Touhou Accomplishments V3

[nintendonut888]

In retrospect, Genetics wasn't that hard. It was just...that you had to spend seven minutes...for a single...attempt...Asdfkhasfjkeshmjadka sorry I blacked out.

Also, surprisingly I only have five spell cards in UFO I have yet to capture on lunatic:

Dipper Creeping Close (Murasa's survival card)
SPINNING LAZORZ
Undefined Darkness
Rainbow UFOs
Nightmare in Heiankyou

If I actually get off my butt and unlock SA stage 4 with all shot types, and practice enough, I could actually easily get to the point of capturing every spell card in the series, since Satori cards are the only thing in SA left (granted that's 15 spell cards), and I'm sure I'll get the remaining UFO cards in time.

[Tarquinius]

Looking at everyone's 1CC lists makes me feel ashamed. My list:
1CC Easy: EoSD, PoFV, SA
1CC Normal: PCB, IN
I should be able to 1CC Normal UFO in a few days though - my best is Hiziri's second to last card.

[Bananamatic]

On Rainbow UFOs, stand under one UFO stream(I prefer the left one) and shoot them just as they spawn....worked for me, shottype shouldn't matter much :V

Tried EoSD lunatic, surprisingly even captured some cards.....captured all Cirno's cards, Rainbow Wind Chime and China's 2 final ones....

Stage 1 lunatic is definitely easier than MoF stage 1 hard. Maiden's heart whatever can go die in a fire. It's STAGE 1, STOP WALLING ME.
Stage 2 though.....well, it's lunatic, what do you expect :V

Tried EoSD Hard again, failed at Scarlet Meister.
I bomb a little too much....or Sakuya walls me too much with her nonspells.

I've managed to pull a perfect China battle this time(not stage).

Patchouli's stage usually takes atleast a life from me and 1-2 more on Patchy herself, I enter stage 5 with 5 lives, lost 2 lives, entered stage 6 with 3 lives 0 bombs, died on Sakuya's opener, bombed Remilia's opener 2 times, Young Demon Lord decides to piss on me and put me in the most ridiculous spaces, death+bomb on Needle Mountain, Vampire Illusion isn't nice either, 0 bombs 1 life vs Scarlet Meister, game over.

About Scarlet Meister.....in which directions should I dodge? I've noticed that sometimes it walls me completely and sometimes gives me some space to dodge.
Right-left-right-left? Or opposite?

[Matsuri]

PoDD 1cc Hard with Yumemi. Score was 33,354,260 (I don't know if this is good or bad :V).

I'll try Lunatic later, if only to see how bad it is according to Donut.

Lunatic is the only way to make PoDD and PoFV fun. They're too easy/boring otherwise. PoDD Lunatic is absolutely insane, but it's a blast to play as well. I haven't beaten it on Lunatic yet, though.

[Suikama]

1CC UFO EASY FINALLY.

Bleh reached Byakuren with almost max lives then started dying left and right to stupid stuff. I was afraid of losing the 1CC so I started bomb spamming near the end. Derp.

[nintendonut888]

Yes, PoDD lunatic is the only way to go. Hard is so slow...I actually didn't like the phantasmagoria games at all, and now...er, actually PoFV still is a PoS, but PoDD grew on me a lot while I was grinding its lunatic.

And @Bananamatic: Scarlet Meister is considered to be the single hardest spell card in the series, so I wouldn't put too much effort into capturing it on lunatic. Remilia's movements in it are random, and the strategy completely changes depending on where she moves. In the 270 or so times I've played that stage, I've captured Scarlet Meister twice.

[Bananamatic]

Hard, not Lunatic :V
I can do Remilia pretty consistently with the 4 lives that practice mode offers....

[Nine West]

I can't wait until you 1cc hard, say "I can do this! =D", try lunatic and fail to get past stage 1. I'm dead serious when I say the difference between hard and lunatic is that big.

Haha, no kidding. Just tried Lunatic and managed to reduce Stage 3 Reimu's health to 1 before I Game Over'd. Even gaining 1 Extend as early as Stage 3 didn't help much, and both players reaching Lv 16 at Stage 1 was frightening.

