Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Hakurei Shrine~ => Help Me, Eirin! => Topic started by: Shimatora on December 07, 2014, 11:20:49 AM
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Welcome to Shimatora's monthly tournament!
Decided to try my hand at these challenge threads throwing in some of my own quirky ideas. These challenges will run from the 1st day of each month to the last going by the GMT (UTC) time zone. Runs submitted any later than 11:59PM GMT will not be accepted!! Don't worry though, I'll try my best to make it obvious what time it is in GMT so people don't get too confused.
Each month there will be a total of three challenges to participate in: Survival, Scoring and a Short Challenge for the busy people.
Your participation (MAY!) not go unrewarded! I have some rewards which come in the shape of badges, like the ones below my avatar "Staff Member" and "Angeling". Once the challenges end for that month, the winners get to join these groups and flaunt their scoring/survival/short challenge prowess to the rest of the forum until the next challenges are completed. Here are the badges:
(https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/Themes/Zalgo/images/Survivalist.png)
(https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/Themes/Zalgo/images/Point.png)
Tournament Archives (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,8465.msg1153792.html#msg1153792)
Challenge Leaderboard
Here's what I teased last month - an ongoing leaderboard for my challenges! Every submission counts towards an overall point system that I will try and set up rewards for. Suggestions are open for the reward, could be another badge, or something else entirely. In the future, I will probably host the leaderboard on Pastebin to prevent clutter. We'll see how it goes here, first.
Point System Explained:
Easy: People below you (including yourself) x1
Normal: x2
Hard: x3
Lunatic: x4
Extra: x3
Phantasm: x3
Quick Challenge: x2
Every month, before adding points, total points are halved.
Current Standings: (Huge thanks to Emerald!)
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1. SomeGuy712x 60
2. Aeteas 46
3. L3PiK 30
4. Emerald 28
5. Karisa 23
6. Mino 23
7. ARF 18
8. Mero 18
9. fish 16
10. Nwodatek 11
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Full Leaderboard (http://pastebin.com/xce1RctL)
Touhou Challenges - Month 4
Come chat about strategies on #pc-99 on irc.ppirc.net! (https://webchat.ppirc.net/?channels=pc-99)
Deadline: 1st of April 2015. (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150401T00&p0=%3A&msg=Shima%27s+Challenges+Month+4&swk=1)
Ten Desires ARRANGE - Scoring Challenge
Your goal is to get the highest score you can in Ten Desires using Nereid's Arrange mod! (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,14904.0.html) All difficulties are supported.
Challenge Name - Difficulty
Name - Score - Stage - Shot type - Slowdown - Replay
Easy
1. ARF - 758,530,650 - C - Youmu - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38925)
2. Emerald - 725,594,070 - C - Marisa - 0.210% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th13/th13_udEd38.rpy)
Normal
1.
Hard
1.
Lunatic
1.
Extra
1.
For the Busy People - Quick Challenge
Get the highest score you can in DDC Spellcard 95 and 117 using ReimuA!
Challenge Name - Spellcard Number
Name - Score - Slowdown - Replay
Spellcard No. 95
1. Mero - 19,188,760 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38928)
2. ARF - 19,115,100 - 0.5% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38924)
3. Nwodatek - 18,613,750 - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36447)
4. Mino - 18,589,160 - 0.700% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36431)
5. KirbyComment - 18,509,810 - 0,00% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36450)
6. Emerald - 18,387,810 - 0.000% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/zpj729pwnyfb53l/th14_01.rpy)
7. Mr Jovial - 18,044,320 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36444)
Spellcard No. 117
1. ARF - 23,591,450 - 1.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38923)
2. Mero - 23,528,640 - 2.1% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38929)
3. Funen1 - 23,335,120 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38931)
4. Emerald - 23,306,200 - 0.000% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/gz56c9t0tttdpf0/th14_02.rpy)
5. Nwodatek - 23,291,130 - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36448)
6. Mr Jovial - 23,240,910 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36445)
7. Mino - 23,096,630 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36432)
8. KirbyComment - 23,031,410 - 1,75% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36451)
Imperishable Night - Survival Challenge
Survive in IN without using bombs AND starting with 1 life! To change what lives you start with, go to Option and set Player to 1. You should now start the game with zero life stars. Scores will be ranked by Stage achieved then score. All difficulties other than Extra are supported.
Challenge Name - Difficulty
Name - Score - Stage - Shot type - Slowdown - Replay
Easy
1. Emerald - 2,153,892,590 - C - Yuyuko & Youmu - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd18.rpy)
2. Funen1 - 1,577,540,280 - C - Border Team - 0.041% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36452)
3. Luna - 1,361,011,060 - C - Border Team - 0.039% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36499)
Normal
1.
Hard
1.
Lunatic
1. Emerald - 261,168,340 - 2 - Border Team - 0.244% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd19.rpy)
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Art is fine.
Challenge Idea:
ISC:
Snap-shooter vs Snap-shooter:
Use Camera-Camera on 6-2.
Survival: Kill the boss as fast as possible. Winner is determined by time left, then score.
Score: Person with highest score wins
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Posted the first set of challenges earlier than planned! Enjoy!
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Stayin' Alive - Easy
Sakurei - 1,289,227,870 - C - 8 - 0.201 - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35459)
Not very good. I'll do the scoring thing later today.
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Scoring challenge - Easy
Karisa - 660,842,270
PCB - 323,744,770 - ReimuB - 0.119% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35460)
IN - 256,714,620 - Youmu - 4B - 0.057% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35458)
DDC - 80,382,880 - SakuyaB - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35461)
Experiment with the scoring challenge-- I tested out each game's stage 4 on Easy to see what kind of score it gave.
PCB and IN are worth so much more than the other games (PCB due to having the highest starting PIV of 300,000, IN because it's IN) that including them is a given. They aren't among my better games though. I'm sure Sakurei, or Seppo if he happens to show up here, could do better.
As for the third, it's not as clear-cut (and the optimal game may vary by difficulty), but I reached 80m in DDC and only 70m in UFO and TD. Not sure if DDC is actually the best choice for Easy or if it's just my own experience with it.
Interesting concept, anyway.
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Quick Challenge
Prinny - 675 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35464)
I don't spend enough time in spell practice mode. Decided to be a bit reckless with my grazing and I doubt I'll get an attempt that got as much graze as this any time soon. Used Youmu solo because her gauge is smaller, which makes it easier to get it into the human side before I start grazing.
I'll probably do some practice runs with SakuyaB before I submit something. Sort of died on Yuyuko more than I expected on easy.
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Touhou Mix and Match - Easy
Sakurei - 672,691,720
Perfect Cherry Blossom - 335,453,040 - ReimuB - 0.183% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35465)
Imperishable Night - 268,627,490 - Youmu - 0.105% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35467)
Ten Desires - 68,611,190 - Youmu - 0.100% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35469)
Touhou Mix and Match - Normal
Sakurei - 794,041,670
Perfect Cherry Blossom - 335,907,530 - ReimuB - 0.124% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35466)
Imperishable Night - 370,612,370 - Youmu - 0.051% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35468)
Ten Desires - 87,521,770 - Youmu - 0.090% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35470)
4A should be worth a lot more than 4B, but I don't feel like learning Reimu for this, only to never play her again. By how much Reimu is worth more I don't know, but it's a notable amount. Other than that the rust really shows (or maybe it doesn't? I was pretty bad when I stopped easy mode, same for normal). They're not very polished runs, so another Youmu can beat them even if they chose to play Marisa, I'm pretty sure.
Perfect Cherry Blossom was not very good either. I didn't do the second to last Prismriver spell, since I haven't practice the graze for a few months, also failed Merlin border in both runs. With proper routing, it could go up by quite a lot, I reckon.
Ten Desires in "what am I even doing" kind of thing. Going by pure points, DDC is probably the better choice, but I don't think I played it enough to have stage 4 unlocked for that game on SakuyaB. Not to mention that I'll be damned before I play DDC w. Anyway, All of my scores are very beatable, and shouldn't pose too many problems for a player experienced in any of the categories.
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I decided to give the Quick Challenge a try, and after 76 attempts at this spell card, I pulled this off:
Quick Challenge
SomeGuy712x - 885 - 1.031% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35474)
For this challenge, should we also mention which character/team we used? (I used Youmu solo.)
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Stayin' Alive - Easy
L3PiK - 1,281,102,080 - C - 8 - 0.151% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35475)
Also not very good.
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I decided to give the Quick Challenge a try, and after 76 attempts at this spell card, I pulled this off:
Quick Challenge
SomeGuy712x - 885 - 1.031% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35474)
For this challenge, should we also mention which character/team we used? (I used Youmu solo.)
