Leaderboard

Nothing special, just a Cirno.

I cannot for the life of me get this whole shading think right. But I still like how it turned out :D

@vanyk, @Pinky Cat You're welcome. Please note that my translation abilities are in fact very limited, I mainly assist in extracting subtitles (from hard-coded ones) and timing them. But I really like making more obscure or overlooked works more accessible because I'm certain they deserve it. Okay, here are 2 obscure animation efforts that I acquired recently. First is a PV DVD released in 2008 called "東方紅魔郷 ARRANGE PV" by circle "WITCH☆CRAFT" and featuring a very nice and early Reimu 3D model by ISAO. This was obviously made before the MMD era (MMD just came out or hasn't come out yet by the time this animation was produced). This isn't lost media yet, but only very bad quality reposts exist of this. So I'm posting a full DVD rip here. Now unfortunately, I couldn't make an ISO because the disc had very bad corruption or burning defects despite looking prestine, but I was able to copy all the files at least. That's why all the datestamps are wrong (they should normally read 14th of May 2008 at 7:52AM). There is also a very annoying interlacing glitch throughout the whole PV which makes the picture look very jittery (when deinterlaced properly). Probably an authoring bug or sign of amateurism. Some video expert might be able to fix this. Second is a very well known dogfight animation from Mudspike (oh, what a coincidence again). Catalog number is MUDS-0001. This is the Reimu vs Utsuho fight. This already exists in 720p on YouTube on the creator's channel, so far from lost media (unless the creator melts down). But this DVD edition offers much better quality and even a subtitleless version. I'm offering a full ISO this time. More will come later. A DVD ISO rip of 東方奇闘劇 3 from AQUA STYLE (only exists in very low quality uploads) and some very obscure thing called "東方見聞録" by circle FRAGILE ONLINE released in 2004, if I'm not lazy.

-w-

Hello. I am sorry I wasn't active for around two weeks, I had to do a lot of work to do IRL and related to the database of Touhou events (it took much more time than I expected). But now I can make an announcement: the database is fully finished. It combines a lot of info collected by TESC, THBWiki and information from other places. I want to thank TESC, THBWiki and other people who tracked Touhou events because it helped a lot. This project helped me to know much more about different events. Now I can say that a lot of things Touhou researchers say about this is mostly true, but some data is outdated or has mistakes. For example looking at the data now I can say that processes during 2014-2019 were more complex than it was described in previous researches (because some data was missed) So now I will cover info which we can get by statistics and info from previous researches. So we can know what happened in Touhou Doujin (major part of Japanese Touhou community) for two decades and its current state. For now I can say say that Touhou-only events in Japan are mostly about offline activities (COVID and Post-COVID times prove this). I will cover mostly sales events, but there are a lot of kinds of Touhou-only events and combinations of them (for example there is an event which combines sales, concert, cosplay and dancing). And now I will publish some teasers:

Of course, you don’t know me, but I want to thank everyone who was active here, I’m the same person who gave Denist the idea to insert about Mario in the video and I’m extremely glad that Pinky Cat found it) (sorry if it's not enough or if you don't like something else :( )

