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I hate Parsee so much...

>>9411524
You won't be able to continue this time!

guys in what order did you beat the ex stages

I guess I can stream a bit if anyone wants, have normal 1cced everything, and most extras cept SA and TD.
http://www.livestream.com/cutefcchannel

Touhou is too hard for me
I've given up

Are these games freeware?

guys how to i beat vampir man

>>9411596
pls

bump

>>9411566
wuss

>>9411548

EoSD, PCB, TD, IN, UFO, MoF, SA

That order.

shoot the bullet is fun, but why is aya's camera so shit

is there a way to change the key config in touhou? my keyboard has shitty rollover and I cant use shift+z+left arrow and it's really annoying

>>9412001
buy a new keyboard

>>9412008
fuck that

>>9412015
then just play no focus at all times, like pros.

>>9412036
1st law of Touhou danmaku: The worse your keyboard is, the better your skill will be

Samidare's extra was too long for its own good.
That whole game is brutal.

>>9412100
Ha, I tried playing it today and could barely get past level 1. Even on touhou my first time on normal I could get past level 1 and 2(not SA) only dying once or twice.

I just don't know where the fucking hitbox is.

>>9411511
I-isn't something missing here? Don't you think?

>>9412210
no one likes that thief.

>>9412150
Well, there's only three levels so technically you're on level 2, equivalently!

And you can turn on debug hitbox indicators in the options, it's a little red square about 5x5 pixels near (but slightly to the right of?) the center.

What's the order of difficulty for Extra Stages with NMNB condition?

>>9412769
What is NM?

>>9412907
No Miss, not getting hit.

>>9399594

>>9413246

Holy shit, my old thread still exists? I thought it rotted away.

I think people ought to post in this thread instead, though. The thread I made was just a personal celebratory thing since there wasn't a Touhou/STG thread up at the time.

>>9412769
TD>UFO>IN>PCB>Phantasm>EoSD>MoF
Something like that, at least in my opinion.

>>9412769
TD>UFO>IN>PCB>SA>Phantasm>EoSD>MoF

>>9412769
From hardest to easiest (in my opinion):
IN > PCB (Phantasm) > SA > UFO > MoF > PCB (Extra) > EoSD > TD

Fuck Fujiwara Volcano and the ridiculous non-spell that comes before it.

>>9414201
How the fuck is suwako harder than koishi or flan?

I understand flan is hard because of the ripples of bullshit, but suwako isn't really worse? Suwa war is kinda cheap but not that bad.

>>9414241
Keep in mind they were posting in terms of no-death, no-bomb runs. MoF's bomb system really does cripple a lot of Suwako's shit. And Suwa War IS a whore.

What I'd really like to know is why they ranked TD as the hardest. That was by far and away the easiest Windows Extra ZUN has produced, regardless of what kind of run is being done.

>>9414250
Hold that thought, I might be misinterpreting their comparison. I don't know if it's supposed to be hardest to easiest or the other way around. The greater signs would suggest hardest first, but I don't know.

>>9414250
...I've done ever extra cept mamizou and koishi :/

>>9412217
fuck you hijirin is best 2hu

Shoot the Bullet and Double Spoiler confuse the hell out of me.

>>9414266
Mamizou is easy

Koishi is FUCK. Her last few spellcards feel almost unfair.

>>9414377
I like the danmaku that look like hearts! ♥

>>9414250
I ranked them by the amount of time it took for me to perfect the stages. TD took 2 months.

I almost made a new thread because I didn't know this thread was up. Glad I didn't make a dumb mistake like that. Anyways I just started playing Hellsinker for the first time in over 13 months and it feels just as fun as the first time I played it. Feels kind of wrong playing with a keyboard though...

>>9411566
But Touhou is an easy shmup.

>>9414499
Guess I'm a complete failure then

>>9414250
I agree that TD has the easiest Extra but it still has Wild Deserted Island. That spell card makes NMNB run 10 times harder than normal run. I don't see any spellcard in EoSD, PCB and IN is as hard as that card, even Charming Siege from All Sides is way easier. Maybe there's Fujiwara Volcano but that's debatable.

>>9414847
>I don't see any spellcard in EoSD, PCB and IN is as hard as that card
That's because the hardest part of IN Extra isn't a spell card.

Hardest to easiest to NMNB.
IN > PCB Extra > PCB Phantasm > MoF > UFO > TD > SA

TD Extra was hard to perfect because: 50% of the runs ended before Mamizou, meaning a ton of restarts. Another 50% of my runs ended on "Scrolls of frolicking animals", then another 50% of them ended on "Wild deserted Island". So it took me very many times to even get to the later spellcards, and I consider all three of the last spellcards quite difficult, having around 25% capture rate of those three in total. All of those things that had such a big danger of destroying a run made the process take much longer than any other stage.

Picture related, it took me 20 hours to perfect the stage (7 hours to clear Lunatic and Extra for my first time).

>>9414905
> "Scrolls of frolicking animals",
Ah the woodland orgy.
I could never read bullet hitboxes, and those are made of oddly shaped animated bullets that come from every side.
It's worse than homing curvy lasers.

Just started with Gundeadligne. It's a lot of fun, but I'm getting shot down on stage 2. Any general advice for this (first sidescrolling STG)?

>>9414377
>>9414847

I have to disagree with those saying that TD's Extra is the easiest. Even with Spell Practice, beating TD's Extra took almost two weeks for me, whereas every other Extra each took me three or four days to beat at most.

Easiest for me was Suwako by a long shot; I beat her in a single sitting. It couldn't have taken more than two hours. I even captured her last spell card on the first time I ever saw it.

