This is the 9th thread dedicated to the recording of failures at playing Touhou.

[nintendonut888]

Nope, the angle at which the walls are fired is random. If they go correctly, you can take the card out with little effort by wedging into a spot where you can avoid the laser just by pressing up, but often it is not the case.

Another fact that may prove interesting: Astronomical Entombing's familiars can be predicted because they are activated when the lone bubble bullets Eirin keeps firing touches them. It's still so depressing because I've never reached AE clean before, and I have a terrible capture rate on it.

EDIT: Huh. Eirin ND1B. You'd think that'd be an improvement in morale, except that the death was on Omoikane's Brain, from one of those delicious tiny tiny imperfect movements that fuck you over. That SHOULD have been my glorious comeback after giving up in despair earlier. Why WASN'T it?

EDIT 2: Another ND1B, this time because Apollo 13 ganked me. I just don't understand what ZUN expected the player to do on this card. The only way I can see to possibly survive it involves major twitch dodging that simply cannot be done consistently.

Make that another one-mistake run on Apollo 13. I'm just not even caring anymore.

[Zengeku]

EDIT: Huh. Eirin ND1B. You'd think that'd be an improvement in morale, except that the death was on Omoikane's Brain, from one of those delicious tiny tiny imperfect movements that fuck you over. That SHOULD have been my glorious comeback after giving up in despair earlier. Why WASN'T it?

EDIT 2: Another ND1B, this time because Apollo 13 ganked me. I just don't understand what ZUN expected the player to do on this card. The only way I can see to possibly survive it involves major twitch dodging that simply cannot be done consistently.

Make that another one-mistake run on Apollo 13. I'm just not even caring anymore.

Tough luck buddy. But don't give up. Aim for the perfect run of the target. Do your best you have ever done.

[チソウ タイゼン]

no deaths x bombs

Hey, hey buddy.
Shut up :V
The best I pull is three/six, and this is on NORMAL.

[ふねん1]

My second GFW Extra clear turned out 9 million points shy of my first. This game's scoring system confuses me sometimes.

[nintendonut888]

Tough luck buddy. But don't give up. Aim for the perfect run of the target. Do your best you have ever done.

I'd rather not. ;^_^ Getting the perfect on Eirin is something I simply don't have the will to do right now, considering how many elements of the fight are up to luck. ND1B is good enough for now.

[Tuyhhf the Mad]

I'm playing PCB Normal, and I was doing good. Made it to Stage 4, no death on the previous stages. I lose all my lives to the Prismrivers, but I didn't have to continue yet. Needless to say, midboss Youmu succeeds where the Prismrivers failed. Here comes the RAGE.

[Schezo]

Cheese Youmu's opener: Like so~

[Tuyhhf the Mad]

Hopefully that will put the problems with Youmu many people have to rest.

[nintendonut888]

Hopefully that will put the problems with Youmu many people have to rest.

It's a pretty well-known loophole. :derp: Still, more people should know about it. Besides, it's more fun to dodge it for real

[Agent of the BSoD]

Hopefully that will put the problems with Youmu many people have to rest.

Not entirely. As seen here, I completely forgot I can't do that trick on Stage 6. (how I don't know :V) Let this be a warning for all of you who don't know.

Edit: Also, Donut, did you know I have a Configuring and Running PC-98 Emulators for Touhou thread? Because the sound buffer was already included in it.

[Silent Harmony]

I remember hearing something about the left-right misdirection being more dangerous to execute on lower difficulties due to the spawning speed, or something like that.  :/ I always just did the standard "misdirect 1st wave up, dodge second" method. I'll try L-R in the morning.

[HyperGumba]

It didn't start out as a failure actually - I beat SA Extra Stage for the first time, after Subterranean Rose even with a life left. Was really happy and everything until I looked at my player data , which said I cleared Extra - with a dropped framerate by around 10%.

Even though I beat it, I didn't realize I was technically cheating since the game ran on around 56 fps instead of your standard 60 fps  :ohdear:

[nintendonut888]

Not entirely. As seen here, I completely forgot I can't do that trick on Stage 6. (how I don't know :V) Let this be a warning for all of you who don't know.

Edit: Also, Donut, did you know I have a Configuring and Running PC-98 Emulators for Touhou thread? Because the sound buffer was already included in it.

That's what gave me the idea. I had tried pretty much everything else that could possibly improve the framerate, so I just thought "eh, what the heck." Of course, now I realize my biggest problem is that I was testing these improvements on Mima of all people. X( Still, the fact that I have twice been able to fight her with absolutely no lag tells me that there is something going on. In the end though it doesn't really matter, since recording is impossible due to even Hypercam lagging it to hell.

[Agent of the BSoD]

That's what gave me the idea. I had tried pretty much everything else that could possibly improve the framerate, so I just thought "eh, what the heck." Of course, now I realize my biggest problem is that I was testing these improvements on Mima of all people. X( Still, the fact that I have twice been able to fight her with absolutely no lag tells me that there is something going on. In the end though it doesn't really matter, since recording is impossible due to even Hypercam lagging it to hell.

Ah, ok. Yeah, hypercam does tend to lag it a bit for me, sometimes. (fraps is pathetic, oddly enough) At least YOU can hear the game while recording it with hypercam. I can't. I have to unplug my speakers entirely, and move the cable to the mic jack, so it can record sound.
I've tried to get this to not happen, but that's impossible, mainly because Stereo Mix isn't on my computer, and installing the drivers doesn't do a thing. Be happy donut! :V

Now, if only I was recording when I did this. It's very possible to fight Elis while she has no life (might be possible for other bosses but hasn't happened to me yet). This doesn't mean she just finishes her attack and then dies, SHE KEEPS GOING! I have a recording of it kinda, but it's only a split second of footage since I died and Next being stupid. So it doesn't really show anything.