After seeing Denist’s Lost Media Touhou video, I felt inspired from his visual showcase of several pieces of Lost Media, so I looked at the Lost Media List once more. Enjoy the findings! ZUN’s Super Mario Maker Level As one of the few people that owns an actual Wii U and a copy of SMM1, seeing this SMM1 level was a bit of a shock to me as there was a massive SMM1 level archive on IA online already. Internet Archive SMM1 Levels: https://archive.org/details/super_mario_maker_courses_202105 Except, that archive doesn’t really give a guide on how to import those levels on SMM1, so here is a little guide on how to play ZUN’s level on either emulator or Wii U. Steps to get ZUN’s Super Mario Maker 1 Stage Level Name: ZUN - sky stage Level ID: 8192-0000-02CE-AA88 Have a SMM1 save on PC via Cemu or exported from the Wii U. Right click SMM1 on Cemu to find save directory. Make sure there are some saved levels in the save to replace with the downloaded level. Download HerobrineTV’s SMM1 Level Downloader on Github Search up the level by name or ID. Turn on “Exact Search” to speed up search. Copy & paste the downloaded level folder into SMM1 save folder Play on Cemu or import the save back on the Wii U. That what I did to play this level on an actual Wii U as seen in the above photo. By the way, this level made me felt a tinge of “routing” as I had to figure out consistent ways to avoid the fire bars and dodge the magikoopas’ assault. Pretty fitting for ZUN. ===================================================== The Other subcategory in Lost Youtube Videos and Channel category is lacking a lot information to contextualize what these links are for. Here is my attempt to dig a bit deeper into these links. Suwako Hates Mario Party Lost Video Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201010105030/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1eL8ML4qY Thumbnail: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamegrumps/comments/16m4oo/suwako_hates_mario_party_youtube/ Tumblr Repost: https://supahbeefcakes.tumblr.com/post/39343348055/ihatebikeshorts-leomodesto-suwako-hates An animation using audio from Game Gumps’s Mario Party 8 session. Created by Lina Clari in December 31, 2012 Thanks to the power of the Open Graph protocol, there is a thumbnail of the video within a post on the r/GameGrumps subreddit. The thumbnail shows Suwako with a money bag next to a monopoly board. Note that the video was only privatized, not deleted. SumireArche Lost Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/SumireArche VioletArche Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@violetarche3746?app=desktop SumireArche’s channel reuploaded Touhou doujin music on Youtube. After the channel shut down, SumireArche created the VioletArche channel that has the purpose to repload Touhou doujin music. Gensokyo TV CAPITULO Touhoupardy Lost Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmZZIBVZS4 There was nothing I could find by online searches, so I instead looked into the name. CAPITULO means chapter in Spanish. “Touhoupardy” is likely a combination of Jeopardy and Touhou, fitting with the Gensokyo TV framing. silvestole Lost Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn_60fNGzYLIy5ZVVqMlwnQ 5chan Thread: https://itest.5ch.net/fate/test/read.cgi/touhou/1590537909 The only information I could find comes from the 5chan thread, which states silvestole uploaded Touhou arranged medleys. Donations Please - WMV (Walfas Music Video) Lost Video Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20110805141324/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TUPyvuOvr8 Nico Nico Reuploads of Walfas Videos: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9661111?playlist=eyJ0eXBlIjoic2VhcmNoIiwiY29udGV4dCI6eyJrZXl3b3JkIjoia3Vyb2lzYWt1cmExMDAwIiwic29ydEtleSI6Imxhc3RDb21tZW50VGltZSIsInNvcnRPcmRlciI6ImRlc2MiLCJwYWdlIjoxLCJwYWdlU2l6ZSI6MzJ9fQ&ss_pos=6&ss_id=273bb79d-b30e-4149-9645-812448a3ba2f Created by kuroisakura1000 in July 22, 2008 I don’t have anything on the video itself, but I do have some related records dealing with kuroisakura1000. They had a deviantart account, but the account was deleted and IA doesn’t have anything noteworthy saved. There are some Nico Nico reuploads of their Walfas videos from searching up kuroisakura1000 on Nico Nico, but none are about Donations Please. [アニメ] 東方 - 東方活動写真館「橙の幻想郷音頭」 Lost Video Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20120421173016/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu9d4M81dZ0 橙の幻想郷音頭 THB Wiki Page: https://thwiki.cc/%E6%A9%99%E3%81%AE%E5%B9%BB%E6%83%B3%E9%83%B7%E9%9F%B3%E9%A0%AD 東方活動写真館 THB Wiki Page: https://thwiki.cc/%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%B9%E6%B4%BB%E5%8B%95%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F%E9%A4%A8 This video is simply a 1:36 reupload of橙の幻想郷音頭 by the animation circle 東方活動写真館. Now in my opinion, there isn’t really a need to have this on the list since the animation東方活動写真館 are very popular with Touhou fans, to the point they have been illegally uploaded online multiple times over across multiple online video websites. Of course, since their animations were originally released at Touhou doujin events as physical DVDs, a more legal method to obtain the animation is to buy secondhand stores online. ===================================================== 永遠亭訪問ゲーム Java Version 永遠亭訪問委員会 Website Link: https://houmoniinkai.ninja-web.net/ The last finding once again relates to my exploration on sshiori’s blog, with the website 永遠亭訪問委員会. It’s an artist website that all about Eientei featuring art, animation, doujinshi, and a character guide. More interesting is it hosted multiple versions of a game called 永遠亭訪問ゲーム that was about living in Eientei and chating with its inhabitants. See the NND video for gameplay footage. Java Gameplay Footage on NND: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20292376 永遠亭訪問ゲーム Game Link: https://houmoniinkai.ninja-web.net/gameselect.html Now, the game was first developed on Flash then changed Java for farther updates. The flash version is still available online, but the flash version tries to call on missing files, rendering the game unplayable. As for the Java version, it is unavailable as the Javascript file for the game cannot be found be the web site. There was also a downloadable Java version released in 2015 though a Twitter post as browsers lost support for Java applets. Unfortunately, the link in the Twitter post is no longer online and IA has nothing useful archived. Twitter Post: https://x.com/Houmoniinkai/status/610125458831577089 The closest lead I have so far on the Java version is Twitter user @nochrom, who has made multiple tweets about playing 永遠亭訪問ゲーム up until 2019. Unless this contact goes somewhere, the java version of 永遠亭訪問ゲーム is lost media.

rapidsave.com_touhou_12_stage_6_boss_live_action-jg68rpyfdv0e1.mp4 we are so back