Repost from >>9416255
>1CC EoSD on Normal...
>1CC IN on Normal...
>Can't do shit about MoF.
Any tips for Mountain of Faith? I keep getting rolled over by Kanako every single time, or I'll lose too many lives against Sanae or Aya.

>>9416337
Bomb.

Seriously, alot of the time you can bomb and then get the power back instantly, it is broken.

>>9416337

What shot type are you using? How often are you bombing?

Posting a replay would also be good.

>>9416340
But they don't drop powerups until their spell cards are beaten...

Hold me, /jp/

>>9416347
Congratulations!

>>9416343

Yeah, you can't bombspam the bosses like you can the stages.

Still, what shot type are you using?

would you guys recommand playing with a joystick?

>>9416428
Never.

>>9416337

This is like, the exact opposite of me. I've progressed to Remilia and Yuyuko on a single credit once, and usually use up my first credit around stage 5. But yeah, the amount of bombs you can use in MoF is absurd.

I got my MoF clear with ReimuB a while back, and it seems like EoSD, PCB and maybe IN are finally in my sights.

>>9416428
You can play equally well with keyboard and stick. If you want to play with a stick then go ahead and use one. It won't hold you down

Spend all night on /jp/ and when should be playing Touhou, dammit!

I'm having a bit of trouble on two of Nue's spellcards. The one where she summons red UFOs, and the one where she summons blue UFOs. I imagine that you're supposed to destroy some of the UFOs before their bullets/lasers overwhelm you, but so far I've tried with SanaeA and ReimuB and it was pretty difficult to kill more than one UFO with both of them.

Also on the red UFO card, the bullets seem to be aimed at you. So is it some kind of streaming, or what?

>>9412001
Use a key remapper, like joy2key.

>>9414396
They have a rather questionable shape.

>>9416592

In Red UFOs I try to destroy those UFOs that will be in the lower part of the screen in a while. By example in a clockwise spin I destroy down-right UFOs

In Blue UFOs I try to destroy those who will shot me from behind or will ram me.

>>9416592

Do you have TD's Extra Stage unlocked? Practice Mamizou's first spell card in Spell Practice. It will make Nue's Red UFO thing seem so simple that it's stupid.

For the record, though, yes, the bullets are all aimed at you, so it's a form of streaming.

As for the Blue UFOs with SanaeB, how much Power do you usually have when you hit that card? If you have 4.00, then that card is just so easy it's silly. Simply attacking Nue does enough damage to the UFOs that leave her to destroy a good chunk of them, so only a handful of lasers even come near you.

>>9416592
>>9416892

Shit, I misread.

I'd simply recommend using SanaeB, and as a simple tip, know that the frogs do more damage when you're unfocused.

>>9416289
>I have to disagree with those saying that TD's Extra is the easiest. Even with Spell Practice, beating TD's Extra took almost two weeks for me, whereas every other Extra each took me three or four days to beat at most.
And I beat TD Extra on my first blind run the night the game was released. Everybody has different weaknesses. TD Extra focuses more on speed and random bullets from different directions instead of specific patterns and density. I think people would have an easier time if they expanded their field of vision a bit.

>>9416592
>so far I've tried with SanaeA and ReimuB and it was pretty difficult to kill more than one UFO with both of them
That's because SanaeA and ReimuB have the lowest output damage in the game.

Fuck you Mamizou. Fuck you and Fuck your deserted island.

>>9416956
I just spent 2 more hours on mamizou, made it to the final card twice and died. I either fuck up during her first spell cards, or fucking run into a frog or something during the stupid miko card. I have my patterns down, I always trance on nue's second and deserted island, I always bomb the stage at the end, it's working perfect, then I just die stupid on the cards. I fucking hate mamizou, she is my least favorite extra fight ever. After this all I have left is Koishi, but right now fuck this I can't stand this stupid fucking extra anymore.

>>9416592
On Blue UFO there's one UFO that will totally fuck you up if you don't kill it. Watch a replay and count them out and memorize it. I think it's #6. You may be able to dodge the rest.

I just played MoF with the MarisaB glitch.

Holy fuck, most spell cards would end before the bullets would even get to me. I went ahead and did the Extra Stage with the glitch as well and beat it on my first try with that shot type. How could ZUN overlook something so immensely powerful and broken?

>>9417086

>>9417086
It looks like I'll finally 1cc one of the games.

How much time does it take you guys to complete an extra stage? I've never done it myself, but I've talked to someone who practiced almost every day for a month to beat Mokou

Do you guys play with a controller or keyboard?

>>9417530
Drum set.

>>9417530
with my mind

if only it were possible

>>9417530
guitar hero controller.

>>9417517
SA Extra, a few days.
UFO Extra, a few hours.
TD Extra, about 15 minutes.

The others happened so long ago that I don't remember. The first ones obviously took a while because I wasn't very skilled yet. I've been playing for a while.

>>9417530
Keyboard.

>>9417517
I don't know, 3-30 hours. Depends on the game and how good I was at the time.

Just 1cc'd IN for the first time! It took months.

>>9417851
What difficulty?

>>9417517

Don't ask why (since I honestly have no idea), but I've been keeping track of the dates on which I make various milestones in Touhou in Notepad.

>June 19, 2012: SA Normal 1cc
I began working on the Extra Stages as soon as I got this last 1cc.
>June 22, 2012: EoSD Extra Stage Clear
>June 25, 2012: PCB Extra Stage Clear
>July 6, 2012: TD Extra Stage Clear (saw no replays)
>July 10, 2012: IN Extra Stage Clear
>July 14, 2012: UFO Extra Stage Clear
>July 15, 2012: MoF Extra Stage Clear (done in a single sitting)
>July 18, 2012: SA Extra Stage Clear (saw no replays)

Mamizou was a fucking nightmare. I don't know how I had so much trouble with her when everyone else claims that she's an absolute cakewalk, but good God that took a long time. I think I mostly made up for it with how quickly I managed to beat Suwako, though.

