Touhou Accomplishments V3

[nintendonut888]

Hey guys.  I've been away from my computer in particular and the internet (and Touhou) in general for the past week or so, and will be until Monday afternoon.

Just popping in to say:

Captured the LLS Lunatic Stage 4 Midboss.

:yay:

I still haven't done that.

So I did a HRtP lunatic 1cc and recorded it (unlike the shooters, HRtP isn't any more difficult windowed) to prove that the game is easy. Look forward to it.

And it wasn't a 1cc, but I managed to beat Sariel without bombing. :V

[ebarrett]

I still haven't done that.

We all can always beat up on MS' midbosses.  :V

So I did a HRtP lunatic 1cc and recorded it (unlike the shooters, HRtP isn't any more difficult windowed) to prove that the game is easy. Look forward to it.

That game is the most evil thing on Earth. I look forward to it.

Also, what do you people use to record PC-98?

[nintendonut888]

I use Fraps like always. The annoying thing though is that you can't record in full screen because Fraps sucks and doesn't anchor to it full screen for some arbitrary reason. You also have to use T98 Next, which I don't care what anyone says, there is one reason I hate that emulator that is completely objective: Slowdown. Thankfully HRtP is both easy to play windowed and doesn't slow down unless Fraps is being bitchy.

[LHCling]

You could alternatively (and back in the days when I did use one) use a desktop recorder. Note that it may or may not generate more slowdown though.

[ebarrett]

I tried a bunch of desktop recorders but the results were dreadful - not much slowdown, but the capture ends up very choppy no matter what I do. Also couldn't get Fraps to record from T98-Next, but since Next gives me massive slowdown as well it wouldn't matter.

Oh well maybe my computer is just that ancient. For a comparison, 32-bit brofists sometimes drop my framerate to about 30fps.




Oh, also: reached lunatic Yumeko's blue streams of doom in my first try at MS lunatic (and *gasp* fifth considering all difficulties) despite completely messing up stage 4 in the most horrible way because THE BULLETS ARE THE SAME COLOUR AS THE BACKGROUND AND THEN THEY COME AT YOU SIDEWAYS FROM BELOW AND IT'S HORRIBLE ASDSADFASDF. But then... perfect Yuki/Mai battle, including solo Yuki. Not sure how much the awful stage run affected it, though.

[Seian Verian]

Oh, also: reached lunatic Yumeko's blue streams of doom in my first try at MS lunatic (and *gasp* fifth considering all difficulties) despite completely messing up stage 4 in the most horrible way because THE BULLETS ARE THE SAME COLOUR AS THE BACKGROUND AND THEN THEY COME AT YOU SIDEWAYS FROM BELOW AND IT'S HORRIBLE ASDSADFASDF. But then... perfect Yuki/Mai battle, including solo Yuki. Not sure how much the awful stage run affected it, though.

I never understood the problem with the stage 4 bullets honestly =/ There's a perfectly nice difference between the bullets and the background. Actually, I've never ended up dying to an invisible bullet there, but I do on black backgrounds with small white bullets... <_<

[Zengeku]

I know how that feels. I'd wish you could turn off the backgrounds in PC-98. They are of poor visual quality of often disturbs vision.

[Milkyway64]

Beat Flandre in Scarlet Symphony, Normal. I dunno if difficulty affects her, or what the difficulty affects at all.

[nintendonut888]

Either my eyes are really good (this may be the case; I have sat in dark rooms playing video games for 17 years and still have perfect eyesight), or you guys need to get better eyes. The only time I've ever had trouble seeing bullets at all are the white bullets in MS stage 4 on the light blue background. Even then, I rarely die.

Also I just faced Hibachi. I think I'm in love~

[Milkyway64]

Also I just faced Hibachi. I think I'm in love~

Who?

[nintendonut888]

Who?

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

This handsome fellow. Sure this is a slightly harder version of him, but you get the idea~

[Milkyway64]

Oh. So that's DoDonPachi.

Looks kinda fun, actually!

[nintendonut888]

Oh. So that's DoDonPachi.

Looks kinda fun, actually!

I-It's not like I'm recommending it or anything! >_>

* Donut hides blush.

[LHCling]

So, you were complaining about ReimuC some time ago 'nut?

Really, at this rate, I should be able to 1cc SA using this shot type within 2 days, spending 1 hour on per day on learning the stages.

