STG/Touhou

[Anonymous No.]

You know the drill, talk about STGs & Touhou. Chat with fellow players, blog about your progress, plead for help on problematic spots, and so on.

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New challenges for this thread

Touhou challenge: Score in DDC Trial Easy/Lunatic
1. Every shot-type is welcome
2. The run must be done within the thread, no old scores.
3. Either screenshots or replays will be required for posts with scores.

STG challenge: Guwange
1. Tiebreaker on clears will be score > Lives.
2. Every shot-type is welcome
3. The run must be done within the thread, no old scores.
4. Either screenshots or .inps will be required for posts with scores.

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You have time for until this thread ends (i.e. it hits the bump limit).

[Anonymous No.]

That's a heck of a lot of points!

[Anonymous No.]

Any tips on better panic control and holding your nerve. I very, very nearly 1cc'd EoSD just them, and I had 7 lives when I got to Sakuya, but suddenly, my fingers felt stiff, and I started thinking about retarded shit like *how* I'm actually controlling my fingers, and what would happen if they stopped working. I was also sweating profusely. Needless to say, I didn't last long. Is it just a case of playing it so many times that you get used to it, or is there a more mechanical way to hold your nerve? I believe I could 1'cc easily if I didn't fall apart like that.

[Anonymous No.]

Kogasa's first spellcard on Lunatic is pretty much impossible.
I'm currently on 0/175 with ReimuB and I can perfect all of the other stage 2's.
And yes I know about the safespot, I don't want to use it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012728
Don't worry--everyone starts to "meta" think while they're really into an STG.

I recommend just giving it a rest and playing it later with a clear mind. Maybe this one is just me, but I've never 1CC'd a game for the first time after hours of playing. It's always been the first or second time when I've been playing casually and happened to do well that day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012728
what difficulty?
also,
>I had 7 lives when I got to Sakuya
you're not using default lives are you?
Because in that case it wouldn't even matter if you 1cc'd it, it would've been invalid anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012738

Yes, I have taken a break now, I probably won't play it again until tommorow. I usually don't do that well, I actually haven't played it for 2 days, it was my "warm up" run this happened to me on. I just suddenly did really well.

>>11012739

Normal.

I had 2 lives when I started, don' know if that's the default. I lost one because I forgot to move to the right of the screen and shoot the spokes before the books that shoot bullets on Stage 4, so I shocked myself when I ended up on the right side of the screen and panicked. I regained that life anyway when I got to Sakuya's mid-boss.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012728
If you had 7 lives at that point, you could just bomb your way to 1cc anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012747

*books that shoot blue bullets

You know, the ones with the lasers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012702
I know I'll probably catch hell for this, but I don't recognize the picture in OP. Will someone please tell me which game it is?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012749

My deaths kept surprising me though, and I can't death bomb. At first I thought it was something that would pass. I also didn't want my first 1cc to be pure bombing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012728
Practice for discipline
That way even if you sweat out like a scrub your brain will enter auto mode
Dont forget to pause before you shit yourself

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012762
Phatasmagoria Trues

[Anonymous No.]

pls respond how do I stop that voice coming up like "hey if you beat this part you'll have no die'd the whole level" because i usually die after thinking that sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012730
It's a terrible spell card. Borderline impossible with ReimuB, yet easy as fuck with someone like SanaeB.
I don't know why you don't want to use the safespot though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012800

Will do. The only problem is, I can't unlock Stage 6 practice until I 1cc, although if I beat Sakuya with still 7 lives I should be able to beat Remillia even if I fuck up really badly. I think Remillia's fight isn't as difficult as Sakuya's. Curse of Vlad Tepis and Star of David are a joke, as are most of her standard attacks barring the first one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012832
I just want to capture it normally at least once.

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[Anonymous No.]

>>11012804
thanks

[Anonymous No.]

Another day, another failed SA run. This time around had a death at stage 1, god knows how that happened. Got to Okuu's final card again. That could've been it. But just you wait, one of these days will be the day! Just you wait!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012832
You were right about SanaeB, got it on my third try.
Never actually tried playing with Sanae before.

[Anonymous No.]

dying on the final spellcard

kill me

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012838
use a score.dat

[Anonymous No.]

Been playing Concealed the Conclusion, which is I guess is like the ultimate STG touhou fangame
Any other games other than CtC worth giving an honorable mention? I don't expect anything to be as good as this but I also know there is a lot of shit out there to be avoided
flan unrelated

[Anonymous No.]

Jeez, stop with these DDC challenges.

[Anonymous No.]

Trying to beat Fujiwama volcano makes me want to off myself

[Anonymous No.]

Scrub here. Just got my 2nd normal 1cc. I'm happy

[Anonymous No.]

>>11013169
CtC is okay but there's plenty of better stuff around. Phantasmagoria Trues and Magical Singular Day are top-tier and definite must-plays. A couple others by the guy who made Trues (Phantasm Romance and Re:F/Rain) are pretty cool. The Last Comer and Marine Benefit are decent, probably around CtC level. Fake Strange Legend (EoSD/HRtP crossover) and that danmakufu Double Spoiler clone are pretty nifty if you like those kinds of games. Then there's stuff like Suwapyon, which is kinda awkward but not bad. Oh, and Scarlet Meister if you like balls to the wall horis. Probably missing stuff, but those are most of the well known ones.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11013981
>The Last Comer and Marine Benefit are decent, probably around CtC level.
>Marine Benefit... decent... probably around CtC level.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11013981
I got Phantasmagoria, but my playable character's sprite is all white. How to fix this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11014177
Those are the default danmakufu shot sprites. You can extract this folder into your th_dnh folder to make them prettier though.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6oazfskrax01u1g

[Anonymous No.]

>>11013169
I agree with the other anon, Magical Singular Day is great.

[Anonymous No.]

Secretive strategies. (◡‿◡✿)

[Anonymous No.]

Stream you bastards. I am bored and want to be entertained.

[Anonymous No.]

The more I play the DDC demo, the worse I've been getting. What sorcery is this? I was much better during the first few days it came out than I am now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11015622
lel!

[Anonymous No.]

why is PCB normal alices red haired dutch dolls card so boring and awful?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11015844
I wish I knew. I'm such an inconsistent piece of shit myself, no matter how much I actually practice.

