/ needs more people who actually know how to play these games, regardless of where they're "from".

>>35351432
Same here
It's easier in some ways and harder in others, you don't have to learn a "route" but still need to learn how to dodge and shit
podd is the same way but is of course even harder, spamming lv2s in pofv is pretty busted

>>35352635
>someone beats lunatic
>he must be one of those faggots

I'm guessing you're not very good at these games if you had to attack someone. I mean I wish I could lunatic any of them but I'm stuck in hard.

>>35353361
That’s much more than just a lunatic clear
>>35353213
Well congrats anon, you are without a doubt the strongest anon here.
>>35353299
Not really, we could do without the namefaggotry and other cancer associated with it. But I agree partially, anons could stand to push themselves a little harder

Was doing a PoFV run on lunatic when the game, once again, crashed so hard that I had to restart my whole computer. I don't know if it's vpatch or thcrap doing this but I'm just going to play vanilla.

Just wondering about thprac--it is safe to use, right? The source code is absent from the repository https://github.com/ack7139/thprac and windows thinks it is dangerous.

>>35357036
It's safe.

But honestly, if someone built a Touhou practice tool just to enlist me in a botnet, I'd be impressed enough to let them.

>>35357081
Sweet, will get to using it. I suck anyway so I can take it as punishment, else I would not need a practice tool.

Can someone tell me where to get the games in japanese?

>>35358121
https://nyaa.si/view/1387521

>>35358188
thanks

>>35357096
Almost everyone who goes for difficult clears uses the practice tool anon

Reached Rainbow Dork with max healthbar but ended with just 2 extra lives because I got too comfortable and kept dying to random shit like a retard. I think I lost 3 lives just to the first survival card.
Well, I guess the sloppiest final fight is quite fitting for the least intimidating final boss in the series.

>>35365762
Cards setup.

>>35365771
That's an interesting set up, and it seems you cleared by quite a lot
Good job anon

>>35365762
Chimata's survival cards are some of the trickiest. I blame the fact that everything is rainbow and distracting.

>>35348974
hey at least it isn't IN Solo Sakuya or DDC SakuyaB

>>35349668
Not them but I found Marisa (both A nd B) to be more difficult to 1CC with than Sanae and Reimu after 1CCing the game on Normal with all shot tyes and attempting NNBs with all shot types. I still haven't got the NNB with MarisaB yet. Collecting UFOs is easiest with SanaeB because of how easy it is to clear enemies on the screen with her

>>35367729
I think you're just getting distracted as you said Anon, Chimata's are pretty basic
the actual timeout card is literally just going in circles, just stick next to the green bullets until it's time to change direction and move to the other side of them

Just cleared my first extra stage! I give myself bonus points for not referencing replays or anything.

>>35369322
>three bombs left in stock
Nice job anon. Which spell cards did you capture?

>>35369341
>three bombs left in stock
I actually got hit right as I finished the last spell, so it was a fresh stock.
>Which spell cards did you capture?
Not many, just
>Taboo "Laevateinn"
>Taboo "Kagome, Kagome"
>Taboo "Maze of Love"

>>35369481
>I actually got hit right as I finished the last spell, so it was a fresh stock.
You managed resources well enough that you didn't need to use three bombs so I'd say that's a pretty good accomplishment
>>Taboo "Maze of Love"
Awesome! That spell card is reputable for being one of Flandre's hardest spell cards. I found it difficult at first but now I have learned how to capture it. Are you going to do a no bomb at some point?

>>35369518
>That spell card is reputable for being one of Flandre's hardest spell cards.
That surprises me. Once I understood the route, it was one of my most consistent captures.
>Are you going to do a no bomb at some point?
Not any time soon. I'm still fairly new to 2hu and probably want to at least clear all the games on normal before I try anything like that.

>>35369558
I haven't cleared all games on Normal yet and I can still do NBs on Extra (albite only EoSD's), but if you feel like that's the best way to play the games, then by all means, play them the way you want to

>>35369570
I think I might go for a Normal NB at some point. That sounds like it could be fun.

anytime I try to record 2hu and upload it to youtube the quality is shit, even if I record it lossless. Anybody know a way around this?

>>35374780
Give it like an hour or two, the same thing happened to me until youtube finished processing the whole video to its original quality

Can I get the "Capture All Spell Cards" achievement through Spell Practice, or does it have to be on a complete run?