The whole time I was playing that, I can really feel my adrenaline rushing.

Considering that I've never touched any modes outside of Easy in all the Touhou games (with the exception of PoDD, TEoSD, and PCB), I don't think I'm ready for Lunatic yet. :V

[LHCling]

Yes, PoDD lunatic is the only way to go. Hard is so slow...I actually didn't like the phantasmagoria games at all, and now...er, actually PoFV still is a PoS, but PoDD grew on me a lot while I was grinding its lunatic.

;_;

You just don't appreciate using Spell Attack to clear bullets in PoFV. Admit it. You also don't like scoring, so it's natural that you don't use Spell Attack to score (and Counter-Summon, etc.)

[Sapz]

Yes, PoDD lunatic is the only way to go. Hard is so slow...I actually didn't like the phantasmagoria games at all, and now...er, actually PoFV still is a PoS, but PoDD grew on me a lot while I was grinding its lunatic.

;_;

You just don't appreciate using Spell Attack to clear bullets in PoFV. Admit it. You also don't like scoring, so it's natural that you don't use Spell Attack to score (and Counter-Summon, etc.)

This is actually the main reason I keep getting hit in PoDD normal; I've played PoFV too often. I see a wave of bullets, charge a level 2 attack and release it, then have a 'wait wh-SHIT wrong game' moment and get hit for trying to dodge too late.

[nintendonut888]

You're right: I DON'T appreciate having to essentially bomb in a series that's all about skill and dodging. The most fun I've ever had in that game was choosing Aya and watching the AI crumble as I beat lunatic my first try.

[LHCling]

You're right: I DON'T appreciate having to essentially bomb in a series that's all about skill and dodging. The most fun I've ever had in that game was choosing Aya and watching the AI crumble as I beat lunatic my first try.

Unskillful use of bombs results in a quick death. There's skill, but it's a "different" form I guess. Dodging still exists. You don't have to bombspam to win. I can prove this as well  :V

_{Just give me a week or so, I can't devote any time at this point.}
Been processing a while;
UFO Stage 6 Hard No Deaths No Bombs

Also, I'm well aware I messed up the UFO chaining; that doesn't bother me at all seeing as I was going for something different.

[Thaws]

Oh wow, 1cced SA Hard. 0 life left.

That was... less difficult than I thought it would be.
I had deaths everywhere since stage 2, really should've learned how to do Parsee midboss non-card because I died there. :/

Can't believe I only died once on stage 5 though  , which was on Possessed Fairy >_>

Since I had only 2 Power, so I couldn't clear the card before the fairies come to the bottom, so I had to do another rotation, then just as I successfully rotated around Orin, ONE STRAY PELLET BULLET JUST HIT ME (This should be in the RAGE thread?), there was almost nothing else around because I wasn't killing the fairies.

[nintendonut888]

Hmph. I dislike this Next emulator. Not only does it make the music sound worse, but it slows down too. 6.62% slowdown for a LLS lunatic 1cc. Oh well, a clear's a clear...I guess.

WHY DOES ANEX86 FLICKER AND JILT AROUND LIKE THIS?! IT RAN PERFECTLY WHEN I FIRST GOT THE COMPUTER! TT_TT

I've worked out Syou's 2nd non-spell.

Images to come; you'll see immediately how it works once I show you.

下手に動かない方が当たりにくい
その1と同じくあまり大きく動かずちょん避け
地味に発狂する、さっさと撃ち込んで倒したい所だが焦りは禁物

That's what the Japanese have at the moment. I can't understand it, but...
Here we go
http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/untitled-2.png
http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/untitled2-2.png
http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/untitled3-1.png
http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/untitled4.png
http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/untitled5.png
http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/untitled6.png
http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt263/BaitySM/untitled7.png
You'll see (almost) everything lining up pretty nicely. Being able to time this out with only 2 deaths is really something.

EDIT: Fixed a replica link. Yes, I use 2 hosts, is that a problem?

Sorry, I'm stupid. How does this help me not get lazor'd?