>>11016289
It's Normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11016289
so you could supergraze it

[Anonymous No.]

>>11016382
You could PoC it.

[Anonymous No.]

Second nonspell （◞‸◟）

[Anonymous No.]

Nindella, please stop browsing Youtube and start streaming. You know we love it when you stream. Thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.]

NinSMELLa, please stop masturbating to lewd pictures of Orin and start streaming. Your manjuice is finite. Thank you for your consideration.

[Anonymous No.]

Nindel nyaa!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017009
nyaa!

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone here ever played Moedan?
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Moedan

I see that there's a full English translation on the Touhou Wiki...I wonder why there's no patch?

Anyway, is this actually useful for teaching me to become better at Touhou?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017418
Not really, you're better off just using spell practice in IN or playing some arcade stgs.

You can use the dual spellcard feature in moedan to make some fun to dodge combinations though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017009
Dude!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017486
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0AXux3vCOK1

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017578
Is that Nin being tortured or something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017578
What is happening?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11014096
well, not that person, but the spellcards in MB were pretty interesting, even if the shottypes were abysmal.

[Anonymous No.]

Just getting into touhou, i'm playing EoSD. Place where to get tips and familarize myself with the lingo? Also i'm already having trouble on normal when I get to patchouli... its hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017822
try easy first or a few times

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017822
Shmups forum, better than those bullies on IRC, and you don't have to interact with the community if you don't want to. Stick with Normal and never ever restart, restarting is counter productive if you're a beginner, you should only do it if you know the game inside out. I guess continues can be okay if you want to unlock stage practice, but I personally wouldn't use them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017822
Keep trying, you'll crack it eventually. Use stage practice a lot too.

MotK is okay if you stick to Help Me Eirin, there's a lot of experienced players there to give you advice if you need it. The other boards are full of secondaryfags though. Gonna have to go against what the other guy said as well. Shmupsforum is more or less shitposting, negativity from shitty players who refuse to put in any sort of effort, and a handful of people who can actually play. Kinda like /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11017955
I can only think of a few negative people on shmupsforum. I've never been on MoTK very often, but after browsing a few threads, I'm under the impression that they'll end up driving a Normal player off from STGs really fast. Then again, I just feel really shitty when somebody else says that something is piss easy and I can't do it myself. Chaining and looping DOJ being one of the biggest examples.

You're right though, /jp/ is the absolute worst when it comes to negativity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11018073
2-ALLing DOJBL is so easy it's almost pathetic

[Anonymous No.]

>>11018086
A lot of people can do it within 30 or so hours of practice, but they aren't willing to put in the effort. This is why Asians will always be better than Westerners at SHMUPs, because the have focus, dedication, motivation, and discipline. Unlike Wasterners who just play for an hour a week and call it practice. :V

You can't develop emotions while playing these games. That is how most dumbasses screw up.

[Anonymous No.]

Failed Jewish Diamond and a bunch of nonspells.

[Kuroneko a shit !rQunMQoIEo No.]

>TH06
> finally get past patchouli, though it was a continue and bombing
> it cant get much worse
> stage 5 2 fairys pop out
> map full of bullets

yeah I think this is going to take a while just to beat normal

[Anonymous No.]

>>11018549
>Kuroneko a shit

Well fuck you too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11018549
Hello please post according to local customs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11018644
It was a inside joke, forgot it was still there because of 4chan x

[Anonymous No.]

Entered stage 6 with 0/3. One day I'll get a NMNB Full spell stage 6.

[Anonymous No.]

What team would you recommend for 1cc'ing IN on hard? I tried out the ghosts and got to Marisa in my first try somehow

[Anonymous No.]

>>11021186
Border team is probably your best choice.
Remember to unfocus and bomb when you want to bomb through a spell as Yukari's bomb is close range and won't damage the boss unless you move near them when you focus bomb.
Good luck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11021246
Cheers. I did bomb a lot as Yuyuko which kinda sucked because Youmu's bomb is much better, I'll keep it in mind

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

Why can't I open pcb

[Anonymous No.]

>>11021584
Did you apply an english patch that requires a certain version?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11021591
I got them all from a torrent a while ago, all patched, it was working earlier today.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11021584
Did you change your locale by any chance?
Does the non English exe work?
Try launching it with the vpatch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11021584
This happens for me when I try to launch the game, but it's already launched. Check your processes.

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

>>11021602
Run "custom_en.exe", and restore all of the settings to default and try booting it again. Make sure you're running the program in Japanese locale.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11025708
Stop that. Saying "Good morning" is considered shitposting and I do not like shitposting in this thread. Post scores instead.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ pls help

[Anonymous No.]

>>11025797
Are you having a bad morning

[Anonymous No.]

>>11025852
I think you should play some arcade shooters until you can understand shooting game fundamentals. Play a whole lot of PoFV on Lunatic Ultra until you can last 5+ minutes without using any spellcards to be really good too, all of the good players do that. ;_; Personally, I can't even last three.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11025949
AI in PoFV lunatic in vs mode is some insane shit. My record is about 2 minutes. I have never ever won even once.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11026033
I know that PoFV has a ranking system of some sort, but I don't know if it applies to match mode. I've seen some people beat them in 3-4 minutes after their first miss on the 2:00 mark, so I think that they start to count down after you get hit once or something to that effect.

I usually miss around 1:10 or so because I suck, still don't see them get hit because I end up dying at about 2:00 or 2:05

[Anonymous No.]

>>11026058
AI in match mode only get hit if they get walled without a level 2 to save themselves, some characters are better at walling the AI than others and some are just broken. Mystia mirror in AI v AI takes about 5 hours per round, depending on rng.

[Anonymous No.]

Hahaha, oh fuck. I would have 1-ALLed DOJBL, but I ended up wasting away all of my lives at the 1-5 in an otherwise no miss run. Not like it would be worth a shit anyway, I dropped my chain before the 1-2 midboss so the run was pretty much null from the beginning.

Oh well, more practice.

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

>>11029763
Good morning! Did you sleep well?

[Anonymous No.]

Why is Sakuya B so shit?

[Anonymous No.]

Should I start from TH6 then work my way up until 13.5? There are so many.. I'm just not sure how to go about playing them all...? Also when you choose to continue after dying your score is not counted?

[Anonymous No.]

