Danmakufu - Recollection of Scripter's Past

Four years ago today, I uploaded my very first Danmakufu video. Several scripts and one engine switch later, I thought I'd commemorate the anniversary with a little blast from the past!
Download: www.bulletforge.org/u/ajs/p/re...
I recommend using this Reimu player (www.bulletforge.org/u/mr-blue/..., as the script was balanced around it. However, you should be fine with most other characters--just know that some spells may take longer or shorter than usual as a result.
I was going to put all my spellcard commentary in the description here, since it's hard to put annotations on a fullscreen Danmakufu video without covering up too much, but it ended up being too long. So instead, you can take a look here for all of my comments. Just be warned, spoilers be afoot! [pastebin.com/3ZTGr9aS]
===============CREDITS===============
Satori spellcard portrait: Robotic Overlord ( / robotic-overlord ) [They take commissions!]
Charging/Explosion effects & Shou laser code: Ozzie840 ( / ozzie840 )
Spellcard cut-in function: TheGtbot ( / thegtbot )
Sound effects: ZUN, Tasofro, Len, misc.
Most sprites: ZUN, Tasofro
Kasen and Sumireko sprites: Kirbio (www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/in...)
ZUN sprite: Me =D
1st BGM: ZUN (Neo-Traditionalism of Japan album)
2nd BGM: Sound Sepher
3rd BGM: Mocchie ( • mocchie - Necrofantasia )
4th BGM: dBu ( • [dBu Music] 竹取飛翔 ～ the... )
5th BGM: Johnson
6th BGM: IOSYS ( • IOSYS - The Hourai Jew... & • IOSYS - The Hourai Jew... )
7th BGM: dBu ( • dBu - 忌憚騒命曲 ～ Demon ta... )
8th BGM: Mocchie ( • [Touhou Remix] ZUN's t... )
9th BGM: ZUN ( • SA Ending Theme - The ... )

[@Mr._Sherwood]

D'ya know what I like most about this? All of the spells she uses (or at least the recollection spells) are slightly easier than the originals. This is utterly beautiful, as canonically Satori cannot use other people's spells at full strength as she lacks their unique abilities, so uses slightly dumbed-down versions. It's beautiful AND canonically accurate, what is this masterwork? Also, I like how ALL of the spells were greatly enhanced from the originals, being made much better to behold. Simply put, it's amazing.

[@onyxvega7369]

it's like....Koishi hell but with Satori!

[@XxTouhouGamerxX]

Satori is mad cause Koishi stole her rose

[@Bravidunno]

+XxTouhouGamerxX Belle, or the rose...

[@zettaflareig]

satori hell

[@lyrica-live]

kjhbyghfdjff This is so beyond marvelous; that shrine maiden has no taste. Your ability to have such great concepts and then continue to improve upon them exponentially is constantly overwhelming. This is the best kind of fourth-wall breaking, for laughs as well as for a solid excuse to do incredibly creative things. So many spells are super super visually stunning, and THAT FESTIVAL IS THE GRANDEST FINALE EVER.

[@Hiroshiken71]

Well hello there.

[@tooljeff3227]

4:43 party!

[@TalosMistake]

This is more like remake of scripter's past. Every pattern improve by a lot, and I really like them.

[@umigainsborough1]

This is what happens when Satori and company become serious in conquering Gensokyo

[@vinalgin9797]

I was praying for kaguya's "help me Erin!" Spell. Why man, just why would you leave it out?

[@justanoob7348]

9:31 Everyone hate reimu Even herself

[@ArceusShaymin]

Satori, don't roll ur fookin eye at me m8; it's darude.