>>9417530

Keyboard.

The idea of using a controller for Touhou seems really odd. It really feels like the games were made with the keyboard in mind.

>>9417862
Normal.

>>9418045
Personally, I find it easier to play with an arcade stick.

>>9418045
I find I do better with a PS3 controller.

>>9411548
IN, MoF, SA, UFO, PCB, EoSD, TD. That order

>>9412769
From hardest to easiest (in my opinion):
PoFV > PCB (Phantasm) > FW > EoSD > MoF > PCB (Extra) > IN > TD > SA
(for Touhou Windows, I never play PC-98)

>>9417530
keyboard

>>9417517
IN cleared in one week ; MoF too ; SA too ; UFO cleard in two days, PCB and IN cleared in one day ; TD cleared in first try and FW never cleared
I play more Lunatic than Extra stage

>>9416985
Haha Finally I have beaten mamizou, I did super well during her survival even though I fucked up the stupid miko one again. All thats left is Koishi, than hard mode I guess.

...Although I still need to 1cc SA with someone other than Reimu C, (I just bombed everything)

I... I just defeated Flan.
I don't think my heart ever beat that fast from a video game... feels amazing.

>>9420010
Congrats, here is your prize.

Just kidding, enjoy the feeling, flan was my first extra too.

We have quite a bit of input on the difficulty of different Extras now- but how about fun factor? Which ones are your favorites and least favorites to play through?

>>9420019
thanks, I'll treasure it.

>>9420019
Yes, and the feeling gets old quickly.

>>9415434
If you're playing for survival, it's better to keep the Phase levels low. Sometimes it's not worth the effort anyway, though, so do what you prefer. Phase rises when you beat bosses and death-bomb, decreases when you bomb without getting hit or you die.

If you kill an enemy with a mana attack, bullets fired by it will disappear. You will need that in stage 3 if you don't want to squeeze into tiny spaces all the time.

>>9420028
It's hard to answer a question like that but personally I think EoSD extra is the most fun one for me, following up by UFO and Phantasm.

>>9420028
Eosd extra is my most fun, I always go back to play it every once in a while.

>>9420028
Most fun are GFW and LLS I think. The only one I really don't enjoy is MoF.

>>9420028
UFO and Phantasm.

>>9420226
Fuck yes, GFW. The extra stage was so much fun that it even makes up for the mediocre main game.

>>9420274
>>9420226
GFW is too hard.

Playing Deathsmiles right now

>>9420028
EoSD Extra is pretty fun.
Least fun, in my opinion, would be TD. Fuck those clippy animals

>>9420028
GFW. It's fast, dynamic and I really like Magus Night. I think I already cleared it like 5 or 6 times. Always with shitty score though.

Beat EoSD for the first time, all it took was not using Homing Amulet and using Needle instead, I could of beat it long ago if I had done this before after all this time.

Still happy to finally have beat it, attempting now to 1cc, but haha no, did a few runs, I don't think I will ever, get taken out by stage 4 and Patch.

I do want to face Flandre though.

>>9420580
I was the same way with my latest No-bomb attempt. http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22683

I like ReimuB's spread, which proved to be very effective during the stages. I also like her damage and Patchouli. I will surely have a clear if I improve my stage 5.

Post a replay if you want some help. I am sure that you could 1cc the game if you wanted to.

Hello /jp/
I fucking suck shit at touhou, what do I do?

>>9420669
go back to playing

>>9420623
rizzzzz do you want to stream? I'll watch if you do

>>9420675
My eyes are closing by themselves right now. I really need to get to bed. I'll probably do it a little while after I wake up. Also, who are you, mysterious Anon that loves my streams so much? If you are such a fan, then I feel like I should know you closer in person.

>>9420717
Don't respond. It's a trap.

He'll trick you into thinking that you're close friends. Soon enough, you'll be trusting each other enough to exchange nudes. Then he'll share all of the lewd photographs with the elitist assholes on #pofv and everybody will laugh at you.

Trust me, this has happened to me and so many others.

>>9420623

Will do on my next run.

Watched your replay, super impressive.

>>9420747
or maybe I just like playing/watching touhou and riz is good at it so it is enjoyable. just touhou.

>Trust me, this has happened to me
...

>>9420747
>you will never be tricked into sending Riz nudes and then laughed at on #pofv because of your tiny dick
;_;

>>9421351
But #pofv loves tiny dicks.

At the moment I'm using a shitty keyboard that only allows me to use three buttons at a time. I can't play. Is there a way to fix this?

>>9421458

Get a second hand Filco or something.

>>9421458
Remap your keys into something that does work. Ctrl, Alt and friends might do better than Z and X.

>>9421458 see >>9421472 but before check which keys you should use with http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/AntiGhostingExplained.aspx

>>9421462
>>9421472
>>9421486
Thanks for responding. I'll try it out.

Am I just horrible?
I am coming extremely close to 1CC'ing PCB, which I heard is considered one of the harder windows games.

But to take a break, I loaded up TD, and lost all my lives on stage 3.

>>9421523

Don't know.
I 1cc'd EoSD and PCB and now I'm going for IN which is meant to be easy but Marisa is raping me.

>>9421523
Press X to break borders and bomb.

>>9421523
>PCB, which I heard is considered one of the harder windows games
What. If you're scoring, maybe.

>>9420717
There are a fair few mysterious Anons who love your streams. I usually ask that and it's not me this time.

>>9421523
I dunno, I felt PCB to be fairly easy (never cleared it, though). TD is easy too, but very strict on resources. Also, they're different games, you know. You might know how to dodge bullets, but not how to anticipate the patterns.