~ Thanks to everyone that participated today, it was fun! ~ Hello everyone, to those reading this in the future, on November 10 we had a "Moriya Meetup" where several of us got together on the forum chatbox and talked about some things, and we did a roleplay. Being the first time any of us did RPing, it was a bit very messy but I'm sure we all still enjoyed it! Anyways, I'd like to consolidate all that happened, here in this thread for everyone else to read. I don't plan on continuing the story by myself, but feel free to jump in and I just might change my mind :). Finally, please note that most of this has been re-ordered and re-worded to make more sense. I also split the story into 4 smaller chunks, as I don't expect any of you to read through 2 hours of RPing in one sitting. Enjoy! Cast: Kymoh- narration, the fairies Pinky Cat- Marisa スカーレット大鎌- Sakuya Idioms21- Aunn ReisenFanatic17- Reisen (although I won't include him in the story because he was inactive) Part 1/4 The scene opens in the middle of a forest... the Forest of Magic! It's the middle of the day, but the sunlight is almost entirely obscured by tall trees stretching out in an endless expanse in all directions. A thin, lone dirt path weaves through the trees. Northward would lead to the Human Village, and southward would lead to the Misty Lake. On any other day, this spot in the Magic Forest would be nothing special. But today is anything but a normal day. Suddenly, a huge, bright white light materializes and shoots up from this location, like a laser beam. The trees seem completely unscathed as if nothing happened, but the light was seen by anyone from miles away. What might have caused it? Is it something dangerous? Is it a valuable treasure? Several witnesses nearby are intrigued and converge onto the scene. The first to arrive is Marisa Kirisame. "Goodness, what was THAT?" she thinks aloud, staring upon where the center of the light was. In these few moments of pondering, she never would have foreseen what a mess she is about to be dragged into... Meanwhile, several others also spotted the light from afar. "Did that magician miss a target, or did a bird drop her a present? No, this one seems different. I should check up on it just in case.", an intrugued Aunn wonders. Sakuya Izayoi, having been cleaning the windows of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, also sees the bright light. "Hmm...something happens over there and it comes from Forest of Magic... maybe Patche knows something about this kind of energy." She contemplates going to Patchouli to ask about it, but her curiosity overtakes her as she leaves her window-cleaning duties and makes her way to the Forest of Magic. Soon enough, Aunn arrives and spots Marisa, who is still peering up and down where the light was. With Marisa being completely oblivious to her surroundings, Aunn sneaks up behind Marisa, getting closer than anyone has any business to be. "Did you do that?" she asks right into Marisa's ear. "Wah! Aunn, what are you doing here? The forest is quite far from any shrine," Marisa exclaims, quickly recovering from the little surprise. "Anyway, I didn't do a thing about this! And a light coming from the forest ain't a common sight. It might be some magical object going off the wire with the forest's energy." Aunn acknowledges the answer, and peers beside Marisa, towards where the light came from. Using her ability to notice the presence of evil, she senses... "Well I don't sense anything strange from that direction..." "Really? Can you sense any other strange sensations comin' off of you?" Aunn puts both her arms closer to her nose and sniffs them. "Nope." She gets closer again to Marisa to sniff her. "Nah." Aunn points her nose back at the direction of the light. "Still nothing. That's it. I'm going home, have a good one Marisa!" She turns around to leave, waving goodbye. But just as she takes her first step back, an alert Sakuya walks into the scene, maintaining a defensive position. "I feel like something is close here. Something dangerous," she warns the two. Aunn doesn't believe it. "Hmm, Sakuya I think you should calm down a little, yeah? It's not like someone would have a reason to spy on us." While Aunn might not have sensed anything strange, Sakuya's intuition was correct indeed. These three heroines are not alone. Part 2/4 As it turns out, the bright light had attracted several curious fairies and youkai as well. For the past few minutes, there had been three others hiding behind the bushes, observing the past interactions. Waiting for the right moment to reveal themselves. "It looks like they don't know what that light was either," whispers Daiyousei. An unconvinced ice fairy responds, "Yeah yeah! They're just faking being dumb in order to trick us! We should fight them!" "Be quiet! They'll hear us!" Wriggle Nightbug shushes Cirno. But it is too late. Sakuya instantly reacts to the nearby noise. She quickly throws a single knife towards the bushes... while Cirno was lucky enough the knife hit the tree above her head. "AAAAAAAAAHH!!" Cirno jumps out, screaming. "That almost killed me! I knew it was a trap!" Everybody else quickly turns toward her. "Ah! It's the loud fairy! What're you doing here?" Aunn asks. Sakuya approaches Cirno, unhappy and possibly disappointed that all her caution was for some lone fairy. "You know it's dangerous playing here, right?" Cirno wants none of it. She steps forward in fighting stance. Daiyousei and Wriggle reluctantly emerge from the shadows, trying to hold Cirno back. Daiyousei even attempts to diffuse the situation, replying, "ehhh... we were just... wandering aroun-" "I don't wanna hear it Sakuya! You'll pay for what you did!" Cirno cuts her off, balling her hands, starting to form an icicle. "Oh is it a boxing match? I wanna join!" Aunn challenges, as she hops forward with her hands ready to block and throw out punches. Just as Sakuya stops time and knocks Cirno out cold. "We have better things to do." Daiyousei and Wriggle stop and open their mouths in shock. Aunn drops her fists, starting to raise her voice in panic. But fortunately for Cirno, it turns out pretending to be knocked out "cold" is her specialty. She immediately gets up, smiling at her friends and facing Sakuya again. Aunn, hit with a double surprise, gets even more confused and loud and annoying. Marisa, not impressed, speaks over Aunn and asks accusingly, "Say Cirno, mind explaining what you're doing here at the forest?” Cirno snaps back. "Be quiet Aunn! The grown-ups are talking! Anywayyy Marisa, we just saw a big light and we knew it was you that summoned it!" Daiyousei tries to grab Cirno's shoulder and stop her, but Cirno pushes forward, now only a few paces away of Marisa, and prepared to fight. Wriggle, on the other hand, has accepted her involvement