[nintendonut888]

Sorry for the double post, but HOLY SHIT I JUST BEAT LUNATIC BYAKUREN WITH ONLY ONE DEATH.

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=4693

This is what needs to happen in a real run. ._.

[LHCling]

Hmph. I dislike this Next emulator. Not only does it make the music sound worse, but it slows down too. 6.62% slowdown for a LLS lunatic 1cc. Oh well, a clear's a clear...I guess.

T98-Next is takes up more processing space.

Sorry, I'm stupid. How does this help me not get lazor'd?

Being laser'd is just a sign that you're misreading it. You need a good reaction not get hit by the lasers  :V
I was showing how the large bullets are aimed.

[nintendonut888]

Is there an emulator that won't flicker and take up less processing space? If you know one, you may turn into my favorite person~ :D :D :D

[LHCling]

Is there an emulator that won't flicker and take up less processing space? If you know one, you may turn into my favorite person~ :D :D :D

I wish I knew another one myself  D:

Trying to record Lunatic Yumeko at 60 FPS is looking like it's impossible.
I got a second (SanaeB) "Radiant Treasure Gun"_{UFO S5 SC2} capture, so that's a plus. It's getting easier and easier it seems... perhaps practice is paying off after all.

Also, I tried to perfect S5 Hard but nooooo~, "Greatest Treasure"_{UFO S5 SC1} has currently denied me of all perfect runs so far. Either that, or magically dying on the 2nd half of the stage due to a random clipdeath.

EDIT: Typo, etc.

[nintendonut888]

Really? That's disappointing. I've heard there are other PC-98 emulators, but considering I needed help to run Next, I doubt I'd be able to run them, even if I could. D: It's truly saddening...I just wanna play PC-98 without slowdown or flicker (or madness inducing music I mean WTF Alice Maestra is supposed to be soft and sweet).

Anyway, I'm currently making a video of my Byakuren fight, since I doubt I'll be pulling off a no deaths run in the near future. I'll edit this post with a link once it's ready. <3

EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvL76e-rCM

[Shizumarashi Mayuzumi]

Took full continues for each, lol (so a 4cc and a 5cc I think?), but cleared EoSD and PCB Easy today. (Baby steps!)

Resurrection Butterfly was actually kind of amusing. (Wish I could have saved a replay to watch it, if only to confirm the exact order of events, but... continues.)

Went in 0/1
Got a border right near the start
Somehow managed to dodge the first wave of reds (I desperately need ot learn how to deal with those...)
Border auto-collected enough point items after the wave I got another life
Bomb, die
Bomb, another border, bomb, win!

So I guess that puts me at, for all games:
HRtP-MS: Um... I think I poked at them all once each?
EoSD: 4cc Easy
PCB: 5cc Easy
IN: 1cc Easy
PoFV: 1cc Easy all characters (bar Komachi and Shikieiki because I still need to beat Extra to unlock them...)
MoF: half of MoF (the card) shy of 1cc Easy
SA: Reached stage 5 boss Easy
UFO: ... reached stage 3 boss Easy. Damnit.

[LHCling]

Really? That's disappointing. I've heard there are other PC-98 emulators, but considering I needed help to run Next, I doubt I'd be able to run them, even if I could. D: It's truly saddening...I just wanna play PC-98 without slowdown or flicker (or madness inducing music I mean WTF Alice Maestra is supposed to be soft and sweet).

I should rephrase my statement. I wish I knew another one myself that worked properly.

Oh, and there may be a... method of lowering percussion volume. Since I can't pin down the channel that alters (the percussion's) volume, I decided "Why not increase the volume of the melody instead?" Results are nice (IMO), but the recording output may sound louder; which isn't that much of a problem I would imagine. And for playing, just turn the volume down on your speakers  :V

Alright, so here's what you do. Open emulator (T98-Next). Click on the Device Manager tab. Highlight *Sound86.nhw and click on Setting. Increase the Inner Audio Volume of the FM channel to your suited number (experiment a bit). What this would do overall is increase the volume of the "melodic part" (sorry, really a layman with the terms here) while keeping the "percussion part"'s volume the same. Relatively however, the "melodic part" will be more dominant, which is your desired effect.