>>35381407
I have tried capturing everything in spell practice with reimu but the achievement didn't unlock. So it's probably only counted in a normal run, unless I need to capture everything with every character in spell practice.

>>35381407
I got the UM one with spell practice
maybe you have to do it all with one character

>>35369518
la ojona

holy fuck i finally beat Hecatia for the first time after a shitton of practice and getting raped over and over again
i'm finally done with LoLK, feels like i made it past the biggest hurdle in my quest to finish all windows games

>>35383062
Nice job anon

is MoFanon ever going to get that LNN?

>>35352728
>Momoyo
Did you forget to mark the extra on your chart?

>>35383250
Most likely, he’s already at 1MNB

where do I get these games you autistic faggots

>>35384366
You order them from Amazon dot jp

Don't spoonfeed the rude retard.

>>35384772
It's ok, the spoonfeeder offered the retarded buyfag option

Huh, turns out summer is better for survival in Four Seasons. Got to Okina just by bombing and releasing on everything. Lunatic seems achievable, the stages might even be easier because all the streaming gives you free releases.

Last card is a pain in the ass for summer though. Probably need to practice that one.

>>35360955
I wish to attempt a legacy clear of 15.

>>35386769
Yeah, I think that was the consensus back when it came out. Repeatability is far more useful (abuseable) than the other special abilities.

Close. I think I can get it in a couple more tries if I route the finale, or just not keep dying with bombs.

Dancers were more fun than expected. The theme helps a lot, what a great song it is.

It takes me over two hours to cap Junko's jigoku on lunatic once in the practice tool, every time, I am doing great.

>>35387353
>route the finale
Good fucking luck lol

>>35336039
They're somewhat unorthodox but the photo games are great to try scoring in because you can focus on one scene at a time and really delve into it. Resets are less painful.

>>35336871
I gave PCB a shot anon, but I was too rusty. Surprisingly in PoFV Hard I managed to reach Eiki with pic related. Of course, Eiki sent me packing afterwards as usual, but it's something I suppose.

>>35383062
finally finished WBaWC and with that all the mainline windows games. after being stuck with LoLK for who knows how long the next two games feel really easy

what should i do now? i'm deciding between trying to get a lunatic clear or playing the PC-98 games. honestly the former feels more interesting to me but judging from my few attempts i still fucking suck at it so maybe it's not the time yet. are the PC-98 games accessible? how do they rank in difficulty compared to the windows games?

Managed to 1cc EoSD lunatic today. Remilia deserves every diaper post she gets.

>>35400272
At least for a normal 1cc:
MS is harder than EOSD.
LLS is a bit easier than EOSD.
PoDD is literally the easiet game in the series for a normal 1cc.
SoEW isn't that hard, but it's very painful to play as there is no focus nor is there good level design. The only redeeming qualities in that game is the music and the amount of soul in the endings and pic related. I would rank it as somewhat harder than PCB, personally.
HRtP is not very hard as you get a lot of bombs, but of course, the ball is very annoying.

>>35400272
PC-98 is really easy compared to the windows games, in my opinion.
Lotus Land is the easiest Touhou game, Mystic Square's not hard if you've beaten EoSD at least once, PoDD is a cakewalk until Yumemi, and SoEW just takes getting used to.

>>35400272
You're good enough for lunatic if you're getting ExNNs.

>>35400395
>>35400422
thanks, sounds accessible enough so i'll try 1cc'ing those first then
>>35400463
i'm not sure about that, i've always found being able to learn a pattern and being able to master it (so becoming consistent at it) to be very different skills. most patterns in extra stages aren't really lunatic-tier difficult, the hard part about perfecting them is being consistent enough to be able to do them all in a row, and i think i'm pretty decent at getting consistent at patterns within my skill level. but for lunatic it's not really a matter of being inconsistent as much as it is just not being good enough to learn most attacks in the first place

>>35401092
You have enough resources for a lunatic 1cc that you don't need to learn really anything more difficult than an average extra stage-tier attack

>>35400395
>MS is harder than EOSD.
Wtf? lol I managed to 1cc that game blind with every shottype. EoSD was far harder than that one for me. Alice is harder than Flandre i'll give ou that.