[Arcengal]

Dammit Ran, I have the best run in your stage for ages and then you BS me in the last three seconds of Kokkuri-San's Contract. What the hell.

[チソウ タイゼン]

Not a failure, per se

>OH MY GOD BEST RUN EVER
Girlfriend>You really aren't dying.
>200 MILLION POINTS, 5 LIVES, 3 BOMBS, FULL POWER, 480 ITEMS...
Girlfriend>That's a good thing?
*Captures Fox-Tanuki Youkai Laser*
>EFF YES THAT MAKES FOUR CARDS CAPTURED
>NOTHING CAN GO WRONG

*5th period bell rings*

[Paper Conan]

Not a failure, per se

>OH MY GOD BEST RUN EVER
Girlfriend>You really aren't dying.
>200 MILLION POINTS, 5 LIVES, 3 BOMBS, FULL POWER, 480 ITEMS...
Girlfriend>That's a good thing?
*Captures Fox-Tanuki Youkai Laser*
>EFF YES THAT MAKES FOUR CARDS CAPTURED
>NOTHING CAN GO WRONG

*5th period bell rings*

:fail:
I can't count how many times this has happened to me too.

[チソウ タイゼン]

:fail:
I can't count how many times this has happened to me too.

Today (MoF Extra)

>FUCK YEAH ORGASM
>FIVE LIVES?
>130 MILLION POINTS?
>5.00 POWER?
>400,000 FAITH?
>THIRD CARD CAPTURED?
>THIS MUST BE MY LUCKY DAY
*first period bell rings*
Girlfriend> Hey, um, the bell
>I AM IN DENIAL

[Vibri]

You could try, like, checking the time before you start playing
orrr just don't play video games in school

[Agent of the BSoD]

Or how about not playing Extra since that's apparently too long. Try practice instead. You might get somewhere and actually finish!

[チソウ タイゼン]

You could try, like, checking the time before you start playing
orrr just don't play video games in school

We have an "optional flex period" in school

0th: 7:15-08:25
My bus: ~08:15
"ofp": 08:30-09:05
1st: 09:10-10:05

It's a glorified way to say "free time; do things" at school.
I spend it in the library Touhou-ing.

Or how about not playing Extra since that's apparently too long. Try practice instead. You might get somewhere and actually finish!

Having beaten the stages before defeats the purpose. I'm playing Extra stages to beat them.
Alternatively, the main games of SA and UFO, because in a view encompassing the latter half of the series they are the metaphorical difficulty spike and continuously bitchslap me in the face.

Speaking of, Shou.
D:<

[Schezo]

Having beaten the stages before defeats the purpose. I'm playing Extra stages to beat them.
Alternatively, the main games of SA and UFO, because in a view encompassing the latter half of the series they are the metaphorical difficulty spike and continuously bitchslap me in the face.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you practice the stages that bitchslap you in the face, you get better at them, right?  Also, are you sure you don't want to improve from your first run and get better scores, skills, difficulty play, etc.?
You probably will get to doing whatever you want if you just practice the shorter stages from the main game and them apply them when you get home or something.  So when you get home or whatever you'll have the time to use great starting resources.

[Reddyne]

Is MarisaB  in UFO as bad as I think it is or have I just been TERRIBLE at it lately?

[The Greatest Dog]

Protip: The only time to use MarisaB is when you first start playing UFO.
Then, after barely scraping a 1cc or whatever, you can switch to a vastly superior shot type and win on your first try!

[ふねん1]

How the hell can Star Sapphire be harder when you face her first in the C routes than when you face her later for the others? This is fucking stupid.

[nintendonut888]

I'm confused how I managed to reach max lives by Murasa so easily in my first lunatic 1cc. In all my attempts tonight, I couldn't reach her with more than four. Tsk. It'd also help if Shou was less terrible to me in the runs that reach her. Best I managed was reaching stage 6, where I proceded to die on the opening fairies. :B

Funny, because the reason I'm angry isn't because I fail to 1cc - I've already done that four times, and two of them were decent clears - it's because I want to see the credits sequence, which isn't anywhere on Youtube or Nicovideo.

[チソウ タイゼン]

Also, are you sure you don't want to improve from your first run and get better scores, skills, difficulty play, etc.?

I did that to the PCB Exxxxtra today.
High score: 468 million
This run: ACTUALLY HAS LEFTOVER RESOURCES 386 million

I think I like the cherry point system less now

[Silent Harmony]

I think I like the cherry point system less now

The thing that gets me about the cherry point system is that there's 3 totally different things going on at the same time (Cherry, CherryMax, and Cherry+) and just reading about it makes my head spin. But I play for survival anyways so it doesn't matter.

[チソウ タイゼン]

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=11450

WHAT A GREAT WAY TO GO
Plays like this depress me

THA HELL

I got to Resurrection Butterfly 80% on a 5CC and died

[RegalStar]

I did that to the PCB Exxxxtra today.
High score: 468 million
This run: ACTUALLY HAS LEFTOVER RESOURCES 386 million

I think I like the cherry point system less now

Go play Sakuya. That'll solve your problem since her bombing penalty is low.