Yes, actually! I completely forgot this. Thanks~
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Touhou Mix and Match - Lunatic
Mero - 1,015,401,800
PCB - 332,310,700 - ReimuB - 0.578% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35477)
IN (4B) - 394,012,710 - Border Team - 0.298% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35478)
SA - 289,078,390 - ReimuA - 0.77% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35479)
PCB was mostly my usual survival run with bombs to not let point items drop. IN should have been 400M, but apparently I thought doing Starlight Typhoon unfocused was a good idea. Dying to FIN actually cost me a PB on the stage in SA, but I guess it balances to capping DBDB
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Stayin' Alive - Normal
L3PiK - 1,444,948,640 - C - 8 - 0.113% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35486)
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Quick Challenge
Mr Jovial - 1231 - Netherworld Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35489)
Completely forgot to stop shooting so it doesn't last very long. Also I don't know how to do a proper reversal so my strategy gets messed up after that. Lots of room for improvement tbh.
edit: K maybe not much more I can get out of this, the pattern gets really messy after about 1200 graze. Did get to 1366 graze but got hit so :C
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Touhou Mix and Match - Lunatic
ARF - 1,074,650,900
PCB - 390,771,240 - ReimuB - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=37978)
IN (4B) - 401,851,960 - Border Team - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=37979)
SA - 282,027,700 - ReimuA - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=37980)
(?・ω・`) I've been watching all the WR's so I'm simply copying every single detail.
Bonus
DDC - 217,839,440 - MarisaB - 1.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=37981)
Bad stage execution, but all spells capped! Recliner-chan a cute!
Great initiative Shimatora! These are fun challenges!
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Quick Challenge
SomeGuy712x - 1296 - Youmu solo - 1.124% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35496)
My attempt count on this spell card with Youmu solo is now at 241.
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Quick Challenge
Nal Yoo - 1969 - Reimu solo - 0.687% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35498)
I died because I looked at the timer :V Might go for a timeout but I really want to go back to Sakuya solo scoring. I'll do it if someone else does tho.
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To clarify: not clearing Spellcard 218 is allowed. Will update the OP when I get up.
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Quick Challenge
Nal Yoo - 2251 - 0.515% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35500)
Okay. I'll try again next week.
P.S Easy 3K w/ Youmu
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Quick Challenge
Mr Jovial - 1995 - Netherworld Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35503)
More optimal grazing method, improved reversal technique and amazing luck on the later waves. This is quite fun :D
EDIT:
Quick Challenge
Mr Jovial - 2137 - Netherworld Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35504)
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Might as well participate! Since challenges and such are fun!
Touhou Mix and Match - Lunatic
Mino - 1,123,162,560
PCB - 431,585,940 - ReimuB - Stage 4 - 0.137% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35507)
SA - 292,808,530 - ReimuA - Stage 4 - 0.050% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35508)
IN - 398,768,090 - Border Team - Stage 4 - 0.051% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35509)
PCB was fun, but weird to do without SpoilerAL. Borders take longer to get and no beginning stage grazes. But I am satisfied with it as of now. Maybe improve it.
In SA I was very rusty, and I'm not that practiced with this stage, so I will go back to improve it.
IN I really couldn't care less about. Perhaps I should try to improve it, but I don't even know how to score this game and I don't even feel like learning how to do so. I only did it because IN is pretty much required to do well in the Lunatic category of this challenge.
Shame I couldn't do DDC for this one. Given the nature of the challenge, DDC wouldn't really contribute much to the total score.
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Playing three games might be too much for me, but I suppose there's the other thing.
Survival - Easy
Inadequate - 1,376,674,510 - C - 8 - 0.089% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35554)
-Bad decision making
-Deaths
-Ending spells early since I forgot to stop shooting
-Bad grazing
1.5 at the very least if I was to look into improving it.
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Nevermind. As long as I don't have to dodge bullets.
Scoring - Easy
Inadequate - 764,597,730
PCB - 356,195,700 - ReimuB - Stage 4 - 0.169% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35563)
IN - 318,974,350 - Youmu - Stage 4A - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35564)
TD - 89,427,680 - Youmu - Stage 4 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35562)
800M would seem like a good goal.
PCB: Bad border management cost me some cherry, in addition to the few missing tricks I never bothered to learn. 380-ish.
IN: I don't remember how the fairy stuff works for Youmu so I just did something. Missed midboss PoC, didn't milk first boss spell, ended last non with a deathbomb. No clue but let's say 350. It might be way overstated, though.
TD: I forgot this game existed. UFO can score about as high, but I played this since there's less execution. Bad game, too reliant on glowball spawn RNG, bomb damage RNG and whatnot. Damaged the last spell with the first trance too much and then she died from the bomb. Didn't feel like playing another credit. No clue of score potentials.
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Had some issues with ghosting and having to reboot the game ever so often, probably some files corrupted. Hope it didn't desynch the replays. (I have screenshots of all the scores in case it did)
4A should be worth a lot more than 4B
The score gap in between the two stages should differ depending on the difficulty level. Two grazes from Easy become impossible on higher levels, while the latter difficulties add two new grazing attacks, although not as fruitful as the Easy ones. Marisa's nonspells are more milkable than Reimu's. Capturing and grazing Reimu's Last Spell on higher difficulties is demoralizing reset hell, same with the midboss PoC. (although assuming you play with Youmu, it isn't that bad)
General assessment is correct: 4A is worth more than 4B.
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Scoring challenge - Easy
Karisa - 686,895,170
PCB - 330,039,810 - ReimuB - 0.080% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35560)
IN - 256,714,620 - Youmu - 4B - 0.057% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35458)
TD - 100,140,740 - Youmu - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35558)
26m improvement. Thanks to Emerald for showing how TD is worth much more than DDC. Also improved my PCB run by not dying. IN is unchanged; I may or may not try out 4A sometime.
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Stayin' Alive - Extra
L3PiK - 968,000,380 - C - 7 - 0.046% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35626)
One border break. :<
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Time left until deadline. (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150101T00&p0=%3A&msg=Deadline+for+Shima%27s+Challenges&csz=1&swk=1)
Do submit even if you don't place first! Every score will contribute to a leaderboard of sorts, the details of which I will reveal on the 1st of January 2015. These challenges have certainly been a fantastic test run so far, and I'm very keen on trying new things to encourage any and all players to give it a shot. If you have any ideas about that you'd like to share, feel free to post it here.
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Oh right, I forgot about this.
Stayin' Alive - Lunatic
Mero - 1,021,114,910 - C - 3 - 0.603% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35696)
Included a screenshot because the link says the run didn't clear for some reason
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Oh, yeah. I'd forgotten about this too. I guess I should post this improvement that I got a couple weeks ago. (I was hoping to hit at least 2000 graze before posting again, but who knows if I'll make any more attempts at this.)
Quick Challenge:
SomeGuy712x - 1666 - Youmu solo - 0.741% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35710)
BTW, my total attempt count on that spell card is 331 right now.
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Sorry for the late reply, but I didn't manage to find time to play any sooner.
Scoring - Normal
Inadequate - 839,338,420
PCB - 381,884,750 - ReimuB - 0.074% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35718)
IN - 360,945,760 - Youmu - 4B - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35719)
TD - 96,507,910 - Youmu - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35720)
PCB: Death on the pre-boss fairy, mistakes with borders and some missing stuff. 410M might be too generous, but it's up there somewhere.
IN: Played 4B since I didn't want to grind restarts on Reimu's last spell, plus the boss is generally easier and has less stuff to do. Still don't know what Youmu should do during the stage so just did something. 400M+ if you go 4A, I'm not exactly sure of the potentials since I don't remember how much you can get from fully grazing the first spell in the stage.
TD: Following the earlier strategy I played two credits and picked the better one. No idea how far this could go, but I'm starting to think that UFO would score higher on Normal. (But I'm biased towards UFO since I know it better)
900M wouldn't look like a very hard goal to hit.
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Quick Challenge
Star King - 2409 - Youmu - 0.000% - replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35739)
Easily beatable but I am pretty bad at staying alive in the late stages of this spellcard
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And an even later reply, but again, I didn't play until tonight. Four and one credits respectively for Extra and Normal.
Survival - Extra
Inadequate - 1,060,354,060 - C - 7 - 0.023% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35754)
Survival - Normal
Inadequate - 1,642,957,190 - C - 8 - 0.070% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35755)
I haven't played either mode for a good while, especially on SakuyaB, so my movements were rather sloppy. I also prioritized getting something done quick over quality, so I basically left out all of the harder stuff/didn't restart if I did something stupid. Extra run has a couple of border breaks and missed borders, Normal run has a lot of border breaks and several deaths.
1.2B and 1.8B are still my goals for the no-bomb runs for the respective categories, but I don't think I'll ever end up hitting them, considering I would seem to play them once per year.
I'm not going to play the lunatic categories, I think.
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Just under 17 hours left to submit. ANY score goes towards my scoreboard idea, so even if it doesn't get first place, submit it anyway!
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Included a screenshot because the link says the run didn't clear for some reason
(http://i.imgur.com/YhQMdCh.png) :3
Stayin' Alive - Lunatic
L3PiK - 955,452,130 - C - 0 - 0.179% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35758)
Pretty embarrassing, please don't watch.