>>9421812
PCB's cherry border is a lot more newcomer friendly than TD's spirit world.

And the spirit collecting at close range is just asking to learn a bad habit, I'd say starting off with TD is not a good idea at all.

Streaming PCB 1CC attempts, looking for bullies and jerks.

http://www.twitch.tv/exxelent

Urgh. I was so close. I just wanna move on from this stage already.
Her second nonspell keeps giving me trouble as well, any tips? Like optimal height when dodging it and stuff?

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22700

>>9422222

Sick quints brah.

>>9422222
If she moves too low on the screen, you can skip a wave by moving higher up and staying near the first set of lasers. Otherwise it's just staying at the bottom and finding the safe place.

>>9422304
>>9422222
Ah, sorry. I meant her second boss nonspell. The one with lots and lots of bullets.

1cc Normal EoSD
EoSD Extra
1cc PCB
1cc IN
1cc UFO
1cc SA
1cc MoF
Extra's UFO, MoF, 1cc&EX GFW IN, SA, PCB

Now I'm working on Phantasm. Any tips?
>all 1cc's were normal; working on hard mode EoSD.

>>9421881
Thanks for all the help and hate, I had fun, and i'll come back later with some jazz.

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>>9422222
Alright, I got bored of practising stage 3 and tried to get as far as I can in the game. What went wrong in stage 3? I've never had UFOs spawn like that before, going in all the wrong directions, messing me up. They've always been spawning differently in practice mode. Is this another "Fuck you" from ZUN or can I do something to avoid that? @_@

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22705

>>9423296
I don't see anything wrong with your tokens on stage 3. As for Ichirin's second nonspell, you skipped a gap too early, but you still should have been able to dodge it. I would stay closer to the center of the screen, moving vertically and following Ichirin.

I need tips for Patchy and Sakuya,
I want to play as Reimu B, but I can't due to the fact that Patchy is ridiculous for me with that shit type. I started playing as Marisa B, but I feel like it's too easy.

Any specific tips I can get for both spellcards and non-spellcards?
This is driving me insane.

too hard for me.

>>9423736
>I need tips
>I feel like it's too easy
You have a strange sense of pride.

>>9423763
Yeah, I need tips for playing as Reimu B.
Patchy with Marisa B is almost too simple for me, doesn't leave me feeling accomplished after the stage.
I'd rather play as Reimu anyway, since I'm used to her speed and hitbox.

anybody wanna stream?

>>9423773
Reimu and Marisa have identical hitboxes in EoSD.

>>9423773
>I'd rather play as Reimu anyway, since I'm used to her speed and hitbox.
Reimu and Marisa have the same hitbox size in EoSD.

>>9423773
Are you still going for you first 1cc on the game on that difficulty?
If you are, then it shouldn't really matter which shottype you use as long as you get the 1cc, then you can mess about later. (Probably the only exception I'd say would be Aya or Medicine for PoFV because they're bs broken, but PoFV isn't the hardest game anyway).

>>9423425
What I mean are the tokens when you compare these two runs.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22700

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22705

The first one is my practice run where the UFOs appear as they always have the previous 400 times. The second is my run of the full game where everything just went to hell on that stage.

>>9423801
>>9423797
Ah, good to know.
guess I've been playing too much of the other games, then, haha.

>>9423807
I've 1CC'd the game on my boyfriend's laptop, but can't seem to do it on my own computer. Funny how that works. I 1CC'd it with Reimu A the first time, would like to do something different.

>>9423843
Stop.

>>9423829
Not going to watch the replays.

Every UFO token spawned will alternate directions. If you got one more token than usual by killing an enemy you normally wouldn't or summoning a rainbow UFO you normally wouldn't etc. or if you get one less by not killing an enemy you normally would or letting a large UFO get away etc., the tokens will start moving in different directions compared to what you may be used to.

It's completely deterministic, so if it's "wrong", it's your fault.

>>9423843
Play at a higher difficulty.

>>9417086
Fuck, even like that I can't win without continues, it's too fast. I'll have to reduce the fps.

>>9423874
Or you could just practice more. MoF is seriously the easiest game to 1cc beside IN with border team.

>>9423849
Thank you very much, that was exactly the information I was looking for. I did suspect that to be the reason, but needed confirmation.

>>9423796
livestream.com/stouhou
I'm going to have to leave for about 30 minutes during the stream, so be warned.

>>9421881
1CC'd PCB, after many long attempts, it has been done.
Playing some TD to break it up.

>>9425243
Congratulations, disembodied sexy voice.

>>9425243
Fuck I missed that.
So you finally beat Yuyuco. Nice job.

>>9421881
Sorry, that didn't count . Do it again, now with default lives.

Just kidding.

>>9425280
Don't say lewd things about me, I get embarrassed.

>>9425985
You've got one 1cc more than I do. You've earned it.

>>9425243

Did you use the default amount of lives? That's kind of important.

>>9426162
No Touhou 1ccs are important.

>>9426162
He used default lives.

>>9426183

Falsehoods and slander.

>>9426254

Ah, okay, then it counts.

>>9426162
He did it with normal starting lives,
those deep breaths at the end~

And from that stream it turns out people who actually play touhou are really nice guys, who woulda thought.

>>9426494
who?

>>9426494
The assholes you see shitting on other people in the threads usually can't even 1cc Normal.

>>9426537
Yeah, I'd like to believe that /jp/ is full of japanese-fluent touhou whizzes since nowadays I only stay in these threads and the VN generals, but unfortunately it is not the case.

http://www.livestream.com/cutefcchannel

attempting to 1cc SA, my worst game, on normal. expect bombs.

>>9426655
It may just be me, but your video stutters a lot.

