Touhou ::smug:: Thread (VIII)

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

IN only requires a lot of memorization if you want to do well. It does not require that much memorization if you're just going for a 1cc.

[nintendonut888]

100 scenes with Aya, 80 with Hatate. So fun~

[Zengeku]

All the cool kids are doing it nowadays:

VoWG Lunatic timeout with zero bombs/deaths.

Fuck yes. Severely underestimated this card initially; I timed it out with only a couple of deaths on my first few attempts, so I figured 'hey, this isn't going to take too long'. But something kept going wrong every single [redacted] time, typically near the end. Still, it didn't take as long as I came to fear it would. Special thanks to my keyboard for nearly killing me near the start by recognising down-left as left (you'll know it when you see it).

Alright. That makes you the ⑨th person to do this. I bet FAV and Veronica never expected that many people to do this.

[The Greatest Dog]

94 scenes in DS with Aya...
I had a great time with the EX and 12 stages. All I have left is SP-5, and 12-8 of those two stages.
And.... Red Cloak Blue Cloak was one of the most awful stages I ever played on.

[Zengeku]

Oh yeah, that's right. About Double Spoiler. I cleared 10-4 with Hatate.

That was pretty fucking difficult. 9-7 may be the card that troubled me most with Aya (aside of DNAmaku) but with Hatate its this one. At least it wasn't BS. It was fun so i won't be complaining. Only EX-5 left to go now. I'm really not looking forward to it. Lasers and all. (Forecasting raging)

[LHCling]

FAV and Veronica

Uhh... they're the same person?

[Formless God]

I HATE YOU ALL
BRB VOWG

[theshirn]

Bleh, 5 death timeout.  Of course, I always go for the capture first, and only try for the timeout once I die.

[Zengeku]

I spent a good deal of time playing Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana. I'm pretty bad at it but i have managed to time it down to the 40s a bunch of times. My record being at 40 seconds at which i was bubbled. Its hard as fuck but its also very fun so its not a problem. I don't really know if i'll be able to get a timeout. It seems to get even faster when you reach those 40-50 final seconds. Its probably just a question of how long i can maintain patience with it.

Uhh... they're the same person?

Yeah umm i mean FAV and Kefit of course.

I HATE YOU ALL
BRB VOWG

No need to cry little darling. You can start off with a Mt. Ooe timeout and then move on from there. 

[ark]

Also, you can't play the other (earlier) Scenes with Hatate, unfortunately.

Can't you do Hatate on EX-9 and then keep hitting Next Scene to get the other Spoiler scenes?

[Jaimers]

Found a way to completely trivialise the Magic Stones' collapsing wall phase during a save state run. Would never have thought it was that simple.
Also the safespots for the stage 4 midbosses are just silly.

And now for something completely different.  :getdown:

[Serela]

Congrats, Jaimers! I wonder if Perfect Chicken Flavor's Donatic was made yet?

Also, interested about the SoEW stuff. It'd be nice if I could actually do well enough on that game to enjoy playing Lunatic and not feel stressed.

[nintendonut888]

Enjoy and SoEW do not belong together in the same sentence. :S Nonetheless, I'm interested in how to trivialize that part of the magic stones too.

Also, I tried my hand at translating those spell card titles. Most are in katakana, so I translated all but two of them.

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

For some reason, I was expecting "Donatic" to involve me >.>

[Jaimers]

Congrats, Jaimers! I wonder if Perfect Chicken Flavor's Donatic was made yet?

All I could find was a 0.01a demo. These things are hard to find. :<

Also, interested about the SoEW stuff. It'd be nice if I could actually do well enough on that game to enjoy playing Lunatic and not feel stressed.

For the walls hug the left or right side of the screen, then go through the wide open path when the bullets reach the rightmost star in the background back to the center of the screen to dodge the next phase.

As for the stage 4 midbosses... go above it.  :V
You can still damage it from there, the only thing you have to worry about are the homing shots, but you can get rid of those in the corners.

[LHCling]

For the walls hug the left or right side of the screen, then go through the wide open path when the bullets reach the rightmost star in the background back to the center of the screen to dodge the next phase.

By chance, it wouldn't look something like this, would it? If so, DONUT, I AM DISSAPOINT.

[Jaimers]

By chance, it wouldn't look something like this, would it? If so, DONUT, I AM DISSAPOINT.