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I was flailing around trying to get the font/colours/size right on the badge text and TSO came to save the day. Her versions (which are more consistent with other badges) are now in the OP. Many thanks to TSO for being able to font better than me.
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Quick Challenge
Emerald - 807 - Youmu - 0.943% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/drdex82dbu97nqz/th8_01.rpy)
Last minute entry really. I don't think I'll be playing much until the new year gets underway.
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Quick Challenge
cream soda - 169 - Sakuya & Remilia - 0.000% - i deserve to be bullied for this (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35759)
Survival Challenge - Lunatic
cream soda - 58,314,880 - stage 3 - no lives - 0.257% - i live to humiliate myself (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35760)
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I think I wanted to improve these, but never got around to it.
Stayin' Alive - Easy
Prinny - 595,604,530 - C - 4 - 0.313% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35761)
Stayin' Alive - Extra
Prinny - 518,551,090 - C - 0 - 0.082% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35485)
Easy was pretty bad. Failed Resurrection Butterfly. Sort of failed more than I wanted to in Extra. Not sure why the replay isn't labeled a clear, though. I must have been sleepy or that thing mentioned earlier must have happened when I uploaded the run 3 weeks ago.
Also, 1 border broke in the Extra run.
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I know it's a bit late to be saying this, but is there any reason why phantasm isn't listed for the survival challenge?
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(http://i.imgur.com/YhQMdCh.png) :3
I completely missed that :derp:
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Oh wow, the deadline is coming up within a few hours. I want to get a survival run going but I've been unable to bring myself to finish a run. I get bored halfway through and restart once i start doing badly. Haha.
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I know it's a bit late to be saying this, but is there any reason why phantasm isn't listed for the survival challenge?
I totally overlooked this! Oh well, I'll just not add Phantasm this time. Sorry for the blunder, everyone.
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Stayin' Alive - Lunatic
Mino - 1,169,001,990 - C - 3 - 0.194% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35766)
Kinda ashamed to even submit this run but I didn't have time to redo it. Mistakes were everywhere.
Most deaths were to Merlin's opener because I'm not sure how to do it with SakuyaB and was too lazy to look up a replay.
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New challenges are up! If you notice any logical mistakes or anything else, let me know and I'll fix them ASAP. I've added the leaderboard idea to the OP along with how you gain points. If you have any suggestions of how to make this system any better that both encourages play without needing to place first and encourages play across all difficulties/challenges, let me know. Deadline is the 1st of February 2015!
Happy new year, everyone.
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Hmm... For the survival challenge, I'm wondering something... I remember that in EoSD, if you successfully deathbomb, it still counts it as a death on the final stats screen at the end of the game, even though you don't actually die. I just did a quick run through Easy to verify this, doing a deathbomb once at the start of the game, and then playing through the rest of the game without getting hit (I did use a few more bombs though), and the results screen shows 1 miss, even though I never actually died. So, I assume this would still count as 0 deaths, right?
Survival Challenge - Easy
SomeGuy712x - 72,936,750 - C - 0 - 5 - 0.396% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35768) - Screenshot (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38262;image)
(May as well make this an actual entry, even though I wasn't terribly serious about scoring in this run.)
EDIT: Oh, for the survival and scoring challenges, should we note which shot type we used?
(I used MarisaA for this survival challenge run here.)
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I will give this a try, even though I suck at scoring in general:
Quick Challenge
Ilikebulletz - 6,057,540 - Ghastly Lantern/Tengu?s Camera - 0.0% - Replay (Attached)
I don't know how bad this is, I have absolutely NO clue how scoring works, other than more graze = more points...
But I figured I could use this as an excuse to play ISC a little more :P
Ghastly Lantern isn't even needed actually, it just makes 1 wave easier to graze, but the challenge allows items, so why would I handicap myself by not using it? xD
Can still get more graze than this, very improveable since I screwed up a bit at the end. Probably going to improve it later.
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Quick Challenge
L3PiK - 7,484,750 - Ghastly Lantern/Tengu?s Camera - 0.0% - Replay (Attached)
Oops, killed it off early.
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Hmm... For the survival challenge, I'm wondering something... I remember that in EoSD, if you successfully deathbomb, it still counts it as a death on the final stats screen at the end of the game, even though you don't actually die. I just did a quick run through Easy to verify this, doing a deathbomb once at the start of the game, and then playing through the rest of the game without getting hit (I did use a few more bombs though), and the results screen shows 1 miss, even though I never actually died. So, I assume this would still count as 0 deaths, right?
Survival Challenge - Easy
SomeGuy712x - 72,936,750 - C - 0 - 5 - 0.396% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35768) - Screenshot (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38262;image)
(May as well make this an actual entry, even though I wasn't terribly serious about scoring in this run.)
EDIT: Oh, for the survival and scoring challenges, should we note which shot type we used?
(I used MarisaA for this survival challenge run here.)
For the sake of the challenge, it still counts as a death.
RE: Shot types: I knew I'd forget something. Fixing now.
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Quick Challenge
Ilikebulletz - 9,167,810 - Ghastly Lantern/Tengu?s Camera - 0.0% - Replay (Attached)
Some improvements over my previous entry...
I don't see how much improveable this is TBH. Maybe you could get to 9,500,000 somehow, but I don't see how hitting 10,000,000 is possible...
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For the sake of the challenge, it still counts as a death.
Umm... That doesn't really seem fair, because you don't actually die, and the goal of the survival challenge is to survive, right? So, it doesn't seem right for a deathbomb (which keeps you alive) to add 1 to both your death count and bomb count... (And if you manage to deathbomb a lot, you could end up with a death count that's much higher than the number of lives you could possibly have in the game, which is kind of ridiculous.)
How about this: In addition to the final stats screen, we could take a screenshot at the point where the final end-of-stage bonuses are displayed as well, and then figure out the number of deaths from the lives remaining at that point. If a player gets all of the score-based 1-ups and both 1-up drops from the stage 3 and 5 midbosses, and doesn't die, that player will have the maximum of 8 reserve lives at the end of the game. (I guess we could consider letting a 1-up item drop count as a death if you decide to go that way, unless the final stats screen shows 0 misses to disprove any possible deaths.)
Oh, but the player could start with more than the default amount of lives to throw that off, but maybe the challenge could require that the player start with the default number of lives, which could be verified by looking at the very start of the replay.
What do you think of those ideas?
(Man, why did this challenge have to be complicated by that previously unimportant death counter glitch in EoSD?)
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Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Easy
Nwodatek - 75.932.650 - C - 0 - 0 - MarisaB - 0.36% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35771) - Screenshot (http://i.imgur.com/mQtWqxj.jpg)
First try lol. Going to try the same challenge on Normal or Extra later. Also I'm going to give a shot to the quick challenge later.
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Survival Challenge - Easy
SomeGuy712x - 77,486,440 - C - 0 - 0 - MarisaA - 0.411% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35773) - Screenshot (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38279;image)
Alright, I decided to try this again, without doing an intentional deathbomb at the start this time, and I managed to pull off a perfect game! I got really nervous towards the end of the Sakuya fight, and almost ran out of time on her final spell (which wouldn't have affected my death or bomb counts, but it would've cost me some points, and it wouldn't have truly been a perfect game then), but I managed to capture it with just a few seconds left!
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Umm... That doesn't really seem fair, because you don't actually die, and the goal of the survival challenge is to survive, right? So, it doesn't seem right for a deathbomb (which keeps you alive) to add 1 to both your death count and bomb count... (And if you manage to deathbomb a lot, you could end up with a death count that's much higher than the number of lives you could possibly have in the game, which is kind of ridiculous.)
How about this: In addition to the final stats screen, we could take a screenshot at the point where the final end-of-stage bonuses are displayed as well, and then figure out the number of deaths from the lives remaining at that point. If a player gets all of the score-based 1-ups and both 1-up drops from the stage 3 and 5 midbosses, and doesn't die, that player will have the maximum of 8 reserve lives at the end of the game. (I guess we could consider letting a 1-up item drop count as a death if you decide to go that way, unless the final stats screen shows 0 misses to disprove any possible deaths.)
Oh, but the player could start with more than the default amount of lives to throw that off, but maybe the challenge could require that the player start with the default number of lives, which could be verified by looking at the very start of the replay.
What do you think of those ideas?
(Man, why did this challenge have to be complicated by that previously unimportant death counter glitch in EoSD?)
Just means that this challenge is about not getting hit as well as not dying!
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For the Busy People
Nwodatek - 9,295,670 - Ghastly Lantern/Tengu?s Camera - 0.1% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38286)
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Quick Challenge
Ilikebulletz - 9,318,290 - Ghastly Lantern/Mallet - 0.0% - Replay (Attached)
Well, this is pretty much it for me. Its my soft limit- I don't really see how I can score higher than this, at least.
I traded the Camera sub for the Mallet Sub because I didn't really saw the point in the Camera, it wasn't helping me at all!