You could skip the fighting games
When you continue your score is set to 0

[Anonymous No.]

>>11029907
Ah, thanks.

Also what does graze do? Anything fundamental I should know
that I may have not picked up on?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11029907
> When you continue your score is set to 0
Its always initialized to the number of times you continued, which may or may not be zero.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11029915
Generally it's for scoring but also a number of different things depending on the game.
In EoSD for example it's for scoring, but scoring also gives you extends.
In PCB it's also used to raise your cherry meter faster and get more borders.
In PCB it's used to get Time while in youkai mode.
In MoF it's useless.
In SA it's used to auto-collect items from a distance.
etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11029915
Generally it's for scoring but also a number of different things depending on the game.
In EoSD for example it's for scoring, but scoring also gives you extends.
In PCB it's also used to raise your cherry meter faster and get more borders.
In IN it's used to get Time while in youkai mode.
In MoF it's useless.
In SA it's used to auto-collect items from a distance.
etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11029915
graze is only useful in subterranean animism and cirnos game where it collects items and fills your ice meter

[Anonymous No.]

>>11029791
no lol

[Anonymous No.]

>>11030139
What even is this?

[Anonymous No.]

Some bird touching stuff. Messed up the timing for the cancel on the last spell but whatever. Can maybe push this 320M.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11030688
It appears to be a foci used by touhou zen masters to achieve greater understanding of the games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11030805
Where do these images come from? How can I learn to produce such works?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11030791
Start focusing on something more important for you to practice. Not entering Stage 6 with 0 lives, for starters. It'll give you a lot more points than improved Mystia supergraze.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11031071
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

>>11031331
you're welcome :V

[Anonymous No.]

>>11034109
Why do you keep posting this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11034192
?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11034192
He wants to tell everyone good morning. It's a good thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11034301
It's not a good morning.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11034128
I'd never use a smiley like that, but it was a nice impersonation.

>>11031331
Keep at it.

[Anonymous No.]

Why is danmaku so mesmerizing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOT-ORXdvcE

I've been watching this video for hours during weeks, especially after 1:30.

[Anonymous No.]

3 billion so far away. Failed several things. Death in stage 5 wrecked me; I couldn't recover from it until Reisen. I'll definitely work on my stage 5 before I start up another credit (On every stage, really, but stage 5 in particular). Next stop will definitely be 2.8b

[Anonymous No.]

I just died to Marisa at her final moment of her last spellcard. I heard the sound of her dying but i hit a bullet before she died. Woe is me. I just wanted to finish GFW extra fast to focus on perfecting my run on DDC. Only 2 months left. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

>>11030805

1cc'ing Normal should be considered secondary. I've ever 1cc'ed EOSD and HRtP on Normal, and I'm shit. Like, can't even get past Stage 3 on IN without continuing shit. It should be based on what game you 1cc'd, not just 1cc'ing Normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11038202
hi

[Anonymous No.]

>>11037991
GFW extra is easy dude, nothing to cry about.
And that's kinda the point of that last spellcard, you lose Motivation rapidly and you can easily game over at the very end.
Happened to me and probably a lot of other people as well.
If you're low on motivation, like below 100% and the spellcard is ending, you may want to say fuck it and just stay under her in the middle of the laser, since the laser itself can't kill you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11038217
>secondary
I don't think you know what that word means.
A secondary is someone who hasn't even touched any of the games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11038232

But then aren't they just non-players? Why would anyone be worth making a name up for if they don't play it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11038232
>A secondary is someone who hasn't even touched any of the games.
>I don't think you know what that word means.
Neither do you, apparently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11038222
First good hi quote I've seen swords for sale.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11038238
>Why would anyone be worth making a name up for if they don't play it?
Because they are manchildren.

[Anonymous No.]

Konbanwa.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone else disliking ddc as much as I am? If I'm understanding it correctly, the winning move is to bomb through the stages to get big bonuses, then focus-fire the bosses while milking graze. You have to play lunatic since hard is far too easy, and waiting around for the screen to fill before bombing makes it even worse.

[Space Flower !JLY7OHoMIg No.]

>>11041884
but you can play it however you want! I agree though, scoring-wise I have no idea why Zun makes bombing so lucrative sometimes. Isn't it supposed to be a crutch? If bombing and suiciding is the optimum method for scoring, then the game isn't rewarding skill at all...

[Anonymous No.]

>>11042213
The games are supposed to be fun not whatever silly idea you have about them.

[Anonymous No.]

Are these games best played with a controller?

When I use keyboard I feel like my movement is too jerky and abrupt

[Space Flower !JLY7OHoMIg No.]

>>11042239
Like I said, you can play it however you want! I'm not even a masterful player and I've never gone for score except when it gives me extends.
I'm just trying to be empathetic towards the skillful players who feel cheated by the system that supports sloppy playing. I've seen it happen to a lot of series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11042246
You can gamepad if you want, but there's no con to keyboard play, you just have to stick it out until your muscle memory gets good. Well, then it depends on your keyboard too. If you have a cheap one it could be a detriment.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11041884
Yes. It's pretty much the same "bomb for big reward" shit that you get with everything after IN (or MoF, arguably). Not saying that it's easy; it's just unappealing and dumb.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11042213
>If bombing and suiciding is the optimum method for scoring, then the game isn't rewarding skill at all...
How come every tripfriend on /jp/ shows such an unsettling lack of basic game mechanics?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11042270
Go get 600m in EoSD. Don't worry, you can do it even if you're really sloppy.

[Anonymous No.]

Nindel where are you?
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0AXux3vCOK1

[Anonymous No.]

Do you guys hate secondaries? Would you look down on me if I could LNB a couple of games but also enjoyed Cirno's perfect math class?

[Anonymous No.]

What route would you recommend for 1cc hard Fairy Wars?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11043588
Even so, TD is still shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11047481
I don't disagree, but we were not discussing TD.

[Anonymous No.]

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=28830

I don't know how I died. I've watched this replay so many times and nothing is even near my hitbox.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11047803
The fat laser's hitbox is actually a big rectangle that ends on Marisa's collision box, I believe. The edges of the laser are still part of the hitbox, even though the sprite of laser makes it seem like there's nothing there. It rotated and killed you. Tested it on my IN and the same thing happens.

[Anonymous No.]

