Welcome to the lovely world of Windows Vista and 7.

Though, reinstalling my video card driver with HDMI support remedied that issue by mysteriously adding "stereo mix" back to the list of playback devices.

Needless to say I was overjoyed and tossed the audio cable route-from-speaker-to-mic method.

Hmmm? These computers still run XP. Also I'd consider doing something that drastic were these computers not Deep-Freeze whores.

I won't be able to get direct from speakers until my dad finishes the new computer he's supposed to be building.

Really? XP usually has stereo mix/wave out/WhatUHear. If you're willing to settle with slightly lower sound quality though, grab an audio cable, plug it in to the speaker and mic ports, and record from speakers that way.

I think the reason they took it out had to do with ability to record copyrighted content.

Sheiiit, Stage 1-2 is waaaay harder than 1-1 now.

1-1 on Original is akin to falling asleep, but 1-2 is where it picks up and becomes a more Cavesque shooter.

That wasn't scheduled until Stage 2-1 D:[

Can't wait till we see what sort of faggotry the first boss pulls. Leaf Storm? Blue Whirl? Storm Danmaku?

You didn't think those were bullshit, did you? :V

Also:

Nerfed death penalties. You lose 10% power on death and 25% of your multiplier, rather than 25 and 66%, respectively.

The game gets slightly impossible with certain enemies when it comes to beating them with low power.

I tried lowering the firerate and damage of weapons at higher power, but that resulted in it being more favorable to be at 50% power rather than 75%.

All right, fine, I won't put up videos of Arrange difficulty.

I just did a count, and Stage 1-1 won't put up any more than 60 bullets on the screen at once on Original.

@Kilin I've got that in the baaag.

The metaphorical bag full of pointy objects that is dragged along the gravel road, tearing holes in it thus arising the possibility of it falling out of the bag.

But it's totally in there.