>>35401240
fair enough, i usually try to beat games by capturing as many spell cards as possible because i suck at bombing but if that's the case then i'll try it out afterwards

>>35401640
>suck at bombing
Not really a big deal, ideally you shouldn't be bombing on reaction anyways. Just map out the hard parts and bombskip them accordingly. Though in games where you get a ridiculous amount of bombs (LLS, MoF, SA, DDC, LoLK, UM) you hardly even need to do that.

>>35401610
Alice and Yuki/Mai are much harder than Meiling and Patchy.
Normal Remilia is a joke compared to normal Shinki, in my opinion. Really, EOSD on normal's hardest part is Sakuya.
Didn't play PC98 on lunatic, so can't give my opinion on that.

And that's Okina.

What's the next easiest Lunatic? TD or EoSD I guess? I hear WBaWC is not that bad, and the finale is bombable, but I hate its mechanics.

>>35399525
PoFV hard is good shooter practice in general, keep it up anon.

I'm half asleep and was doing a NB run on UM because I have insomnia and instinctively I pressed X during the fourth stage.
I hadn't lost a single life up until then
I'm upset

>>35406634
Didn't die once but is it really a no miss run with cards like these?

>>35401727
was about to disagree with you on SA but decided to look at my replay and it's more than 30 bombs
funny how you don't even notice sometimes

>>35341957
>Momoyo if you use the eiki + yachie
does losing money with momo's card still count as deaths against the power meta?

>>35418165
Nope. I've done multiple runs with Eiki's card and Momoyo's power only goes back down if you bomb or lose a life.

>>35418165
It doesn't. As a general principle, if you don't lose power it doesn't count as death. The bomb from the fox's jar does reset Momo though.

I became significantly better at junko's jigoku and now can cap it five times in half an hour. It is still a low cap rate, but it gives me confidence to play lolk in general.

The fact that she takes your normal shot too is really infuriating.

>>35419555
filtered

Is LoLK legitimately the most difficult game on normal difficulty. I swear I'm never gonna get past stage 4 for fuck sake.

>>35420323
some say LoLK, some say SA.

Okay, TD is no good. There just isn't enough resources. My yardstick for lunatic survival is "hard should be comfortably clearable", but I captured like half of Miko and Futo's spells and still ended with one life left.

Might go take care of LoLK hard instead, I think I only did pointdevice lunatic on that one.

>>35268262
>Using Fullscreen is not recommended as that disables vpatch

I want to, and only play in fullscreen. What is vpatch? What happens if it's disabled?

>>35268262
>Using Fullscreen is not recommended as that disables vpatch

I want to, and only play in fullscreen. What is vpatch? What happens if it's disabled?

>>35420826
as far a I know, vpatch fixes some things, especially in older games. I don't have it and the games play just fine.

>>35420826
Vpatch is mainly used to help with awful input lag.
I'm playing in fullscreen with vpatch and everything seems to work fine.

>>35420826
Vpatch reduces input lag in older games, lets you set a custom window size and fixes a few bugs.
I've never heard about the fullscreen thing though, where did you read that?

>>35421290
>where did you read that
In the instructions.txt
I got mine from moriya shrine

>>35421730
Just tested it with 6 and 7, running fullscreen does not disable vpatch, even on a fresh install from moriyashrine.
Not sure what the guy who put that there was smoking.

>>35404157
Will do, anon. Congratulations!!

>>35420580
At the end of stage 6 before Miko, look for green and pink glowing spirits on the end of the fairies "tails" before you shoot them down. Those contain green and pink spirits.
I legitimately didn't know this until now.

Fuck Sannyo's light pale pink bullets on light pale green background/
Fuck stage 5 red on red bullets I have to somehow keep track of while a fairy shoots bright blue orbs at me completely dimming any background bullets.

What are the busted cards of UM? already got byakuren and remilia cards, what else?
also how can i get the blank card? already beat the game with easy (with continues tho lol)

btw FUCK LOSING YOUR BOMBS BECAUSE YOU DIED MECHANIC

>>35428021
One of Sanny's cards does explosive damage. You'll be damaging everything withing the area of a hit. Assuming you hit some of the fairies in say stage 5, you can shred them quickly since they'd be taking more damage.

