How's that Touhou 1cc going, anon?
I already 1ccd all of them because I'm not bad
I had to stop playing because of finals.
So going pretty badly, I probably forgot most of my muscle memory by now.
You already have a shitty thread.
>>337172563
Difficulty?
>>337172687
You can go talk to your secondary friends in the other thread if you don't want to be here, I won't mind.
>>337172327
What is graze?
I'm still trying to 1cc the 6th game. I can only make it to the beginning of the fourth level. The third boss really fucks me up.
>>337172327
Welcome to 10 years ago.
>>337172327
Let me copy paste my pre-made post
1cc?
Is that like, 1horsepower?
>>337173797
Beat the game without using a continue. Or without losing a life. I forgot which it was, probably the latter.
>>337174119
The former.
>>337174119
No continues, beating it without dying is called "no miss" for some reason.
Alright alright, but here's the real question.
What does 1cc mean?
>>337174432
one credit clear
>>337174467
and what is graze
>>337174254
Because of 90s Engrish.
People used to translate "getting hit" as "to miss". That stuck around, kinda.
>>337174643
You get graze for getting close to bullets but not hitting them, one per bullet.
>>337175114
>You get graze
But what does graze mean?
>>337174254
>>337174182
Really? That doesn't seem too hard at all.
I've gotten very close to 1ccing both PCB and IN without ever practicing spellcards in that case.
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>>337175445
And what's stopping you from actually doing it? I know Marisa in IN is pretty hard, but PCB as a whole is rather easy I find.
>>337175582
That's LEWD
hey look its that faggot that browses /v/ and giggles in delight when a touhou thread is posted so that he can do this again and again:
>>337173693
>>337173797
>>337174643
>>337174432
>>337175314
>>337175797
you need to take viper's advice, my man
there hasnt been a "how is 1cc going" thread in a few days.
>>337176419
If you know who he is, why are you giving him (You)s instead of ignoring him?
So where is the proper Touhou thread?
>>337176419
>>337176541
Yeah man, just stop giving me those (You)s already.
Getting real tired of your shit.
>>337176616
Define "proper touhou thread"
i was working on 1ccing stuff but now i'm having way more fun fighting extra bosses. they're just so good.
luckily, the downloads game with scorefiles already, so i dont need to unlock most of them. dont have 11-14's extras, though, which sucks. I'll just have to git gud at 13 and 14, and never have any hopes for sa and ufo.
I did get halfway through kanako today with no continues, and i had a few really dumb deaths. I'm sure I can do mof easily if I just bomb a lot more, apparently you can do that.
>>337176685
Full of tertiaries and memespouting retards.
>>337176541
because someone else is giving him (you)s and someone needs to say that his garbage questions are not to be answered, because fucking idiots always answer them.
>>337176689
>and never have any hopes for sa and ufo.
Not with that attitude, you won't.
Be positive, man. You can do it if you try. I did.
>>337176685
One with hoppo funposting.
Why did pic related happen and where can I find more?
On thread topic I started playing IN two days ago.
I've been on this website since that ronald mcdonald video was uploaded to youtube and I just now realized where the song was from...
>>337177654
Apparently Marisa looks funny and it escalated from there.
>>337177654
>Please spoonfeed me
I literally cannot call it 1cc until I capture all spellcards. Anybody else have the similar attitude?
Whens /soku/
>>337177887
No.
>>337177781
WELL SHIT
I wouldn't know it's the first image I knew her as due to the wiki.
>>337177882
It's no problem bro.
>>337172327
Never played any at all. What's a decent one to start out with?
>>337178698
6 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil), 7 (Perfect Cherry Blossom), 8 (Imperishable Night), 10 (Mountain of Faith) and 14 (Double Dealing Character) are all nice beginner spots.
>>337178698
To add to >>337178829, if you're willing to deal with actually getting a pc-98 emulator running, 4 (Lotus Land Story) and 5 (Mystic Square) are also great.
>>337172327
What's 1cc
>>337178829
The numbers mean what? Sorry i don't know a single thing about touhou.
Just the order of release? Can i just google the name?
>>337178964
>The numbers mean what?
Just what game it is. EoSD is game number six, PCB is game number seven and so on.
>Can i just google the name?
Yeah.
>>337178964
>The numbers mean what? Sorry i don't know a single thing about touhou.Hello OP, needing some replies again I see
>>337179065
Not OP
>>337179135
You called?
>>337179064
Ok, thanks
>>337179065
OP's stuff has filenames but i'm on my phone as per my pic
>>337179065
>says the guy that's been shitposting the whole thread
Stop shitposting with Chlomaki, faggot.
>>337178954
One Credit Clear. Beating a game without having to use a continue.
>>337179374
Big words coming from a small autist.
Move aside, Mamizou! ZUN found himself a new waifu!