>>9426655
tryin eosd hard now

>>9427096
Congrats, I only saw the tail end of it but nice work on Remilia.

>>9427096
well done

Anyone streaming?

First thing I did in the morning was start another run of UFO and proceeded to mysteriously wipe on Nazrin for the next 50 tries. Whoops, I assumed it'd be like riding a bike. Practice time.

Byakuren's last card is the bane of me. I can't capture it on Normal after 50 times or so. I captured it after 2000 photos in DS for both Aya and Hatate. The last time i play, i lost all 6 lives to it on Normal 90 FPS. It was such a good run because i captured all other Byakuren's cards.

>>9428976
If you can't capture it on normal, why would you try it 90fps?

>>9429965
I didn't try to capture it on 90FPS. I tried to 1cc 90FPS. I thought i did very good when i had 6 lives at her last card and there's no way i can lose. When the bullets turned red, everything was so freaking fast and i lost 4 lives straight and game over. Damn shame.

There was one time i came very close to capture it on Normal 60 FPS. I died when she had 1% HP left.

What command lines do you use to cap the speed at a certain amount, all I could do with vsync was make it as fast as possible for my cpu.

>>9430201
>There was one time i came very close to capture it on Normal 60 FPS. I died when she had 1% HP left.
Know that feel.

You still a damn weirdo though. Why care about captures (so much)? I used a bomb on a "Scarlet Netherworld" every single time in my life. Literally every single time. Just because it's too fast and weird for me. MoF Easy and Normal was captured 0 times combined (1 bomb lost was my best result iirc).
And it's okay, no?

>>9430243

Not that dude, but to me it's a good gauge of your improvement. Sometimes I come back to various games and capture a card I've gone 0/20 or so on. It's an amazing feeling. When you can then do it consistently is even better.

Marisa's and Reimu's cards in IN are still ruinous, though. Should spend some time in card practice if I ever want to 1cc that one.

>>9430243
Hmm, I agree with the dude on captures being important. I'm not moving on from a stage until I can capture everything consistently, except if the card's luckshit or just plain bullshit. Haven't met one I couldn't learn yet.

>>9430220
The vpatch has an ini file with it that lets you specify the FPS. That's what I use.

Why do you play Touhou, /jp/? Do you play it for the fun, do you play it for score, do you play it to gain fame? Or do you have some other reason to play it?

>>9431223
Half for fun, half for the challenge. I know there are harder shumps, but I am bad at this so even normal mode is difficult (Except for PCB and IN, which I've 1cc'd, but that took a lot of practice and effort, and still wasn't easy)

>>9431223
I started with the intention of proving that I can clear Lunatic, then it slowly transformed into enjoying the challenge. Well, not transformed, I'm still trying to prove I have a reason to exist.

>>9431223
Penis-shaped bullet patterns.

>>9431223
It's relaxing for me. The music is great and the bullet patterns are memorizing, plus the cast is all cute girls. Also, no matter how many times I die I don't get frustrated because going through it all again just means I'll get to practice it again.

>>9431327
"no matter how many times I die I don't get frustrated"
Teach me the art of this. After a fewty failed runs the only thing keeping me from introducing my keyboard to a wall is its pricetag.

>>9431223
Fun, relaxation. Also cute girls doing silly thing. Music is ok.

>>9431352
Hmm well besides the fact that I'm the type of person who doesn't really get frustrated at anything, I try to keep a kind of easy-going "well if I do good I'll do good, if I die I'll die" mindset. Like, instead of sitting down and being determined to 1CC the game within a week, I'll just play it in relatively short increments over a longer period of time, never getting serious about it. It's kind of like trying to stretch out my "beginner's luck" as long as possible. And I never use the practice mode, I just play from the beginning because eventually each stage becomes more and more second nature to beat. Basically if I actually care about beating it as quickly as possible then I'll start to do worse. I don't think it's really a way of playing that someone can get in the habit of doing intentionally though. All that being said I've only 1CC'd EoSD, PCB, PoFV, MoF, and UFO on normal though so it's not like my method is a very good one.

>>9431223
Excitement and that feeling of achievement when other people recognize what you did and congratulate you.

>>9431223
All of the above.

In the mood to watch stream, anyone?

>>9431223
I play it for the yuri subtext. IN magic team so good. If only UFO MarisaA would have Alice to hang with.... Nnnnnnnn.


As for which extra stage I enjoy the most, probably Phantasm. I always did like the boss battle, and the music is awesome. I also like Yukari's sprite and dialoques. PCB scoring is also so, so cute, I like it very much even though it is hard.

I also like PCB extra, and I have a bit better route for it, but I am still finding Yukari a bit better.

Mokou's theme and danmaku are pretty cool at times, and I like the KeineMokou implied in the stage, but I have had a hard time with the last spell and learning all the grazing tricks here would be really hard, so I am dropping it a bit lower on the list.

I found UFO extra weirdly fun when I first played it, but I do not want to rethink a route for it so I rarely play it.

SA extra was okay, mainly for the music and the Embers of Love jokes.

EoSD for the music.

TD was horrible when I played it, clipdeaths and stupid deaths. But I did enjoy Mamizou's theme and watching high-level scoreplay in it is entertaining. Also, a certain player made the second bosscard so good with his "doggies wanna fuq"-line after dying to it on a good run.

MoF was................ Dull. I never played it much and I am really, really bad in it. Everyone plays it better than I do and it is embarrassing.

>>9431471
*adds to pasta folder*

>>9431503
huh... so i'm not the only one

All right, just got my first Hard mode 1cc! EoSD!

I remember when I thought getting a Normal 1cc was STUPIDLY hard. Once I eventually managed that, within the next two months I got a Normal 1cc on and cleared the Extra Stage of every single Windows Touhou, though I skipped PoFV. Today, I managed to clear EoSD's Hard mode in a single sitting (aside from a single attempt I gave it a few days ago).