[@azureempyrean64]

Recollection "ZUN hates your guts" ... Thats spellcard is gold

[@jikosemu]

I think it would be better if you used Shinmyoumaru's ULiL winpose sprite for Kaguya's Rainbow Rave spellcard. The one that she dances. XD

[@AJSdanmakufu]

jsmdg257 I would've loved to, but there are no sprite rips for ULiL that I know of at this time. Maybe next time! (I was actually considering making a small update once ULiL rips are released, so I can put in Shinmyoumaru, Kasen, and Sumireko. As awesome as Kirbio's sprites for Kasen and Sumireko are, they look out of place compared to all the other ZUN sprites)

[@Bravidunno]

AJS Bosses usually look to the left, but Kokoro doesn't...

[@Luna-us3uj]

Whats the song used?

[@franciscodavi1323]

9:31 everyone is like everyone:we all are totally enraged angry furious and tired about you always be the winner in every game REIMU HAKUREI!!!!

[@KungFuPanda1223]

lmao if junko was added you would be dead from the height she would be in... also clownpiece lmao

[@franciscodavi1323]

if clownpiece with junko,hecatia and okina are showing and fighting reimu too the thing becomed totally worse! >:D

[@vitorhenriquefarias8916]

@@franciscodavi1323 and imagine if thie script was made in 2020 with the rest of the lolk in it the entire cast of hsifs joon and shion and the entire cast of wbawc that would be painful

[@TheRealFraston]

@@vitorhenriquefarias8916 From Sagume shooting yin-yang enemies to Saki shooting... Uh... what bullet type have they trademarked?

[@themirrorsamurai8885]

@@TheRealFraston The dark-aura spirits? Though seeing fire globes in ZUN Hates Your Guts (remember Saki's eighth spell?) would be even worse...

[@thettbd]

I've just watched this entire script, and...it's amazing. The effects, the spells, the memories, it's beautiful. I envy how good you make scripts, actually. :o

[@Sevilou]

5:55 2hu dance off

[@tanjimmy125]

I'm really blasted by this golden script. Absolutely marvelous. I really like the way you've revised the spells you've used in your older scripts, particularly Kaguya's Rainbow Rave and ZUN's ZUN Hates your gut, but also all of Yukari's spells are just... wow. Epic special effects as always. Someone give AJS a damn medal already.

[@ParadoxPython]

This is simply amazing. I'm overwhelmed and slightly envious of your creativity, your capabilities, your skill and your rainbows. Allow me to dump my opinions on this script here. I love how you recycled your old scripts, yet gave all of them a new twist so they aren't just ports from 0.12m, but more like...remixes. And of course, Rainbow Rave had to be in there. XD In terms of design, beauty and whatnot I especially liked "Siege of Earth and Heaven" and "Precious Hourai Gem" (so pretty). The final spell is just fabulous, I kind of expected something like that to happen. And finally...I have to say Satori's cutin creeps me out.

[@AJSdanmakufu]

ParadoxPython Thank you~ And yeah, just straight-up porting the old spells would've been boring, especially since there were so many changes I wanted to make with my newfound skills, both for balancing and to make the spell itself more interesting. And bwahaha, thanks~ My friend said they were going for a "spoopy" feel with this drawing, and I'm glad to hear it worked out.

[@tgr3423]

I love the wider viewpoint and aspect of some of these scripts. I feel like it gives the patterns a little bit more wiggling room to shine.

[@GreenDinobot]

The best danmakufu script, hands down

[@alpha-pathetic4168]

"Oh great... Here we go again" *It has the same energy--*

[@trucmaipham1451]

AJS, I like the recollections, though they weren't EXACT.

[@Lh0000]

Well..... I think we can all agree that rainbow rave party needs to be a canon spell! No seriously.

[@verysoftwares]

the musical transitions make this very striking.

[@legendofthecommentsection6513]

Dat Rainbow Rave tho

[@legendofthecommentsection6513]

Also Satori Spin

[@zantou_namakura]

this is really amazing Wonderfully plotted with Satori's power

[@Bravidunno]

Meiling should've been in that Rainbow Rave, or TASTE THE RAINBOW MOTHERFUUF.

[@naughtymidnight585]

8:36 Another Reimu?!?! *Gasp* Yare yare Daze...

