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

[eternal]

This was almost a month ago now, but my last big 1cc was Espgaluda II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MraBCPsbHpY

That's probably been my hardest clear thus far, but I felt that it wasn't too much harder than Futari Original? For pure survival, a lot of the bosses just come down to resource management with Asagi; learning a route to reach each boss with 500 gems, and then spending the gems to skip risky patterns instead of burning through bombs.

Fun game though. I love how they doubled down on the horizontal bullets from the first Espgaluda's final boss. Half the bosses in this game end with some kind of slow-moving horizontal pattern.

No idea if the final boss's final pattern is beatable with no miss/no bomb with other characters. Feels like you have to be in kakusei for it, and you'll die once your gems run out. That's probably my only real complaint. In comparison, it was really fun to do a perfect clear (no kakusei) in practice mode for the final boss of the first Espgaluda, even though I'd never risk it in a real run.

[Sweatlord_STG]

Gradius II

https://youtu.be/l2drZ_8FjjM

It could have been a perfect run easily. But somehow I fucked it up at the very end. Oh well, at least it's a clear.

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Raiden DX Training

https://youtu.be/R1BIN4uiuQ4

Nothing I could show off with, but it was lots of fun.

[Gas]

Managed to get a 1CC and 1LC as well of the arcade version of Truxton, the first arcade shmup I've managed to get a 1CC for. A very tough game, remember at the start just thinking I'd be happy to get past stage 3 in 1 credit. Before then I had only played a few retro console shmups and 1CC'd some of the Touhou games on normal. Seems shmups are the only single-player genre where the games are still hard after abusing cheese strats and save stating every section to practice. Was a pretty huge adrenaline rush during the very last 1CC run when the end was in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQ9Rwev1Tg

[Sweatlord_STG]

Managed to get a 1CC and 1LC as well of the arcade version of Truxton, the first arcade shmup I've managed to get a 1CC for. A very tough game, remember at the start just thinking I'd be happy to get past stage 3 in 1 credit. Before then I had only played a few retro console shmups and 1CC'd some of the Touhou games on normal. Seems shmups are the only single-player genre where the games are still hard after abusing cheese strats and save stating every section to practice. Was a pretty huge adrenaline rush during the very last 1CC run when the end was in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQ9Rwev1Tg

Congrats! That's one hell of a first clear! I was also going to go back to this game soon. How long did it take you to get the clear?

[Gas]

Managed to get a 1CC and 1LC as well of the arcade version of Truxton, the first arcade shmup I've managed to get a 1CC for. A very tough game, remember at the start just thinking I'd be happy to get past stage 3 in 1 credit. Before then I had only played a few retro console shmups and 1CC'd some of the Touhou games on normal. Seems shmups are the only single-player genre where the games are still hard after abusing cheese strats and save stating every section to practice. Was a pretty huge adrenaline rush during the very last 1CC run when the end was in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQ9Rwev1Tg

Congrats! That's one hell of a first clear! I was also going to go back to this game soon. How long did it take you to get the clear?

Thanks! I checked the log file for Retroarch, and it ended up taking me 54 hours to do, with the last 8-ish hours being all 1CC runs. So doing each section on average 108X each. I usually write down a bunch of notes in a spreadsheet that could be added to that hours count, with which savestate numbers mean what, good ways found out to get through sections, bombs I'm able to use for certain midbosses. At about 3 parts hints I randomly stumbled upon online really helped (2 were safe spots, and how for the wide blue midboss pair, the second one for whatever reason doesn't shoot if you kill the first one fast enough).

Hard to express well, but a sense of devotion really kept me going to see this one through to the end. Memory is vague now whether it was to this game specifically or these games as a whole. (Other factors also contributing small parts to sticking through it)