#glitch14

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You may have heard about the glitch regarding the Manual in Double Dealing Character 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. 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.

I’ve tested this myself and I would like to add few more things which are currently not mentioned there. Upon selecting the garbled text, it will turn into “Lunatic Mode”, although neither the stage location or the difficulty shown in the upper corner are related to Lunatic. When you launch this bugged stage at first you are capable of shooting and bombing, but as soon as you kill an invisible enemy you will stop being able to do anything else than fly around. You will even lose the ability to focus. Also, the Point Value meter will show 4,281,795,006.

If you do the Manual glitch and choose Extra Start instead of Game Start, when you go back to the difficulty screen before choosing a character, the difficulty will be gone, showing nothing on the screen. However if you proceed to play it, it will just be a regular Extra stage.

Returning now to the ghostly “Lunatic Mode” text, it will persist on the Menu screen even if you return to the main menu. One thing to notice is that once the Manual glitch is active, even if you didn’t trigger the garbled up text yet and you try to go back to the main menu, the Manual option would be selected instead of Game Start.

Another weird thing while this glitch is active is that while selecting Reimu's shottype, if you go back from that menu, Sakuya would be selected instead. By going left, Marisa's or Reimu's portrait and description would appear underneath Sakuya's. This goes away once you reach Sakuya in the menu.

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Randomly encountered the Marisa laser glitch in Double Dealing Character today. Luckily it was captured in the replay too.

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Shinmyoumaru Sukuna's name does not appear during Spell Practice of 小槌「お前が大きくなあれ」 Mallet "You Grow Bigger!" in Double Dealing Character, but it will be shown if you face the spell through a regular run (or stage practice).

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Weird timers in Double Dealing Character

Similarly to the main games from Mountain of Faith until Ten Desires, in Double Dealing Character 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.

In stages 1-3, 5, 6 and extra, the timer will not display the full number of seconds, but only the millisecond part. I would like to thank to Nylilsa (nylilsa.github.io/#/home) who I asked for help regarding this.

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In Double Dealing Character, at the beginning of Raiko's spellcard 「ブルーレディショー」 "Blue Lady Show", there is a healthbar which disappears as soon as Raiko turns blue. During regular playing of the Extra stage there is a HP marker on it, but in Spell Practice this HP marker is absent.

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In Double Dealing Character, Shinmyoumaru does not have any HP markers on her healthbar during Spell Practice of spellcard 「ホップオマイサムセブン」 "Hop-o'-My-Thumb Seven" (and the Hard/Lunatic variant「七人の一寸法師」 "The Seven Issun-Boushi").

This doesn’t mean the spellcard doesn’t have the usual phases. You can still trigger them as you normally do in a regular run, it’s just harder to know when they will happen if you don’t know the spellcard well enough.

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In Double Dealing Character, when Shinmoyumaru gets her bowl, she loses the star behind her. From this point until the end of the fight, she won’t have any star even during the attacks where she does not have the bowl.

However, in Spell Practice, spellcards 小槌「お前が大きくなあれ」 Mallet "You Grow Bigger!" and 「進撃の小人」 "Attack on Dwarf" have the star behind Shinymoumaru (this also applies for the Hard and Lunatic variants of the 5th spellcard「ウォールオブイッスン」 "Wall of Issun").

For comparison, left side pictures are from regular run, while right side pictures are from Spell Practice.

As a reference, 小槌「大きくなあれ」 Mallet "Grow Bigger!"  (and the Hard/Lunatic variant  小槌「もっと大きくなあれ」 Mallet "Grow Even Bigger!") doesn’t have any bowl or star neither in regular runs, Practice Start or Spell Practice.

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In Double Dealing Character, Cirno's spellcard 氷符「アルティメットブリザード」 Ice Sign "Ultimate Blizzard" has a HP marker during Spell Practice. This marker should not be there as it doesn't change anything to the spellcard once you pass it.