Will only try to improve it as soon as someone beats this score, which will almost certainly happen, seeing as theres practically 1 month left of time to do it :P
BTW this is surprisingly FUN. This is like the very first time I have ever "Scored" in Touhou (even if it is on something small), actually. Also, a really nice idea for a thread, OP, thanks for letting it happen! xD.
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Quick Challenge
SomeGuy712x - 9,308,310 - Ghastly Lantern/Substitute Jizo - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38288)
Well, if I can't use the Tanuki as a main item, I can still use it as a sub item to allow me one minor mistake.
Also, I got 8376 graze in this attempt, if you're wondering.
UPDATE:
SomeGuy712x - 9,321,370 - Ghastly Lantern/Mallet - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38289)
Tried again with the Mallet for the sub and pulled off a slight improvement. 8389 graze this time.
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For the Busy People - Quick Challenge
L3PiK - 9,425,460 - Ghastly Lantern/Mallet - 0.0% Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38293)
Graze: 8,494
Subterranean Scoring - Scoring Challenge
Extra
L3PiK - 873,636,700 - C - ReimuA - 0.010% Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35776)
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I had so many good runs and Kagerou always flops into me as she dies
EDIT:
Quick Clahhelgne
Mr Jovial - 9,343,660 - Ghastly Lantern/Substitute Jizo - 0.5% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38300)
I don't know if I did the attachment right :colonveeplusalpha:
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For the Busy People - Quick Challenge
ARF - 10,075,870 - Hatate's Skirt/Mallet - 0.4% Replay (http://score.royalflare.net/th143/replay143/th143_ud043c.rpy)
:dealwithit:
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Karisa - 107,116,370 - C - 0 - 0 - MarisaA - 0.280% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35782)
Perfect Easy 1cc for fun, not very routed (on the stage portions I aimed for power items until full power, point items up to stage 4, and survival-ish in stage 5). Also contains stalling out a few boss patterns for graze/cancels. This took far more attempts than it should have because I kept dying from grazing random things that probably weren't worth the risk.
Edit: It seems I forgot to take a screenshot... Well, it doesn't really matter. I probably won't redo this unless there's a clear scoring route improvement anyway.
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Survival Challenge - Easy
navpirx - 85,056,930 - C - 0 - 0 - ReimuA - 0.284% - Screenshot (http://i.imgur.com/h073mjB.png) - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35785)
Wheee, best score. ...Karisa's run? What Karisa's run? That never happened.
Well, once upon a time I really wanted to learn this game. And I didn't. I'm using ReimuA as a counterweight to my lack of skill and knowledge. Somehow this is still my personal best, even though I used bombs like mad in my previous best run, so maybe I am getting better after all? I really should try Marisa and work on my game.
Update:
Survival Challenge - Easy
navpirx - 89,494,580 - C - 0 - 0 - MarisaA - 0.315% - Screenshot (http://i.imgur.com/Ml4AP6g.png) - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35801)
It's an improvement, so I'd like this to replace my previous score. I'm still very unhappy. So much to improve.
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Quick Challenge
fsvgm777 - 8,652,780 - Ghastly Lantern/Substitute Jizo - 0.0% - Replay (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64600169/th143_udf318.rpy)
I derped pretty hard near the end, which probably cost me quite a bit of points.
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Quick Challenge
Mero - 9,469,350 - Fabric/Mallet - 0.4% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38352)
I need to work on my luck, I'm not lucky enough to come close to ARF's results, so this will have to do for now.
Update:
Subterranean Scoring - Easy
Mero - 508,780,390 - C - ReimuA - 0.15% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=35834)
Hopefully I'll get a run for other difficulties :V
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Quick Challenge
Nameschonvergeben - 9,193,630 - Ghastly Lantern/Mallet - 0.0% Replay (https://puu.sh/emT8d/744d8baca8.cfg)
Maybe I'll improve it later, but for now i got more important objectives. (I hope I did the Replayupload correctly ???)
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Quick Challenge
Validon98 - 9,081,780 - Fabric/Mallet - 0.1% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38406)
Tried to do it ARF's way a couple times, got a little frustrated with Kagerou's movements. This is a safer, but less scoring strategy that I had tried before watching. Could be better.
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Quick Challenge
Aeteas - 9,507,800 - Nimble Fabric/Mallet - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38448)
This got higher than any of my Ghastly Lantern attempts. Maybe I'll go for more later.
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Just over a week left to submit! (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150201T00&p0=%3A&msg=Shima%27s+Challenges+Month+2&csz=1&swk=1)
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Quick Challenge
ARF - 10,129,320 - Fabric/Mallet - 0.5% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38551)
Some improvements in the strategy, figured I'd be sneaky and wait for someone to beat my first submission, but I better post it now before I forget about it.
For other people wanting to catch up: using the fabric with the lantern as sub makes for some pretty easy (read: not luck reliant) 9.7 million scores, as the deathbomb windows allows you to always safely double hide through 3 cycles of the blue stuff.
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Quick Challenge
Aeteas - 9,838,090 - Nimble Fabric/Ghastly Lantern - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38555)
That works.
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Scoring Challenge - Easy
Karisa - 549,560,610 - C - MarisaA - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36041)
Submitting a random run before the challenge is over. Clipped on stage 4, but at least I finished with max lives and 30,000 graze.
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Survival Challenge - Lunatic
Emerald - 201,470,470 - C - ⑨ - 30 - ReimuA - 0.336 - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th06/th6_udEd08.rpy)
Here's what my run would've been if I didn't forget to do the screenshot as well. I could say I've been at this for at least a week.
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Sakurei - Bad/96,256,390 - C - 0 - 0 -0.213% - ReimuB - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36071) Screenshot (http://abload.de/img/unbenanntupyl8.jpg)
I tried the Quick challenge too, but IS is ass and I didn't want to figure out how to play the scene.
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Think I'll stop beating myself over EoSD Lunatic and just wrap it up with an Extra run. More likely to improve this, if I submit anything else.
Survival Challenge - Extra
Emerald - 179,245,320 - C - 5 - 8 - 0.1% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th06/th6_udEd09.rpy) Screenshot (https://imgur.com/cTpBaRr)
Survival Challenge - Extra
Emerald - 182,074,680 - C - 2 - 9 - ReimuB - 0.1% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th06/th6_udEd10.rpy) Screenshot (https://imgur.com/kuzUIKM)
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Sakurei - Bad/96,256,390 - C - 0 - 0 -0.213% - ReimuB - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36071) Screenshot (http://abload.de/img/unbenanntupyl8.jpg)
I tried the Quick challenge too, but IS is ass and I didn't want to figure out how to play the scene.
Finally!
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Emerald - 106,080,950 - C - 0 - 0 - ReimuB - 0.28% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th06/th6_udEd11.rpy) Screenshot (https://imgur.com/Ti3mK2Z)
Odd spur of motivation brought me to this.
Prematurely killed some boss phases for survivability. Grazed stage 5 midboss nonspell until timeout to avoid fairy spam, stage 5 boss and stage 3 boss 2nd/3rd nonspell. Can possibly crank in an extra few million.
Survival Challenge - Normal
Emerald - 153,102,190 - C - 3 - 12 - ReimuB - 0.26% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th06/th6_udEd12.rpy) Screenshot (https://imgur.com/SAZBzAG)
Quick Challenge
Emerald - 9,840,590 - Nimble Fabric/Mallet - 0.0% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/47ni9gtk1nhi67c/th143_udEd34.rpy)
Emerald - 10,098,980 - Nimble Fabric/Mallet - 0.0% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/99jjde6bhycjyu0/th143_udEdzz.rpy)
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Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Easy
Nwodatek - 87,756,640 - C - 0 - 0 - ReimuA - 0.37% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36090) - Screenshot (http://imgur.com/w5i7cxS)
For the Busy People
Nwodatek - 9,740,570 - Nimble Fabric/Ghastly Lantern - 0.1% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38625)
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Quick Challenge
Karisa - 9,352,450 - Lantern/Mallet - 0.3% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38629)
Submitting for the sake of random points in the standings. Not quite sure what I'm doing here.
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A mere 17 hours left to submit! (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150201T00&p0=%3A&msg=Shima%27s+Challenges+Month+2&csz=1&swk=1)
Remember, any submissions count towards overall points!
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Karisa - 104,309,510 - C - 0 - 0 - MarisaA - 0.318% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36094) - Screenshot (http://i.imgur.com/IXViQuR.png)
Well this is another "perfect" run, now with an actual screenshot. Lower score than last time though.
Survival Challenge - Extra
Karisa - 260,814,400 - C - 2 - 0 - MarisaA - 0.129% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36096) Screenshot (http://i.imgur.com/kpXt8DB.png)
Perfected Flandre on a relearn-the-spells run where I'd died several times in the stage portion. I tried several more runs and didn't come close to perfecting Flandre again (or even clearing with 0-1 deaths), so I guess I'll post this.
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Survival - Extra
Aeteas - 237,244,600 - C - 1 - 3 - ReimuB - 0.14% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36099) - Screenshot attached
Actually I didn't lose any lives. I just deathbombed.
