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

[Faith]

I ACTUALLY DID IT!!! FAITH... ACTUALLY... DID... IT!!!!!!!!!!

CRIMZON CLOVER ARCADE UNLIMITED NO-MISS 1CC!!!!!

MIRACLE!!!

[aak]

I ACTUALLY DID IT!!! FAITH... ACTUALLY... DID... IT!!!!!!!!!!

CRIMZON CLOVER ARCADE UNLIMITED NO-MISS 1CC!!!!!

MIRACLE!!!

That's incredible! Congratulations!

[Faith]

That's incredible! Congratulations!

Thank you!! This is such a different feeling... this game had always taught me peace... but now... the world feels so quiet around me >.<!~

Here are a few more screenshots from this run I took along the way!~

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[Nugs]

Wow!
That is massively impressive, well done Faith.

[Faith]

Wow!
That is massively impressive, well done Faith.

Thank you!! Also, for anyone who is super bored and want to see me get tortured haha... finally got video encoded properly and uploaded to my drive...

Can be streamed directly from drive!~

Or even just downloaded, if Proton is being annoying and stream slow X_X!~

https://drive.proton.me/urls/FJWYD4KZC8#HGMyvpw7w36m

[Weak Boson]

Thank you!! Also, for anyone who is super bored and want to see me get tortured haha... finally got video encoded properly and uploaded to my drive...

Can be streamed directly from drive!~

Or even just downloaded, if Proton is being annoying and stream slow X_X!~

https://drive.proton.me/urls/FJWYD4KZC8#HGMyvpw7w36m

I watched the replay and had a blast, this game is relentless. Incredible skills. The no miss bonus for the final stage "miracle" is really funny and I agree!

[blazinglazers69]

Amazing work faith!!!

Massive congrats. Any idea how many hours it took?

[Faith]

I watched the replay and had a blast, this game is relentless. Incredible skills. The no miss bonus for the final stage "miracle" is really funny and I agree!

Haha yes, that was also my first thought... when I saw the "Miracle" I felt it super deep down, like, very personal. There couldn't have been a better word put there >.<!~

But also... at least I finally found out... what was that mysterious last No-Miss word!

Because... in each mode and each stage... it is different. And I had never actually seen any video of Arcade Unlimited No-Miss before @_@"... so, it was so surreal to see!

Massive congrats. Any idea how many hours it took?

From memory... I took around 70 hours to clear every mode except Arcade Unlimited (so, all Novice modes first, then all Arrange modes, then Arcade Original & Boost)...

Then... Arcade Unlimited... my first 1CC took over 200 hours to get. 220+ most likely.

For 1CC No-Miss another 400 hours on top.

So my total Arcade Unlimited time is over 600 hours easy x____x"... so, many, stars!~

Actually, my hubby always jokes this game is for me to collect honey stars haha... so I checked because game keeps track... now total stars collected: over 800,000,000!~

[To Far Away Times]

That is very impressive, wow.

[Angry Hina]

Vimana, now without autofire. I manually tapped every shot, even without an arcade stick, so its my first real no autofire run. Before I 1cc'ed Darius Gaiden with the slow autofire which is someties names "without autofire" as well ^^

This is how Vimana finally works properly. There's no empty or pointless space anymore. The difficulty level is well balanced and feels challenging and exciting from beginning to end. I can definitely recommend it, even if it's more stressful to play this way of course. You can also define an autofire mode in the Toaplan collection that matches your skill level, so you kinda cheat but can enjoy the game as intended.

I trained with this semi no autofire a bit but felt often times, that if you fire short burst with minimal spread, you are sometimes stronger so I had to tap not as often and consistent as I thought at first.

https://youtu.be/5ymgNLB9pco

[blazinglazers69]

From memory... I took around 70 hours to clear every mode except Arcade Unlimited (so, all Novice modes first, then all Arrange modes, then Arcade Original & Boost)...

Then... Arcade Unlimited... my first 1CC took over 200 hours to get. 220+ most likely.

For 1CC No-Miss another 400 hours on top.

So my total Arcade Unlimited time is over 600 hours easy x____x"... so, many, stars!~

Actually, my hubby always jokes this game is for me to collect honey stars haha... so I checked because game keeps track... now total stars collected: over 800,000,000!~

Simply incredible dedication. Video games are so cool in that they can be anything from a leisure hobby on the same level as passively watching TV, to pretty much a passionate hobby/e sports. You definitely fall into the latter category. 600 hours is nuts. I just 2-All'd R-Type II the other day which took me 90ish hours. Usually after about 50 hours I'm ready to move on to another shmup. But yeah, I feel like 500-800 hours seems to be fairly common for people who go for insane top scoring clears at your level. Really, if you're playing for score with a well made shmup you can play indefinitely and even just compete with yourself if you're the number 1 top score.