I hope op makes a no-bomb challenge for ddc next thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11047443
>Do you guys hate secondaries?
No. I am one myself.

>Would you look down on me if I could LNB a couple of games
Only if you called yourself good after that.

>Cirno's perfect math class?
I don't like the song, but if someone else does, who cares.

[Anonymous No.]

What happened to all the epic fighting that used to happen in these threads? Have the irc guys finally gone away?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11049638
i'm still here, nerd.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11050744
Good. I want to hear MaZe's thoughts about ddc.

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a trick to Reisen's Illusion Seeker in IN or am I supposed to pray to the gods for mercy?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051374
Go to spell practice and do some trial and error until you figure it out. It's not very complicated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11035323
> TAS

[Anonymous No.]

I want to 1cc PCB on easy

I'm stuck on prismriver sisters, this is just impossible to consistently beat.. I really feel like it's hopeless any advice?

I know how to select which of the three sisters and the rightmost one seems most promising.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051443
Not everyone has great reflexes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051449
>I want to 1cc PCB on easy
>I want to 1cc on easy
>on easy
>easy

Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051462
Post your scores.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051462
I have same problem on normal, so I went to easy for practice..

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone play raiden? Been playing it for a while and I can get to the third stage on 1 credit so far. Should probably find a playthrough of it to steal asian secret tactics.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051449
>>11051474
If you're having trouble, you need to practice harder, not easier. Easy is a joke, playing it only teaches bad habits.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051483
I can reach youmu on normal with 1 credit but I'm always losing lives and use bombs on prismriver sisters.. it doesn't make much difference if I practice it on normal or easy I still die randomly so I guess I'll stick with normal then but still it seems like I wont be able to beat it consistently

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051494

I also get one boss that I just cannot consistently beat, but can do the others fine. I think its a mind thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11042213

>isn't it supposed to be a crutch?

I've never got this sentiment. Its a special skill that a character has. The fact that it is limited is it's crutch. The opponents use spell cards, why can't you?

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

Are there sane people who play these games?

The amount of hostility, passive aggressiveness, and bitterness in these threads, streams, IRC and in the shmups forum especially seems to be unrivaled by any other 'community' that comes to my mind.

Do all sane people just leave eventually to play by themselves, like some here did?

[Anonymous No.]

Huh?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051740
> blatantly just posting it to show off your scores
could you be more transparent

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051720
Post your scores fagot

[Anonymous No.]

I'm finally reaching not-terrible score territories. this run still had too many grave flaws to be happy with, though. a full run is unlikely to happen until I've gained some consistency on some cancels and fairy hugging.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051761
Yes, his score of 160 is really amazing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051720
I watch streams every now and then, sometimes hang out on IRC, and usually lurk these threads. Yet, I'm not sure I know what you're talking about.
It's no hugbox, certainly, but neither is /jp/ as a whole; are you sure you're not just too easily offended?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051720
You suck!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051449
You can select which sister you want to fight? ... Are you serious?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052170
You didn't know that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052170
The shottype you use dictates which sister you fight at the start, and the sister you damage most on their first joint spellcard will decide who you face after.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052170
yeah you shoot that one most and then you get it

I've been trying a bit more on normal today and just watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M17ir09Wh0 to get some tips but still, I feel like this is hopeless and I can't do it

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone else annoyed at being too good at these games? Anything below lunatic is insufferable to play. The enemies hardly even fight back. Zun should make Normal the new Easy and add a new difficulty after Lunatic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052391
Post your scores.

[Anonymous No.]

(ᴗ‿ᴗ✿)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052391
Would definitely not mind a higher difficulty making essentially the entire game very challenging to play instead of just bits and pieces of it being challenging.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052424
Ultra patches?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052442
Poorly designed garbage. A higher difficulty ought to be well designed with all the patterns and stage portions being perfectly doable by a skilled player.

The ultra patterns are just the result of some person adjusting variables for the purpose of making things harder i'd imagine, instead of actually putting in the effort to recreate harder versions of the patterns from scratch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052442
I thought those only hacked rank / made bullets 500 times faster

[Anonymous No.]

I finally 1CC'd PCB normal, and now the only games I have left to 1CC are PoFV, GFW (this counts, right?), SA, and UFO.

Should I go learn PoFV and GFW or just keep trucking onwards with the standard windows games?

Also, should I look into PC98 games at all?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052391
I'm annoyed with being shit and then I see good players call games that I'm slightly above shit tier easy garbage. Yeah, I'm talking about Ketsui 1-All and DOJBL 1-All. At least I'm trying to learn how to chain, but I still feel like a piece of shit for having to bomb anything on the first loop.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052646

If you find those fun, I don't see why not.

PC98 is worth looking into, but I think the Windows games are better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052692
Ketsui is cave's hardest game. Stop getting trolled so easily. Though it should be expected when you get your enjoyment from what other people think.

[Anonymous No.]

I used to think Ketsui was hard but then I realized I've only played it for maybe two or three hours and can consistently get to stage 3 boss/stage 4 on one credit.
Contrast this to something like UFO lunatic, where I've played more and usually game over stage 3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052815
The more you play, the more you gamble.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052847
Are you talking about the multiplier system? I guess that's true -- I point-blank everything in stages 1 and 2, but find myself staying in the bottom half of the screen after that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052765
The worst part is, I'm not getting trolled. They're actually being serious when they say that a 1-ALL is on the same level as a Touhou game on Normal. And them having effortless clears in both Ketsui and DOJBL doesn't really make it any better. And yes, my enjoyment is going to be hindered greatly when my accomplishments are being shat upon by better players.

>>11052815
It's strange, I've seen people who can destroy UFO Lunatic, but can't even clear the first loop of DDP. I just assume they're not used to arcade shmups or whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

DDP is pissing me off because I can't figure out where the hitbox is

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052875
Yes, they're certainly very different styles of gameplay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052879
I got a feel for it pretty quickly.