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>No one plays SA
I don't blame you :V
Subterranean Scoring - Normal
Mero - 457,846,360 - C - ReimuA - 0.1% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38634)
Hard
Mero - 1,011,214,810 - C - ReimuA - 0.1% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38633)
Lunatic
Mero - 2,957,197,470 - C - ReimuA - 0.2% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38632)
I was not expecting 1b on Hard at all, so it was a nice surprise.
Lunatic was okay I guess, I could have taken more risks, but chances are I wouldn't have cleared if I did, but I would have posted any gameover past getting 2b regardless. inb4 Mino comes and beats this last minute
Normal is topkek
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>No one plays SA
I don't blame you :V
I did play it a bit and yeah, had more patience with EoSD.
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>No one plays SA
I play SA!
...no time for me to learn/relearn a difficulty at this point though. I'm too used to Easy.
It does get rather annoying how, like in MoF, an accidental death ruins your score (well on Easy/Normal/Extra at least).
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Alright, here's a bunch of last-minute (well, last-hour) entries from me:
Subterranean Scoring - Normal
SomeGuy712x - 575,687,240 - C - ReimuA - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36101)
The first death I had in stage 4 was unintentional, and I would've restarted due to that if I wasn't already annoyed from numerous other restarts due to stupid mistakes I kept making in the first three stages. But, I decided to keep going, and ended up with a perhaps halfway-decent score, maybe.
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Survival - Normal
SomeGuy712x - 131,995,100 - C - 2 - 5 - MarisaA - 0.344% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36102) - Screenshot (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38635)
Deaths were to Patchy and Sakuya. I'm really annoyed by that Patchy death, since the I thought the bullet that hit me was gonna miss me, and I had five bombs in stock at the time, so I would've bombed if I was expecting to be hit.
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Survival - Hard
SomeGuy712x - 164,739,520 - C - 5 - 15 - MarisaA - 0.327% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36103) - Screenshot (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38637)
I had some lucky dodges against Meiling and Patchy, but stage 5 was kind of "ugh". However, I had a better-than-expected Remilia battle.
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Survival - Extra
SomeGuy712x - 239,264,100 - C - 0 - 3 - MarisaA - 0.100% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36104) - Screenshot (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38639)
Holy crackers! I'd given Extra a lot of attempts over the past few weeks, and on this run, I had pretty much all the luck, making it all the way to Flandre's final spell without dying or bombing! Now, I could've tried to capture it for a true perfect game, but I've only rarely captured it in the past, and I was super nervous since that was the first time I'd ever gotten to that point without dying, so I spent my 3 bombs there to help me ensure that I'd get the no-death victory at least!
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Quick Challenge
SomeGuy712x - 9,732,200 - Nimble Fabric/Ghastly Lantern - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38641)
I couldn't get the Fabric/Mallet combo to work for me without always dying to either bad luck or mispositioning myself, so I'm settling for this.
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Subterranean Scoring - Scoring Challenge - Hard
L3PiK - 735,192,860 - C - 0 - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36105)
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Apologies for the late announcement but time is up! I'm currently unwell so when I finally wake up again later today I will sort everything out! Sorry for the delays on the new challenges but I'm really not up for sorting stuff out right now haha. Thanks for the participation this month!
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New challenges are up, with a few quirks this month! A hidden challenge is active: a x2 modifier is up for grabs if you complete the challenge! The modifier is added after the difficulty modifier is added. The challenge will only be revealed at the end of the month if someone completes it. More than one person can complete this month's challenge. The following challenges are eligible:
Survival Challenge
Thanks for the participation last week and here's to another successful week!
If you notice any mistakes in my formatting or anything, always be sure to point it out. I'm half with it!
EDIT: SomeGuy712x, you're eligible for both badges. Which would you like?
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Whoa, I wasn't expecting to shoot out into first place like that! Umm... I wonder if that's accurate, actually... Shimatoma, can you maybe show everyone's previous point totals, and what everyone's final rankings in the previous round's challenges were?
Edit: Oh, wait. The rankings are shown in the Touhou Tournament Archive thread within High Score Entry. Still, how did I end up with 50 points?
Another edit: Okay, looking at the rankings for both months, I only participated in the Quick Challenge for month 1, placing 4th out of 7, which is worth 8 points, right? Then for month 2, first my points are cut in half down to 4, and then I think I gained 4 from Scoring Normal, 18 from the Quick Challenge, 1 from Survival Easy, 4 from Survival Normal, 3 from Survival Hard, and 12 from Survival Extra.
So, 4+4+18+1+4+3+12=46, which is what I think I should have. Did you forget to halve my 8 points before adding in the 42 I gained from month 2?
Anyway, I think I'll take the Survivalist Badge, since I'm most happy with my no-death Extra run there.
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Whoa, I wasn't expecting to shoot out into first place like that! Umm... I wonder if that's accurate, actually... Shimatoma, can you maybe show everyone's previous point totals, and what everyone's final rankings in the previous round's challenges were?
Edit: Oh, wait. The rankings are shown in the Touhou Tournament Archive thread within High Score Entry. Still, how did I end up with 50 points?
I'll check it. I am feeling quite out of it so, would probably be best.
Got 45 this time around. 39 from this month and 6 from last month. Maybe I should work on putting everything into a spreadsheet so I don't accidentally add extra numbers in. w
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@Shimatora:
"6 from last month"? But the Quick Challenge was worth 2x everybody below me (including myself), and there were three people below me, and if I include myself, that's 4 people, and 4x2=8. Also, don't forget to cut my first month's points in half before adding my second month's points. (Yeah, making a spreadsheet to keep all the numbers organized would be a good idea.)
Anyway, I just made an edit to my previous post that you might not've seen, where I calculate that I should have 46 points right now, and assuming I'm still in first place, I'll take the Survivalist Badge, since I'm most happy with my no-death Extra run there.
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Huh, I thought I did that. Let me just recalculate it all.
EDIT: Okay I recognised my mistake. I did x3 for the quick challenge points first month. Oops!
Double EDIT: Going to do that spreadsheet. Might take a little bit as I work things out but should be done by the end of the month.
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Quick Challenge
Karisa - 254240 - 0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36107)
http://i.imgur.com/gGO893s.png
(This game has no decimal place on the slowdown?)
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Quick Challenge
Emerald - 287,330 - 0.19% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th95/th95_udEd02.rpy) Screenshot (https://i.imgur.com/hwyTngM.png)
It truncates it ingame, although it displayed correctly in the ASCII for mine. Yours had 0% bang on, by chance.
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Quick Challenge
Karisa - 284,250 - 0.00% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36114)
Scoring Challenge - Easy
Karisa - 389,526,210
PCB - 151,659,550 - ReimuB - 0.097% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36111)
UFO - 129,320,260 - SanaeB - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36113)
DDC - 108,546,400 - ReimuA - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36110)
(Runner-up: MoF - 106,540,050 - ReimuB - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36112))
Day 1 experiment. All 4 runs have room for improvement, so I'm not sure which 3rd game is better (only sure that the 3rd game won't be SA).
Is TD really so good it needed to be disallowed?
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Survival Challenge - Extra
Mr Jovial - 189,717,330 - Clear - MarisaA - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36116)
I don't actually know all of Nue's attacks so it's an awful run, especially towards the end.
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SA for Easy, probably not. Maybe on Hard/Lunatic.
Quick Challenge
Emerald - 307,030 - 0.00% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th95/th95_udEd03.rpy) Screenshot (https://i.imgur.com/ltI0le1.png)
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SA for Easy, probably not. Maybe on Hard/Lunatic.
SA is probably worth the most score on Lunatic, don't know about Hard though.
Also, Shimatora, the 37 I had before was correct: 8+1+2+6+4+16=37
EDIT:
Scoring Challenge - Lunatic
Mero - 700,977,800
PCB - 183,831,430 - SakuyaB - 0.55% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38650)
SA - 306,325,200 - ReimuA - 0.26% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38651)
UFO - 210,821,170 - SanaeB - 0.27% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38652)
Again, SA seems to be the best game on Lunatic. I don't know what happened on UFO, the stage could be improved but I don't see such a good Shou fight happening ever again. I'm not sure if PCB is the best third option, maybe MoF is better?
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Quick Challenge
fsvgm777 - 251,000 - 0.0% - Replay (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64600169/th95_udf755.rpy)
Probably could've been 270,000 points if I didn't screw up the last photo so badly.
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Emerald - 190,916,530 - C - ReimuB - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th12/th12_udEd21.rpy)
Didn't bother grazing much besides the Stage 3 boss 1st nonspell. I was more conservative with my resources, so didn't take that into account when trading them off for point items.
There was a mistake of making 2 sacrifices, should've just did one after defeating Nazrin, since the full power would've helped better and I only needed to use 1 bomb on her.
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Decided to try it. I'm not the best in scoring though.