I remember thinking that beating Flandre was the best I could ever hope to be at this kind of game, and that it would be a miracle if I could ever clear that. Now, it doesn't seem like there's an upper limit on my skill. I feel like I can always keep improving and eventually overcome anything. It's a nice feeling.

On to PCB!

>>9431468
yeah

Is this all pasta? Dammit.

>>9431223
I wish I could play the games for fun. Sadly, "fun" would be the last word I would use to describe the games. I used to play it for score, but now I hardly play it (at all) anymore. The fun is everything on the fandom side, and playing a newly released official game for a few days after release. Watching others play the games during events is also pretty fun.

>>9431543
If you mean my post which was being added to paste folders, no, it is not a paste but a post about my opinions.

And the post is not very funny, why the hell would it be added to pasta folders anyway?

>>9431590
I should also add that the dialogue is pretty funny. It's often random, but it's got that unique silliness that only ZUN manages to achieve.

>>9431223
For that feel when you overcome something that defeated you so many times.

no one is streaming. i'm sad.

>>9431590
>Watching others play the games during events is also pretty fun.
Oh god, no it's not. I was practically jumping out of my skull when nobody could get past a single stage 1 on lunatic.

>>9431927
>nobody could get past a single stage 1 on lunatic.
And I thought I was bad.

>>9431927
someone did EoSD hard for their first time ever last night on their stream. Was pretty fun to watch.

>>9431927
Well, depends. If they make funny talk, then it's all good.
Unless it's shitty funny talk, which is another problem entirely.

>>9431927
I apologize that you can't get over your huge ego. Anyway, I also remember watching others play-test Double Spoiler during Reitaisai 7 with ZUN. It was a lot of fun, but that was long ago.

I sometimes miss those long nights last winter when I streamed for cactu and he streamed for me. Nobody wanted to watch us so we were together, having fun.

Nowadays my internet is siht so I cannot stream. I do watch people secretly, though.

>>9431978
気味悪い

>>9431934
a couple nights ago someone was attempting his first (second?) ever normal 1CC on PCB, when he finally got it I felt like back when I got my first 1CC

>>9431968
Why does that man laugh so weird.

>>9431519

PCB Hard 1cc done, using SakuyaA. Hard modes aren't as challenging as I thought they would be, but I imagine SA and UFO will be a lot more difficult. I really, really dread trying to fight Orin again.

On a completely unrelated note, in SA's Extra, Sanae fucking HATES you. What changes later so that she manages to get along with the rest of the cast?

>>9432096
Orin aka bomb everything-rin

Is it considered cheating to use a hitbox patch in EoSD?

>>9432132
Depends on the person being asked. I personally don't care as I don't feel like it gives any advantage.

Do you have to clear hard or lunatic to be considered an ok 2hu player?

>>9432132

I'd think a little less of a person for using it, but you're still dodging the same patterns of bullets. It's not 'cheating', but at the same time it is pretty lame. It's not hard to figure out where the hitboxes are.

>>9432147
No. You could beat Easy and get a good score and be considered a really good player.

>>9432147
Getting a 1CC on Normal will put you ahead about 75% of the touhou fanbase.
Here on /jp/ though? The people who stream regularly at least seem capable of at least hard.

And to answer
>>9432132
That depends really, it doesn't actually change anything about the game, so it's not "cheating" but it's taking something out of the game that gave it another aspect of difficulty, now whether this is artificial difficulty or not is up to discussion.

If you're just going for a clear or 1CC, I don't consider it cheating, but I personally think scoring runs should be done without a hitbox.

what is a hitbox for?

>>9432185
For boxing your hits, of course.

>>9432096
>On a completely unrelated note, in SA's Extra, Sanae fucking HATES you. What changes later so that she manages to get along with the rest of the cast?
No she doesn't, she's just really fucking excited about understanding that in Gensokyo you basically attack people for fun.

>>9432132
Not at all. In any circumstance where you could even have a solid concept of cheating, the people playing are good enough that they the thing wouldn't matter. The thing is only useful for the learning stages where you're getting used to where your character is; it really has little point. You really don't need it for a game like EoSD in the first place. Even still, Reimu and Marisa's ribbons are an easy approximation of your hitbox, so even without it you have a marker. I'm surprised this is even an issue discussed anymore.

>>9432096
What? She jokes around with you about giving you a proper welcome with danmaku, how is that considered fucking hating you?

all dialogues other than Reimu A in SA are unimportant and non-canon as far as I'm concerned

>>9432244
>>9432495

I took what she said as incredibly sarcastic, given how serious and displeased her face looks.

"Oh, did you come to visit the shrine in this cold weather? Hoho, I know how to give you a proper greeting this time."

I guess it makes more sense to interpret it in a cheerful way, but when I first saw those lines it seemed like she disliked you strongly and was happy for a chance to beat you up.

Eh, it really feels like my interpretation was just bad. Fucking ZUN, why'd you draw her with a frown?

>>9432744
>Japanese
>Sarcasm

You have never talked to a Japanese person in your life have you ?

>>9432495
>all dialogues other than the easiest shot type are unimportant

Eat shit.

>>9432856
But he isn't using Reimu C?

>>9432848

I have, actually. I was a foreign exchange student to Japan for a full year.

I really should have connected the dots myself, but instead I just got the impression "Whoa, she seems pissed" and took it from there. Oh well.

>>9432744
not even a frown

>>9432888
Don't you see her eyebrows, mister trips?

I can't fucking dodge.I can't do it.

>>9432976
Deep breaths, it helps me.