If you're using MAME, I think it has a slowdown/frame step feature. You could use that and let a bullet hit you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052879
Please at least conduct a cursory search before coming here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dodonpachi+hitbox&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=9l-_UZ-UMY2v0AGV8YCYDQ&biw=1280&bih=653&sei=_1-_UciaL5e34AOW4IC4AQ

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052883
ill try it thanks a lot

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052890
those pics are just guesses and not accurate

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052765
Ketsui is far from Cave's hardest game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11052765
>Ketsui is hard

Only if you're going for the Ura-ALL. :V

[Anonymous No.]

http://pastebin.com/deNZ6S1q

[Anonymous No.]

livestream.com/touhougameplay

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053598
Gus is pretty cool, aside from the fact that he doesn't really have shmup fundamentals down. He should learn them so he can score high in all games instead of disregarding playing a whole bunch of games as, "cheesy 1cc's."

I think he would have a lot more fun playing these games if he did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053764
Nah, haven't you heard? He only plays Ultra now.
Learning different games takes too much effort despite having reached the maximum possible score in Ultra.

He won't even go improve his far from perfect scores in Futari others modes because he's such a casual.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053789
What a sad life. I thought he was going to attempt to learn DOJBKL? He could easily transfer those dodging skills, the only thing he would need to learn is chaining and different hitboxes. Not that learning hitboxes is a big deal or anything.

I think the reason that he refuses to play other games is because he'd be leaving his comfort zone, something that I would never think of doing years ago. I'd only ever play practice modes in fear of messing up my runs, but Gus seems to have a severely repressed fear of leaving Futari Ultra.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11042213
>If bombing and suiciding is the optimum method for scoring, then the game isn't rewarding skill at all...
HAHAHAHA
Play a Yagawa game and get back to me on this one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11051449
What shot type are you running and which parts of the fight give you problems?

Prismriver's are the worst part of PCB and stage 4 is too long to properly practice the boss fight (unless you're using Hourglass).

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053789
4 billion is only ~75% of the maximum possible score in Futari Ultra.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053926
whatever. the counter stops counting at 3.999.999.999. You can't push it higher than that

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053944
What kind of a ridiculous number to stop at is that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053901
Not him, but what is a good Yagawa game to get myself into the games? Batrider looks like a lot of fun, but I dunno.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053944
The number doesn't matter. He can keep playing until he's completed a perfect run.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053951
Muchi Muchi Pork or Pink Sweets.
Or if you feel like being a bit nuts, Bakraid.

Just so you know, Yagawa scoring mechanics are very... esoteric.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053986
But why bother with a perfect run, as in no miss no bomb I'm assuming, when the end result is a score no higher than what is already established? I'm surprised that a game that old hasn't been patched to correct that. Or is that what God mode is for?

If a game's mechanic is set up that suiciding brings in more points than the end of game tally, then what's the point of actually holding on to those lives?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053999
>I need the game to tell me I'm improving
Jesus Christ what a casual

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054015
>improving at a game

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054036
...?????

[Anonymous No.]

Yippie.
Finally broke that 125mil ceiling with Sakuya B, and I think I can push it higher. Had a few lame cancels/bombs and PoCs.
I'm starting to think that the max score for this type is around 145mil or so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054087

Hate to break it to you, but...

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054093
Replays for anything over 150mil?

[Anonymous No.]

Is there an English patch for DDC yet? What about HM?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054104
http://score.royalflare.net/th14/levelchar14.html#L0C5

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054196
Nothing yet for HM.
thpatch.net for DDC.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054775
>214mil
Jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054775
Well that was informative. My route/results are mostly the same up to stage 3. I'll have to try some of that later on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053951
Ibara & Garegga are the best ones, but Ibara has really shitty emulation, so go with Garegga.

[Anonymous No.]

I can't get to Sakuya in EoSD.
Playing on hard
Using all 3 continues
Starting with max lives

[Anonymous No.]

>>11055793
Hey, at least you aren't as shitty as I am. I perfected all five stages consistently in Ketsui practice mode for months, still end up dying like a bitch at the 1-3 boss in a full run. I just end up bomb spamming through the first loop the rest of the way after that.

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

>>11053951

Muchi Muchi Pork 1.01
DoDonPachi Daifukkatsu Black Label

[Anonymous No.]

>>11055793
I can't get to Cirno in EoSD.
Playing on easy.
Using all 3 continues.
Starting with max lives.
I've been playing touhou every couple days for 6 years.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056201
I sincerely hope you are joking.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056217
If only that were so. I once got to stage 3 on UFO but died with my last life not too far into the level, but I was still very proud of myself at the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056201
bullshit
You don't have to move to get to Cirno

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056225
Eh. How often do you play when you do get around to playing Touhou? If you're just playing a couple of runs every couple of days, progress is going to be slow. Try playing higher difficulties and get a feel for dodging patterns on Lunatic, then go back down to Easy or Normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056516
Don't listen to this jerk. If you can't get past stage 2, the best way to get better is to keep practicing on easy. Going on a higher difficulty will stunt your SHMUP development.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056201
Try this. He tries to hide his hatred and gives actual advice, unlike the guy in the pastebin http://forum.shmupemall.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=431#p9243

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056525
I agree with this. You will never learn SHMUP FUNDAMENTALS unless you go full shmup and focus on what you need to practice. Can't survive Rumia's midboss non? Save there and practice it until you can!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056201
Post replay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056605
>and gives actual advice
His "advice" amounts to: set up saves states > cheat your way to an easy finish > pretend you achieved something.
You didn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056857
I think that save states are cheating yourself out of enjoyment of the game. It's funny how ZBL-NAI achieved a higher score than anybody else only a year after the release of the game. Without save states/stage practice, superplay rewinding every five seconds, and using real money each time he wanted to play a run.

Westerners will always be shit at these games no matter how hard they try, it's in the genetics. Go over to any DDP arcade in Japan and you'll see that every score is in the 200M-300M range.

[Anonymous No.]

"Shmup Fundamentals" is not funny nor cute and never will be.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056982
Thanks to a Mexican faggot who can play a shitty dead game at a high level, it's now a thing. Having general STG skills is a real thing, but everybody is just using this shmup fundamental crap as a way of circlejerking over someone who is top level at some game that hardly anybody plays.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057009
>everybody is just using this shmup fundamental crap as a way of circlejerking over someone who is top level at some game that hardly anybody plays.
I hate to ruin everyone's fun, but you don't actually think all this talk of "shmup fundamentals" is serious, do you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057022
I know it's not, But it's still not funny it's actually very annoying and I wish all the people using it would stop. Though I technically cannot force you to.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057022
>>11057035
What the HELL does it even mean? I've just used it a few times because, I too, enjoy dick riding Mexico's godlike secret underground DonPachi players.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056857
If you didn't have add, you would have read more than the first 2 pages and have gotten to the step-by-step breakdowns of fundamental shooting game techniques with screencaps. Fuck outta here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056516
>How often do you play
A few hours every other day, I spread it out a bit. Probably average around 9 hours a week if I had to estimate.

