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

[LordHypnos]

Mountain of Faith Easy 1cc, finally Mostly due to bomb spamming especially on the final spellcard (probably went through a good 5 lives or something, there, as well). ReimuA.

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I've been working pretty hardcore on Mars Matrix recently, but I was just too tired to do much today, but still wanted to play shmups. Took 2 tries and a little bit of final boss practice.

Hey LordHypnos, I knew you could do it! It's a start, at least. There's really no shame in starting at easy mode. One's always got to start somewhere. You could think of it this way: It's the start of something bigger Plus, I've heard that scoring in Mountain in Faith at easy mode is a lot of fun to do, as with the other modes, of course, so that can be an interesting thing to look into!

Just curious: Have you thought of doing MoF in practice mode using no bombs? It's a pretty effective way to practice MoF, and it gets you to actually get used to deal with the interesting patterns MoF throws at you, and the patterns in MoF can be interesting to dodge, so it stiffens you up.

That's probably a really good idea once I get around to dedicating myself to it a little bit more. There are some very interesting patterns. Actually, the only real issue is that you need to clear a stage in order to access it in practice mode, which seems like a poor design decision. Still, I could try that with 1-3 normal mode. Maybe if I can no miss 1-3, I'll actually be able to clear 4. Thanks for the encouragement, also.

[PurpleTheGuy]

That's probably a really good idea once I get around to dedicating myself to it a little bit more. There are some very interesting patterns. Actually, the only real issue is that you need to clear a stage in order to access it in practice mode, which seems like a poor design decision. Still, I could try that with 1-3 normal mode. Maybe if I can no miss 1-3, I'll actually be able to clear 4. Thanks for the encouragement, also.

Yeah, I mentioned it, since I used to practice MoF that way, in the few times that I've played it, and it helped me improve quickly in the game, to where I got a couple rather decent clears as a result (I should improve on those, yeah). I should get to seriously play that one, after I get what I like to do done for GFW, PCB, and some other games. I know Marisa A's an awesome shot-type, I remember wanting to awesome stuff with Marisa'a A-shot-type! I should follow up on that sometime.

Yeah, I know how you feel, it's a bit of a pain to unlock the stages for practice mode, particularly for MoF (Man, unlocking stages 4 & 5 for Hard mode was a pain, and that's just for Reimu A. That, and I haven't really played MoF much), SA, and UFO, so yeah, I hear you. Also, yeah, watch out for stage 4, Aya can be quite a pain to deal with. Her last spell card is not bad, her other spell cards can be a pain to deal with. I actually haven't figured out how her other spell cards work exactly. I have a vague idea, but that's about it. Look out for the midboss Momiji as well! Otherwise, stage 4 in MoF is mostly streaming patterns.

Also, yeah, no problem, LordHypnos!

[Jonst]

Congrats Hypnos! I can't wait for the day you clear mm though! Come on,you can do it!

[LordHypnos]

Congrats Hypnos! I can't wait for the day you clear mm though! Come on,you can do it!

Working at it pretty hard, generally, actually. Have strategies for each phase of the final boss, even and stage 6. Now I've just gotta practice it until I don't screw up somewhere along the line. I think stage 5 still needs a lot of work, and I need to keep practicing stages 3 and 4 lest I forget them, of course, and there's still a lack of consistency on stage 6 and final bosses.

Stage 6 is seriously mesmerizing, though.

[Stevens]

You will prevail.

Me? Haven't been playing a ton of anything lately, but it is always in the back of my mind.

[ACSeraph]

Cool, just got the Futari BL clear with Palm. Didn't take much effort actually, just woke up this morning and thought I'd give it a go. I figured it would be harder with Palm but there's really only a slight difference. His laser still functions like a slow motion button just like Reco's does.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

DDPSDOJ novice mode. green ship, has three lives left. It's the first time I ever 1'cc an arcade game

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[-S.L-]

it's not an Arcade game in Novice mode, but congratulation

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[LordHypnos]

'Grats ACSeraph! Perhaps the differences between Reco and Palm are not significant enough unless you're playing higher difficulties, or maybe Palm was tweaked in Black Label?