Nah, my strategy involves not moving at all until the very end.
I might make a short video of it to demonstrate it, it looks so ridiculously easy once you see it.  :3

[LHCling]

Not moving at the start ≅ Dancing around on one side of the screen.
(yes, that's a congruent sign)

Granted, I didn't do mine with savestates so it looks pretty flawed; but the idea is there I believe. The only notable difference I'm seeing is that I'm much higher on the screen.

EDIT: On that note, I think I discovered another scoring trick to utilize in DS. Going to give it an actual trial run later in the day.

[Jaimers]

Well, here it is anyway.

BTW Donut, what does it say before the spellcard names? Or does it just say first>second>etc card or something?

[ふねん1]

Aaaaand congrats to A Huge Battleship for you-know-what.

I'm starting to fear that before I even get close to timing out VoWG NDNB, enough people will have done it that it's no longer such a high-profile accomplishment. I kinda want my attempt to feel worthwhile when I finally get it, you know?

[Choses]

...
I just decided to try EoSD Lunatic, for fun. I was able to beat it with 1 little continue, thanks to Scarlet Meister.
I used 32 bombs ( :V ), and captured 11 Spellcards.

But... it was the first time I made it to stage 6, and I captured Scarlet Gensokyo. I still don't believe it, I thought it was the hardest spellcard of the game (with Meister).
I love myself :V

[nintendonut888]

Have a replay?

[LHCling]

Have a replay?

I was able to beat it with 1 little continue, thanks to Scarlet Meister.

You can't save a replay after continuing, remember?

Also, that corner is interesting. Probably would've never worked it out considering that savestates were a mystery back then.

EDIT:

EDIT: On that note, I think I discovered another scoring trick to utilize in DS. Going to give it an actual trial run later in the day.

Needs work.

[ふねん1]

Still only playing Touhou occassionally at this point (FFX had, and Mass Effect 2 has, more of my attention), but look what I got out of the blue:

Secret Barrage "And Then There Will Be None?" capture.

Had this urge to try this Extra after who knows how long. Didn't expect to get this, at any rate, but I'll take it.

[Choses]

I'm always better when I don't play Touhou for a while. I did my Pacifist Flandre after 3 weeks not playing Touhou. :getdown:

You can't save a replay after continuing

And that makes me rage.

[LHCling]

Nabbed 767k for EX-2. I'm still a bit uncertain about a few things. Maybe taking defensive shot(s) while waiting for Marisa to start moving around counter-clockwise is the best way to go about scoring? But how does one go about taking defensive shots when Marisa is in close proximity?

Spoiler:

Yeah seriously, if this is the only way to go about optimizing things, then it's going to be quite difficult to actually net an outstanding score

.

Also, this is how 10-8 is supposed to be done for you people who detest scoring  :getdown:
Seriously, watch it because it isn't my replay.

[Choses]

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=8923
Kanako's Opener (Lunatic) timeout 4 deaths no bombs.
And my goal is no death.  :V

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Ooe timeout

[nintendonut888]

Huzzah! Hatate 100% completion! I still have 5 scenes left with Aya, but since I've already done that on my last score.dat this marks 100% completion of DS! \o/

Spoiler:

YES BAITY, that IS my score. >:<

EDIT: Finished Aya's last scenes. Feels good man.

[LHCling]

Great! Now SUBMIT. Also, that image, as impressive as it looks (quality-wise), is greater than three times over the limit. As such, you destroyed my bandwidth of internet allocated for the day. I thought you knew better  :<
EX-5 done quite competently.

[Zengeku]

Finished Double Spoiler as Hatate. It didn't take long at all. EX5 and 10-4 were the most troublesome though EX5 was more annoying than it was hard. 10-4 was pretty fun though. I really like ZUN's congratulations screen. He's like : "You're amazing (mostly for perseverance). I lol'led at that. Its like he knows his games can be frustrating as fuck. (Though DS was mostly golden entertainment for me.)

Also. My Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana timeout is now at 12 seconds. Yuyuko. You are evil. I suppose i should think of this as Yuyuko's way to express her love. I'll have this timeout soon. I am going to take a break now. The speed of that spellcard is giving me a headache.

Its incredibly fun though. I just hope i can get it in under 500 shots and not be like SP.