>>11056525
>>11056603
>>11056605
Thank you all for the tips anons. I don't feel too bad about not progressing well, I actually have fun playing despite my poor performance. I am slowly getting better though! When I started Touhou I could not beat the first level on any of them.

>>11056832
Where and how would I upload a replay? I have one saved now. It was one of my better runs, but I panicked and ran into bullets a few times or didn't move in time so I died at Rumia. She has some odd shaped patterns that scare me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056969
I'll bet that ZBL-NAI had been playing shmups for 10+ years by the time Dodonpachi came out, making his shmup fundamentals as good as they can possibly be.

Westerners can reach a similar level if they play seriously for a decade.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057040
There's godlike DP players who aren't SOF-WTN? I thought everyone else was too bad at it and/or didn't give enough fucks about the game to get good scores.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057425
There are underground Mexican players, not sure how good they are. There is also a underground DP group in Japan, which never shares any scoring tactics or replays to the public. WTN will also strategically suicide away all of his lives if you watch him play, regardless of if it's DP or DDP. For the most part though yeah, nobody gives a fuck about it.

The only reason I can see that they're all so secretive is because they're at war in DonPachi.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11054791
I'm not him, but thpatch.net has translations on the website, but not an actual patch for the game? Unless I'm mistaken..

[Anonymous No.]

Who has the best scores between /jp/, irc, and motk?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057452
They just don't want dirty plebs stealing their patterns.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057510
MoTK blows /jp/ and IRC out of the water when it comes to skill.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057589
> The stage 1 theme's start reminded me of Bad Apple!! , (Edit: And another reminded me of Reincarnation!!!! MIMA IS BACK OMG- *shot*)
> >.<

Eh?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057665
typical 2hu fans

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057665
Maybe they know something we don't.

[Kokoro Chan No.]

>>11057674
>fans
2hu isn't a fandom, It is a religious activity secondary
/thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057129
I skipped most of that part since it's common knowledge to any who's played for more than a few weeks.
The part where he talk about how he cheated his way to winning a cash tourney was pretty pathetic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057665
Try visiting the correct subforum, where people play the games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057690
I'd perform religious activities with 2hus if you know what I mean.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057589
>MoTK blows
It sure does.

>>11057510
Back in the day, the highest scoring English-speaking players were reachable via #PoFV, but that is hardly the case anymore. The current highscoring players are mostly around on MotK, and neither of them comes to /jp/ anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057705
You mean the high score board, where almost every half-decent entry is from an ircfag?

[Anonymous No.]

Nindel, come back ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057705
That was from the official ddc thread. The other subforums are worse.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056605
Is there some other place I can download this? I'm not making a google account.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058018
1/10 because I responded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057665
The best Western players are usually the most obnoxious retards. It's yet another reason that a large majority of Western players aren't very good at these games.

>>11057722
Depressing. I think there really isn't any point to these threads anymore, everybody is from IRC and MotK anyway, might as well just go there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11012702
I started playing touhou some months ago. I can beat IN and th7 in normal with maxed lives. Im above or below average?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058280
Better than me Anon.

[Anonymous No.]

Can we please stop it with the MoTK/IRC/etc powerlevel discussion? I thought the point of having this kind of discussion on an anonymous imageboard was to get rid of the attentionwhoring that plagues other places where people are named. There is no reason one's personal ability should come up in any discussion unless you're blogging about your progress.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058280
Far below average. Most normal people would be able to pull a cheesy Lunatic clear after three months of playing if they have no prior shmup experience.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058367
The discussion is dumb since the userbase is highly shared, especially between /jp/ and IRC. But even on /jp/ though, blogging about progress and posting scores, even when anonymous, is still "attention-whoring." Especially in a small place like this, where basically every post that is a screenshot or score can be narrowed down to 1 or 2 people. The only aspect of these threads that doesn't involve attention-whoring is requesting/giving help, doing the challenges, and arguing about which game is better/harder/gayer. And all of those have been done to death a thousand times, except for maybe the challenges.

On a slightly less related note, for future threads, I suggest sometimes making the challenges less long. Instead of full runs, some single stage practice runs like we had long ago (when the threads were more active) would be better and would probably get more submissions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058367
Alright my goal is to clear all the games on normal with all the characters and atleast attempt all the extra stages. So far 3/13 but I dont really care about the fighting games except for HM which looks very developed and interesting. My favorite is marisa becuase Im one of those fags that trys to be different.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058441
around my circle of friends only one has been able to clear a game in hard. How much hours do these normal people spend on the game?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058457
It's not about hours. It's about motivation. This goes for pretty much every skill.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057589
A majority of the "good" players from MotK are on IRC, /jp/, or both.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058489
The two often go together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058457
I started playing SHMUPs four months ago and I've cleared EoSD, PCB, IN, and MoF on hard, and come very close to clearing IN on lunatic a few times (about halfway through Kaguya/Eiren). I'd be surprised if it took someone more than 6 months to get to this point, unless they hardly play. Hell, I played maybe 30 minutes total per day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058345
Chirpy

[Anonymous No.]

I have no idea what this means but nobody else has posted a score so I guess that means im da bes'

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058444

I think people need to calm down with the whole attention whore thing. These days its being used by people with no talent to ensure that people with talent can't express it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058520

Maybe you did, but forgive me for being very sceptical. That's not normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058636
His experience is fairly similar to mine. I didn't take much more than half a year to clear a couple games on Lunatic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058636
only because "normal" people dont put in any effort. when you think how easy it is to clear touhou games on any difficulty, it really shouldnt take more than a few months to learn to do it, provided you spend around an hour a day (or more) playing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058660
>>11058663

Well then you're exceptional, but too be honest I don't believe you. That is not most peoples experience, even for people who play 1 or more hours a day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058679
1 or more hours a day over half a year is 180+ hours of gameplay. That's gotta be enough for anyone to be nicely proficient at any game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058727
nascar

[Anonymous No.]