>>35428021
>btw FUCK LOSING YOUR BOMBS BECAUSE YOU DIED MECHANIC
just bomb. bomb like crazy if you need to.
>how can I get the blank card?
>>/jp/thread/34715203#p34717949

>>35428405
oh i bought a lot of equipments in a run including sannyo's one, no wonder shotunning faries was OP.
>>35428536
reaction time and bullet anticipation are zero for me.
also that still doesn't make sense. i beat the game and unlocked the second slot but not the card....

>>35428666
you have to clear without a continue.

>>35428701
makes sense

>>35428666
>i beat the game and unlocked the second slot but not the card....
you should have the card, it appears in your shop every time

>>35428021
Route A: Saki, as much equipment as you can bring, and Narumi/Mokou if you find them. You have to dodge stuff, but not as many waves as in other games, and you get a lot of resources to work with.
Route B: Momoyo, Eiki and Yachie (or Eirin). Get a good spammable active too if you can (Raiko/Miko/Remilia etc.) The centipede ramps so hard that if you learn the first three stages, you win the game.
Route C: Remilia, Sannyo. Learn how to use the fang (don't skip this, it takes time to get used to it), capture early cards to get tons of lives, bomb the rest of the way.

>>35422935
Thanks. I think I was at 9/18 lives at the end so if I trance right I might squeeze out one more life. I found that at least stage 2 and 4 have extra enemies that show up and drop pieces if you bomb/trance them.

The mechanic really forces you to learn stages though, since you want to point blank the enemies before they shoot to grab their spirits, and I don't want to do that. Might as well get the easier 1ccs first.

>>35429858
>extra enemies that show up and drop pieces if you bomb/trance them
Not quite, you just have to shoot down the ones before them quickly enough. Bombing or trancing make it easier, but you can do it with your normal shot as well.

>>35429858
Ten Desires would be so much better if it had bullet sealing.

Oh my god what a horrible fucking run. Started with Eiki + Yachie combo and hoped to make up for dogshit firepower later on. Nope! Not a single damage card.

>>35429858
just tried route C before even seeing your post and got to the last spell of chimata before using my continue, shit was fucking broken. now here's my strat:
1-capture everything on the first 3 stages
2-waste away half your fucking stock of stuff at stage 4
3-breeze through stage 5
4-rape stage 6 with bombs

>>35428021
Don’t listen to anyone
Rice + Soul Jar is all you need. Ridiculous amount of bombs

>>35429858
>>35430842
I don't understand the tobacco vampire meme. Speeding up captures with fang is risky and hard spellcards can fuck me up in half a cycle anyway.

Is it cheating to play with vertical synchronization disabled? I played PCB without it disabled and something felt off about the controls. Reimu felt like she was "sliding" for a lack of a better way to describe it. Then I disabled it and she doesn't feel like she's sliding

>>35432085
Vsync reduces input lag, not cheating in the slightest. Borderline necessary for EoSD desu.

What in your opinion is the easiest Last Word spell?

>>35432309
Alice's and Keine's are probably the easier last word spells. Sakuya's and Youmu's are tricky but doable. Out of the rest, Yuyuko's flawless nirvana looks the most doable, but I haven't captured it yet.

>>35432007
You don't fang hard cards. You fang easy cards, enter stage 4 with 50 lives, and bomb everything remotely difficult from there.

It helps that the ball girl is the only roadblock the latter half. The tengu is a joke with actives and Chimata has some easy cards like her first and the non-survival spinny one.

Fuck this cunt. Especially her non-spells. How the fuck is this bullshit allowed on Stage 3 Normal? What the fuck? Fucking messy shit that only forms coherent pattern when you're already grinding your hitbox against bottom of the screen and then you have to dodge this horse shit sideways.

>>35433096
Just get in a nice position and then don't move until the bullets are right next to you. Sometimes you don't need to move at all.

I came back to playing Touhou after a long time and I've gotten really rusty, right now I'm having a hard time getting a 1cc Normal in HSiFS. Any tips for that game in particular?

>>35433269
Spam full stack season release to farm big dick point item value to get shit tons of lives.

>>35433269
What the other anon said, or use Summer sub-shot for repeatable releases, and focus on gathering as many season items as possible.

