KirbyComment | How to Unlock the Secret Level in Shoot the Bullet @KirbyComment | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
wiki.maribelhearn.com/wiki/Touhou_9.5:_Shoot_The_Bullet#Pity_Scene_Unlock
This game has a hidden mechanic where the game takes pity on you when you're playing the latest unlocked level and you've accumulated 10,000 photos across the scenes of this level. Whenever this happens the next level automatically unlocks, even if you haven't met the regular requirements for unlocking the next level.
This does come with one side effect: When having all levels unlocked and you obtain 10,000 photos across Level EX, the hidden 12th level gets unlocked! This was originally going to be additional content but ZUN decided to abandon this idea to focus on his new project (likely Mountain of Faith).
When playing this 12th level you can also end up with a total of 93 scenes cleared and get a higher total score. Replays also do function if you save some runs from this level.
It is worth mentioning that taking 10,000 photos on any scene(s) outside of Level EX in this case doesn't unlock this hidden level, as was demonstrated in this clip: twitch.tv/videos/2150983613
The game also doesn't unlock a 13th level upon getting 10,000 photos in the hidden 12th level.
To play around with this hidden level without having to go through the effort of taking 10,000 photos, download this scorefile that is one photo away from unlocking this level: mega.nz/file/Iy1VWAJC#vRh5PLtXdvcyeom-TZOe8V5dD2GNIH8pjqX1jExWzAY
Additionally the replay file used to demonstrate the replay behavior at 4:23 can be found here: replay.lunarcast.net/replay/th95_ud6270.rpy
wiki.maribelhearn.com/wiki/Touhou_9.5:_Shoot_The_Bullet#Pity_Scene_Unlock
This game has a hidden mechanic where the game takes pity on you when you're playing the latest unlocked level and you've accumulated 10,000 photos across the scenes of this level. Whenever this happens the next level automatically unlocks, even if you haven't met the regular requirements for unlocking the next level.
This does come with one side effect: When having all levels unlocked and you obtain 10,000 photos across Level EX, the hidden 12th level gets unlocked! This was originally going to be additional content but ZUN decided to abandon this idea to focus on his new project (likely Mountain of Faith).
When playing this 12th level you can also end up with a total of 93 scenes cleared and get a higher total score. Replays also do function if you save some runs from this level.
It is worth mentioning that taking 10,000 photos on any scene(s) outside of Level EX in this case doesn't unlock this hidden level, as was demonstrated in this clip: twitch.tv/videos/2150983613
The game also doesn't unlock a 13th level upon getting 10,000 photos in the hidden 12th level.
To play around with this hidden level without having to go through the effort of taking 10,000 photos, download this scorefile that is one photo away from unlocking this level: mega.nz/file/Iy1VWAJC#vRh5PLtXdvcyeom-TZOe8V5dD2GNIH8pjqX1jExWzAY
Additionally the replay file used to demonstrate the replay behavior at 4:23 can be found here: replay.lunarcast.net/replay/th95_ud6270.rpy
![[old] 東方封魔録 ～ Highly Responsive to Prayers TAS - Lunatic No Movement (Makai) - Read description!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GGp_N6ixEKk/hqdefault.jpg "[old] 東方封魔録 ～ Highly Responsive to Prayers TAS - Lunatic No Movement (Makai) - Read description!
This TAS is outdated. The new improved TAS can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59HcxfC6KdI
Rerecord count: 3,559
When doing No Movement, you only get access to shooting amulets and swiping away the ball or bullets. Nobody has done this in real-time yet but I do believe its possible. This TAS could have probably spent a little less resources, but there are points where Im forced to die because of too many bullets coming at me from an angle or because the panels in a stage are unreachable without bombing.
I played this TAS back on the first Anniversary Edition, released by ReC98 on 5 March 2023 in celebration of this game being fully reverse-engineered. Unfortunately this patch doesnt fully function on Neko Project which I had to use to make and play back the TAS. There are points where theres alot of bullet flickering, perhaps even more than the original. Perhaps once I figure out how to fix that or a more updated Neko Project comes out, I may re-upload this one. I will probably make a TAS of the Jigoku route soon.
Jigoku TAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj21U7KZ8L4
0:00 Stage 1-4
1:19 Stage 5
2:09 Stage 6-9
3:16 Stage 10
4:16 Stage 11-14
7:07 Stage 15
8:16 Stage 16-19
11:06 Stage 20")