[Faith]

Simply incredible dedication.

Thank you very much for your kind words >.<!~

Actually, regarding hours, it reminds me of Kiwi because their Mushihimesama Maniac & Ultra post in Strategy forum has a small screenshot showing at least 1,200 hours on that game on Steam lol... but yes, I know how it feels @_@"... usually for most STG, after 1CC, I am happy. But Crimzon Clover kept pulling me back >.<!~ If you look at my 1CC list, you can see, after my first Arcade Unlimited 1CC, I had played a few other STG's too, which was also a good rest time to let me brain think about different things a bit more!~

I had only ever gotten No-Miss in one other STG, which is also super close to my heart (RefRain).

I should also put video of that up some day, because I believe for RefRain - prism memories - I am the only known Re:Extreme No-Miss with verified replay (the replay file is now on the developer website, so it is already avilable!). Because actually, the No-Miss achievements for this game were bugged until I attempted them, but luckily, dev worked with me to find temporary solution, and eventually they fixed it. Luckily, we found the problem when I was doing the No-Miss on lower difficulty first (the game has four No-Miss achievement, for: Advanced, Re:Advanced, Extreme, & Re:Extreme).

Vimana, now without autofire. I manually tapped every shot, even without an arcade stick, so its my first real no autofire run.

Congrats with this Hina!! No, auto fire, lol... my fingers... feel like running far far away just reading that >.<!~ That is also big dedication to tolerate!~

[Angry Hina]

Vimana, now without autofire. I manually tapped every shot, even without an arcade stick, so its my first real no autofire run.

Congrats with this Hina!! No, auto fire, lol... my fingers... feel like running far far away just reading that >.<!~ That is also big dedication to tolerate!~[/quote]

Thank you ^^ But tbh its not too hard anyway and with these short spreads, you can use in Vimana, its not as tiresome as if you had to rapid tab all the time. I guess its much different playing Raiden without auto

[pja]

Finally cleared fucking Gradius Some people say this one is easy, but I don't agree, if only for the fact that it has game overs and recovery is hard. I had no luck with it for years before Gradius Origins and the training mode (I know, I could have fucked around with save states before that but I never felt like it )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bISsU0dtB8Y

If there's anything at all interesting about this run, is that I actually had to do recovery on the very last possible checkpoint, which I never practiced, but fortunately had lots of lives to spare.

[Faith]

Some people say this one is easy, but I don't agree

Congrats!! Wow, really, who says that >.<!~ Gradius recovery is really super big test of patience and frustration lol... going far back to checkpoint with depowered ship = x_x"...

[Faith]

Mushihimesama Maniac 1CC!~



Started to route this yesterday, just got the 1CC! @_@"... sometimes, I scare myself >.<!~

So, as you can see from screenshot: I did start playing Mushi 3 months ago but I never did finish Maniac because I was also focusing on Arrange, and Arrange bullet patterns are mostly same as Maniac (with I think a few Ultra patterns in some boss? forgot)... so I felt, a bit useless to do both. Plus Arrange have that joke TLB, even if a bit easier than Ultra, still joke.

After much sourness routing that TLB I stopped playing Mushi in August after got 1CC lol...

Anyway... yesterday, when I did routing... I could not decide on S-Power or W-Power. I kept changing each time I die, kept messing around with both. That was not a good idea lol.

But! Today I had genius moment. So, since I felt I played Stage 1-3 better with W-Power, and 4-5 better with S-Power... what I did was, start run with S-Power, but the very first powerup drop (like, it comes 10 seconds after run start lol) I change to W-Power lol! So, as long as you do not die, you will keep it. So I no-miss until Stage 4, then when I die it auto change back to S-Power lol. This was really super great idea. After I came up with this strategy, first attempt I reached last boss... then second attempt got 1CC. Super happy idea lol >.<!~

Also did both 1.0 & 1.5 Original 1CC after starting game again few days ago, now trying decide if should do Original Max or Maniac Max next @_@"... but both are quite crazy X_X!~

[stellar_light]

Mushihimesama Maniac 1CC!~

Nice work!

Of the Matsuri modes I've only tried Original MAX, but even that mode still has a surprising amount of teeth to it for being based off of Original: resources are stingy, rank more or less never decreases and the bullets are so fast that it's a necessity to generate slowdown with your focus shot. It's super fun and an underrated mode though, definitely recommend checking it out--it is more difficult than Maniac imo, but nowhere near as big of a jump as something like Ultra.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Wow!
That is massively impressive, well done Faith.

