Mushihimesama on Steam

[rtw]

haven't really had any problems with the port so far, other than things that are part of its original design that i dislike: sd sprites/hd backgrounds, all the menu assets being drawn for 16:9, etc.

There is an option in the menu where you select the screen rotation where you can 'link' the menu with the rotation-

On my Tate'ed laptop the menu is 9:16

Of course the initial splash screen is always Yoko.

[Observer]

For those of you having crashes, I found a fix at NeoGAF and it has been posted here:

Press ALT+Enter when the game starts up to force it to full screen. That should make it run instead of crashing. Pretty damn odd but I get the feeling that the main culprit isn't just that it doesn't save settings but also that most PC nowadays have 2+ screens setup. (I have 2, one is an old 4:3 17" LCD to top it.)

I've had a blast so far with the game. Novice feels extremely accessible and I 1cc'd Original on my first try. Gotta try Maniac and Ultra. Made it to stage 3 in Normal Original.

Someone has to tell me what's those "Fire counter" achievements are for because neither in Maniac nor Ultra I seem to rack up the ridiculous numbers it asks for... I read the strategy guide here stating it's like DDP, so... chaining in my Mushi? Damn.

edit: Seems Durante found out the friend list on Steam is the issues, lol. So "forever alone" edition coming to GeDoSaTo.

[CStarFlare]

Fire counter is your main counter in Mushi - the big one. If you want the achievements play Maniac on stage 4 or 5 and practice tapping on the midbosses.

[Observer]

Fire counter is your main counter in Mushi - the big one. If you want the achievements play Maniac on stage 4 or 5 and practice tapping on the midbosses.

Thanks, I'll try!

Not that I just want the achievements, but they are a good indication that there are some deep scoring techniques in the mix! (I like when games do that because they force the player to start exploring all its mechanics.)

[StarCreator]

For those not checking GAF, Durante's tool, GeDoSaTo, now has a fix for the startup crash, which is apparently caused by a buffer overflow when you have more Steam friends than the game is designed to handle. He has built a function to intercept the Steam API in order to report to the game that you have few (or no) friends, which seems to fully resolve the issue. Details on his blog: http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=782

[Bonus!]

For those not checking GAF, Durante's tool, GeDoSaTo, now has a fix for the startup crash, which is apparently caused by a buffer overflow when you have more Steam friends than the game is designed to handle. He has built a function to intercept the Steam API in order to report to the game that you have few (or no) friends, which seems to fully resolve the issue. Details on his blog: http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=782

I hope Blackbird is monitoring this thread closely, so this issue can be fixed permanently, without having to bother with external tools.

[Cagar]

For those not checking GAF, Durante's tool, GeDoSaTo, now has a fix for the startup crash, which is apparently caused by a buffer overflow when you have more Steam friends than the game is designed to handle. He has built a function to intercept the Steam API in order to report to the game that you have few (or no) friends, which seems to fully resolve the issue. Details on his blog: http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=782

-fixed

[Observer]

Ok, one more question: which are the conditions to unlock the TLB in Normal mode? Don't bomb/continue/1-life clear?

I just faced it in Arrange mode and I'm wondering if it's as brutal in other modes because holy crap it's freaking monstrous...

[BulletMagnet]

I'm pretty sure he only appears in Ultra, though I'm not sure what the precise conditions are.

[Chaos Phoenixma]

You have to be on Arrange or Ultra mode. There's no requirement outside of playing those modes.

[linko9]

Disappointing how the screen options are handled. Unless I'm missing something, if you have a rotated monitor, the game will only take up a small fraction of the screen; no option to have it fit the screen; essentially no fullscreen options exist. Never having played the 360 cave ports, maybe this worked the same way, but the option was there in the PS2 release of this game. Even an option to disable the side art would be appreciated.

[Opus131]

For those not checking GAF, Durante's tool, GeDoSaTo, now has a fix for the startup crash, which is apparently caused by a buffer overflow when you have more Steam friends than the game is designed to handle. He has built a function to intercept the Steam API in order to report to the game that you have few (or no) friends, which seems to fully resolve the issue. Details on his blog: http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=782

Ha, must be why i never experienced this problem. I have no friends.

[SMC]

Ok, one more question: which are the conditions to unlock the TLB in Normal mode? Don't bomb/continue/1-life clear?

I just faced it in Arrange mode and I'm wondering if it's as brutal in other modes because holy crap it's freaking monstrous...

It's worse. If you don't have at least three lives going into the final attack you're probably screwed. If you do everything absolutely perfectly you can scrape by with two lives.

[Observer]

Disappointing how the screen options are handled. Unless I'm missing something, if you have a rotated monitor, the game will only take up a small fraction of the screen; no option to have it fit the screen; essentially no fullscreen options exist. Never having played the 360 cave ports, maybe this worked the same way, but the option was there in the PS2 release of this game. Even an option to disable the side art would be appreciated.

Have you tried the zoom options and positioning in the Screen config?

Edit: Holy crap so the TLB is even worse!? Hot damn... It also sucks the boss lol at your pathetic attempts at bombing... Some of the shit it fires requires basically per pixel micro dodging...