>>35433286
>>35433302
Thanks. I don't remember where I read it, but I was using the Autumn sub-shot, does it compare well to Spring in terms of getting 1ups?

https://files.catbox.moe/v31szm.rpy
I cleared PCB's Extra stage, albeit kinda sloppily

>>35435650
nice job, koishi

>>35435711
Thank you!

>>35435721
What shottype did you pick?

>>35435737
it's in the filename

The bullet spam in HSFS stage 4 is so retarded.

>>35433607
Autumn is really good on higher difficulties but it's pretty hard to use efficently without crashing into enemies. Summer works well on any difficulty and is easy to use. If you don't plan to use releases at all, Winter is usefull for the extra damage.

found pic related in the wiki for HRtP. are there really stages that give extra lives or is it just score based and you get more lives by bombing in certain stages that happen to give more points?

>>35432405
Have you tried Mystia's?

>>35445752
It's score-based, every 400k points gives you an extra life.

>>35445887
yeah that makes more sense, it sounded too good to be true. thanks

>>35432309
Depends on the player, really, since they all require different skill sets. Some of them are even just gimmicks with solutions you have to figure out - Tewi's being the biggest example. Pic related is my personal experience with all of them (used Cirno in place of half-beast Keine) but others will probably have very different results.
Overall though I'd say Reisen's. It's not difficult to figure out, there's a lot of breathing room, as long as you're comfortable with unfocused play you're good.

>>35447172
>used Cirno in place of half-beast Keine
No need for that

>>35447242
the tierlist didn't have her listed and I was too lazy to edit

>>35447172
>EX-Keine took me 337 attempts
>Yukari took me 20 attempts

I'd swap those two, personally; Total Purification requires fast reaction times and insane unfocused movement in both dimensions; Profound Danmaku Barrier is just memorizing a simple route with quite a few safespots.
The rest of the list is pretty much spot-on.

>>35447343
I mean like I said it's personal experience. I'm rather confident unfocused and the openings in EX-Keine's rice bullets are pretty easy for me to spot in advance, so it's not a pattern that gives me much trouble. Executing a pre-determined route and waiting for over 2 minutes in a timeout though? That's the shit that messes me up, I'd fail even the easiest patterns if you give me enough time.

>>35447624
Indeed, there's a big variety of patterns in the Last Words, so everyone will have different experiences.
I wanted to relate mine regarding those two in particular, just to prove that exact point you made.

>>35433096
my trick for that is to move with the bullets if they go right or left, then dodge the other parts. for here 2nd and 3rd nones... they are very trivial, just go into the lanes lol

>3 lives, 2 bombs
Hmm, I think Lunatic will be doable. I just need to handle the first three stages, which gives you enough resources to keep the otter -> bomb -> otter string going indefinitely. The only way it fails is if you break the border, and even that is recoverable. Keiki being a cake helps.

Beasts are not as bad as the UFOs, but still plenty annoying. Also holy shit, stage 4 music is godlike.

Lotus Land Story is the comfiest game on any difficulty.

>>35451480
Except NN

>>35451788
That's why the game gives you constant bomb extends

Who is the awful player he's talking about?

>>35452413
Me

>>35452521
What difficulty are you playing

>>35452548
Normal

>>35452591
Hard mode ups your score by a lot, lunatic even more. Extra even more.
I get like 77-80% when I play extra.

Done with Wild Beast and Creature Beast Beast Wild Creature Beast Wild. It was a pure resource grind. I entered Stage 6 with 1 life and no pieces, but thankfully Keiki is really lenient.

That's PCB, IN, MoF, HSiFS, WBaWC, UM. What's the next-easiest Lunatic, DDC? I forgot what its gimmick was. but I recall scythe Reimu being really good.

Is this fangame laggy for anyone else? It always pauses before a spellcard
>>35454950
Sakuya is best for DDC. She slows down the enemy bullets and reduces the density. Also her bomb makes it so that if you don't get hit while it's active, you get 3 bomb pieces back.

>>35454950
MarisaB is really good for DDC lunatic. Her bomb changes bullets into items, and by collecting these items at the POC you get back bombs and lives.