and quietly begins summoning her insect friends from behind. Just as Cirno looks like she'll charge towards Marisa, she points a finger at Aunn and raises her other fist in the air angrily. "You first for being so loud!" She charges up a ball of ice and throws it straight at Aunn, hitting her dead center in the chest. She gets the wind knocked out of her, and maybe she'll get a bruise later, but otherwise she recovers in a few seconds and yells back in anger. "Hey! I thought I should be quiet! Why am I suddenly getting in on the fight?!" "That's what you get for interrupting me earlier! And this is what you're about to get for helping Marisa summon that big bright light!" Part 3/4 As Cirno takes a few steps toward Aunn, Marisa grabs her attention. “Whoa there, Cirno. You sure you want to be making the first move there?" She pulls out her hakkero, which causes Cirno to immediately stop and widen her eyes. All she can do is stare at Marisa preparing her powerful Master Spark. Sensing Cirno's fear, Aunn taunts her, "Yeah! This is a losing fight for you fairy! Give up already!" Sakuya, on the other hand, is pissed by Marisa's reaction to a small child. "WOULD YOU TWO JUST SHUT UP ALREADY?! DID ALL OF YOU FORGET THE REASON WE CAME HERE!?" Marisa ignores her, as the hakkero starts glowing, ready to fire. She points it straight at Cirno's center mass, who is still frozen in pure terror. But right when it looks like Cirno is about to turn to ashes, Wriggle has got her back covered. Preparing for this moment, she controls a small swarm of fireflies and directs them into Marisa's face. Who immediately drops her hakkero and swats her face repeatedly. “Oh god! Get these bugs off me! I can’t see!” She stumbles back, too preoccupied to fight. Now Aunn steps into action. Ignoring Daiyousei and Sakuya's pleas for peace, she runs forward and tackles Wriggle, who was too focused on Marisa to notice her coming. The fireflies quickly dissipate, leaving Marisa free to aim her hakkero again. However, it's too late for her. Using the small window of time granted by Wriggle, Cirno manages to jump onto Aunn as well. Aunn, Cirno, and Wriggle now form a cluster of angry children throwing punches at each other. Marisa cannot risk firing her Master Spark, because she knows she'll hit Aunn. Meanwhile, Daiyousei and Sakuya notice each other spectating the mess, seeing both of them aren't in the mood to fight. Daiyousei walks over to Sakuya. "Awww this is awful isn't it!" Sakuya understands yelling at them won't do anything. "tch. I'm just wasting my time with these children. Milady's gonna kill me if I'm gone for too long." "You're leaving already? Come on, could you at least help solve this mess?" "To a mere child? Then no, I have better things to see and I've not come this far to watch these children fight." "But you can easily fix this! Can't you stop time?" "Will stopping time fix their brain? Listen, that light was the only reason all of us came here, and I'm not wasting my time for..." ...Daiyousei and Sakuya continue to argue, ignoring the chaos around them. While Aunn, Cirno, and Wriggle are busy tackling each other, Marisa puts away her hakkero and takes out her broom. She approaches the three, smiling. "Going to have to do this!" Marisa swings, broom connecting straight onto Cirno's face. "GWWAAAHHH!!" She screams as she gets knocked away from Aunn and Wriggle. She flies several feet high into the air, hitting a tree and landing disoriented. But thanks to her assistance, Wriggle was still able to gain the upper hand on Aunn, pushing her onto the ground and keeping a knee on her chest. Wriggle starts torturing the helpless komainu, forcing small bugs onto her clothes. But Wriggle had forgotten about Marisa. “Try this potion on for size!” Marisa calls out, throwing a small vial that appears to have a funky smell, with great accuracy. It's a direct hit! Wriggle immediately lets go of Aunn. "Uck! What was that?" Covering her nose and evil smirk with her hand, Marisa replies, “That was just one of my mistakes.” The stench quickly sets in. Wriggle starts crying, not sure what to do. Tears flowing out her eyes, her face red with embarassment, she yells angrily. "Screw this, screw you Cirno for getting me into this. I'm going to the Misty Lake to wash this off. " And off she goes. Part 4/4 It's not over yet. Cirno, who was quickly awoken by the stink, gets back on her feet. Only to look up and see Aunn's running knee flying straight into her face, and get immediately knocked down again. "Lets switch targets Marisa, she's too strong for me!" Aunn yells out as she lands on top of Cirno. But Marisa is long gone, having realized she has actual errands instead of fighting these children. Still, Aunn is raining slaps and knuckle sandwiches, while taking some too from Cirno. Meanwhile, Daiyousei gives up trying to convince Sakuya, when she turns around and spots Cirno getting beat up by Aunn. "No! Cirno!" She runs towards the two, preparing to intervene. While Aunn and Cirno are too busy trading punches, she closes in and tries to split them up, putting an arm between them. "Come on! You two! Please stop!" The two get up, with Daiyousei spreading her arms, making sure they keep distance. A worn-out Cirno furiously tries to keep swinging, yelling angrily "Get out of the way Daiyousei! I was about to beat her up!" Although she starts to calm down. Aunn, with bruises and teary eyes, points a finger at Cirno, exclaiming, "Hey she started it! I thought it was a boxing match but she used magic on me!" "Yeah yeah! Don't act like such an innocent puppy! You were the one helping Marisa summon that bright light!", Cirno quickly retaliates. Which makes Daiyousei pause for a moment and look around. "Hey, speaking of which, where did Marisa go?" Cirno also stops trying to swing at Aunn, forgetting about the scuffle for a moment. Her eyes naturally fall onto the only adult remaining. "Hey Sakuya, you were watching this whole time like some useless creep. Where'd Wriggle and Marisa go?", she asks with a load of disrespect. Sakuya stares back at Cirno unamusingly, clearly not happy with the insult. She simply turns around and leaves without a word. Cirno shrugs and looks back at the other two. Feeling the tension die down, Aunn also excuses herself, "Well I've had enough of this, I'm going home now like I intended to until you showed up." Cirno lets her go, managing to secure the last word. "Hmph. I guess I'll have mercy on you this time. I got better things to do." And with that Aunn walks away, stomping at the dirt with a pouty face. It looks like we will never find the source of the bright light, which caused such an unnecessary conflict. THE END...? If you made it all the way here, thanks for reading! I hope you all had as much fun reading this as we did in our RP!