Thank you!! Also, for anyone who is super bored and want to see me get tortured haha... finally got video encoded properly and uploaded to my drive...

Can be streamed directly from drive!~

Or even just downloaded, if Proton is being annoying and stream slow X_X!~

https://drive.proton.me/urls/FJWYD4KZC8#HGMyvpw7w36m

For Faith,

I'd buy your Crimson Clover Unlimited 1CC Superplay if it was released as a Blu-ray disc compliation. Are you selling them?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Faith]

rank more or less never decreases and the bullets are so fast that it's a necessity to generate slowdown with your focus shot.

Thank you!! Haha, so yes, I actually made a post about this in Strategy forum.

I found a way to decrease rank (it is reliable, but annoying and draggy >.<!~), and yes, I also noticed that focus shot increases slowdown... very very weird!~

viewtopic.php?p=1589079#p1589079

I'd buy your Crimson Clover Unlimited 1CC Superplay if it was released as a Blu-ray disc compliation. Are you selling them?

Thank you so much for your super kind words!~ If I may say, I think my run is very, very good... but, do not think it is quite "superplay" >.<!~ Sometimes, I think my score... a bit embarrassing for how many hours I played this game (over 700+). My Stage 4 is super lazy (in terms of scoring).

For me, milking Stage 4 boss is always hard, and often, not very reliable. I will start to practice it more, maybe, lol... but now, superplay score around 10-14t and mine is "only" 6t. I know where to get those points... but... for my run, I wanted to stay with familiar route to do it well. Anyway! I did always believe, make all resources free and public! It is my way to say, thank you, to the community... and to give something back. Many of my 1CC's... would not be possible without so many replays online. I like to do my own route, but sometimes, I just need some ideas!~ So, it is my hope that, someone will see my video, and maybe take a few inspirations from it, when they attempt their Arcade Unlimited 1CC. Because this mode is just... suuuper crazy x_x"...

Someone had actually already uploaded my video to YouTube too for easier access! Can just search "Crimzon Clover Unlimited No-Miss" and you should find it easily! But the file, from my drive, does not suffer from YouTube compression lol... so it looks better, and I will keep that link alive!~

[stellar_light]

Ah, hadn't noticed you made a new thread! Just left a reply, glad to see another player for this mode.

[aak]

I also got a Gradius 1cc! Double for the whole game! Laser sucks! (Just kidding)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDvYhKMelFg
Only died once near the end, not on the last checkpoint but one checkpoint before that which thankfully is still doable. If I died at the start of Stage 7 it would have totally been over, I tried to route that out in Training mode for a while and just couldn't.
And yeah, it didn't take me *too* long (around 8hrs) but I definitely still wouldn't call this game easy lol. Things can go very badly very easily. Plus I think the Origins features like the Shield gadget, Rank gadget, and Hitbox display (though I only used it in training and not on this run) helped out. Not as gamechanging as the gadgets in the Garegga port but still mildly helpful.

[FRO]

I always forget to come post my 1CC runs here, so here are a few since the last time:

Twin Cobra NES 1CC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UJA3pFxww

A couple Sol Cresta 1CC's (Wing Galiber and Wing Galiber II):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtkDCvkADjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDFCvHszvuU&t=256s

NES Gradius 1-loop clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zun1xuoKVZI

SNES Gradius III 1-loop clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBKz0jPNtE4

Polyxena and Orestes Normal clears in Bio-Hazard Battle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8-s0dDIwUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S24QTRL9pQ

All 3 weapon/attack style Normal clears in Hazelnut Hex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJXnAK ... gKAYcqIYzv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYXqBOsB-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ldEAH ... gKAYcqIYzv

And my latest clears in Blue Revolver Double Action, I managed a Normal clear with Mae using the Vortex Barrier, and a Normal clear with Dee using the Gun Buckler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTl15Y9OSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hymWI2nSBk0

[EmperorIng]

I also got a Gradius 1cc! Double for the whole game! Laser sucks! (Just kidding)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDvYhKMelFg
Only died once near the end, not on the last checkpoint but one checkpoint before that which thankfully is still doable. If I died at the start of Stage 7 it would have totally been over, I tried to route that out in Training mode for a while and just couldn't.
And yeah, it didn't take me *too* long (around 8hrs) but I definitely still wouldn't call this game easy lol. Things can go very badly very easily. Plus I think the Origins features like the Shield gadget, Rank gadget, and Hitbox display (though I only used it in training and not on this run) helped out. Not as gamechanging as the gadgets in the Garegga port but still mildly helpful.

