Is there a reason that you have only posted your score here, and that Heartbeam only posted his 671m on shmups forum? And niether of you have posted on royalflare!
As mentioned in the post over there, it was supposed to be uploaded along with the not-so-secret project I'm working on and off...on. My fault for dragging T into 'proper' scoring which in turn prompted .ASP to wreck the game (you didn't share that potential 700M run?). I don't want to go back so I'm submitting the product now.
Extra - Sanae-B
Heartbeam - 671,587,540 - C - 0.360% -
ReplayI don't expect to post again in this subforum for a while.
I've got no problem with them, go for it!
Maybe I wasn't clear. I swore off RL stuff
only over at that forum. Of course I'm not worried about deleted posts (I hope). Deleted content I'll expect. We'll see. This one is going to be pretty bad.
Now, that other thing I wanted to cover in the SA thread. Wait for it...it's a damned Touhou Dreams post. Good(?) thing every dream I ever had was related to the games. 90% scoring!
I never recorded the dates for these. First one was somewhere in 2009. I watched a PCB Normal run by HS参謀 to see he had developed a new grazing technique for Flowery Soul. He led the spirit clusters up and down and scored 450 graze each time, but the rest of the spell consisted of those medium-sized bullets entering from the left and travelling straight across. Very slow, very sparse. No more than a dozen present at any one time.
Never recorded except for this one because I have the log with me. 2010/06/11, night before making that 2.499B run in the morning. Six days of stress and I didn't even play the first two days. Finally caught up in a dream. I was dying all over the place but looked at my score and saw it was 2.665B by the time I finished stage five. So I'm sitting around four lives on stage six but think it's okay because I'll set a new WR. But then I enter Youmu's opener and it's going slightly faster than usual, and when I try to concentrate on the bullets everything is blurry so I can't dodge. Then I snap out of it.
This one was shortly after Ultramage's IN Lunatic run on 2010/07/11. Running PCB Lunatic again, all the end-of-stage scores were one billion higher than usual but it was 'normal' (so HS and his then 3.015B run would be 4.015B). Yuyuko is right smack in the center for 80% Reflowering so I choose to dodge above here. Trying to survive it without abusing the border break, and I'm managing despite the weird angle. The blue/purple waves start curving out, the red ones expand then get sucked back in, then finally spread out. The character somehow slips through everything; it's all some weird psychedelic experience.
Have the date for this one too, but I don't remember where I saved it. Running PCB again, this time four players are present on the screen at once. I was paired up with dot_asp, and HS参謀 was with an unknown player. We're going through practice as Reimu-B, but for some reason you can't do stage six right away. The description would read as "stages two and three" meaning we had to go through stage five everytime, while Reimu-A was "stages three and three" and thus able to access stage six right there. I thought about how it would be inconvenient for stage six perfect attempts.
We head into stage five, then, and it turns out to be just Reisen and her final regular spell. The dream fast forwards to Yuyuko's penultimate spell, but for some reason it's Youmu's Hell God Sword. She also happens to not be on the screen or is otherwise unattackable, and we have to time it out. While dodging it I get the idea of moving to the upper right near the spawning point for the bubbles. Thanks to Reimu's hitbox I slip through a thick wall of it by sheer dumb luck and decide to not do so again. Let's try the upper left where they're more spread out! I'm greeted by the other smaller purple and red bullets that come with the bubbles, and die. Happens several more times for various reasons, and meanwhile the other players are doing just fine dodging in the bottom center.
Restarting, we're facing off a double Reisen. I'm standing by the one on the right and think of shooting before the spell starts, but HS tags her first and now he's the only one sucking in time orbs. I look to his character (PoFV 2p Reimu sprite) and she does the peace sign with her left hand, so to cut his orb income I dropped two Duplex Barriers between the two Reisen plus an ESC, except I was on top of the right one so the left wasn't taken down after all those bombs. Moving on to stage six, I die to one of the early fairy spam waves and decide playing in front of a crowd isn't for me.
The last few dreams came in rather rapid succession, but much less detailed. I saw VgameT submit a 1.161B PCB Extra/Reimu-A to Royalflare as the new WR, but didn't update his Shrinemaiden score. It so happens that with HS and ISO's run deleted it would have been the top score for its category, but I didn't know at the time. Then later on (outside the dream) I produced a run with two mistakes that, if they didn't happen, the score may very well have touched (but probably surpassed by 1M) that 1.161M score. Even that didn't matter because I beat it again, but I'm not done yet.
Dreamed about T uploading a 1.017B SA Extra/Marisa-A run, description detailing that he finished with only five out of six extra lives. Much fear about the score he would produce as Reimu-A, but during the dream I forgot to take into account the reset bonus for the base item value (not that it made a difference, I was still afraid).
Last one, I was running PCB Extra with Reimu-B. Chen's final spell turns out to be a safespot grazing attack just like Sanae's Bumper Crop Rice Shower. So, I leave the game running and straighten out the house. I take a bit too long because I then realized there wouldn't be enough time to finish off the spell unfocused (which is a lie outside the dream because unfocused Reimu-B is godlike). End the spell, but I'm short on cherry now. Didn't matter because I got the next border up when I needed to. Dream fast forwards to Ran's final spell where I'm comfortable in a safespot and leave the game running
again while I do stuff around the house. Return too late to end it unfocused and I finish the run short of a potential border. The score was 1.769B.
