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Anyone know how to get Touhou running on M1+ (ARM) Mac?

Deliverer8099

Deliverer8099

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I've got no Mac and I've got no clue. I tried to look it up, but didn't find anything.
 
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I use crossover, specifically the trial version.
It has a time limit but if you’re ok with downloading a plist editor and changing the start date every once and a while it’s great!
im open to any questions if you’re still wondering something!
 
10MaddEM said:
I use crossover, specifically the trial version.
It has a time limit but if you’re ok with downloading a plist editor and changing the start date every once and a while it’s great!
im open to any questions if you’re still wondering something!
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Were you ever able to get Touhou 6 working? I can't get Direct3D to initalize at all even though I installed DirectX for Pre-Windows XP Games. 1764818931389.webp
 
If I remember correctly im pretty sure I changed what graphics backend i was using and it worked, I could be wrong though…
 
10MaddEM said:
i did get it working but I can’t remember exactly what i did.
Are you using thcrap?
And are you trying to start the game in windowed or fullscreen?
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Fullscreen shows the error above. Windowed shows the loading screen with the music playing but nothing else. I've tried all 4 graphics backends with nothing working. I was able to get PCB open in windowed, but full screen didn't work for that either.
 
Yeah, I can’t play 6-10 in full screen.
And for me I couldn’t play anything, so this is a different issue than what i had.
ill keep looking into it but on the bright side you can play PCB!
 
What file are you booting it from?
I’ve found that trying to open the unmodified files tends to cause problems….
 
I used a redump disc with the original EoSD installer. I tried updating to the latest EoSD version, but that fixed nothing. THCRAP only translated the error to English. I'm also having FPS issues with DDC where it runs around 112 FPS, and vpatch consistently crashes DDC.

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The only thing i can think of doing is checking the thcrap logs (~/Touhou 6/thcrap/logs) if you manage to fix it please post it here so that it can help someone else out.
 
After some testing, here’s my conclusion for my problem.
th6 won’t work at all and i can play (unmodified) th7 in windowed.
If i try to play 6-10 with the thcrap patch i get a vpatch error “could not load vpatch dll”.
This all started with the most recent thcrap update, (12-3-25)
I hadn’t played 6-10 since before then so i was unaware of this.

this is a huge pain.
 
Error messages ><
 

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10MaddEM said:
Error messages ><
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I think the second error might be solved by emulating Japanese locale. The first one is a vpatch error. You might have luck if you grab vpatch from the Touhou wiki (from the Download button below "Vsync Patches" at the title) and replace the vpatch files with those.
 
AyaShameimaruBA said:
I used a redump disc with the original EoSD installer. I tried updating to the latest EoSD version, but that fixed nothing. THCRAP only translated the error to English. I'm also having FPS issues with DDC where it runs around 112 FPS, and vpatch consistently crashes DDC.
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Did you actually manage to update Touhou? When I manually updated it with Wine, it spoke of a Z drive in the update message, but the game didn't update. To make it work, I had to launch winecfg, and at Drives create a D directory, and make it point to the game folder.
 
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Deliverer8099 said:
Did you actually manage to update Touhou? When I manually updated it with Wine, it spoke of a Z drive in the update message, but the game didn't update. To make it work, I had to launch winecfg, and at Drives create a D directory, and make it point to the game folder.
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Well, since it used the install discs, it installed it to Wine's drive instead of my home folder, so for all it knew, it was on the system partition. I just had to drag the installer into the install directory.
 
Deliverer8099 said:
I think the second error might be solved by emulating Japanese locale. The first one is a vpatch error. You might have luck if you grab vpatch from the Touhou wiki (from the Download button below "Vsync Patches" at the title) and replace the vpatch files with those.
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I replaced the files and I'm still having the same issue T-T
I tried it on 6&7.....
 
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Okayyyy~
After many months i finally got the motivation to come back to this, i managed to get it working once i ran the game directory through dot_clean (open terminal, type “dot_clean ” make sure you include the space then drag the folder in the window and it should put the directory, then press enter and it will run. I promise it’s 100% safe if you doubt be look up the command) i only had to after thcrap had updated, but i really do hope this helps because i genuinely spent like WAY too much time troubleshooting…
 
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