Congrats man! I suspect you might have had some easier time with the laser in a few spots. GG on recovering in the final stage!

[blazinglazers69]

I always forget to come post my 1CC runs here, so here are a few since the last time:

Twin Cobra NES 1CC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UJA3pFxww

A couple Sol Cresta 1CC's (Wing Galiber and Wing Galiber II):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtkDCvkADjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDFCvHszvuU&t=256s

NES Gradius 1-loop clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zun1xuoKVZI

SNES Gradius III 1-loop clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBKz0jPNtE4

Polyxena and Orestes Normal clears in Bio-Hazard Battle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8-s0dDIwUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S24QTRL9pQ

All 3 weapon/attack style Normal clears in Hazelnut Hex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJXnAK ... gKAYcqIYzv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYXqBOsB-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ldEAH ... gKAYcqIYzv

And my latest clears in Blue Revolver Double Action, I managed a Normal clear with Mae using the Vortex Barrier, and a Normal clear with Dee using the Gun Buckler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTl15Y9OSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hymWI2nSBk0

Nice work dude! Shame M2 didn't include the SNES version of Gradius III in Origins. Even with with the slowdown it's amazing and the OST is insanely good. I really need to beat Bio-Hazard Battle. So much Genesis soul. Saving your replay for reference. Which ship was easier?

[Angry Hina]

Mushihimesama Maniac 1CC!~

Started to route this yesterday, just got the 1CC! @_@"... sometimes, I scare myself >.<!~

Some month ago, I wanted to get the maniac 1cc as well but had so much trouble with the last level. These mantis spreads are random, right? Couldnt find a good way to deal with it. It was the first time for 8 years or so for me to give up on a game I wanted to clear. I dindt find the thing, the game wanted me to get in my head -.-; (and I wanted to play another game )

Congrats to you ^^

[Faith]

glad to see another player for this mode.

Haha, probably not for long >.<!~

This mode is a joke... I think I am one of the fewer players who likes Stage 3 in Mushi, but I now hate it a lot in Original Max. Very bad.

Feel it is not balanced properly... too many overlapping enemies...

And the Max shot power is useless when in Mushi the enemy invincible time when spawn is so long.

Some month ago, I wanted to get the maniac 1cc as well but had so much trouble with the last level. These mantis spreads are random, right? Couldnt find a good way to deal with it.

Thank you!! Mushi has a lot of problems, but RNG... lucky not really one lol... The only big RNG problem in Mushi is 2nd pattern of TLB.

Mantis you mean those enemies that shoot the many long thin lines of bullets? Those are aimed, after they shoot you just need to tap and find an empty "line" to go into, one of my favorite things to do!~

[Angry Hina]

Some month ago, I wanted to get the maniac 1cc as well but had so much trouble with the last level. These mantis spreads are random, right? Couldnt find a good way to deal with it.

... after they shoot you just need to tap and find an empty "line" to go into, one of my favorite things to do!~

Hmm... ok, I will keep that in mind. Possibly I start a new try next year or so ^^

[Faith]

Mushihimesama Original MAX 1CC!!!~



This cursed mode.

Ah, hadn't noticed you made a new thread! Just left a reply, glad to see another player for this mode.

It is done @_@"... what a stupid crazy insane chaos mode this is. Really not sure what Cave was thinking X_X"...

Very easy to say this is hardest Mushi mode outside Ultra modes and even Ultra modes the bullet speeds are not as crazy and slowdown not as messy.

Really, in this mode, died so many times because the "arcade slowdown" is plenty and super sudden and chaotic... like, speed is slow, then suddenly, speed up and bullet go into face. Fk.

Will update strategy thread... soon!~

[LordHypnos]

Yesterday: 1-ALL of GBC Parodius (made it to 2-2)

YouTube link

[stellar_light]

Mushihimesama Original MAX 1CC!!!~

A clear well-deserved, congratulations!! At least now if you move onto Futari you can enjoy actually having bombs again. I know what you mean by how the slowdown sporadically starts and stops and it drives me nuts too lol, definitely one of the more glaring examples of it in a CAVE game. I'm still not sure whether being able to generate slowdown by holding focus was meant to be an intentional interaction either or just a consequence of other changes in 1.5. I really enjoy Original MAX because I love the blisteringly fast pace but I can't deny that the MAX modes often show their roots as a cobbled together addition to a limited promotional variant.