>>337178184
sanae a weasel
>>337180653
Sanae a slug
>>337181306
reimu a wolfie!
>>337181415
Delete this
THE BEST TOOHOO
futo-chan! what is the matter???
i still love you even though you're old and musty!
>>337172327
f-f-futo!!!!!
>>337182660
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>>337183101
Screw it, just let the thread die now.
>>337183692
I LOVE FUTO!!!
>>337182660
>>337182792
>>337183101
>>337183764
Thread is kill boyz, let's move on
>>337184029
Why move on? it'll only cause the next one to die as well.
>>337184509
>Why move on?
Story of my life
>>337177887
That's being pretty tryhard, but good luck on them.
Fuck off back to your containment thread, shmup autists.
>>>/vg/shmupg
>>337184717
Gotta live for more sick ass synth guitar.
>>337186731
Am I supposed to find that lewd?
I almost have my PCB hard 1cc! Been making it to stage 6 a lot lately, now I just need it with decent resources.
I don't have any Touhou webms, though, so I'll bump with this.
>>337186453
Man, it sure would suck if people talked about video games in TWO boards, wouldn't it?
I like that you bump a dead thread to call people autists.
>>337186845
Of course not it's just a tail.
I think people who have never attempted great scores tend to trivialize goes into them. They might think that they are paying the greatest among us, the Japanese superplayers, their due by placing them atop this pedestal built off that vague concept known as "talent," when in fact to do such a thing is an insult. To watch people chalk those many long hours of anguish, frustration, and uncertainty up to the players simply being predisposed to perform well in these games is utterly disgusting to me, but unfortunately something far too common on here, even amongst those who seemingly should know better.
By the looks of things, this misunderstanding can mainly be blamed on that most people on here fall into 3 groups indicating various degrees of ignorance towards the higher level of play. First, there are the collectors, the personfications of the phrase "You can't suck at a poster." Then there's the hipsters, those only here "for the ride," only posting on here to show how much more "hardcore" they are than the CoD playing masses. If they want to be extra hardcore they might even have a meaningless 1cc list of easy games to brag about. However, their ignorance and failure to achieve worthwhile skill exposes them as just another part of the casual hivemind. Last and most harmful are the pretenders, or, to be more specific, the members of the Touhou is Harder crew and their associated acts. These players, crowned by the former 2 groups as the best on the board have a foolish approach towards shmups, refusing to play a game longer than 2 weeks at a time and treating STGT, an utter bastardization of how shmups are designed to be played as a worthwhile venture.
>>337177887
No? capturing spell cards has nothing to do with clearing the game. That would be more like a no miss no bomb run.
Of course, I'm sure there's a few who don't neatly fit into these groups as I have described but the point I am trying to make is that the ignorance which constantly pollutes every aspect of this board can be tied directly into the vast majority simply not understanding how to approach these games. This is not to say members of these groups are inherently bad and hopeless people, but just misguided.
I began as a collector, was led to shmups for similar reasons to the hipsters and I, too, eventually came to idolize the pretenders. Where I differed from the hipsters was in my genuine desire to become knowledgable and skillful at the games, which allowed me to rise above them and, even if only for a short time, led me to view the genre in similar ways to the pretenders. But as my passion for improving continued to burn I came to disagree with the philosophy of the pretenders and so, they rejected me. It was then, finally facing the comfort of isolation that I became certain of what I had begun to suspect. In order to continue my evolution, I needed to strike out my own path and reject many of the things that those groups had held to be absolute truths. These are games designed for men who wish to decide their own destiny and thus, in this community built on stupidity and which idolizes false prophets, the only way to truly understand the genre is to rebel.
In order to proceed further, it is crucial to shed the notion that shmups are only a hobby and nothing more. Boxing can merely be a hobby, but to excel in it one must view at as a way of life. When a great boxer begins to take boxing less seriously and treat it like a hobby, their skills will begin to slip. Such is true with shmups as well. Where shmups differ with sports such as boxing is in that shmups represent an entirely different world. The simple act of playing a video game is a rejection of reality, even if only a temporary one. Thus, in order to invest the countless necessary hours to build skill in shmups one must foster a contempt for reality and other virtual worlds.
To a shmupper the need to exist in the 3D realm is a mere inconvenience. He is a mortal man, however, and he must exist in the 3D world until that day when dies and ceases to exist in it and, more importantly, can no longer play his precious shmups. Until that day the shmupper strikes a compromise: while reluctantly living in the 3D world he carefully calculates every action to help his success in the shmup world. In short, the shmupper is a man who goes full shmup.