[@xpoppy8745]

Yay~ my favourite character was in this script (Kaguya). I really like the spells and ideas in this script too,

[@vivavee3]

but wait... THERE'S MORE!!

[@conficturaincarnatus1034]

One mad guy indeed.

[@Bravidunno]

2:16 The spell background is supposed to disappear after you've beaten a spell.

[@AJSdanmakufu]

+BraviJNEP Since I had no nonspells, I felt it would've been unnecessary to make the spell background disappear during consecutive spell cards by the same boss. I only made the background disappear when Satori was switching to a different boss.

[@Bravidunno]

AJS But there are no spell between two ones, so there should be no spell background.

[@WishMakers]

This was an interesting script. I really like Satori's original spell and nonspell. Very different from the SA nonspells, but works for Satori. Ah...Rainbow Rave...the great spellcard to sweep the nation... I can't say I was originally expecting the ZUN fight to be featured, but I like how you balanced it. I still kinda want a serious ZUN fight, but I guess Touhoupachi has one too :V Either way, fantastic script! Here's to another year~

[@AJSdanmakufu]

***** Her nonspell and first spell were intended to be callbacks to her original nonspell and first spell (Terrifying Hypnotism). I wanted to keep the general feel for them while making the pattern itself new. I'm glad you liked them!

[@GarryDumblowski]

***** You're in luck! If I ever get around to getting Danmakufu and figuring out how to use it, a serious ZUN fight comes with it!

[@minaly22]

AJS That one was really great. The creepy eye could have been creepier... but well done!

[@Bravidunno]

Yukari's third spell is kinda like Utsuho's fourth spell in SA, yes. And did Satori learn how to transform into the people whose danmaku were recollectionned ?

[@Bravidunno]

That was a good video, especially for the last spell when you get your revenge on the Zun hates your guts spell. xD It's a best of, I see. Why not adding some annotations ? For that Rainbow Rave spell, I'd call it "Rainbow Rave at the Komeiji's". x) Too bad there weren't Okuu from Praise the Sun, nor Eirin.

[@AJSdanmakufu]

Braviaggron I didn't add annotations because there wasn't really anywhere I could add them that wouldn't obscure some of the action since the script is fullscreen. Check in the description, I have a link to a pastebin document where I put all my would-be annotations.

[@Bravidunno]

AJS And that Satori remix was cool... Until it stopped. =(

[@slendermouse7483]

Heat

[@gaygoddessnamedmadoka2252]

i have one issue,what happened to satori's face?

[@adrianfranky222]

This is one of your old scripts? It looks perfect! I like how you use special bullet pattern to make another bullet pattern to create another bullet pattern.(I probably went too far.) Have a ZUN medal~

[@AJSdanmakufu]

._. It's a recreation of several of my old scripts, actually. But this script in itself is brand new. :D

[@adrianfranky222]

Awesome! It's kinda rare to see talented people like this. Not some other people who spams the common bullet patterns.

[@hleghe810]

0:50 KZbin went to black at this point, so I was annoyed for a second but realised it was probably part of the spelllcard, but it legitimately crashed because updates

[@FlamerXMagofire01]

... Sweet mother of ZUN... That was awesome... =O

[@Latency345]

That portrait tho.

[@Danomnomnom]

Hah, amusing thought, are you perhaps going to make an update to this, just to account for the full version of LoLK? Just the cutoff at Doremy in the final spell narks me a little.

[@xXFuzzeeXx]

Sudden Necrofantasia had me laughing so fucking hard.

[@oopsiexist]

Imagine the next recollection with Everlasting Purity💀

[@carloseduardoribeiromiguel6565]

Does someone jnows where is the Lunatic Princess BGM for the spell "Recollection: Rainbow Rave"?

[@ivatigerfox2548]

.......You can read MY mind Satori-tan~!

