#glitch15

A continuation to post /post/818324834584018944/, but now showcasing the Manual glitch for Legacy Mode in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.

As shown previously, if you open the Manual 15 or more times, and then you go and select a difficulty and after that return to the difficulty screen, you will be met with a garbled up text. Upon selecting the garbled text, it will turn into “Hard Mode”, although neither the stage location that will be played nor the difficulty shown in the upper corner will be related to Hard.

If you proceed to play the shadowy "Hard mode", you will actually start Extra Stage on Normal difficulty. The Point Value meter will show 7,773,910 in the beginning but will suddenly reset to 10,000 and the HiScore would display 17,041,094,51117 for some reasons, although I certainly never achieved that monstruous score.

Triggering the garbled up text proved to be more difficult this time, although other times when I tested this, I could do it much sooner. This time, the game decided to play tricks on me and when going back from the difficulty menu, I ended up in some sorts of uncertainity where neither Pointdevice Mode nor Legacy Mode would be highligted. At times Pointdevice Mode would be selected when going back even if it should have been Legacy Mode the one highlighted.

You may have heard about the glitch regarding the Manual in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom from the touhou wiki. It mentions there that if you open the Manual 15 or more times, and then you go and select a difficulty and after that return to the difficulty screen, you will be met with a garbled up text.

It also says that if you select that text and proceed to start the game, you will be playing the Extra stage on Hard difficulty, except there are no enemies and nothing else happens. This last statement seems to have been copied from Ten Desires and Double Dealing Character, because I've tested it and while it is true for these two games it is not what actually happens in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. You indeed trigger Extra stage but it will be on Normal difficulty and you will face enemies, the stage will not be empty.

Also, I would like to add few more things which are currently not mentioned there. Upon selecting the garbled text, it will turn into “Hard Mode”, although neither the stage location or the difficulty shown in the upper corner are related to Hard.

Since Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom has two modes (Pointdevice and Legacy), they will be showcased separately in two different posts. This post will explain further what oddities can be seen when triggering this glitch for Pointdevice mode.

When you start the bugged Extra stage on Normal on Pointdevice, your lives will actually be disabled, however when dying you will restart the Extra stage from the beginning and not from your current Waypoint. The Point Value meter will show 7,773,910 in the beginning but will suddenly reset to 10,000.

Once you trigger the glitch on Pointdevice mode, if you go back to the main menu and try to select any difficulty from Game Start, it will show as empty. By going back to the main menu after that, The "Pointdevice Mode" text will remain fixed at the bottom of the screen, even if you enter the "Extra Start" menu. If you choose to play Extra then, it will be a regular extra stage, with lives and no waypoints.

Sometimes, Hecatia's hair can briefly turn blonde between her first nonspell and spellcard. Those attacks are otherworld type of attacks, so her hair should be red with no other changes.

It doesn't happen in every run and I don't know what may be the cause. Right side gifs are with the moon sprite random appearance and left side gifs are with a "correct" nonspell to spell transition.

It also doesn't seem to be dependant on the character you use.

If you would like to read other details about Hecatia's changing hair colour, I recommend you check parts 1-3.

PART 1: /post/152122137934/,

PART 2 /post/640329736215789568/,

This marker should not be there as it doesn't change anything to the spellcard once you pass it.

「最初で最後の無名の弾幕」 "First and Last Nameless Danmaku" spellcard from Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom has both Hecatia and Junko as enemies. However, if you look closely, Hecatia’s healthbar has one HP marker and Junko’s has none. But when you start depleting their lifebars, the spellcard will randomly change as if it hit a marker.

Junko’s stars in Pointdevice mode are bugged in ver1.00b of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. This is different than the occurence from Legacy mode (see /post/158303248649/).

Similarly to the main games from Mountain of Faith until Double Dealing Character, in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom if you fastforward through the dialogue you are able to see a different number of seconds briefly on the timer, before the actual countdown for the nonspell begins.

The second when you beat the midboss will be shown for a short moment at the beginning of the boss’ first nonspell, before the timer is changed to that of the actual boss’ nonspell.