And you too, ChurchofSolipsism. Not really arcade difficulty, but you gotta start somewhere!

[Jonst]

^Yeah,nice one guys!

[PurpleTheGuy]

Hey everyone, what's going on?

So, yeah, I've been putting this one off for so long now, but finally, as of yesterday, I actually got to sit down with the Great Fairy Wars extra stage, and after an hour or so of some serious playing, I've beaten the extra stage of Great Fairy Wars! It was about time I did this, it was long overdue! It's been a long time, since I last cleared an extra stage in the Touhou games! I have got to stop putting them off, honestly, but anyhow...

Here's the link to the video on YouTube (Yes, I finally have the Fraps tool! I got it not too long ago, so as of recently, I can now post videos on YouTube, so feel free to watch! Not only do I have the extra stage video set up, but I also got the videos of my two runs on Great Fairy Wars lunatic mode on C-2 and A-1 there as well on my channel. However, I still don't have the means to record high quality videos for the PS3 and the Xbox 360 games, among other systems, so that's going to be a while still):

Cirno shows her fairy powers against Marisa!

Heck, I even got this cute little congratulations thing afterwards, haha: Aww shoot, Star, I'm pretty far from being a super player, ahaha! (^_^;)

Surprisingly, this didn't take very long, once I figured out exactly what to do in many areas. I did tons better than I did a while back, like, last month. For the hardest extra stage boss in the Touhou series (Or so I've heard), Marisa isn't that bad, really. The strategies I used in my extra stage 1cc run were inspired by and based off of chum and LimD's strategies (I learned a lot from both their replays, like chum's stage strategy before Marisa in his scoring replay, and LimD's survival strategy against Marisa in his no death/no bombs run), so I would like to credit those two for helping me out a lot, and I would also like to thank Sakurei for giving me a couple pointers on how to approach the extra stage of Great Fairy Wars! You guys are great! And of course, I would like to thank the others I've thanked before for supporting me! They know who they are!

Also, I did do this little thing as well, if anyone's interested in watching: GFW Route A-1 lunatic mode 1cc

Overall, yeah!

[Lilium]

Congratulations on those Fairy Wars accomplishments! Having your skills recognized by Touhou characters just feels right doesn't it?!
Seems like you're not calling Lunatic Legendary anymore

[Jonst]

Congrats purple! Good job!

[PurpleTheGuy]

Congratulations on those Fairy Wars accomplishments! Having your skills recognized by Touhou characters just feels right doesn't it?!
Seems like you're not calling Lunatic Legendary anymore

Thanks, Lilium (I see you changed your picture to Lily Black. I kept wondering about which anime did your previous avatar come from)! Tell Sakurei I said thanks, if that's alright with you, of course! Also, haha, well, it does feel really cool, I'd have to say!

Yeah, I decided to cut the Halo nonsense out (Yeah, yeah, I used to be a Halo dork ), after some time (For the better, too, since it wasn't a permanent habit yet, and I even got tired of calling them so, and I feel this may cause some problems in the future, so it had to end soon, and fast ). It was, after-all, a lame joke I used to use when I go to the arcade near my place often, a joke that was, well, actually agreed on by more-or-less everyone at the arcade (You can reasonably guess many of them have never played/seen an STG game ever, and for the few that do, go on and on about how horrible they are, and how hard and impossible these games are ) who believed that, whenever I was showing replays of various STGs, particularly Touhou and a few CAVE games, they thought I was showing them magic and whatnot, and well, yeah, it had the side effect of sticking with me for a while, until recently.

Also, thanks Jonst!

[Lilium]

Congratulations on those Fairy Wars accomplishments! Having your skills recognized by Touhou characters just feels right doesn't it?!
Seems like you're not calling Lunatic Legendary anymore

Thanks, Lilium (I see you changed your picture to Lily Black. I kept wondering about which anime did your previous avatar come from)! Tell Sakurei I said thanks, if that's alright with you, of course!