Hope that helps...

[nintendonut888]

Whoa. I think...I've got LFO down. I just did a terrible run to celebrate my best run yet (video up now!), died on nearly every attack, entered LFO with 2 lives and 3.00 power, and I captured it. It appears I've greatly overestimated this card. Essentially this is like Hourai Jewel, but without the extremely low margin of error in changing directions. It's micromemorizable as long as you deal the same amount of damage to Byakuren every time.

[Iryan]

HELL YEAH! UFO Stage 6 Lunatic unlocked for practice mode! 

*still shaking*

The final run was so awesome. First because it was the second time for me to capture Cloudy Way in Purple (ok, it went easy on me, but it was a capture anyway), second because, despite me having spent a total of more than 7 unsuccessful hours grinding this single stage spread over the course of three days, I had a full spare life left in the end, and third because I almost captured Friggin' Saucer! During the red phase I used a bomb which I don't think was neccessary, but I wanted to be shure to beat it, not noticing that I had one spare life left.  :V
I really like that card. It is not as awesome as VoWG, but it is still awesome.
...and it uses a similar mechanism as one of my Sariel cards.

Also, before that, I had my best run of stage 5 lunatic yet, meaning by the end of the Shou battle I also had a full spare life left.

*goes away in joy*

[Sapz]

Managed to capture LFO Hard, which makes all UFO Hard spell cards captured. :V

Huh... to be honest, I may as well attempt to capture every card in the series. The only things left are cards from SA Lunatic, UFO Lunatic and random assorted IN cards I haven't unlocked and Scarlet Meister/Gensokyo Lunatic but the spell card screen doesn't know that. That reminds me, actually; is there any way of unlocking Lunatic 6B for practice without actually having to 1cc the entire game? Because... that might take me a while. I suck at IN. <_<

[Slaves]

so i hadn't played PCB seriously in a few weeks, so i thought i'd try to 1cc Normal.

i actually finished it, and with 6 lives left.

not sure how i did that, really.

replay here

[theshirn]

FUCK YEAH, VoWG LUNATIC CAPTURE!

Awesome!

And I'm not even filled with ParseeRage!  Seriously, I think this is the only accomplishment I've pulled off before you, Sodium...

[Bananamatic]

That reminds me, actually; is there any way of unlocking Lunatic 6B for practice without actually having to 1cc the entire game? Because... that might take me a while. I suck at IN. <_<

Set the default lives to 7 :V

[Sapz]

Just scraped a Hard 1cc of IN with Reimu solo (0/0 most of the way through Hourai Jewel, that was pretty scary <_<) and also capped Blazing Star. I spent about 40 attempts doing it the absolute wrong way and then capped it on my third attempt or so after realizing there was an easier way of doing it. For Last Words, that just leave Yukari's and Yuyuko's to unlock and capture.

That reminds me, actually; is there any way of unlocking Lunatic 6B for practice without actually having to 1cc the entire game? Because... that might take me a while. I suck at IN. <_<

Set the default lives to 7 :V

Well, yeah, I'll try that, but... I think you misunderstand quite how badly I suck at IN Lunatic.

[Tarquinius]

I just 1CCed UFO Normal and managed my first capture of Shou's spinning laser card. I managed to get the 1CC primarily through major bomb use on cards that I tend to die on, meaning that I didn't actually capture many cards past stage 2. Replay here. Now I just need to wait for the English patch so I can read the ending.

[Arcengal]

Am I?

It feels like a bit of an anticlimax.    Every part that made for reasonably exciting dodging, I just bombed. The most exciting part was an *almost* capture of Secretly Inherited Art of Danmaku on 0.00 power, but I got clipped right before it happened. And I died on Yasaka's Divine Wind. And I failed VoWG. Again. Ultimately, same story as when I beat Hard; I felt as if I didn't *really* win, since I only capped 5 cards.

Then again, I suppose not every game can have such a breath-taking finale as Perfect Cherry Blossom that makes you feel like a deity when you clear it.