I'm having a sort of an odd issue. I've been having some problems with small movements. Whenever I try to move in any direction, I always move 4 to 5 pixels at a time, no matter how lightly I press on my keyboard keys. When I started, I just passed it off as something that happens to everyone and tried to work around it. Eventually, I watched some replays of higher tier skilled players, and noticed that they don't seem to be limited by this. Its most evident in cards like Mokou's survival spell, at the part where you have to tap stream vertically... I always hit the top before that portion finishes, as I move way too quickly from each keystroke.

Am I doomed to mediocrity until I get a better keyboard, or is there any way to fix this?

>>9433073

I've got a board with cherry blues and I have this problem if I push the key down all the way.
With a bit of practice though I've been able to ride the actuation point and make really small movements.
I think on a membrane keyboard you should be able to do small movements if you just remove your finger very quickly after each tap.

>>9433088
I have found no way to get small movements out of it. Not sure what type it is. Like I said, it doesnt matter if I tap quickly or just lightly roll over it, it gives the same response.

>>9433144

I don't have any ideas then, it could be your keyboard but I don't understand why that would be the case.

>>9433144
Try a different keyboard and see if it's different from yours.

>>9433144
Try playing Reimu in IN, SA or UFO. She's slow enough to move very small movements easily. It's harder to move like that in EoSD and MoF. Marisa is just too damn fast, don't even try with her.

>>9433073
hold shift for focused movement

>>9433288
I already do, for those games, though I somehow prefer Marisa in PCB.
>>9433223
I'll have to try that, I guess. Any recommendations? I don't wanna go out and get a cheap board from walmart or radioshack only to find out it has the same problem.

Sleep or stream touhou, /jp/?

>>9433997
that depends, do you have a sexy voice?

>>9434005
I've been told I do, and it makes me blush every time.

>>9434015
Are you the gentleman that streamed yesterday?

>>9434033
I'd watch you again but I may have to leave early.

>>9434021
If you're referring to the one who streamed PCB then a little of TD, then yes that was me.

>>9433997
ill watch you

>>9433972
Mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches, preferably red or black.

YESYESYES. NMNB Ichirin! (NM1B stage 3, but that's enough for me)

On the run prior to this, I wiped on her last and easiest nonspell, so when I got to her last spellcard my heart was almost bursting out of my chest.
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=22747

*looks at spellcard records* Meh, it seems I just got lucky this time. I'll practice this for the rest of the week, then stage 4 here I come!

Yeah! 1cc MoF with MarisaB :V
My first time! I was getting tired of all those bad endings.

>>9436195
GJ!

>>9436195
I hope you patched L3 Laser.

>>9436195

Did you rely on the glitch, or did you beat the game legitimately?

>>9436231
"getting tired of all those bad endings" sounds like he relied on the glitch to get a good ending for once.

morning touhous, anyone want to stream?

Tipsy streaming time

http://www.livestream.com/cutefcchannel

>>9436300
chenplz

Could someone make a list of links to Touhou streams?

Goodness, MoF's hard mode is quite a bit more difficult than EoSD's or PCB's. After quite a bit of practice, I've finally made it to Kanako, but not being used to how fast her patterns are made me die quite quickly.

And fuck Sanae, seriously. All of her everything is bullshit. This game balances it out by giving you a million bombs, but Christ.

>>9436899
A nice stream, I'm sorry I had to leave so early.

>>9437592
That's true. Even hard' Nitori is on omgwtf level without bombing.

Koishi's a butt.

>>9437650

That's odd, because on normal she seems (to me at least) by far one of the easiest stage 3 bosses

>>9437679

If you'd like assistance, post a replay.

Otherwise, keep fighting! You can do it!

>>9437679
?

YOU'RE GOD DAMN FUCKING RIGHT I CAN!

(pic is actually a spoiler from one of the endings; I personally would be mad if I had seen this image on the internet before reaching it myself)

>>9437679

>>9438285
oh yes
I always save pictures from the endings I unlock. They are my trophies.

>>9438285
oh yes
I always save pictures from the endings I unlock. They are my trophies.

anyone would like to stream?

What's the hardest Stage 6 boss on lunatic?

>>9439036
Byakuren or Remilia for survival, Yuyuko for scoring with a great margin. Well maybe Kaguya comes close.

>>9439036
Kaguya for me.

>>9439025
I could.

Looking for bullies and jerks, like usual.
Practicing TD for a 1CC.

twitch.tv/exxelent

>>9414499
Yes, it is pathetically easy and I don't even know why it's so popular.

>>9414499
>>9439439
Post your replays, ``please''!

Seriously, I'm curious to see how you play.

>>9439449
...Where could they even post them?

>>9439456
replays.gensokyo.org

>>9439410
Eating, but will return in a few

That feeling when you die ten times on the first three stages in front of an audience and are too embarrassed to continue.

When I get a new computer (which should be soon) I promise I'll stream Touhous and Crimzon Clovers an' shit.

Soon!

>>9439449

I remember a guy telling me that Touhou was so easy that it was boring. He said that he got to the third stage and stopped playing, because he was so bored (despite playing on the hardest difficulty) that he didn't want to play anymore. I told him that dying all the time WOULD be boring, but he insisted that he quit because it was just too easy.

I asked him to post a replay, and he said that he didn't have any recording software and that he plays very badly whenever he streams video games. I realized that he didn't even KNOW about the Replay function, and when I asked him which Touhou game he had been playing, he said that he didn't want to tell me because I'd just claim that it was an easier Touhou game. I'm quite certain that he has never played Touhou at all.

What causes these people to brag about being really good at video games they've never played? What are they trying to prove, when they can't even prove their own claims?