The previous profile icon was of Karen from Kin'Iro Mosaic. An anime about two really adorable british girls studying abroad in Japan (works pretty well for them as their Japanese is considerably more natural than their English). If you're into cutesy slice of life anime then it's quite recommendable.

And yes, I'm going by Lily Black now for various reasons

[PurpleTheGuy]

The previous profile icon was of Karen from Kin'Iro Mosaic. An anime about two really adorable british girls studying abroad in Japan (works pretty well for them as their Japanese is considerably more natural than their English). If you're into cutesy slice of life anime then it's quite recommendable.

And yes, I'm going by Lily Black now for various reasons

Ah, I see. Thanks for telling me that, Lilium! Whenever I see you before when you had that previous avatar of yours, I always kept thinking, "Who's that girl that's seemingly dressed like a pirate of some sort?" Well, no more do I have to think that, not to mention I'm far off the mark . Heh, to tell you, I actually do like some slice of life anime, so yeah!

[chum]

The other day I broke 63 million in Shoot the Bullet, cool since I think I'm within 10 millions of the combined world records now (not sure how much it is exactly, I think It's 72-something million)

I recently got a world record in the game, which took less time than anticipated (only around 10 hours) and it was for 1-6, pictured above. Admittedly the former record was one of the weakest in the game. Plus, I seem to have a knack for 1-6.

On top of that, I now have 8 2nd place scores (1-2, 1-4, 3-5, 6-6, 6-8, 7-5, 7-6, EX-1) and a pretty damn good run of 9-6 (754,430 pts) which is the scene I put the most effort into

Pretty happy with how it's all turning out but I just can't get enough of the game and will continue to play it all the time, hehe.

[mastermx]

Congrats chum, you have truly gone full shmup.

[PurpleTheGuy]

Yeah, sounds about right. Chum's just doing his thing in Shoot the Bullet! You'll see him post scores almost everyday in royalflare, and the way you see him go through the various scenes in StB... yeah man. I haven't watched every single one of his submissions, but yeah, he gets pretty high scores in them. I should try to pick up on some of them after I clear StB.

Speaking of which, yeah, I should go beat StB already, I only have 8 scenes left to clear.

[PurpleTheGuy]

Hey everyone, what's up?

So yeah, as I have mentioned earlier, I did seriously get back into Shoot the Bullet after putting it off for a while due to summer school, and after a day or two (An hour or two each), I managed to clear scene 10-4! This one took a while for me to get, particularly the roadblock of the 6th and 7th king, but eventually, learning off of a few strategies for that specific part from Touhou wikia, kits and Emarrel (Both their videos helped a lot!) and actually practicing them, I finally got this scene, as of not too long ago!

Yes, finally, I captured Trial of the Ten Kings! =D

Now, that makes seven scenes left to go! I haven't given up on Shoot the Bullet yet (I won't let this game beat me, especially when I cleared some of the hardest scenes, like 9-6), not when I'm close to beating all the scenes!

I'll put the video of that particular scene up, after some time!

[Lilium]

GG. For some reason that one is annoying to do the first time even though there's only really two shots of it that require dodging w.
Good luck with the rest of it. Which ones are you lacking and have you beat Double Spoiler?

[Blinge]

Finally broke 20 Mil in Ikaruga!
=]

[Plasmo]

Congrats!

I know you've worked hard on this. You really deserve it.

[Jonst]

Yeah,nice one blinge! Congrats! I can barely get off the loading screen.

[Blinge]

Eyy cheers guys!
It's only been the past 3 weeks Plasmo, not since I pm'd you about it ages ago. If I'd been working on it solidly since then I'd like to think i'd have gotten much better..
Time will tell how deluded I am

My execution is still far from perfect and I need to learn better chaining strats for stages 3 and 4

[PurpleTheGuy]

GG. For some reason that one is annoying to do the first time even though there's only really two shots of it that require dodging w.
Good luck with the rest of it. Which ones are you lacking and have you beat Double Spoiler?