With this out of the way let's next turn our attention to how the shmupper views that world. I think it is pretty generally agreed that at their core shmups are a challenge to the shmupper. What some don't realize is that the challenge is not to 1cc the game or to get a good score. No, those are but the end result; they are the payment for the job, so to speak. The challenge is to learn the game's nuances, it is to spend those longer hours restarting stage 2, it is to come back from the discouragement of having to throw out a run at the final stage. The challenge is to bear the crushing weight of failure for as long as one possibly can. The challenge is, in a word, to endure.
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>>337187528
Thanks /shmupg/
To me what these pretenders do, starting a game, learning the basics, getting a decent score, and then quitting when the "fun" ends isn't too far off from what the 1cc list obsessed hipsters do. Yes, the pretenders, those idolized by the hipsters they love to look down upon for their ignorance are, in fact, basically an extension of the group! There is no glory in being a jack of all trades. To paraphrase a user on 2ch, the gap between a 200m and 300m score in DDP is 100 times smaller than what is between a 600m and 700m score. The persistence to keep going is what truly separates the good players from the great ones.
If we look deeper into this and wonder why it is always Yusemi-SWY, Clover-TAC, ISO, etc. who always manage to find a spot in Arcadia for new games when I'm sure there are many who sink in equally as many hours, I will concede that some sort of natural ability does play a factor, but not what casuals often have in mind. I believe it is creativity that enables great players to hold records. Creativity is what enabled a westerner to achieve the Homura world record. It is why MON deserves to be seen as an all-time great regardless of someone else having beaten Death Label since. And it is why HFD's DOJBL record might soon fall to a Chinese player. While through sheer determination I feel anyone can copy a superplay and get a score close to a world record, to be able to come up with a harder and better strategy then execute it properly is the mark of a special player. Superplays, while a crucial resource, should be seen less as a walkthrough and more a conversation with a very human player.
Of course all of this is mere talk. Actions do speak louder than words and rather than allowing this essay to merely give the hipsters something more to spout off about we need some sort of test to sort out the true shmuppers. The quality of scores and ambition of their goals, while important, is also too subjective. We need something simpler to come before that when looking at someone. I believe that test should be what do they do when after that point of hundreds of hours of work, they fail a run close to their goal and must make a choice.
Do you walk away in disgrace or do you fight on?
In practice that question is often difficult to answer. It easy to try to comfort oneself with lies and excuses such as that run being "good enough" or falling back on that "fun" bullshit. Ultimately, while these things might offer short-term comfort their veil will eventually dissipate to allow that awful sensation that is the realization of failure to poison the player's life. The decision to fight on offers no such comfort, only the hope that there is light at the end of that seemingly endless tunnel.
To aid the the decision making process let's think of this in different terms. What would one of the greatest of all time, such as SOF-WTN, SPS, HFD, or simply whoever is the current world record holder for that game do after getting such a run?
I think they would keep playing.
>>337187645
nigga I 1cc for the story
1cc'd PCB hard a few days back. Honestly it shouldn't have happened but my late game was really great despite dying twice to Alice.
>>337186981
>six minutes since the last reply
>"dead thread"
>>337188734
It's confirmed to be one fucking guy posting a single Toho of which he has fallen in love, that's pretty dead.
Kuso thread
>>337172327
1CC is for plebs.
Start 1CCing while unfocused.
>>337189051
I tried doing something similar in Hellsinkerbecause the game doesnt want to let me map the slow button to a key on my keyboardand it did not go well.
>>337188914
There could be worse right? Right?
>>337189281
Stupid sexy chen.
>>337189514
Chen isn't hot, but you know who is.
>Stage Theme is longer than the Stage itself
>you'll only get to hear the entire song if you stall the dialogue before the boss
Why would ZUN do this.
>>337191067
I don't remember that ever happening outside of MoF stages 3 and 4.
>>337191067
So you read the dialogue
>>337191067
The music can get away from him. He just wanted to compose. Or he was drunk. Probably both, actually.
>>337191187
Pretty sure it also happens in IN Stage 2
>>337191202
I always liked read the dialogues in my first runs.
>>337191402
So it only happens three times.
Aren't you overreacting, then?
>>337192109
To be fair the IN Stage 2 theme is god-tier.
But yeah it really bugs me but it's not the end of the world.
>>337192325
>IN Stage 2 theme
>god-tier.
>>337192496
Yeah you heard me anon.
You got something against night sparrows?
>>337187448
>>337187528
>>337187645
>>337187719
Shoot what?
>>337172327
>How's that Touhou 1cc going, anon?
It isn't.
>>337193047
I'LL DO IT LATER
i 1cc'd mof on normal and somehow captured mountain of faith with only one life
>>337193115
Your pc die or something?
>>337193479
No, I just haven't made any progress on 1cc'ing the game I'm currently on in at least a monthdespite putting several hours of playtime into the game every 2-3 days.
>>337193642
And why don't ask for advice in these threads?
It's not like you've got anything to lose.