>>11058636
>>11058679
I'm by no means superhuman. It took me a few days to 1cc easy IN, and one or two weeks for a normal 1cc. I didn't get a hard 1cc until after about a month. I haven't even beaten UFO or TD extra (though that's more because I haven't put much time into them). If you aren't at a similar level to me (at or close to one or more hard 1ccs) then you're the one who's not normal. There's really no excuse. I have maybe 150 hours total in all SHMUPs, and this includes time I've spent in DDP, Ketsui, and a few other games I have for MAME. I can't even consistently get past stage 3 in Ketsui, or stage 4 in DDP. I really don't know why you think I'm somehow above average when all I've done is put some time into games that aren't that difficult to beat unless you're trying for lunatic SA or UFO.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057699
>cheated

[Anonymous No.]

>>11059016
Haven't you heard? It's not the quality of the time you spend, just the quantity.

[Anonymous No.]

YES! i beat ran! took 14 tries but i got her

i was psyched to do yukari after, but then remembered i needed 60 captured cards, i checked my results and saw i had 53/135 (or whatever the max is)

so i did a normal run and captured all the cards that had 0 captures on the history (the only ones i missed where youmue's last card and yuyukos wandering lost card) and checked my results again, but it was still 53...

is there any easy way to get those last 7? on the wiki it says unique cards, so does that mean easy/normal/hard/lunatic?

[Anonymous No.]

Should I just keep continuing on stages I can't beat or should I keep doing 'full' runs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11059601
If you're only getting to Stage 3 I'd recommend full runs. You should generally be heading into Stage 3 with more than default resources, so while continuespamming might help with Stage 3, you probably need a bit more practice on the first two as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11059601
>max bombs
Jesus. Learn to notice when you're getting in trouble and use them. Not in response to death, in preparation for. Do it the other way around and you'll screw yourself over for any other stg.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11059559
Did you capture those with a different character? It's 60 cards between all shot types And yes, Easy through Lunatic all count as individual cards.

[Anonymous No.]

>tfw you complete your first 2hu game
This feeling of accomplishment is like no other. It's glorious.

Now I'm all sweaty and hungry though.

[Anonymous No.]

At this rate I will be able to blind-1cc DDC on Lunatic when it comes out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060018
Seriously.

What's worse is dying doesn't stop the game from shitting resources at you, while giving you 2 more bombs. Combined with static 1-up requirement, that's like 2 life pieces guaranteed per life with enemy herding. DDC essentially give you continuous lives and trivialize the stage part of the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060069
Hopefully the end of game tally has shit all bonuses for lives/bombs. Now that i think of it, an additional score mod for running with zero lives in reserve would be pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.]

Holy shit Recollection of Kinkaku-ji is hard. Is this the hardest DS card?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11059601

Don't throw away runs, just keep continuing and keep going.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11056201

I think Touhou just saved your life. See a doctor, it might be brain tumour.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060184
One of the hardest yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11059016
You aren't practicing correctly if you put in 150 hours into STGs and still haven't cleared a Lunatic. DDP 1-ALL is also easier than PCB on Hard, so you're definitely doing something wrong. One of the guys I regularly talk to was able to 1cc EoSD Lunatic in only 30 hours of gametime, and 1-ALL DOJBL and Ketsui in the span of only 15 hours. Also ridiculously good at Garegga, getting a numbered score on his first couple of hours playing.

[Anonymous No.]

So, i 1cc'd every game on normal with a few no bomb runs on some, and i'm confident (more like in a hurry , really) to go to the next level. Should i try to clean some games on hard, or is it better to start training lunatic already?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060416
No bomb? I'd say you're ready to test the waters on Hard for a few, Lunatic for EoSD and PCB and maybe PoFV if you want dodging practice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11057452
Wow, that's amazingly childish. Do they both have a tree fortress too?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060461
I see, thanks, i think i will play a little of PoFV as my dodging ability could use some training.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060509
Prepare to lose a lot and spam level 2's if you're going to play match mode. The AI dodges like crazy and you need to be top tier last 3-4+ minutes to get a match off of them. In watch mode, they can usually last 30 minutes to an hour in some extreme cases. Mostly seems to happen with Mystia vs Mystia for me.

You could also try playing StB and DS, as it has a wide variety of fun patterns and you really don't have to dedicate the time to play a full run if you don't have the time. I haven't played StB in a really long time, but I do remember a lot of the things in that game being really tough.

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060560
Good myoning~

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060560
:)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060470
It's actually not uncommon, a lot of STG teams keep their strats secret and only share them within the team. Some release replays when they're done with the game some don't, depends on the players,

[Anonymous No.]

Is there any way to lower the volume in Touhou 6 and 7?

The music is way too fucking loud. I have to adjust it through Windows every time I play those games to avoid going deaf, which is really annoying.

[Anonymous No.]

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=28888

My latest attempt at 1CCing IN on Normal. Just about the biggest fuck-up I have ever comitted. I've been playing for about 2 months now, averaging around 1 hour per day, and also my first bullet hell series. I'm getting the hang of it I think! Anyways, am I not supposed to be able to bomb while moving left or right or would that be my keyboard being a bastard? It severely limits my death-bombing effiency. Also if anyone even looks at the replay, could you give me some general tips on my playstyle? I'd appreciate it!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060721
>am I not supposed to be able to bomb while moving left or right or would that be my keyboard being a bastard?
your keyboard is shit, i also cant bomb while focusing thanks to mine

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060799

I thought so. I already have to run a remap-script because I can't move while holding Shift. A bit upsetting, considering I have a fairly expensive keyboard.

[Anonymous No.]

Why is it that I can consistently capture all of Flan's spellcards (save for QED) but Patchouli mid boss always fucks me up at least once.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11050937
>MaZe

[Anonymous No.]

>>11050937

[Anonymous No.]

>>11061038
Because EX Patchouli sucks
I hate her second card so much

[Anonymous No.]

For EX Patch's first attack; Just dodge the bullets. Stay under Patchouli as much as you can and avoid the bullets. Plain and simple.

Royal Flare: You can memorize a path for it and it won't demand much memo work. Only a handful of positions you need to remember. Very easy too.