Yeah, it took some time for me to understand, particularly the 6th and 7th king, before I finally managed to get it down in an hour or so. I used to struggle with it some time ago, but whew, I managed.

Also, yeah, thanks Lilium! I only got 7 scenes left, so I'm rather close to finally beating all the scenes, though I know these 7 other scenes aren't anything to snooze at (I'm currently working on EX-6, and man, that one's a bit of a pain, but I'm getting to figure that one out, somewhat). The ones I have left to do that I haven't cleared yet are scenes 10-6, 10-8, EX-3, EX-4, EX-6, EX-7, and EX-8. Double Spoiler, I haven't beaten yet, since I feel like I should beat Shoot the Bullet first before diving into Double Spoiler. Well, I played a little bit of it to try out, and I beat just the 1st level, but I sure liked it a lot. Can't wait to get into it after Shoot the Bullet's beaten!

Finally broke 20 Mil in Ikaruga!
=]

Hey, great going, Blinge! I know I've heard you mention working towards this goal since you got to actually meet Erppo in-person, so this is great to hear, indeed! I guess, what's the next thing you plan on doing, Blinge, if you don't mind me asking, of course? Planning on going even further into Ikaruga, or...? Anyhow, best of luck in your future stuff!

Also, I'm curious, which version of Ikaruga do you play in: Steam, Gamecube, or Dreamcast? Yeah, I'm debating which version I should get, since I'm planning to play Ikaruga at some point in the future. I don't know when, but it's something I do have planned for after some time. I'm trending towards either the Gamecube version or steam, but I've heard of the Dreamcast version, yet I don't currently have a Dreamcast. It would be great to hear your input on this, if you don't mind, of course!

[Hagane]

Beat Kaikan. Easy compared to arcade games, but I'm happy since it's my first keyboard STG clear. There's still hope, even without a stick.

[Erppo]

Finally broke 20 Mil in Ikaruga!
=]

Congrats from here too! I saw you already had solid strats for everything so it's just a matter of gradually adding more stuff to them.

[CStarFlare]

Beat Kaikan. Easy compared to arcade games, but I'm happy since it's my first keyboard STG clear. There's still hope, even without a stick.

Not only that, you beat emuser's score! Well done!

[Blinge]

Thanks again for the support guys, now I must improve more instead of just talking about it.. ^_^

what's the next thing you plan on doing, Blinge, if you don't mind me asking, of course? Planning on going even further into Ikaruga, or...? Anyhow, best of luck in your future stuff!

Also, I'm curious, which version of Ikaruga do you play in: Steam, Gamecube, or Dreamcast? Yeah, I'm debating which version I should get, since I'm planning to play Ikaruga at some point in the future.

For Ikaruga I just want to be up a few slots on the scoreboard, heh. I find myself returning to the game after a couple of months each time, I can't stay away for long! After that I'll probably get into Border Down, it looked pretty cool in STG weekly, at least gain an understanding of it.

Okay so I play the DC version, but I've tried them all except 360. Unique to the Gamecube release is a super useful "conquest mode" which shows you demos for every section, of varying skill level in half-speed; you can then practice those sections in normal time or slowed down. That's the best thing about the GC release, otherwise I think there's a couple of issues with the port. It looks marginally worse than DC, the slowdown from the original is gone which can be jarring; stage 3 boss seems crazy fast to me for example. Oh and the GC's d-pad sucks ass.

Edit: Something that bugs me about GC is the timing from the little cutscenes is possibly different. So when ST4 boss is introduced, you're stuck in place until the cinematic is finished and you can then move, GC gives you control a couple of frames later.. The only reason I say this is because i always hold right on DC to reposition myself as soon as the fight begins (don't know if that's the best strategy but w/e). When I do that on GC, I die because it's a fraction of a second later, always. Just a little nitpick I suppose ;]

Steam is a solid port, looks great, has online leaderboards and you can view others' replays. The general consensus is that Steam is the most faithful port to the original, but also eliminates slowdown IIRC. They've also patched it to allow direct input (usb controllers/sticks work fine)
Hope that helps