Scoring Challange - Easy
Luna - 216,608,780
MoF - 68,287,770 - ReimuA - 0.220% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36158)
UFO - 66,818,220 - SanaeB - 1.610% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36157)
DDC - 81,502,790 - ReimuA - 0.4% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/0u09k0gsd3m2edf/th14_23.rpy)
I also tried survival. And somehow, I succeeded. On easy, 'cause on normal I can't beat the game even with UFO's.
Survival Challange - Easy
Luna - 110,905,320 - C - SanaeB - 0.340% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36164)
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I also tried survival. And somehow, I succeeded. On easy, 'cause on normal I can't beat the game even with UFO's.
It's not so bad on Easy at least in this challenge. Normal I get up to Stage 4/5, while Hard/Lunatic don't see me past Stage 3 yet. Hardly had much practice on this particular game.
Congrats on clear. Takes a bit of heartful practice to cap all the spellcards. It's also easy to be reckless with the PoC as well, especially on lower difficulties.
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It's not so bad on Easy at least in this challenge. Normal I get up to Stage 4/5, while Hard/Lunatic don't see me past Stage 3 yet. Hardly had much practice on this particular game.
Congrats on clear. Takes a bit of heartful practice to cap all the spellcards. It's also easy to be reckless with the PoC as well, especially on lower difficulties.
Heh, thanks. I'm pretty proud of myself, as not so long ago I couldn't beat it on easy with UFO's. That's great progress. (Even if I finished the run with no lives and one bomb left).
I didn't try, but I think on normal I would get to stage 4 and died here (eventually on stage 5 if I would be lucky), as I really hate fight with Murasa. Especially her survival card. I hate that type of spell cards (brings bad memories of Princess Tenko... ugh).
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Also, Shimatora, the 37 I had before was correct: 8+1+2+6+4+16=37
I think I may have genuine issues with numbers or organisation, probably a mixture of both, as I seemed to have gotten it wrong even after putting it all in a spreadsheet. Emerald has offered to track it for me and I'm almost definitely taking him up on that offer.
Regarding updating the current month's standings: I'm still recovering from being ill and really don't want to sit down and do it right now. Will update in a few days.
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Survival Challenge - Normal
Karisa - 250,532,250 - C - SanaeB - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36180)
Not a particularly satisfying run, but it's a clear at least.
A few planned bombs on stage portions for point items. I would've bombed stage 6 Nue too but forgot the timing and died.
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Scoring Challenge - Lunatic
Mino - 790,081,310
PCB - 205,489,690 - ReimuB - 0.185% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36230)
SA - 334,726,580 - ReimuA - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36233)
UFO - 249,865,040 - ReimuB - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36234)
...Thought I might as well contribute. I wanted to participate last month, but I was tied up by IRL stuff.
PCB I did at the beginning of the month as a test run. didn't know I'd actually go through with the whole thing though. SA was kinda fun. I don't know how to score UFO. If I had captured more of Shou's spells I would have probably scored higher.
Edit: Ended up using ReimuB for the UFO challenge. Since I'm fairly decent at Shou with ReimuB, I figured that capturing all of her spells would make up for my previous run. And indeed it did. Although the stage portion isn't as great...
Happily awaiting the day that DDC makes its appearance in the challenges ^_^
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Now to try and get a LNBNUFO run ready before March. I suspect that having NB on top of NUFO is the "hidden" condition. IRL business has hounded my freetime though. So don't expect too much.
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Survival Challenge - Lunatic
Drake - 126,462,490 - 5 - ReimuA - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36259)
in before people submit actual good runs
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Everything should now be updated. Thank you for your patience! As always, let me know if you notice any mistakes.
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@Shimatora:
Did I receive the Survivalist badge yet?
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Oops, you were supposed to have done! It's possible I forgot to add your name when I spoke to TSO. Let me rectify that ASAP. Sorry.
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Mix and Match 2 - Normal
KingofBaka - 166,250,950
PCB - 86,448,320 - Reimu B - 3.808% - Replay
MoF - 49,260,530 - Reimu B - 6.8% - Replay
SA - 30,542,100 - Reimu A - 10.9% - Replay
I don't know why I did the score challenge, I don't even play for score. :V
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Scoring Challenge - Normal
L3PiK - 394,629,740
PCB - 162,061,380 - ReimuB - 0.093% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36311)
UFO - 137,435,210 - MarisaB - 0.240% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36313)
MoF - 95,133,150 - ReimuA - 0.010% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36312)
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Just over three days left to submit! (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150301T00&p0=%3A&msg=Shima%27s+Challenges+Month+3&swk=1)
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Survival Challenge - Lunatic
Mino - 305,619,400 - 6 - ReimuA - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36372)
LNBNV attempt that made it to LFS's final phase. :V
Just posting this as placeholder in the event that I fail to get a clear within the next two days.
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Quick Challenge
ARF - 326,676 - 0.00% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36391)
This "withholding replays until the last day of submission" strat is a secret technique I picked up from my early days in HME (?・ω・`)
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It's a nice strat if this month's game was Double Spoiler. Sorry to bring it to you, StB this month :<
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Survival Challenge - Normal
L3PiK - 240,151,710 - Clear - SanaeB - 0.020% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36397)
Survival Challenge - Extra
L3PiK - 243,335,760 - Clear - SanaeB - 0.070% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36398)
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It's a nice strat if this month's game was Double Spoiler. Sorry to bring it to you, StB this month :<
Omg, I'm laughing so hard, well played guys.
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Omg, I'm laughing so hard, well played guys.
^^
Nice run either way. Good luck against Meirin.
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Survival Challenge - Extra
Aeteas - 260,557,180 - Clear - SanaeA - 0.010% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36382)
Scoring Challenge - Normal
Aeteas - 455,636,430
UFO - 185,690,460 - SanaeB - 0.020% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36401)
PCB - 160,906,150 - ReimuB - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36402)
DDC - 109,039,820 - ReimuA - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36400)
At some point, when I'm less lazy, I should try full game PCB and DDC scoring.
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@ARF:
At first I was like, "How did you score so high?!", but then I saw that it was a Double Spoiler replay. LOL.
Okay, here's mine:
Quick Challenge:
SomeGuy712x - 308,590 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36408)
I accomplished this fairly early in the month (and had some lucky dodges towards the end), but I thought I could potentially improve on this. However, I never had another run as good as this one. What's with the seemingly random score variances anyway? On rare occasions, I could get over 50K with my first or second shot, but usually I get in the low-to-mid-40Ks, and sometimes even less than 40K, despite having 2.0 for "Boss Shot!" and 1.5 for "Nice Shot!". In fact, I'll share a couple of replays I saved of me getting unexpectedly high shot scores for one of the first two shots:
53,560 for the first shot: Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36410) (Too bad I ended up failing this run.)
55,460 for the second shot: Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36409) (Unfortunately, this run was also a failure.)
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Scoring Challenge - Lunatic
fish - 820,353,260
PCB - 204,648,870 - ReimuB - 0.170% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36411)
SA - 357,843,310 - ReimuA - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36413)
UFO - 257,861,080 - SanaeB - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36412)
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Just over an hour left to submit! (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150301T00&p0=%3A&msg=Shima%27s+Challenges+Month+3&swk=1)
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Scoring Challenge - Hard
SomeGuy712x - 531,932,150
PCB - 197,135,470 - ReimuB - 0.112% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36414)
SA - 127,175,830 - ReimuA - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36415)
UFO - 207,620,850 - SanaeB - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36416)
Scoring Challenge - Lunatic
SomeGuy712x - 816,854,010
PCB - 217,237,230 - ReimuB - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36417)
SA - 341,391,010 - ReimuA - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36418)
UFO - 258,225,770 - SanaeB - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36419)
Survival Challenge - Easy
SomeGuy712x - 164,342,360 - Clear - SanaeB - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36420)
Survival Challenge - Extra
SomeGuy712x - 235,596,070 - Clear - SanaeB - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36421)
I put a lot of effort into most of these. However, I'm going to quickly go see if I can improve on a couple of them before time runs out.
EDIT: Nuts. I couldn't improve any of them in time.
Also, Shimatora, did I ever get that Survivalist Badge yet?
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What's with the seemingly random score variances anyway? On rare occasions, I could get over 50K with my first or second shot, but usually I get in the low-to-mid-40Ks, and sometimes even less than 40K, despite having 2.0 for "Boss Shot!" and 1.5 for "Nice Shot!"
53,560 for the first shot: Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36410) (Too bad I ended up failing this run.)
In this 53k shot you get 900*6.2 for Colorful Shot which is missing in the rest of the shots. Rainbow Shot happens all the time so I think this just requires several colors with at least one bullet each. Colorful on the other hand, despite the bonus actually being lower seems to require a certain quota of each color, so I think the answer is you just don't have enough bullets in the shot. When I tried this out I would never get colorful for just snapping up one wave of bullets, but I sometimes did when there were enough stragglers from a previous wave.
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Results and new challenges shall be up later today.