>>9440270
Internet Tough Guy

On a related note, half the fun of Touhou for me is dying all the time when I play through a game for the first time or after a break from it. I've died way too many times on stage 5 so far trying to 1CC TD, but I know that a couple more days I'll have it down and that keeps me going.

Haven't cced any touhou so far. Which touhou does /jp/ recommend I should cc first

>>9440629
Please use the archive, that's the overdone question in the history of this board.

Where are some download links for touhou games?

>>9440629
spoonfeed.jpg

I would say start with either TD or IN
Both of them use relatively easy to understand gimmicks that can really help out a new player.

I thought we had gotten over the difficulty = fun phase ever since all CAVE games got emulated and I realized they weren't even that good.

They have great mechanics, but you get like what, 2 extends at most and that's playing really well through the entire game. Bombs are also super rare, and the true last boss make you manage your resources even more harshly. The whole thing reeks of unnecessary masochism, no wonder why the most popular games get a black label version with properly tested, toned down endgame difficulty.

>>9440693
>They have great mechanics, but you get like what, 2 extends at most
Up to 4. And if you want to be a casual like that, just continue like a bitch. It's not like most people don't anyways.

>>9440684
Buy them.

>>9440699
I savestate at the beginning of each stage, so it's still masochist enough without wasting away hours of my life redoing the same 15 minutes again and again.

I got the idea from playing RefRain.
Don't get me wrong I like CAVE, I just think they're overrated. Raizing and the Sonic Wings guys are still probably my fav stg companies.

>>9440717
>Cave is overrated
>Raizing is better
Oh, you're a funny man. Very funny. I almost laughed.

>>9440725
Not better, just my favorite.
Their rank thing is bullshit, I agree. What's wrong with them?

>>9440725
>Oh, you're a funny man. Very funny. I almost laughed.
Raizing shmup division got integrated into CAVE, their games have a lot of shared staff.
http://www.giantbomb.com/shinobu-yagawa/72-98508/

What's your point?

>>9440775
My point is, I haven't played Pink Sweets, DFKBL, Ibara, or Saidaioujou.

Streaming for about an hour.
Still working on that TD 1CC Normal.

twitch.tv/exxelent

MMP is the best Yagawa game because it's the most Cave-like. Boss health bars would've made it much better too.

>>9441026
Can't focus tonight, dying way too much to dumb things. Can't improve.

Cutting the touhou for tonight early, thanks to those who came though.

>>9440045
Hahaha, I've died on the first stage of a touhou game for 30 times in a row. That's no problem.

>>9440792
So his statement is for some reason wrong because you have not tried them?

Amazing logic.

>>9441053
>>9441053
>Yagawa game because it's the most Cave-like

Yeah no everyone agrees it´s either Garegga,Batrider or Ibara.

>>9441225
Garegga and Batrider feel very little like Cave games though.

especially since, y'know, they aren't

>>9441225
Who the FUCK is everyone?

I'm looking for a Touhou-like shmup. Touhou-like as in, it focuses on slow, precise patterns rather than quick reflex. Also, not having pixelly graphics with clusterfucks and explosions on the screen all the time.

>>9442566
Majority aka muh dick

>>9441806

Just saying Ibara is the pinnacle of Yagawa

Would someone like to stream?

How the heck do you do the second phase of Possessed by Pheonix? The one with the aimed blue arrow bullets. From watching a few replays, I see that you're supposed to circle around it somehow, but it doesn't seemed that simple. I don't get it.

>>9443886
Actually, it's simple. Just move on a circle as wide as possible. Or supergrazing by moving up/down.

>>9443886
You're streaming. It's in a circular pattern instead of the usual straight line though.

Talking to myself makes me play better and never get frustrated. If I had a computer capable of streaming I could make a good commentator.

Wonder if I should seek medical help, though?

>>9444331
You mean talking to yourself like you're having a conversation with another person or just narrating your activities in a dialogue format? In any case, as long as you're aware that any other people you might be talking to aren't real, you should be good.

>>9444342
Pretending I'm explaining whatever I'm currently doing to someone. But I might still be sane for the time being.

Question about streaming: is it a privilege reserved for high end players or would people come in and watch if it was an easy or normal mode pleb playing?

>>9444882
I personally like to watch streams from people of all skill levels. Actually nearly all the streams I've watched were normal mode players trying for their first 1cc, with a few exceptions like Riz.

>>9444882
Have a mic and I'll be there.

>>9444882
I'd watch it even if you're an easy mode player. A mic with some talking makes it alot better.

How do I get good at Akai Katana ?

>>9444882

I wouldn't mind watching normal or even easy-modo, since I can relate more to their plight as i'm at that skill level, and probably most people generally are also.

Well fuck, /jp/. I had my best run by far on IN's extra stage made it to Mokou's last spell card with two lives left and 3 bombs. Even though I've never seen her final spellcard before, I managed to take out about half her health before I had to use my first bomb. I thought to myself that surely I couldn't lose.
Well, after I used by bomb some retarded fucking glitch happened and Reimu started automatically moving up even though I didn't want her to. No matter what directions I pressed, she was always being pulled up vertically, unless I held DOWN, and then she could move down ever so slightly. Needless to say, I lost. I can't believe that happened...It would've been my first extra clear..
Why did that have to happen /jp/ ;_;

>>9447084

Do you have a controller plugged in that you're not using? I think that's caused me trouble in the past. That or IN has a control glitch.

But yeah, shitsucks.

>>9447084
Usually that is fixed by pressing the button that gets stuck on the numpad.

>>9447084
I've had that happen, but not in such a critical spot. The button stayed held down even in menus, so quitting the game was a bit painful. Strangely, it only affects Touhou, as I could use my keyboard completely fine everywhere else.

>>9447560
Just adding that it's no only IN that has this problem, I had it in UFO.