any quick way to practice boss non-spell cards?

[Vizer]

there's still no savestate feature, i assume. i want to practice the first and second bosses' pre-spell card attacks because they're full of tough diagonal bullets, but "Spell Card Practice" only lets you practice the spell cards, and in regular practice you still have to clear the whole stage

also, is it just me, or is stage 1 (lunatic) tough in this game? it's got a bunch of red aura enemies you have to kill quickly. i'm getting better at doing the last wave without bombing (killing 3 of the small red aura homing shot fairies (left, then right, then left) before killing the middle big fairy, then making a sharp movement to the right side of the screen (the side where the newest small red aura fairy spawned) and then slowly streaming the bullets from right to left), but it seems much better to just bomb it to guarantee you collect all 3 heart/bomb fragments safely

[DaBuYuu]

I haven't done this myself but I saw it.

from: https://tcrf.net/Touhou_Kouryuudou:_Unconnected_Marketeers

""Full Unlock Code
The unlock code from Violet Detector and Wily Beast and Weakest Creature returns yet again: on the trophy/achievements screen, highlight number 13 (second row, third column) and type mastersdream.

If done correctly, you'll hear the 1up sound, and the Extra Stage and all practice stages, spell cards, and ability cards will be unlocked for all characters, shot types, and difficulty levels (the extra starting slots for ability cards will not be unlocked, however). Each character and difficulty level will also now be counted as cleared, with the "Times Cleared" counter increasing by one each time you enter the code.""

edit: I just tried it and it does indeed work.

[Vizer]

thanks for the heads up! i may use that code eventually, but for now i like unlocking things normally. i don't think that list of features gives me what i want, so i'll just practice the slow way

[DaBuYuu]

Ah yeah, sorry. You said 'pre-spell cards'. I feel like that feature has always been missing in touhou games.

[Wild Matsu]

Use the practice patch, it's called "thprac"

On my end it's not working quite perfectly yet--I can't read the text. But he seems to be updating it regularly now.

[Vizer]

Originally posted by Wild Matsu:

Use the practice patch, it's called "thprac"

On my end it's not working quite perfectly yet--I can't read the text. But he seems to be updating it regularly now.

awesome, thanks a ton! i looked through a couple of the 3rd party tools for touhou, and missed this one