[@badabingbadaboom5857]

Koishi: ⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️

[@sixteenthbluemoon7606]

0:01 Ah shit, here we go again

[@nandapratama4529]

Why does the rainbow rave bgm not available anywhere? It's so good.

[@SparenofIria]

THE REFERENCES

[@thettbd]

SparenofIria THEY'RE EVERYWHEREEEEEEEEEEE

[@gaboflandre]

I would love a "Zun hates your guts" update

[@silvernightray7701]

It should also include the PC-98 characters. And in the end, everyone would shoot a massive amount of bullets and the only safespot would be ZUN's glass of beer... 😂😂😂

[@mizzyloid]

i played this script

[@user-bm2oq7if6t]

hey any idea were i could get the music at 4:44 when the survival stage starts, btw this script is amazing , best script i have played in ph3, the full screen makes it awesome :D

[@AJSdanmakufu]

kun kun Sadly I have no idea where to find it. I spent ages browsing through KZbin trying to find it again so I could put a link to it, but with no luck. :(

[@glacialspirit2493]

+AJS I'm guessing it's a similar situation with the sound sepher 'Satori maiden' remix. I've looked around for that thing on numerous occasions to no avail (I've checked literally EVERYWHERE for it and found nothing.) If, by some miracle, you do have a link for that thing, would you be able to share it with us? :) (Also, I am aware this comment is 3/4 of a year old, I'm just using this comment as an easy way to get the message through. (+1 ironic laziness moment))

[@yuyukosaigyouji3793]

Wtf did I jut watch

[@ZeStreD]

YAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!! lol so cute

[@W.E.N.D.I.G.O]

8:33 DAMN I've been wanting to do that when I learned to script ;-; now if I do it'll look like I stole the idea

[@AJSdanmakufu]

SpidearPlays Nothing wrong with taking inspiration from other sources, just so long as you do something new with it :>

[@W.E.N.D.I.G.O]

Well true

[@Bravidunno]

About the last spell : In the case you haven't noticed it, Cirno has a new mini sprite in TH14, you could put it instead of her TH9. And I also wonder why there isn't Unzan, he doesn't seem to be with Ichirin, so it's herself who shoots the fists ?

[@bamshablam5977]

Man you really be nipicking like your life depended on it

[@Bravidunno]

@@bamshablam5977 wut

[@sanaeurl]

3:14 whats the name of that sound effect lol

[@neoticrin3836]

i have a few broken/OP player scripts and here are a few funny things that happened 1: the spell of 4 directions had the sprite buged and stayed on the screen for the rest of the game 2: i skiped the survival spell of kaguya from a OP bomb 3: hit the bomb durning a cutseen, crashed danmakufu XD

[@AJSdanmakufu]

rin satutashi WHAT KIND OF BOMB WAS THAT?!?! XD

[@vivavee3]

rip annotations

[@hleghe810]

1:25 just no koishi scripts! I don't want to have things break even more...

[@deralufe9094]

*still spins*

[@blue_the_boy_kisser]

0:48 istg, I lowkey thought her third eye was replaced by a Pokeball

[@SSM24_]

Not sure why I didn't watch this before now but I'm glad I did at some point Maybe I should attempt to learn ph3 instead of shitting around with v0.12m and not understanding why the wait function I totally didn't steal from your old scripts is only lasting half as long as it should unless I'm holding Skip for some reason

[@SSM24_]

(no but seriously that is an actual problem i'm having) (do you have any idea what might be causing it)

[@AJSdanmakufu]

***** Bear in mind that the wait function counts FRAMES, not seconds. Danmakufu runs at 60 frames per second, so if you put "wait(60)", you're telling the script to wait one second. "wait(30)" is half a second, "wait(120)" is two seconds, and so on

[@SSM24_]

AJS I know. But for some reason when I type, for example, "wait(60);", it'll only wait half a second, i.e. 30 frames. Unless I'm holding the Space key, in which case it'll wait the proper 60 frames. The really weird part is that shit will keep going while the boss is exploding, _except at the normal speed_ (although that particular part is pretty easily fixed). I have absolutely no idea what the fuck I could possibly be doing wrong.