>decide to do remi + momoyo to see how they go together
>get this cheesy run
I do love not having to play the game

I can't fucking believe I did it, my heart is racing right now I never thought I'd be able to 1cc on normal a mainline game and much less I thought the game that'd take my 1cc virginity would be Mountain of Faith

Here's my run:
https://files.catbox.moe/yo5pnr.rpy
After accidentally bombing Nitori at the end I get tilted and end up playing pretty sloppily but never give up

I'm gonna go jerk off to Sanae doujins to celebrate
I'm so happy right now
I did it!

>>35465363
I'm very happy for you, but please delete your image. It is not allowed to post endings even with spoiler tag.

>>35465507
posting endings is forbidden in any capacity.

>>35465527
that's what I said

>>35465507
Ah I'm sorry, I didn't know

>>35465363
Good job friend

Tried playing Resurrection of Heaven's Liquor and I beat it with Mokou but I got a horrible headache trying to play it more than once. Holy shit, I don't think I've ever heard music this bad.

>>35465538
No problem as long as you don't repeat it.
I just finished watching your replay, congrats on capturing Sanae's last spellcard. I also saw some very good streaming in later stages, which generally come with practice and make me wonder why you bombed in stage 1 and 2. Your deathbombs were on point.
Keep going anon, you definitely can and should continue to 1cc the other games

Can someone explain the pointdevice part of the chart for LoLK? Are you supposed to 1CC pointdevice, as in no miss clear?

>>35470469
What's the bug abuse in SA Extra?

>>35470786
The graze strat for Rice Shower, wasn't sure if it's considered bug abuse so i just checked it as it makes the spell so much easier.

>>35470877
Safespots are not bug abuse at all

Is PCB the best game to start with if i'm a newcomer?

>>35474591
In terms of difficulty yes, but after you complete it you should go for EoSD to get the whole picture.

>>35474591
Yes. It's good for begginers. So is EoSD, IN and MoF. You can try them all to get a feel for shmups in general and decide which gameplay gimmick you like the most.

>>35474591
Start from touhou 1

>>35472446
Thanks, I'll fix it

>>35466179
I bombed on stages 1 & 2 because I panicked and saw myself running straight towards a bullet

i don't know anything about touhou but can someone point me towards a place where i can find pictures of the funny rat character

>>35479922
Nazrin (ナズーリン) is her name
go to >>>/wsr/ next time

>>35470469
nice chart anon, even if TD and UM look hideous and probably unnecessary

I 1CC'd IN FinalA on Hard with NT but when I go to the character select screen it doesn't say I cleared even though the results menu still says I cleared it. Has this ever happened to anybody else?
>>35483144
>TD and UM look hideous and probably unnecessary
Not him but fuck you

is there a way to have thcrap patch only some games specifically? the configuration tool is forcing me to choose a version to patch for every game it can find, but i only want to patch 14-18 because i prefer the translation hard patches for the older games

>>35485548
nevermind just saw how it works

>>35485090
This is (probably?) a bug with IN, it can show "Final Selectable", "Final B Clear", and "Final A,B Clear". If you've only beaten Final A or neither, it shows the first one.

>>35485090
Yes, I don't get a notification that you cleared Final A for some reason. If you check your player data results though, it still marks it off as being cleared.

>>35485090
>>35487091
It's because technically FinalB is the true clear.

Did 2 more Marketeers clears while I was on vacation. Simp tears improve your 2hu performance!

>>35488860
Had quite nice "play it safe" deck during Reimu clear.

>>35488860
Clear a game on Hard already

>>35489137
I played a bit of EoSD on Hard but it didn't go well.
Might try PCB if games I haven't cleared on Normal yet will kick my ass too hard.

Finally nobomb 1cc'd EoSD on normal. Should I go for Extra or PCB? Trying to nobomb extra right away seems to be a huge leap.

>>35491921
EoSD ExNB is kind of tough since you have limited lives, maybe try PCB ExNB after you clear it, you get borders + more resources so it’s pretty manageable.

>>35485090
it happened to me but only with Scarlet Team, the others were fine

>>35489316
Lotus Land is the easiest "hard"

>>35485090
>Not him but fuck you
It makes sense for IN because A/B are actually different and it affect the most important fight in the game.
TD parallel is just a clear that either doesn't bomb (which you would just mark with a NB, automatically giving away that you got alt ending) or just bombing a little less, same for UM but with cards instead, not sure if it warrants it's own set of columns.

Don't make an OP this low quality again please.