I DID IT! Share your latest 1CCs/other triumphs here...

[Ikazu-san]

How much closer cloud I come to clearing NG+7?

Only 4 explosions.
Video coming in a few days.

[Jaimers]

Broke 8 million in Rayforce!

[Stevens]

Wooo.

Finally broke through the stage 4 wall in Mars Matrix. Reached the 3rd car of the train on stage 5. High score is up to 175 billion.

I am watching an episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse as I type this. No I am not sober

[LordHypnos]

Finally broke through the stage 4 wall in Mars Matrix. Reached the 3rd car of the train on stage 5. High score is up to 175 billion.

Alright! All downhill from here! Well, mostly anyway

[horaceappleton]

I cleared Phantasmagoria Trues on Standard! It shouldn't be much of an accomplishment, but Mima had me stopped cold for an entire week. So it was nice to clear with 6 lives when I finally did.

Anyway, survival is NOT the focus of this mode; on to refining my early-game scoring routes.

EDIT: holy shit jaimers

[Cagar]

THANK YOU EVERYONE!
hibachi a cunt

[Stevens]

Stage 6.

I took a picture of the ranking screen, but I'll wait to post one till I get the clear.

Highlight of the run for me, other than getting to stage 6, was no missing until the stage 4 boss. I didn't think I would clear 4 again so fast, but I did it twice in a row and three times in total.

I've only been playing for two weeks since picking it up again, but I would be lying if I didn't mention that I spent a large amount of time with Mars Matrix when I first got into shmups.

I just wasn't remotely ready to handle it yet.

[Shepardus]

It's only been just over a week since I cleared Touhou 12's extra stage, but I just managed to do the same for Touhou 13: Ten Desires, after spamming countless bombs on the survival card and trying to wing my way through the last spell (never reached it before this run, so I didn't have the chance to run it in Spell Practice mode).



That means I've completed all the extra stages in the Windows main series Touhou games, and only have 12.8 (Fairy Wars) left to tackle out of all the Windows Touhou games (for the sake of my sanity I'm not including StB and DS since those aren't really extra "stages").

[BareKnuckleRoo]

That means I've completed all the extra stages in the Windows main series Touhou games,

If you haven't played the PC98 games, you're missing out. Grab a copy of T98 Next and emulate them for funtimes. LLS and Mystic Square both have amazingly fun Extra stages.

[Softdrink 117]

Darius Burst Another Chronicle No-Miss CGL ALL get!!!


Lower half of the image is a zoom showing the score and stage more visibly; the fullsize image is over 3000 pixels wide so a lot of detail in the text got killed when I resized before adding the zoom layer

With this I've now cleared all the routes in Arcade mode. Now time to get into Chronicle and EX!

Huge thanks to everyone who came and watched! Gonna highlight and export the stream tonight, will post a link when I'm done.

[Bonus!]

Congratulations!
I'm wondering why the quality of the image is so high. Are you streaming from an arcade, or does this game work with the Type X2 loader?

[SapphireDensetsu]

Congratulations!
I'm wondering why the quality of the image is so high. Are you streaming from an arcade, or does this game work with the Type X2 loader?

Spoiler

It's a capture from an unreleased PC rip by trap15 and alamone.

--Sapphire

[ProjectAKo]

I think I just 1CCed MAME sound emulation. I spent 10 hours over the past week tracking down the somewhat infamous sound crash in sonic wings 2 and it turns out certain z80 port writes that would be ignored on hardware (the writes are ignored if 87 cycles haven't elapsed) aren't ignored in MAME, leading to an edge case where an interrupt can cause writes to point at the wrong ym2610 address and crash it by screwing up its hardware timers. The way I fixed it for now was re-writing the sound driver of sw2 slightly so that all output port writes come BEFORE the interrupt enable instruction.

Well, at least I can do runs of the game now without the sword of damocles hanging over my head constantly threatening to ruin my recording.

[trap15]

I think I just 1CCed MAME sound emulation. I spent 10 hours over the past week tracking down the somewhat infamous sound crash in sonic wings 2 and it turns out certain z80 port writes that would be ignored on hardware (the writes are ignored if 87 cycles haven't elapsed) aren't ignored in MAME, leading to an edge case where an interrupt can cause writes to point at the wrong ym2610 address and crash it by screwing up its hardware timers. The way I fixed it for now was re-writing the sound driver of sw2 slightly so that all output port writes come BEFORE the interrupt enable instruction.

Well, at least I can do runs of the game now without the sword of damocles hanging over my head constantly threatening to ruin my recording.

Hahahahahha that's awesome. I was wondering if the Busy flag would affect anything since MAME doesn't emulate it (my emulator I've been working on does), so it's nice to see that something genuinely relies on that behavior. Great work!

[iconoclast]

2-ALL'd Dodonpachi Daioujou White Label.

This fucking credit. There was one terrible death on 2-3 that would normally end just about anybody's run, but by some small miracle, I managed to save it by NMNB'ing the boss. I only had one bomb going in to 2-4, so I was worried about the railguns (I normally use two bombs there for safety), but I managed to get through it with a bit of luck. And finally in 2-5, there was one more bad death at the end of the beehive, but that's a death I always plan for because that's the hardest part of the stage (I can do it most of the time on MAME, but I guess nerves get the best of me on a real run. It's hard to be Evel Knievel 40 minutes into a game...). Everything after that went pretty much perfectly. My hands were shaking so bad during the Hibachi fight that I was almost certain I would die to something ridiculous.

And a belated congrats to Cagar on his DOJBL 2-ALL.

[Lilium]

Bloody nutter. Great job taking down that monster

[chum]

congratulations iconoclast!

[Jaimers]

[Erppo]

Good job. That was definitely the most important uncleared game in this forum.

[Softdrink 117]

Absolutely awesome work iconoclast!

[SapphireDensetsu]

Absolutely awesome work iconoclast!

[zlk]

Congrats Iconoclast! Crazy impressive achievement!

[pokemon123]

(joke) now get that shit on your youtube so I can watch the replay nao

[pegboy]

Darius Twin with no deaths: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmcU4PJbWcE. This one is by no means impressive challenge wise but I do kind of enjoy the game and there are a few music tracks in there that are pretty awesome. Nice little game for what it was.


I did some testing and I'm pretty sure the route I use is the optimum scoring route, milked the living hell out of the turtle boss, where probably 1/2 of the score in the game comes from.

[ACSeraph]

Not even through January and we already have a contender for achievement of the year. Congrats iconoclast!

[chempop]

Wooo congrats iconoclast!!!
You make this fellow MA resident proud

[Blackbird]

Holy cow! Amazing accomplishment, iconoclast! I've gotta step up my game =).

[Skykid]

A six gun salute firing purple bullets.

I need that replay!

[ratikal]

WOW

[Naut]

Congratulations iconoclast! That game is brutal, great work.