[@franciscodavi1323]

5:43 hahaha the girls are trying the best may to dance in they own ways but satori are so funny dancing looks more like spinning! >:D

[@Bravidunno]

You should have waited until TH15's full version's out, because, now in the ZUN hates your guts spell, Sagume, Clownpiece, Junko and Hecatia are missing. =/

[@AJSdanmakufu]

+BraviJNEP I would have waited, but I made this script specifically to be released on the four-year anniversary of my first Danmakufu script. Maybe next time ^^

[@Bravidunno]

+AJS And for the spell background is it the same as the Aki sisters or...? Ah, and you should've added the survival warning for that spell too.

[@AJSdanmakufu]

Player shooting is disabled for the final spell, so I felt the survival warning would've been overkill. Also, that background is actually from the fangame Uwabami Breakers, in which you fight bar staff as a drunkard (ZUN himself even contributed to the game). Because of that, I felt it would be the most fitting background for fighting ZUN.

[@Bravidunno]

AJS Ah, okay, but for the survival warning, this still indicates you're facing a survival so you should've put it.

[@Bravidunno]

***** AJS doesn't count them.

[@krasusable]

Who's the guy in the Recollection: Brain Storm spellcard, anyways?

[@Mugenri]

Walfas AJS

[@MelWhitehill]

Now I want to understand ph3's basics yet more badly. Although I do like the idea. More people should do.. well, not this exactly, but I guess you'll know what I mean anyway.

[@torqueandrikotoone]

Wait, Did you get inspiration from Len'en when you made the first spell card. I ask because Third Eye "Gaze into the Heart" looks almost the same as Bird's Eye "Pitch-black Eye" from Len'en 1: Extravagant Existence. The difference is what happens with the Eye, Yours stays with Satori in the middle while Jynx has the eye in one spot with black bullets covering it, and then the eye closes, and then it opens in a new location.

[@W.E.N.D.I.G.O]

Where's rinnosuke and myouren hijiri at the end

[@alicemargatroid5605]

SpidearPlays I hope you are trolling right xD? They never appeared in any games so they can't be put into a cronological order and also none of them are able to use Danmaku, unless you count Myouren's ability to cast buddhist magic which doesn't equal Danmaku :/

[@R.P.Genocraft]

well, rinnosuke created Marisa's freaking mini-hakkero, he could easily make some projectile weapon for himself.

[@utsuhoreiuji9850]

I wanna join the rainbow rave T~T I was the only Komeiji left out WHYYYYYYYYYY

[@franciscodavi1323]

well at least you reiuji appeared during the final revenge with everyone in the end >:)

[@dantpointy436]

Why is Reimu kill? Also SPIN SATORI SPIN

[@Frikiman_H]

PURANETTO AASU DA! Which is the way you say in japanese AN OIL TANKER FOR YOU!

[@elfmonster3082]

can you please help me ? i'm kind of a noob at downloading stuff , i downloaded danmakufu (version ph3 .1pre6a ) and the script , is there something i have to do now to play ? (sorry for bad english )

[@AJSdanmakufu]

Eduardo de Araújo Put the folder for the script in the "scripts" folder, then download this player script and put it in a folder titled "player" inside the "scripts" folder. Then start the game ("th_dnh.exe"), go to Directory, and find the title of my script. Then select your difficulty, choose your player, and go!