Preserving Fruits and Vegetables We have touched on preserving meat, but fruits and vegetables are even more important. Fish and wildlife can be found with some effort in wintertime, but you are unlikely to find any greens out of season. And with modern methods such as conventional refrigeration or dehydration unavailable, you will have to fall back on old traditions. Fortunately, we have a few available. Canning is the best option for long-term fruit preservation. Though one has to be careful when doing so. Canning when done properly is unlikely to spoil, but spoilage is hard to detect. Fruits with low acidity, or vegetables, should be canned under high pressure, while fruit with high acidity should be placed in a water bath. Jam or preservatives are an option as well. By boiling fruit with sugar, it can safely be canned and stored in a cool, dark place or even buried. Using a brine solution, such as vinegar or salt water, you are able to pickle vegetables or fruit. While unpleasant, this is one of the safer methods. For shorter preservation, one can light a low fire in an oven. Placing fruit or vegetables inside, you will be able to safely remove the moisture inside. Or, you can skip these silly options and subscribe to our Blue Ice Fairy program! With fresh ice prepared at our Ice-Fairyctory or harvested from the Misty Lake in winter, we produce a twenty pound block of ice which can be placed in a cool, dark space. Allowing you to preserve your precious foodstuffs without concern for spoilage! And with only a 30% chance of Cirno getting bored and wandering off, isn't that a deal worth making? Subscribe for 1 Bu a month, for Blue Ice Fairy. Delivered fresh, right to your home! Otherworldly Ventures and its affiliates are not responsible for ice shipment delays due to Cirno's boredom, or Incidents occurring in Gensokyo. Ice blocks may at times contain complimentary frozen frogs. Blue Ice Fairy ice blocks are intended for refrigeration, and are not meant to be used to build a shelter or thrown at Otherworldly Venture employees. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Wriggle stared at the strange little Youkai. A voice in the back of her mind acknowledged thinking of Agappa Haraume as 'Little' was rich, but the thought buried itself quickly. This creepy little turd had made her life miserable, and dragged that human in between Cirno and her. Everything was all wrong. From her thoughts to her friends. It had to be her fault. The youkai realized her lip was curled. Agappa just stared at her. An uncharacteristic intensity in her furrowed brow and accusing finger. Not that it was pointed at Wriggle. Her mind seized on it. Already, her mouth shifted. A half-formed insult on her lips, something between calling her stupid or blind. But instead a low growl came from her, before her lips moved in a low voice. "Now listen here Yama's pet. And listen good. Cirno is mine, and so are her friends. Yours? He isn't coming back. Keep out of my way, and we won't have any problems. But if you have a bone to pick with me...Well. Eiki won't miss you." Wriggle took a deep breath as she turned. Leading a confused Cirno back towards Heida. Wriggle wasn't sure why she didn't quite feel herself today. Perhaps it was too long around that 'magician'. Spending some time alone with her friends would surely change that. If only Agappa would stop staring at her while she walked away. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The yawning cellar seemed to stretch on before him. The stagnant air filling Oscar's nostrils with mildew. In that moment, he wished he could pull out his phone again. But his stunt with the projector had already drained what power it had left, and the monster's roars told him he didn't have long. With a slow breath, he stepped down the worn and rotted stairs. Comforted by the fact that he was surely safe here... It was on his eighth step, that the wood under his foot shattered. Sending him pitching forward. His mouth opened to cry for help, but he only just remembered the danger overhead. And so, he struck the hard dirt floor without a sound. The dark clung to Oscar. For the want of light, he could not know if he had been out for seconds or hours. The only thing which told him he was conscious now, was the feeling of Houdini nuzzling at his face. For a moment, Oscar could just lie there. Before a hand rose to scratch at the rabbit's head. The rabbit might have been a lazy old coot. Better suited to sleeping and being pulled from hats than adventures. But with the others gone, Oscar was glad to have him. A few moments passed. His hands patting at the rough earthen ground. He found his hat after a few tries, before slipping Houdini back inside. Returning the hat to his head. After a few moments, he found a few other things. His trick flower, a few kerchiefs and...Oscar almost felt a smile as he picked up his trick rope. Quickly clicking pieces of it back into place. It couldn't let him climb down it to safety, but it could help him here. Holding a length of the now straight rope in hand, Oscar held it in front of him. Idly tapping as he explored the room. Now and then, he would feel things brushing at his face. Dried herbs, forgotten pieces of meat, vegetables caught between rotted and preserved. Now and then he would find a spider's web instead, which would cling to his face before he could remove it. The tapping rope couldn't tell him what it found when it hit something. But he could guess well enough from context clues. Solid, wooden sounding, flat. A crate. The same but round was a barrel. The same but strangely shaped, a piece of furniture. It didn't take him long to find one of the walls. Tapping idly along the dirt wall, he made his way slowly around. First along the east wall. Then the north, almost stumbling over a large *thing* in the northeast corner. Then the west and... He paused as the stairs appeared ahead. No. Nonono, this couldn't be right. Wriggle said there was an exit down here. He had circled the room, and there hadn't been an exit... What did that mean? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= What now? = This seems like an ideal time to panic. = Do another lap. Maybe its on the ground, or higher up on the walls. = Hey dude, its alright. Houdini, sleepy as he is, has your back. Maybe share your thoughts with him. = Since the situation can't get worse, time to get out the grimoire. Stand by the stairs and read random passages until something useful happens. = Welp, time to run back how we came.

