Quintafeira12
Landshark Aki
So I figured out how you can cheat on capturing spellcards using Sanae B.
Sanae B's bomb (the "Frog Nuke") is special because it has like a three second charge time (I think it's three seconds, I dunno exactly because my comp lags too much.) During that time, you're invincible. The actual attack doesn't launch until a few seconds later. So what you need to do is activate the bomb before the boss declares a spellcard (possibly during an attack, like, when her health is almost gone.) If you activate during an attack, focus fire and finish her off BEFORE the bomb goes off. If you do it right, the boss should have begun her spellcard attack, and then the bomb explodes and damages her, giving you a much smaller and easier to deal with health bar. HOWEVER, because you activated the bomb during the attack and not during the actual spellcard, you'll still be able to capture the spellcard given that you don't die or bomb again.
It actually does work, by the way - I discovered it quite by accident and used it to capture Ichirin's final spellcard on Normal. I don't know if it works on anybody else, doubt it works on Reimu or Marisa, and I still have no idea how Sanae A's bomb works. Unfortunately if you want to do this a lot this means you'll have to grab red UFOs only and commit suicide on normal attack patterns to get two more bombs or simply go for the green UFOs only. Meh. Oh well.
Sanae B's bomb (the "Frog Nuke") is special because it has like a three second charge time (I think it's three seconds, I dunno exactly because my comp lags too much.) During that time, you're invincible. The actual attack doesn't launch until a few seconds later. So what you need to do is activate the bomb before the boss declares a spellcard (possibly during an attack, like, when her health is almost gone.) If you activate during an attack, focus fire and finish her off BEFORE the bomb goes off. If you do it right, the boss should have begun her spellcard attack, and then the bomb explodes and damages her, giving you a much smaller and easier to deal with health bar. HOWEVER, because you activated the bomb during the attack and not during the actual spellcard, you'll still be able to capture the spellcard given that you don't die or bomb again.
It actually does work, by the way - I discovered it quite by accident and used it to capture Ichirin's final spellcard on Normal. I don't know if it works on anybody else, doubt it works on Reimu or Marisa, and I still have no idea how Sanae A's bomb works. Unfortunately if you want to do this a lot this means you'll have to grab red UFOs only and commit suicide on normal attack patterns to get two more bombs or simply go for the green UFOs only. Meh. Oh well.
Lol, congrats on doing it!
I knew this already, since day three of the demo being out, mostly because I lurk that place full of "Damsels of the nicely shaped colorful lenses". They're damn good at touhou, and they were doing "Bomb troughs" with Sanae B for ages.
But hey! You found about it on your own! That's way more than I can say so for myself!
I think you're not the only one to discover this. I'm not trying to put down your awesome discovery, but the fact is ZUN could be reading this type of stuff and alter it in the final product gonk