Philosophers Stone: This can be kinda difficult. There are aimed elements to it as far as I know (maybe another anon can pitch in with more information about it) but it's very shortlived so I just concentrate on the dodging and capture it through raw dodging. Be prepared to bomb if necessary.

Seriously, she's not that bad if you know what you are doing. Stop saying that bosses suck because your bullet dodging isn't good enough. Try to improve by practicing the patterns instead

[Anonymous No.]

>>11061369
The real reason EX Patch sucks is because she's the midboss of the second-worst extra stage.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11061385
It's only a bad extra stage because you're so bad at these games. :V

[Anonymous No.]

>>11061421
1v1 me right now pofv no aya ill fuckin reck yu

[Anonymous No.]

>>11061473
See me in Change Air Blade, I have nearly 6,000 hours played in traditional shooting games like RAIDEN PROJECT and Hotdog Storm.

In all seriousness, I wouldn't mind netplaying that or Twinkle Star Sprites/PoDD. PoFV netplay is scary because most of the people I've played no misses until 5+ minutes pretty much every round.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11061992
>Hotdog Storm
Tell me this is a real game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11062072
It is a real game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11062072
It is, but it doesn't have hot dogs in it.

What a piece of shit

[Anonymous No.]

What's the optimal choice of Marisa's shot in MoF?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11062560
MarisaB is easiest to use for me. MarisaC can really do some good things for you if you are willing to plan routes with her though. MarisaA, i really wouldn't recommend.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11062560
I really dislike MoF's Marisa shots. While MarisaB is nice (slightly weaker ReimuB with more speed), her bugged level 3 power is annoying, since you need to make an effort to avoid it (unless you want to abuse it). While I like Gradius options and think she is cool, MarisaA doesn't really offer any reason to use her over other shots. Her screen coverage is hardly better than a forward shot and her damage is pretty average even with all 4 options hitting. Kinda sad but oh well. MarisaC can do some really cool shit, but her frost throwers take some getting used to. Worth giving a go if you like shots like that, but she's not as straight-forward as other shots. In terms of scoring, MarisaC has overall world records in hard/lunatic/extra, and MarisaB has the records for easy/normal, though both shots are pretty close in all categories. I'd say MarisaC is probably superior, but very difficult to use optimally.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11063388
MarisaC would be fantastic if her options were like Remilia's from IN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11063563
Wait I meant that the other way around
I want Remilia's options to be like MarisaC

[Anonymous No.]

>>11063388
You can use vpatch to turn off the bug though. Just disable everything except the bug fix, then you can play with your conscience intact.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11063868
>marisa b bug fix
Thank you, God!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11063939
Welcome to 1125801601 years ago
Stay new broseph

[Anonymous No.]

How do you get more lives in TD? I can't go beyond the 4th I think (the gauge is at 18 pieces). I'm playing normal, if that matters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11064620
If you defeat mid-bosses or finish levels pattern faster, new enemies may appear that leave about 2 life pieces once killed, an example are the faeries right before kyouko boss fight.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060018
I haven't 1cc'd a Touhou on normal yet (I've died on Remi/Yuyuko many times)
but I've 1cc'd DDC Lunatic. Oh man, it literally throws the lives back at you.

[Anonymous No.]

I hate this series
I have to play it daily or I WILL suck ass.
God forbid I go like three days without it too, because it'll take a week or more to get back up to par.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11065011
Nonsense. I can stop playing for months, come back, and play even better than before.

[Anonymous No.]

Good morning

[Anonymous No.]

>>11065011
You done making excuses to justify you not playing 2hu (or STGs in general)?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11065432
I die to the supposed, "piss easy :V" cheese grater pattern on doj 1-3 so I make excuses to not play that game. I feel bad dying to easy stuff that I've seen a few times before but still can't beat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11065550
The cheese graters are fucking annoying until you figure out exactly how they work. That's when they become piss easy :VWV

[Anonymous No.]

Bombing: The Game

[Anonymous No.]

>>11066905
What is the cheese grater pattern?

[Natsume No.]

Currently working my up to 10,000,000 points on the first stage of EoSD (Normal). Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm milking it pretty dry now; I've managed to get 8,900,000 so far. The only options I can see is ditching clearing Demarcation as quick as possible and jjust ending it once Rumia has fired all her bullets and continuing for graze and ending it in the same conditions 1-3 seconds before time-out. Highest graze is 1005, has anyone gotten here gotten much higher?

[Anonymous No.]

Currently working my up to 10,000,000 points on the first stage of EoSD (Normal). Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm milking it pretty dry now; I've managed to get 8,900,000 so far. The only options I can see is ditching clearing Demarcation as quick as possible and jjust ending it once Rumia has fired all her bullets and continuing for graze and ending it in the same conditions 1-3 seconds before time-out. Highest graze is 1005, has anyone gotten here gotten much higher?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067166
Ohayou Natsume-chan （ ＾ω＾)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067166
That is definitely possible. The WR has 10,070,000-something after stage 1

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067142
the stage 3 boss' final attack in DOJ.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067166
You want to milk Demarcation since the star items from the cancel give a lot more than the spell bonus if you graze properly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067189
Oh wait sorry, it was 10,700,000-something and he gets 1700 graze

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067189

Thanks.

>>11067199

Yeah, what I used to do was graze as much as possible, but still try to end as quick as possible whilst collecting as many star items as I could, but now, I stay mid-sceen and try to graze all the bullets as I defeat Rumia in the last second but try to collect as many as possible. Also, will score-items multiply your score significantly at that point?

>>11067206

Jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067213
might wanna check up with royalflare for all your scoring needs. Lots of good strategies found on those leaderboards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067221

Cool, will do.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm >>11051449

been practicing stage 4 on normal on a bigger screen and I'm starting to believe it's possible for me to get good enough to consistently nmnb it - it's going to take a long time though

[Anonymous No.]

>>11065373
sorry that I missed your good morning today. I was outside for once.

[Anonymous No.]

Any recommendations for a rotatable monitor?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067904
I use a Iiyama B2280HS-B it's pretty good and easy to rotate

[Anonymous No.]

New thread please?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11067589
You probably don't need to nmnb any stage, except maybe stage 1, for a 1cc. Just use bombs liberally. In my hard 1cc, I planned 2 bombs for stage 2, ended up using 3, but still got max lives by halfway through stage 4.

[Anonymous No.]

>mfw PCB
what the fuck is this shit