Okay, as promised. About 東方奇闘劇 3, I don't need to post anything as it has been archived on the Internet Archive already and there's a full DVD ISO there. You can also find 東方奇闘劇２- Supreme Duels as a DVD ISO, so the best imaginable quality (compared to typical late-2000s/early-2010s potato uploads). For those who don't know about them (or people stumbling across the post via a search engine), they were animated works made by AQUA STYLE mimicking game cutscenes. They also featured very nice voice acting. 東方見聞録 by circle FRAGILE ONLINE, released in 2004 (DVD authoring date: 22nd of June 2004). This thing is 20 years old! I'm offering a full DVD ISO. I wasn't aware but this circle seems to be Taiwanese. There are multiple segments consisting in a series of illustrations with dialogue at the bottom. The first segment is narrated by a male Taiwanese voice-over (with a funny distortion in the audio). There's one segment called Luna Dial which reminds of those Touhou Soccer animated shots (I haven't checked if they were made by the same artist or not) that has very poor video quality. And no, this is not due to the limitations of DVD (bitrate is a steady 7Mbps throughout the whole thing), but they probably had a very low quality asset to begin with (or their MPEG2 encoder was very poor). Not sure if we have the first Touhou animated doujin release here (it's only 2 years after the official release of Touhou 06), but it is a nice piece of history nonetheless. Some very keen observers will notice the weird scaling artifacts on the video, when watched on a regular modern display. This is because the whole thing was produced at a resolution of 640x480 then loosely scaled using nearest neighbour to the standard 720x480 of NTSC DVDs (you never want to do that). Scaling it back to 640x480 using nearest neighbour will give you the correct picture back.