[@elfmonster3082]

AJS thank you very much =D

[@elfmonster3082]

AJS can you help me again ? i placed the script folder (from the resource ) on the other script folder . and put the script (the game ) on the script folder . when i go on directory , it appears a "script" but when i go on there , its just appears on the top script/script/ and the background of the program . did i do something wrong or its a glitch ? (sorry for bad english again )

[@AJSdanmakufu]

Eduardo de Araújo Let me break it down step by step just to make sure there isn't any confusion. First, follow the link and download the script. Open the .zip file, and you should see a folder named "Recollection of Scripter's Past" and "README.txt". Now, open up your Danmakufu ph3 folder and open the "script" folder. Drag the "Recollection of Scripter's Past" folder into the "script" folder here. You do not need to do anything else at this point, the script is now installed. If you don't have any player characters, download a player character from BulletForge, and drag the entire folder into a folder INSIDE the "script" folder called "player". Now you're ready to play! Start up Danmakufu and go to Directory, and find "Recollection of Scripter's Past" on the list. Now you should see three blue titles for the script on three separate difficulties. Pick the one you want, pick your player, and you're good to go.

[@elfmonster3082]

AJS thank you very much . it worked now =D

[@greeting98]

you should've added tasukete eiren in this. XD

[@goodname3838]

Is the last one even possible?

[@i8angyou843]

ehm lux ult?

[@minaly22]

This needs to be put on Niconico douga. I bet the japanese will be ecstatic.

[@AJSdanmakufu]

+minaly22 I'm a bit wary about that because the Japanese tend to be pretty strict about following ZUN's guidelines of not using his assets in fangames. In the Western fanbase, the danmakufu community's fairly lenient about it so long as you're not charging money for it. But in the Eastern fanbase, if you make something with ZUN's sprites/graphics/sound effects *AND* provide a download link, they'll get up in arms about it. That's why you see stuff like the All-Star Danmaku Medley not having download links. There was actually an infamous incident several years ago where Helepolis, a prominent scripter in our community, uploaded one of his scripts to NicoNicoDouga, and the users there got upset over it.

[@vavada8288]

+AJS STOP HELEPOLIS

[@ClamChowdaEnjoya]

Did Satori & Kaguya's portrait look so terrible they used different ones instead?

[@franciscodavi1323]

7:22 this anime guy is a official anime or a oc created by yourself??

[@AJSdanmakufu]

Self-insert overpowered "Gappy Stu" OC I made of myself many years ago when I first got into Touhou. The art was provided by a friend. I crei...

[@youkaijesus484]

I'm kinda new to Danmakufu, and I can't figure out how to get the script running. I put the file in 'script' and look through 'plural' once the game is up, and then I get an error message. I know it's kinda lame to ask for help in a comment's section of a KZbin video but... help? ;^;

[@AJSdanmakufu]

+Youkai Jesus Make sure you have the most recent version of Danmakufu (www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Oakland/9951/pre/th_dnh_ph3.zip), that sounds like it may be your issue.

[@youkaijesus484]

But I have the most recent version. I just need ph3, right?

[@AJSdanmakufu]

Yeah. Hmm... what does the error message say?

[@youkaijesus484]

解釈できないものがあります(「;」を忘れていませんか) C:/Users/*****/Desktop/Misc. Games/th_dnh_ph3/th_dnh_ph3/script/Recollection of Scripter's Past/default_system/Default_System.txt Default_System.txt

[@AJSdanmakufu]

Hmm... That's saying it can't find the default system file, but I know for a fact it's included in the download. Whatcha gotta do is, when you download the script, there should be a single folder inside with the title. Drag that entire folder into the "script" folder of danmakufu, and then run it.

[@sendhelp6349]

Something about that Satori drawing doesn't sit well with me, can't quite put my finger on it

[@jack8915]

Character is self aware of past projects and uses them as an insult against now incredible scripter ... Hahahaha interesting thought

[@xR1n02]

Why always me ._.

[@keylimepie3602]

Smh she needs to stop hacking

[@nexieterithu1073]

Reimu fighting Reimu? 8:49

[@silvernightray7701]

^Is it common sense I'm reading? Doesn't belong to Gensokyo...

[@austin402]

DUNK DUNK DUNK DUNK DUNK DUNK DUNK DUNK HER LOLOLOL GET DUNKED OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

[@LolLol-vj4dx]

...wtf

[@PancakeDeAmora]

Rainbow Rave