EDIT: Hm. I just had a thought. Maybe Satori-Aya's 2nd and 3rd Spell Cards are static? Probably not the 3rd, but the 2nd one is looking like it's static...

[Zengeku]

Either my eyes are really good (this may be the case; I have sat in dark rooms playing video games for 17 years and still have perfect eyesight), or you guys need to get better eyes. The only time I've ever had trouble seeing bullets at all are the white bullets in MS stage 4 on the light blue background. Even then, I rarely die.

Also I just faced Hibachi. I think I'm in love~

Or maybe we should just go play some games where the visuals aren't annoying. Hitboxes are much better indicated in Windows era games and backgrounds aren't as annoying.

And i rarely die in MS Stage 4 either but its still annoying. Also, Gengetu. She have that attack where she fires a laser and you have to move to move inbetween some lines away from the laser. Meanwhile, she will fire some small bullets. I didn't see those. What happened you think?

But i'm not going to write down examples of PC-98 visual annoyances because they are all over the place. Its not so bad that i can't win anything but its cause for unfair deaths that could easily have been avoided in the windows games.

[mikeKOSA]

i timed out philisopher's stone and starbow break with marisa, i think that's an accomplishment..

[Bananamatic]

Or maybe we should just go play some games where the visuals aren't annoying. Hitboxes are much better indicated in Windows era games and backgrounds aren't as annoying.

And i rarely die in MS Stage 4 either but its still annoying. Also, Gengetu. She have that attack where she fires a laser and you have to move to move inbetween some lines away from the laser. Meanwhile, she will fire some small bullets. I didn't see those. What happened you think?

But i'm not going to write down examples of PC-98 visual annoyances because they are all over the place. Its not so bad that i can't win anything but its cause for unfair deaths that could easily have been avoided in the windows games.

I really hate the pellet walls. Like in Alice's first EX attack.

And Mugetu's first attack where you are supposed to go between the tiny lasers.

[nintendonut888]

You don't have to see those bullets Zengeku; they are always aimed.

Really, am I just the only person who isn't affected by PC-98 backgrounds and can see the bullets fine in almost any circumstance? EX Alice's background doesn't bug me at all.

[Bananamatic]

Same, the background isn't that bad. The fire attack however is. :V

Captured BoLaD without a safespot. Now if I could capture Kokkuri-san.....only extra/phantasm PCB card I didn't capture yet :V

[fallensoul]

Oh...
Today, I 1cc'd Lunatic SoEW with ReimuC...
So, with it, I 1cc'd th02, 04, 05, 07 and 09 with all shot types at every level. And, at th08, I 1cc'd FinalA and B in every level with all teams.

[Zengeku]

You don't have to see those bullets Zengeku; they are always aimed.

Really, am I just the only person who isn't affected by PC-98 backgrounds and can see the bullets fine in almost any circumstance? EX Alice's background doesn't bug me at all.

i dunno. Maybe its you, maybe its me. Actually, looking back i don't even think i have been hit by many of those bullets i keep bitching about. It just annoys me. It gives me a feeling of not being able to play at my full potential.

I think bullets stand out from the BG much better in the PC games but maybe its just because of some Windows games-fanboism that makes me unable to accept the problems that the PC-98 games may have.

The visual annoyances is probably not all that game killing as i make it sound like. Its probably more like the lack of a visible hit-box, the lack of a health bar split up so you can see how long an attack is gonna last, the lack of death-bombing, the lack of practice start etc.

But enough of my complaints. You love PC-98 to death so this rambling probably annoys you to death. Sorry if i'm being offensive. Its just debating these things with you guys helps me get over a lot of unnecessary hate. Like with UFO, DoDonPachi and Ikaruga for example.

Oh and about Gengetu. Those bullets she fires off thats not the lasers or the spark. They are aimed you say? So i guess you just have to move up a bit or something? It would be interesting to know because i might want to rematch her sometimes.

EDIT: Oh, almost forgot. LLS Hard clear. First attempt at default lives got me a 1cc. I didn't know how to do half of these attacks so i lost lives at places such as the stage 2 boss. I still got a clear though. Game is pretty generous with those lives.

[nintendonut888]

Yep. Just move vertically and those bullets will miss you every time. It's more awesome than it is hard.

And try LLS lunatic and you'll see why it gives you so many lives. :3

You love PC-98 to death so this rambling probably annoys you to death.