woah

To anyone who needs a miracle: Pray to this image NOW It is the embodiment of miracle itself, which I have encountered by purely miraculous chance. Thanks to it, I actually re-discovered a long lost song that I like a lot (it's the thumbnail of that song). No seriously, this pic is located at the 876th page of Sanae on Danbooru (during that day) and I acutally found it within 4 clicks. I should have bought a lottery ticket that day...

Meat Meats in Gensokyo are highly prized. It makes for fine foodstuffs, and can be used to barter or bribe with more primitive-minded Youkai. That said, meat is difficult to come by. Unlike Earth where most meat is shipped from across the world to a store, in Gensokyo meat has to be acquired by hunting a wild animal or slaughtering an animal large enough to give meat. Due to this, meat is hard to come by in most seasons. There are a number of ways of preserving meat. A cool cellar can be used to keep it at a reasonably cold temperature for some time. Salt can be used to dry the meat and seal it, or it can be sealed using animal fat or even cheese. Alternatively, you could pickle your meat using water and salt, or cure it using salt and spices. One can even bury it deep in the ground, where the cold earth can keep it safe. The simplest way to preserve it however is simply to smoke it, which will dry out the meat, repel insects and make it slower to rot. If you consider providing meat to a Youkai, it is best to bear in mind the Youkai's temperament and tastes. While safe with most Youkai, some find certain meats or preservation methods disagreeable. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "We have to go back for him!" Cirno looked an awful sight. The askew wig and dirtied kimono Wriggle calmly helped her with were bad enough. But already, her eyes were beginning to wet with nervous tears, and there was a manic look in her eye. Normally, the risk of Cirno crying would have melted Wriggle's heart. Especially after the night before. As it was, the look only gave Wriggle a small sense of satisfaction. She shook her head at Cirno's plea, even as she continued. "We just found Osu! We can't lose him again!" "There there," Wriggle replied, with an uncharacteristic condescension as she patted Cirno's hand. "I am sure the 'great and powerful' Osu is safe in the Fortune Teller's house. He's probably teleported himself back to Heida Temple already. We had better hurry to see him again~" The lilt in her voice was noticeable even to Cirno. Who gave her friend a penetrating look. One she wished could detect what had Wriggle acting so weird. But their friendship won in the end. With a heavy heart and fearful damp eyes, Cirno started towards the Temple. Wriggle didn't have long to savor her victory. As she pulled her wig on, she finally noticed over her shoulder the eyes of Agappa. Though her gaze wasn't quite on wriggle, but above her. "What are you staring at, creepo?" Her arm slowly raised. Before pointing, in a way that made Wriggle's body grow cold with fear that was not her own. And in that moment, she realized she hated Agappa. Even if she didn't know why. "I see you." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Wriggle’s face disappeared from the corner of the window. For a moment, Oscar felt his heart grow cold. She had been difficult, even by her standards. But Agappa, Cirno and Wriggle’s presence had been comforting. Now, for the third time in two days, he was all alone… ...Except for a lazy old hare taking a nap in his hat of course. The low sound of the monster in the hall drew Oscar’s attention. The thing seemed afraid of coming back to the kitchens, where the ‘ghost’ of a headless man had terrified it so. But Oscar was sure the moment he left, it would see he was human. Even the terror it seemed to have of him as a spirit would be of no use while he was in the flesh. ...Unless… Oscar’s eyes cast themselves over the room. Dried meat hung from the ceiling awaiting an owner who would never come. Fresher meat lay rancid and rotting. A dull green mass fit only for the maggots that squirmed inside of them. Taking a knife, he did his best to ignore the scent at his nostrils as he turned to one. Idly running the blade over the surface and forcing its inhabitants out. The sight that befell him was too disgusting for words, and so Oscar would never try in the years after. He had just decided to give up on this idea, when his eye shifted over the room. In the corner, he could see a broom made of some kind of straw. A mouse had nibbled at it at one point, but it looked mostly intact. In fact the star looked sturdy enough to resist him breaking it in half… The thought made him pause. The gears turned quietly in his mind. Before a slow smile crossed his face. With a glance to make sure the monster was away, he quickly snatched up the broom, showing an energy that disturbed the old rabbit. It glared down at him as Oscar undid the bindings. Winding pieces of straw into a primitive rope. He gave the wound piece of five broom-hairs a tug. It held, if only just. “Time for another monster to walk these halls.” He murmured with a knowing smile. The Ao Bozu let out a low pitiful cry as it circled the central courtyard. So far, it had circled the courtyard a dozen times. He had examined several rooms. Some he could enter, some had far too many eyes watching for it. And of course there was the kitchen. Haunted as it was, by the headless man. The brute was glad to be free of its prison however. Even this limited freedom was a blessing. A low moan echoed from down the hall. Fearfully, the beast turned its head. The door of the kitchen stood open. Ominous with only a faint illumination from the afternoon sun. For the span of three breaths, the space was empty. Until a figure appeared. It was dressed well, its hands extended, coated in exposed meat as it approached blindly. Its face, wrapped in rotting flesh, oozed faintly. Flies clinging to it as it stumbled into the hall with a dull groan. The Ao Bozu felt another set of its eyes close in fear. The monster scrambling for cover as the dead thing lumbered into the hall. And towards the stairs to the lower cellar… As Oscar pulled the impromptu mask of straw and meat from his face, he could see the yawning maw of the cellar ahead of him. The space was pitch black, and nearly impenetrable. But if Wriggle was right, it also had his freedom… What now? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = Call out and see if anyone is down there. = Through great good luck, you manage to find a candle down here. = Feel your way into this dark place with your bamboo stick. No sense in drawing attention to yourself. = Peer into the dark. Will yourself to see.

