Blue wish resurrection & refresh rate overrides - humor

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Blue wish resurrection & refresh rate overrides - humor

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Below is a humorous tale of a bad 1st experience with doujin shmups ...

about a month ago, i got my copy of Soukyugurentai back from a friend who had been borrowing it for a few years. i hadn't been playing shmups much for a while, and i've never been a huge hardcore player.. but after playing Soukyugurentai in SSF, it got me in the mood. i always knew there were some crazy japanese PC shmups out there, but hadn't really tried any. so i did a little web searching and found shoot the core. i was really impressed by the selection of games... so i did a quick sort of the games database by "play area - vertical", "type - full game", and games that have received awards... so of course blue wish resurrection is near the top of the list ... it looked pretty sweet from the screenshot, so i decided to give it a try. i loaded it up ....

my jaw dropped to the ground. i couldn't tell what was going on !!!! everything was so fast, i was getting hit and "auto-guarding" all over the place. i lost all my lives within the first two minutes. when i got to the boss, the bullets were coming at me at 1000mph! and this is just the first level! how the $@#% do those crazy japanese people play this stuff????

so i pretty much put it to the side for a while, and ended up trying a bunch of the other games on the list, and getting incredibly addicted to "warning forever" and "flew fighter", and also enjoying quite a many other like "cho ren sha" and "demolition gunner".. i eventually 1 credit cleared flew fighter, so i figure i must be at least OK at shmups (i realize it's not exactly the hardest game) ....
but every time i kept on coming back to blue wish resurrection, i couldn't get ANYWHERE with it. i even tried it on "heaven" mode, and i still couldn't get past the second level. i figure the game must have been for REALLY HARDCORE INSANE JAPANESE PEOPLE WHO DEDICATE THEIR LIFE TO SHMUPS ...

well, i always noticed that the little framerate counter in the bottom of blue wish resurrection was 120fps. originally, i figured it was intentionally high in order for crazy japanese people to be able to see the action better ....

but then tonight i started thinking about it... and remembered that i had gone into the nvidia control panel and set refresh rate overrides for all the common resolutions, including setting the 640x480 refresh rate to 120hz.... so i went into nvidia control panel, and changed the 640x480 fresh to "default".... opened blue wish resurrection back up ... and sure enough !! the frame counter is now at 60fps.... so i had been playing the game at twice the regular speed all this time ...

so then on my first try at the "regular" speed, i got to the 4th stage on my first credit. not too bad!

heheee... what a strange and interesting quirk. but i'm really glad that my initial bad experience didn't deter me because now i am completely and utterly absorbed in the world of shmups
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BWR is the best freeware shmup I´ve ever played.
Very Cave-influenced obviously, but of very high quality.

But now I am on Mac OS X... *sigh*
(Thinks about going back to dualbooting again just for this)
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I wish I could play Blue Wish Resurrection. It insta-crashes on me when I try to execute it.
Of course, that's just an opinion.
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Post by shoe-sama »

accel mode has faster bullets lulz

So playing at double speed isn't that bad.

Especially on heaven.

Also BWR sux
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Post by Frederik »

But still you have gameplay vids of it on your YouTube account :?:
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I play bad games.
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Fun fact, BWR plays at around 1000-1200 FPS on my comp by default.
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what the hell??? how do you slow it down?
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shoe-sama wrote:Also BWR sux
:shock:


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Well, if the bullets were fast I would say it's preferable to screen tearing.
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I personally like the game. The graphics are jaggy but the game is fun.
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I love the game but for some reason it sometimes crashes my sound card.
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Post by Davey »

Yeah I got bit by this myself, although it was only 75 Hz and far from my first doujin: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 200#220200

Unfortunately, at 60 Hz, Accel mode is the only mode that's still fun for me.
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force v-sync on your video card drivers. That should fix the problem.
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It's a well-produced game, but for some reason I couldn't bring myself to play it any more after 1 day. The thought of memorizing everything just turned me off every time. Must be lazy.
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Squirrel wrote:force v-sync on your video card drivers. That should fix the problem.
I don't know how or why this worked but it did the job. Cheers!
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gavin19 wrote:
Squirrel wrote:force v-sync on your video card drivers. That should fix the problem.
I don't know how or why this worked but it did the job. Cheers!
IT forces any too fast game to run in 60 FPS, it's V-SYNC
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Re: Blue wish resurrection & refresh rate overrides - hu

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indstr wrote:Below is a humorous tale of a bad 1st experience with doujin shmups ...
:shock: - S'cuse me...

what exactly does "doujin shmups" mean? I've seen one definition here @ shmup.org and wikipedia. I've seen the term used to descibe shmups and fighting games, but what exactly is it that makes it different from any other shmup/fighter, etc.?

Please could someone explain it in a way that even a "stupid american robot" can understand?
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Re: Blue wish resurrection & refresh rate overrides - hu

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ROBOTRON wrote:
indstr wrote:Below is a humorous tale of a bad 1st experience with doujin shmups ...
:shock: - S'cuse me...

what exactly does "doujin shmups" mean? I've seen one definition here @ shmup.org and wikipedia. I've seen the term used to descibe shmups and fighting games, but what exactly is it that makes it different from any other shmup/fighter, etc.?

Please could someone explain it in a way that even a "stupid american robot" can understand?


"Doujin" is Japanese for "fan made".

So basically a doujin game is a homebrew game. :)
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ah...i thought so.

i get confused sometimes as "Meltyblood" and "arcana heart" are called "doujin" which confused me because i had no idea they were "fan made". i had no idea fan made games were really making a splash on ps2 imports. usually when see fan made it usually means atari 2600, pc and occasionally DC as far as consoles go.

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Post by Gwyrgyn Blood »

'Doujin' refers more to the community rather than just meaning 'fan made'. Melty Blood is an official game based off an original series owned by a very successful company, but it still gets classified as a 'doujin' game for the most part. Arcana Heart isn't a doujin game at all... it just tends to get confused as one because it's a loli-based fighting game, which is a really popular genre in the doujin community.
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doujin means broken
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shoe-sama wrote:doujin means broken
Your face will be "doujin" after I'm done with you, then.
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Have fun with your broken Hellsinker lulz
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Have fun with your doujin face! : )
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:!:
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shoe-sama wrote:doujin means broken
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