Naw, I'm used to it. Many more people like PC-98 than there used to ne, but there's still many haters.

Also, I want to record myself playing Hibachi but I should probably make it so he takes less than 10 continues first. :V

[DgBarca]

And try LLS lunatic and you'll see why it gives you so many lives. :3

Graze counter blocked at 999 every single stage ?

[Bananamatic]

Captured Peta Flare, Subterranean Sun(L) 3 times in a row and Hell's Tokamak(L) in the middle.
Still can't get Uncontainable Nucler Reaction.....I always get a 1 death 0 bombs. And always at the beginning or 15 seconds left.
Never captured it on anything else than Easy.

[Lord Scalgon]

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=5299

It's been about 5 months since I mentioned 'Give me X days, X months, and maybe X years, and I'll tell my experience in VoWG', and this replay is my best run for MoF Stage 6 Lunatic.  First three spell cards captured...fourth almost captured (but failed)...and the last...well, obviously no.  Still, at least this makes a great accomplishment, though there are better MoF stage 6 runs than this one...

And yes, it's perfectly legit, if anyone's asking.  Attempted this practice run 65 times total.  I used to have problems capturing Kanako's third spell card until exactly my 40th try, which I captured.  I still don't know why I'm incapable of capturing her fourth spell card...the red and purple bullets usually wall me, but that's pretty much normal for most people.  VoWG...well, it's pretty obvious why I can't capture it.  As Zengeku would tell me, I have a long way to go before I can hope for a VoWG capture, and I have to agree...  Currently 0/65...and I'm pretty sure I won't be capturing it for another 100 or so tries...maybe...

If anyone wants, I'll be happy to post a screenshot of my spell card history in terms of this stage 6 run...

[Bananamatic]

Took me 3 days of religious VoWG grinding to capture it.....it feels great when you're done with it :V
Something like 118 attempts, with close attempts all the way from 40.

By the way, stop going for decent runs if you are going for VoWG.
Bomb the crap out of everything. EVERYTHING. Unless you want that Source of Rains capture too.

Also, if you fail a decent run(second death) stop shooting and try to last as long as you can.
Practice passing through the less dense amulet walls and learn to move around in it....after many attempts, it will be just a matter of not clipping it.
And a few stupid waves maybe, that green/blue one which tends to throw a frontal wall and had a gap only somewhere in the sides always got me.

[Lord Scalgon]

Took me 3 days of religious VoWG grinding to capture it.....it feels great when you're done with it :V
Something like 118 attempts, with close attempts all the way from 40.

By the way, stop going for decent runs if you are going for VoWG.
Bomb the crap out of everything. EVERYTHING. Unless you want that Source of Rains capture too.

Also, if you fail a decent run(second death) stop shooting and try to last as long as you can.
Practice passing through the less dense amulet walls and learn to move around in it....after many attempts, it will be just a matter of not clipping it.
And a few stupid waves maybe, that green/blue one which tends to throw a frontal wall and had a gap only somewhere in the sides always got me.

In that replay, since I had a decent run, I kinda had to value the run, since after all, it's my 'best run'...so I had to bomb in the end.  I remember my first victory in that stage where I died five times in VoWG without bombing...and I'm pretty sure we all would run into an unavoidable wall at some point...hate it.

I still need to capture the Source of Rains card, since I'm also 0/65 on it (yeah yeah)...so I guess I'll keep going with decent runs until I can capture it...and well, practice makes perfect, I guess.  Time to resume my VoWG marathon...as said before, I doubt I'd post my VoWG Lunatic accomplishment anytime soon...unless...

[The Greatest Dog]

Heck yeah, ReimuB SA 1cc.

And it was my third time making it past Satori.

[Azure Lazuline]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I found out that Apollo 13 has a blind spot. It's probably no easier than doing it normally (I had trouble getting it to work with the small-hitbox characters, and I only did it once otherwise), but it looks pretty cool.
Other than that, I probably haven't done anything too special (at least compared to everyone else on the forum, who has probably played Touhou for 50 times as long). I'm better at individual spells than full runs, which means that IN is my favorite by far. Why'd they take out spell practice from the later ones, anyway?

[LHCling]

S5 SA is trivial stuff. Well, except for midboss Orin. "Catwalk"_{SA S5 SC1} (or whatever it's called on Lunatic) is probably the easiest of the midboss attacks for me.