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@Feenixtrite:
Oh, I wasn't even paying attention for the "Colorful Shot" bonus. So, I guess that bonus, combined with there being enough bullets to trigger the bonus, is what allows for scores over 50K for the first couple shots. Man, you gotta get real lucky for there to be enough bullets in the frame, though.
Also, how did you get 900*6.2? When I multiply together the multipliers, I get 2.0*1.2*1.5*1.5=5.4, so wouldn't Colorful Shot be worth 900*5.4 here? ...Oh, wait... Are those individual multipliers actually added together instead? (2.0+1.2+1.5+1.5=6.2)
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Looking forward to the next month of challenges. I will try to participate this time as well ^_^
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Also, Shimatora, did I ever get that Survivalist Badge yet?
Oops, I missed your edit - you didn't, it seems! I should've been more dilligent with checking if you'd gotten it yet and poking TSO to remind her. Hopefully sometime I'll be able to asign them myself rather than bugging her to do them for me, would stop missing messages/miscommunication etc.
Congratulations to Luna, Aetaes and SomeGuy712x for not even picking up a single UFO during their runs AND clearing the game! One of your runs has cleared the hidden challenge!
This month's challenges are now up! Feedback is always welcome - especially in regards to Hidden Challenges and the challenges so far. Feel free to post feedback here, via PMs on find me on IRC.
Emerald has kindly offered to take over in calculating leaderboard points, and I will update them when he's done.
Anyone eligible for a badge should get them in the next couple of days.
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Aha, I had a hunch that the hidden challenge was not picking up any UFO tokens, so I'm glad I went through the effort of avoiding them all in my Extra run!
Alright, doing out the math, I believe I should have 60 points now, but we'll see what Emerald calculates the scores to be...
Also, for this Survival Challenge, the Extra Stage always has the player starting with 3 lives, regardless of what you set them to in the options. So, is the Extra Stage still okay to play in this challenge? (I would assume so, since it's still a challenge to clear Extra without bombing, but I just have to ask to be sure.)
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Quick Challenge - 95
Mino - 18,589,160 - 0.700% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36431)
Quick Challenge - 117
Mino - 23,096,630 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36432)
Looks like Shima granted my wish. ^_^
So... DDC spellcard scoring? Looks like it's about speedkilling for the spellbonus, as I doubt graze could make up for the loss of spellcard bonus. ReimuA speedkilling is fun!
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Also, for the IN challenge, does FinalA still count?
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Haha, I knew it! I felt that not picking up UFOs will be the hidden challange.
Survival challange sounds very fun! I need to try it. (I wonder if I can beat it on normal...)
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Funny, I thought that might be it too. I see Japanese players in their NV runs that don't get the tokens either. I picked them up myself because they distract me from the dodging if I have to see them floating. :<
Scoring Challenge - Easy
Emerald - 725,594,070 - C - Marisa - 0.210% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th13/th13_udEd38.rpy)
Quick Challenge - 95
Emerald - 17,977,770 - 0.000% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/zpj729pwnyfb53l/th14_01.rpy)
Quick Challenge - 117
Emerald - 23,184,340 - 0.000% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/gz56c9t0tttdpf0/th14_02.rpy)
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Boo, I tried survival challange and bombed due to panic :<
And I don't have time to repeat it now...
Also I will need to unlock spells for the quick challange, as I never saw this two myself.
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You can't change the amount of lives you have in the beginning for the extra stage. This challenge is main-game only.
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I found a routine which sets the life count for Extra, which can be done through Cheat Engine. I tried patching the EXE and it's not possible, since it corrupts the scorefile and crashes the game. I had issues modding PCB in similar ways and it's not as easy as MoF onward to find the right addresses and routines.
Go to 0043ADD5 in the disassembler and you'll see mov byte ptr [eax+1C],02. Set the last digit to 0.
The resulting replay file will sync and show up as 0 lives starting, whether or not the code is modified.
Survival Challenge - Extra
Emerald - 170,286,750 - Ex - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd17.rpy)
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Welp, looks like I overlooked that! Sorry Emerald but to avoid complication I'm probably not going to support extra this time around. The leaderboard is up, a big thanks to Emerald for helping out!
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Welp, looks like I overlooked that! Sorry Emerald but to avoid complication I'm probably not going to support extra this time around. The leaderboard is up, a big thanks to Emerald for helping out!
No probs, it happens, and thanks for clearing it up. I'll be having fun with the other brackets for sure :3
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Emerald - 2,153,892,590 - C - Yuyuko & Youmu - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd18.rpy)
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Spellcard No. 95
Mr Jovial - 18,044,320 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36444)
Huh, the game shows my high score for that card is 18,044,300 not 320 but watching the replay I get the 320. Weird.
Spellcard No. 117
Mr Jovial - 23,240,910 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36445)
This took me 2 attempts ._. Also the game thinks my high score for this is 23,240,900 not 910. Not as weird...
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@Shimatora:
Aw, what? So Extra is disallowed for the Survival Challenge now? Why not allow Extra to be played normally, with just the "no bombing" rule? Or, maybe add a rule that you can't ever drop below your starting amount of lives, to simulate starting with just one life.
I did do an Extra run last night, which I'll post here, whether its ultimately allowed or not.
Survival Challenge - Extra
SomeGuy712x - 1,681,448,920 - C - Reimu & Yukari - 0.065% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36446)
I died twice each to Mokou's 8th non-spell (that non-spell is evil) and Fujiyama Volcano (I spontaneously forgot how to handle that spell), but didn't die anywhere else, and my lives never dropped below the starting amount. (So, if I had started with just one life, this would still be a clear.)
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@Mr Jovial:
Yes, for some reason, Ten Desires and Double Dealing Character don't properly record the tens digit of your spell card practice high scores. I'm sure your scores will properly count as ~320 and ~910 here.
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I'll save Extra Survival for another month, maybe with different restrictions.
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For the Busy People - Spellcard No. 95
Nwodatek - 18,613,750 - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36447)
For the Busy People - Spellcard No. 117
Nwodatek - 23,291,130 - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36448)
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Quickie
Spellcard No. 95
ARF - 19,115,100 - 0.5% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38924)
Spellcard No. 117
ARF - 23,591,450 - 1.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38923)
Guess I should have bound focus to another key, mashing with my left pinkie got a bit tiring ;_;
Scoar - Easy
ARF - 758,530,650 - C - Youmu - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38925)
Arrange mod is fun! This felt like a really messy run, just tried to go for trance whenever there were spirits on the screen and trance was available! Died a lot, lost a quite few spell bonuses. Milked Seiga and Yoshika for a bit. Dunno how much potential was lost in stage 6 cash-in ;_;
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For the Busy People - Spellcard No. 95
KirbyComment - 18,509,810 - 0,00% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36450)
For the Busy People - Spellcard No. 117
KirbyComment - 23,031,410 - 1,75% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36451)
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I actually got these yesterday
Sp. 95
Mero - 19,084,480 - 0.9% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38926)
Sp.117
Mero - 23,442,230 - 2.8% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38927)
DDC and my laptop don't exactly get along it seems, but it's still better than with TD replays :V
Guess I should have bound focus to another key, mashing with my left pinkie got a bit tiring ;_;
one of the few benefits I find from using a gamepad
EDIT: these are from today
Spellcard 95
Mero - 19,188,760 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38928)
Spellcard 117
Mero - 23,528,640 - 2.1% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38929)
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Oh hey I'm actually taking part in these for once. :V
Quick Challenge
Spell Card 117
Funen1 - 23,335,120 - 0.0% - Replay (http://[attach=1)
Two words for this challenge: Carpal. Tunnel. Honestly not sure if I want to keep tapping as fast as the leaders did lol.
Survival Challenge (Easy)
Funen1 - 1,577,540,280 - C - Border Team - 0.041% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36452)
Failed Kaguya's second Last Spell, but it wouldn't have made a difference in the rankings. I want to play more on the higher difficulties. A Lunatic clear with 1 starting life would be an improvement over my previous no-bombs 1cc, so there's always that to shoot for.
This month's challenges made me realize I never gave Nereid's TD mod a try. Not sure how much I'll play it this month, but still something to consider.
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Quick Challenge - 95
Emerald - 18,387,810 - 0.000% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/zpj729pwnyfb53l/th14_01.rpy)
Quick Challenge - 117
Emerald - 23,306,200 - 0.000% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/gz56c9t0tttdpf0/th14_02.rpy)
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Luna - 1,361,011,060 - C - Border Team - 0.039% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36499)
Ah, back to Touhou. That was so refreshing after murderous difficulity of Len'En.
No deaths, 3/5 last spells captured (could be 4, but I needed to get hit half a second before spell ended! Damn!).
As I said, I'm not too good at scoring, so my score is fairly low.
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Survival Challenge - Normal
Emerald - 789,168,400 - 4 - Yuyuko & Youmu - 0.061% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd20.rpy)
Tanked after engaging Marisa. Otherwise it was solid enough for me.
