Touhou 06 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil major glitch
Posted by: Tsukuu
Date: 2012-09-08 01:38:48
Some nice glitch I found earlier by accident, and is probably one of the weirdest glitches in Touhou series, and felt like sharing it here.
Basically, a well-timed pause when the statistics are about to pop up can make both the statistics and the menu to pop up at once, giving you control of both (it's extended when you beat a highscore, which was the purpose of the Master Spark since I rarely use Marisa-B cuz she sucks). At that point, once you quit the game while keeping the highscore name thing open, you'll be at the main menu but will be unable to see the options though you can still select them. If you start a stage and at same time the second menu asks if you want to save the replay, the options will use Fairies sprites instead, because the game had already changed the sprite sheet to a stage's one, where a fairy would correspond to the Yes or No from the "save replay" screen.
Another thing not shown there is that if you close the second menu without starting a level, the main screen's background will vanish, making the menu options "blurry" it (idk what word to use there due to poor non-native english, but it's much like when you loop a TV's image into itself).
EoSD does have other glitches if anyone is interested, though its wiki doesn't have a page focused on them as far as I know, though they're listed individually for every game in the Gameplay section.