>>337194046
I've asked for advice, gotten good advice, tried my best to apply the advice, still can't git gud. I periodically show up in these 1cc threads talking about my inability to beat GFW, and the discussion is always the same, being told to either skip it (I won't) or being given the aforementioned good advice. I mostly just post in these threads as a formality and to let people know I haven't completely given up, but it really hurts knowing how little I've progressed.
Most runs I don't even get past Stage C-1 because of my perfectionism and the large amount of bullets aiming in different directions, a lot of them randomized. It just really, really pisses me off that I can't even break 350% motivation on Route C-1's stage section when I can get 410% on Route A-1. I don't restart due to bad scores, though, only when I die because I make stupid risky choices trying to squeeze an extra few percent here or there in a desperate struggle to break 350%. And when I do make it to Route C-1-2 on a good run I usually die to something fucking stupid and have to restart, wasting those hours I grinded to get a decent Stage 1 run in the first place.
I've managed to make it to the Route C-1-3 boss with only one continue used prior, but every time I do it kicks my ass as hard as the Route A-2-3 boss did when I was attempting that run (I switched from Route A-2 to Route C-1 at the suggestion of an anon). I know I say this in every 1cc hread I go to but I really, really, really hate that this game doesn't have a stage practice mode, just getting to the boss is a struggle and I can hardly practice through the endless wave of deaths trying to fight it. And I know all its patterns, too, I know how to counter them, I've watched multiple people play and do great against them, but I just miss the execution of the strategy every time fire bullets and lasers come into play. I can't even grasp how I beat SA and UFO when I'm so fucking garbage at this series.
>Absent sunday and yesterday
>Searching Dr Latency Freak Report playlist
>They are deleted
How am i supposed to listen them now?
>>337195005
This makes me a bit sad to hear.
If you use your resources correctly, just 1ccing GFW shouldn't be too hard. I can only imagine that you're trying to milk/score too much without knowing how. I've played fairy wars quite a bit, so I could take a look at one of your replays if you want.
>>337195986
Doujinstyle is a good website to download Touhou/doujin music from. You could have figured that out with a google search though.
>>337195005
>GFW
Oh, you're THAT guy. I suppose the Cirno pics should have tipped me off.SKIP THE FUCKING BITCH
>>337195986
>he didn't grab it while it was hot
https://mega.nz/#!nBdymRbB!-nTYX0vVuzgNb-BPRpR5KOG3HmbYArv-RI_cTjxHkuM
>>337195005
The problems you're having stem from GFW sucking.
>>337196338
Well, the main issue with replays is I can't get them to play without freezing my entire PC; I'm not really sure what the cause is. Despite that, though, I did save a couple particularly good runs from my A-2 attempts I think. I can't actually look at them and can't remember if they're both full runs or which is better, so I'll just try and send you both and see if they aren't corrupted or some shit.
https://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/FK%2FDw1y54dztGdr7LKeOGQ
I do apologize if my poor play in the later stages causes you to cringe, though.
>>337196352
No.
>>337196463
I still think it's a fun and quality game despite my lack of skill.
Why is Yuyuko so cute /v/?
>>337197130
>quality
More like QUALITY, am I right guise
>>337197130
Looks like both of them were bugged. Fairy wars has a glitch where if you restart without going back to the menu on stages 2 or 3, your score will be saved to the wrong route (for example, saving from route A1 to A2) and the replays won't work. So if you get to stages 2 or 3, don't esc+r when you want to restart. esq+q to go back to the main menu, then select start and try again from there.
Try saving a replay from stage 1 and see if that works. Or save one from stage 2/3 without using esc+r to restart. Otherwise it could be some other problem you have that I don't know about.
>>337197776
Fairy wars is good, don't hate.
>>337172563
Even the PC-98 games?
What's the most melancholy Touhou game?
>>337198015
Oh, is that the cause? Here I thought my toaster was the cause. Saving from stage 1 does work. I feel dumb now.
I'll try to get a good replay of Route C-1 one day and post it here when I do. Sorry for being dumb and saving corrupted replays.
>>337198596
PoFV.Cause it's got Melancholy.Medicine Melancholy
>>337198015
>good
More like """"""""good"""""""", am I right guise
>>337198632
Don't feel dumb, it's not your fault. ZUN was just extra sober when he coded the game. Happens to everyone, it's no big deal.
>>337198690
>>337198690
>>337197478
Because yes, but honestly, i like her dorky gardener more.
>Tilting cus can't 1CC 2hu 13
>"Dude you can press C to use your spirit bar"
>?
>First 1CC cus im trash in every touhou game
ima happy man
>>337201753
Congrats.
Protip to everyone who hasn't: Read the wiki. You might surprise yourself with game mechanics you don't know about.
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Cherry_Blossom/Gameplay