Survival Challenge - Lunatic
Emerald - 261,168,340 - 2 - Border Team - 0.244% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd19.rpy)
Just testing the waters here. It's much tougher without the bombs, so I might need to keep at this one for a while.
Also, for the IN challenge, does FinalA still count?
I don't suppose why not. Despite the lower score, it may be a good idea for first submission or if players are stuggling to get a 1CC by choosing FinalB.
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Survival Challenge (Normal)
Funen1 - 2,023,236,840 - C - Border Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36588)
And to get this out of the way. Died to Marisa's last nonspell (perhaps unnecessarily in hindsight, but I'm always so worried about the clusterfuck this attack becomes near the bottom of the screen), Swallow's Cowrie Shell, and Kaguya's first two Last Spells in real derpish fashion, but let's see if I can get Hard and Lunatic clears before I try improving on anything lower.
EDIT:
Survival Challenge (Hard)
Funen1 - 2,763,545,250 - C - Border Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36600)
I somehow missed half as many times on this run than on my Normal run. :/ But man, the gap between Hard and Lunatic in this game is much wider than I remember. I can believe ZUN when he says he was drunk during parts of this game's development. I'll have my work cut out for me on Lunatic.
Btw, my first death on this run is pretty damn lol-worthy. I dare you to watch and find it. :V
EDIT #2:
Survival Challenge (Lunatic)
Funen1 - 3,048,554,590 - C - Border Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36602)
I knew I had to get this after game-overing agonizingly close to the end of Hourai Jewel on a previous run. I bit it pretty hard in the beginning parts of Kaguya, so I was nervous going into the second half of the fight with only two lives, but I managed to perfect the rest of the fight. Including all her Last Spells, for your viewing pleasure. :V All that Kaguya practice has finally been paying off lately.
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'Sup
Survival Challenge - Hard
Nal Yoo - 3,988,929,970 - Cb - Youmu - 0.598% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36620)
Perfect stage 1 to 5 (but poor executions), then 5 miss and failed 7 spellcards on stage 6 lol. it could have been 4.7B+ but i just suck at stage 6.
@ふねん1: It's because Normal mode is harder than Hard mode in this game.
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Survival Challenge - Easy
Nal Yoo - 2,868,854,180 - Cb - Marisa - 0.513% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36638)
1 miss :( I've never practiced in Easy mode in this game, probably the reason I will never be good at it.
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Scoring Challenge - Normal
Emerald - 1,025,973,550 - 6 - Reimu - 0.210% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th13/th13_udEd39.rpy)
The occasional lucky dodge, but too many faults sunk it. I guess playing at 5am has its' demerits.
1 miss :( I've never practiced in Easy mode in this game, probably the reason I will never be good at it.
You know your tactics well and especially doing this with a solo char, it's very strong.
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Apologies for the lack of updates - life blind-sided me two weeks ago and I've had very limited access to a computer. I'll be updating the scores tonight.
As an early warning, these challenges will not be running next month - I'll have to see how things go IRL!
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Thanks for the notice Shima! Hopefully you're not having too much trouble on the other side
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No worries Shimatora. Real-life happens to everyone at some point. Best of luck with whatever you need to do.
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I hope you're able to resolve your difficulties.
Regarding April: I'd be willing to run a set of challenges in the same format, if people like this setup.
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@Karisa:
I'd be fine with you running the challenges for April.
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Survival Challenge - Lunatic
Nal Yoo - 4,428,679,790 - Cb - Border Team - 0.320% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36695)
4 deaths on Stage 4 because I'm retarded. 1 death on Kaguya because I choked, as usual.
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Just around 17 hours left, reminder to submit entries soon if you'd like your points for this month.
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Ten Desires ARRANGE - Normal
Nwodatek - 1.047.719.990 - C - Marisa - 0.13% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36739)
Almost forgot to post this. I was planning to do Easy as well but I never got around doing it.
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Run from earlier this month. I was too lazy to submit this earlier (or get a better run).
Survival Challenge - Easy
Aeteas - 2,354,437,710 - Cb - Sakuya - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36740)
Stage 6 errors probably made me lose 100 million points or something.
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Survival Challenge - Easy
SomeGuy712x - 2,018,219,400 - Cb - Youmu & Yuyuko - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36743)
Survival Challenge - Normal
SomeGuy712x - 2,792,582,940 - Cb - Youmu & Yuyuko - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36744)
Survival Challenge - Hard
SomeGuy712x - 2,564,696,440 - Cb - Reimu & Yukari - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36745)
Survival Challenge - Lunatic
SomeGuy712x - 553,357,600 - 3 - Reimu & Yukari - 0.216% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36746)
Perfect game on Easy. Died to Kaguya's first spell on Normal (I hate Dragon's Necklace so much), and also failed Kaguya's final Last Spell. Multiple dumb deaths towards the end on Hard, but somehow managed to pull through and at least clear the game. And, on Lunatic, despite some lucky dodges, I was defeated by Keine at the end of stage 3.
Quick Challenge - 95
SomeGuy712x - 18,643,790 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=39126)
Quick Challenge - 117
SomeGuy712x - 23,457,550 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=39127)
I achieved these scores early in the month, but I just couldn't attempt them any more after a while due to the carpal tunnel. Man, why does getting the best scores here have to involve tapping Shift like crazy? Even worse, I can only use left Shift to focus in this game. Why doesn't right Shift focus as well? Then, I could've had my right hand doing the Shift tapping at times when I wasn't moving. (Oh, and right Shift does let me focus in Imperishable Night, so it's stupid that it doesn't in DDC...)
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Didn't end up getting a chance to update, will do as soon as I am able. Karisa will be taking over from me until I'm certain I'll have consistent internet access!
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Does this look good? So that the badges for March can be given out.
Edit: The badges are updated now.
Ten Desires ARRANGE - Scoring Challenge
Easy
1. ARF - 758,530,650 - C - Youmu - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38925)
2. Emerald - 725,594,070 - C - Marisa - 0.210% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th13/th13_udEd38.rpy)
Normal
1. Nwodatek - 1.047.719.990 - C - Marisa - 0.13% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36739)
2. Emerald - 1,025,973,550 - 6 - Reimu - 0.210% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th13/th13_udEd39.rpy)
Hard
Lunatic
Extra
For the Busy People - Quick Challenge
Spellcard No. 95
1. Mero - 19,188,760 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38928)
2. ARF - 19,115,100 - 0.5% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38924)
3. SomeGuy712x - 18,643,790 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=39126)
4. Nwodatek - 18,613,750 - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36447)
5. Mino - 18,589,160 - 0.700% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36431)
6. KirbyComment - 18,509,810 - 0,00% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36450)
7. Emerald - 18,387,810 - 0.000% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/zpj729pwnyfb53l/th14_01.rpy)
8. Mr Jovial - 18,044,320 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36444)
Spellcard No. 117
1. ARF - 23,591,450 - 1.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38923)
2. Mero - 23,528,640 - 2.1% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38929)
3. SomeGuy712x - 23,457,550 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=39127)
4. Funen1 - 23,335,120 - 0.0% - Replay (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17723.0;attach=38931)
5. Emerald - 23,306,200 - 0.000% - Replay (http://www.mediafire.com/download/gz56c9t0tttdpf0/th14_02.rpy)
6. Nwodatek - 23,291,130 - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36448)
7. Mr Jovial - 23,240,910 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36445)
8. Mino - 23,096,630 - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36432)
9. KirbyComment - 23,031,410 - 1,75% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36451)
Imperishable Night - Survival Challenge
Easy
1. Nal Yoo - 2,868,854,180 - Cb - Marisa - 0.513% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36638)
2. Aeteas - 2,354,437,710 - Cb - Sakuya - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36740)
3. Emerald - 2,153,892,590 - C - Yuyuko & Youmu - 0.0% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd18.rpy)
4. SomeGuy712x - 2,018,219,400 - Cb - Youmu & Yuyuko - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36743)
5. Funen1 - 1,577,540,280 - C - Border Team - 0.041% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36452)
6. Luna - 1,361,011,060 - C - Border Team - 0.039% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36499)
Normal
1. SomeGuy712x - 2,792,582,940 - Cb - Youmu & Yuyuko - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36744)
2. Funen1 - 2,023,236,840 - C - Border Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36588)
3. Emerald - 789,168,400 - 4 - Yuyuko & Youmu - 0.061% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd20.rpy)
Hard
1. Nal Yoo - 3,988,929,970 - Cb - Youmu - 0.598% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36620)
2. Funen1 - 2,763,545,250 - C - Border Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36600)
3. SomeGuy712x - 2,564,696,440 - Cb - Reimu & Yukari - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36745)
Lunatic
1. Nal Yoo - 4,428,679,790 - Cb - Border Team - 0.320% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36695)
2. Funen1 - 3,048,554,590 - C - Border Team - 0.000% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36602)
3. SomeGuy712x - 553,357,600 - 3 - Reimu & Yukari - 0.216% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=36746)
4. Emerald - 261,168,340 - 2 - Border Team - 0.244% - Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/replays/th08/th8_udEd19.rpy)