[rtw]

Disappointing how the screen options are handled.

You are missing something Set zoom to 150% on a 1080P, and link menu to rotation.

[cave hermit]

For some reason my replay data doesn't get uploaded with my leaderboard scores even when I say yes at the prompt; Do I also have to save the replay locally for it to upload or something?

Also, what exactly is different about 1.5 in non max mode? In Max original I see that there's point blank gem shedding and bullet speed that scales with the gem counter, but in non-max original it seems mostly identical to standard original mode (although there's a very large amount of slowdown in stage 3 that wasn't there in standard original).

Disappointing how the screen options are handled. Unless I'm missing something, if you have a rotated monitor, the game will only take up a small fraction of the screen; no option to have it fit the screen; essentially no fullscreen options exist. Never having played the 360 cave ports, maybe this worked the same way, but the option was there in the PS2 release of this game. Even an option to disable the side art would be appreciated.

When I tated my laptop, I just used the zoom options to fit the game area to my entire screen, and that seemed to work pretty well.

[Van_Artic]

Ok, one more question: which are the conditions to unlock the TLB in Normal mode? Don't bomb/continue/1-life clear?

I just faced it in Arrange mode and I'm wondering if it's as brutal in other modes because holy crap it's freaking monstrous...

Arrange Aki is very very easy
Ultra Aki is unbeatable if you dunno the bomb trick AND you're not using W-power

[SMC]

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[TransatlanticFoe]

Disappointing how the screen options are handled. Unless I'm missing something, if you have a rotated monitor, the game will only take up a small fraction of the screen; no option to have it fit the screen; essentially no fullscreen options exist. Never having played the 360 cave ports, maybe this worked the same way, but the option was there in the PS2 release of this game. Even an option to disable the side art would be appreciated.

Each game mode has individual screen options beyond the global options. This is how the CAVE 360 ports have their setup options.

There is a zoom option that allows you to fill the screen in TATE, or give you a 3:4 box with top and bottom borders if you've TATE'd a widescreen monitor.

[StarCreator]

-fixed

Fixed... what, exactly?

Disappointing how the screen options are handled. Unless I'm missing something, if you have a rotated monitor, the game will only take up a small fraction of the screen; no option to have it fit the screen; essentially no fullscreen options exist. Never having played the 360 cave ports, maybe this worked the same way, but the option was there in the PS2 release of this game. Even an option to disable the side art would be appreciated.

I think you need to start with your monitor output set to landscape orientation, then change the configuration in game to rotate. It might not work properly if the monitor is set to portrait orientation outside of the game.

[Danny]

Durante to the rescue!

http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/

Latest update has a profile for the game already in it. That said this will work for most people, unfortunately some people might still have problems injecting the code which Durante is working on a solution too. Also it's interesting reading to find out what exactly the problems are in the game and why it's not running at 60fps.

[OmegaFlareX]

Any updates BlackBird? Are you working this weekend?

Still no problems here. Yesterday I 1CC'd novice Maniac (4:3 fullscreen tate), also checked out the #1 replay in the same category on the leaderboards. I was expecting it to desync but it was fine (First time I played one of my own replays it desynced). He/she used W-shot while I used S, is it normal that I had much less slowdown on the last boss (hardly any at all)?

[STG4WD]

One small request/thought that would be nice:

Please could someone get an official cover picture for the game on Twitch? Now that the game has a Steam release, it would be nice to see it show up on the games page with a picture not a question mark to introduce it.

Audiences are tiny at the moment though, which is a real pity.

[CloudyMusic]

Went in and turned on GPU scaling, solved my screen-stretching issues. Lag seems OK, no stuttering in about an hour of play.

[Domino]

So far my issues with the port is that it doesn't load in full screen when I start the game plus the minor shutter. Other than that its great.

[Shepardus]

Does anyone know what button you have to press to continue if you're using a keyboard?

Hit "1" to continue...

Thanks, I'm not sure how I missed that considering that that's my P1 start button in MAME.

No wonder why I never encountered the crash, I'm always offline on Steam and even when I'm online I have next to no friends.

[linko9]

Wow, thanks guys! I feel a bit dumb, but I never would have guessed that the options within each game mode would be different from the ones on the main menu, sort of odd, but works great!

[Danny]

So far my issues with the port is that it doesn't load in full screen when I start the game plus the minor shutter. Other than that its great.

Go in to the Mushihimesama.ini and set DispFull=1. After you have saved that I would make the .ini file a 'read only' file to stop the game from altering it again.

Wow, thanks guys! I feel a bit dumb, but I never would have guessed that the options within each game mode would be different from the ones on the main menu, sort of odd, but works great!

Yeah it's like that with CAVE's other Xbox 360 games as well.

[BrianC]

I just got this and having the frame rate 56 limit issues. It doesn't like my PS1 pad, though it works fine with the 360 pad.

[Bananamatic]

even after applying all the gedosato stuff, the game stutters all the goddamn time

should be the #1 thing on the priority list