As a rule, I try to focus on Dai and Wriggle over Rumia and Mystia when writing Team9. People like Cirno, and she's the lynchpin of the team so she appears either way. Even if I like how I've been writing her. Dai is a blank slate, even if she has a number of details which are interesting. She's the only purely benevolent fairy, and she's the only fairy with wings like hers in the lore or fanon. Wriggle is a mostly blank slate, with an implied tomboyish attitude and love of insects. But people have fairly concrete ideas about Mystia due to Mystia's Izakaya, even if her personality is a little boring. Rumia has a more concrete persona as well, due to Little Reimu. I have ideas for how to give them my unique flavor, but I don't want to swim against the popular perception of either just to be special. I made it to NY safely. We'll probably drive up to Canada later this week. Then driving back in a week. I'm feeling more energetic than I thought after a 16 hour drive, so I am hoping to have something for you all tomorrow. :)

Found the download link for リグルイ1.5 on the developer's website, so that takes care of the bonus Wriggle game in the Wriggle magazines. https://web.archive.org/web/20130830115623/http://28.pro.tok2.com/~bonyoh/touhou/xmas2011.html

Heya gang. No post today on account of me still dying. :( Hoping to feel well enough to get one up after work tomorrow. I apologize about the delay. Next week I likely won't post as well, since I am driving across the continent. My sister refuses to leave Canada, so of course our Thanksgiving revolves around her. Nevermind that's almost 3k miles for me... I am glad it appealed to you Gri! :) I look forward to hinting more about Wriggle's mental state. Especially since she herself keeps having sudden doubts. I try to be very subtle with a lot of my foreboding. But this one is fairly open, even if the solution may be very challenging in its own way.

Wow! I didn't think my video would inspire you to find other things! Thank you so much for finding ZUN's level from Mario Maker!

HELP WHY DOES IT ACTUALLY SOUNDS GOOD m2-res_708p.mp4

My body is weak and tired. Overworked from my job, and ill with...some kind of flu, idk. But that sounds like a skill issue for some other guy, so new entry into the GSG. Hope you all enjoy when you take your forty-five minute bathroom break like a true American.

A guy in class gave me his old gpu that was better than mine today and I immediately slapped it on my rig. 5 min of zenless zone zero later it crashed my pc and now the gpu is bricked. He gave me those beautiful 60fps fsr2 bliss that I could only ever dream of... even for just a second... ang tamis ng sandali ng kahapong di magbabalik...

Hi everyone! While I was searching for Touhou content I have found a lot of lost media. The goal of this topic is collecting information about lost media and links in one place. There are some categories for systematization. In each category the media goes from more well-known or having more chances to be found to more obscure. If you have some info about this lost media or some other lost media, post it. Special thanks to Pinky Cat, Denist, DestartreK1st, turtlegodking and Dioxaz for finding a lot of information and making corrections. Lost Sites Lost Games Found Lost Games Lost Music Found Lost Music Lost Fan Anime Found Lost Fan Anime Lost Other Media Found Lost Other Media Lost Fan Books Found Lost Fan Books Lost Animations Found Lost Animations Strange Disappearances Lost Youtube Videos and Channels Found Lost Youtube Videos and Channels

Hello I'm back!!!!

tysm @Ken Hisuag for giving me the 1k faith!!! anyway have this stupid 512x512 koishi

Thanks for the detailed explanation! I'll be trying to get all the game running externally on a flash drive and troubleshoot whatever issues might pop up. I guess I'll be updating this post if I ever find any issues for any specific game and what solution I come up for it.

Hope you don't mind if I include my story about how I hate LostWord so much. Before LostWord was released in Japan, the only gacha games I played were Love Live: School Idol Festival and Touhou Cannonball. And I find these two games to be fun and enjoyable. Especially, Touhou Cannonball. Once LostWord came out in Japan, I decided to give that game a chance. Because back then, people say that Cannonball is bad but I actually like that game. So since people said that LostWord is bad, maybe I'll enjoy that one too. When I first played LostWord, I think it starts off pretty solid. I do like Main Story's Chapter 1 and the plot is pretty good on paper. But then, Chapter 2 when things are starting to get really dull. The battle are becoming more generic, bland and forgettable, the boss fights feel more forced and unnecesary, Greenwich Debris becomes way too annoying to listen, the pacing from the battles are way too slow (Yes, I know that there's now an option to make the battles faster. But, the x2 speed there feels more like normal speed than its actual speed.), there are times that the characters are just being used for fan-service and nothing else. I was hoping that the devs would fix these issue in future. So, I stopped playing LostWord and get back to Touhou Cannonball. Once Touhou Cannonball got shut down, I became upset. So, I went back to LostWord hoping that some of these issues are fixed to make the game better. They didn't. They made it worse. More fan-service, more generic battles, more moments that makes certain characters unlikable, loli (small) variants (Yuyuko, Yukari, Junko, Satori, Remilia, Kanako, and Suwako), bland/lazy AU designs (Blue Reimu, Red Marisa, Purple Youmu, Green Suika, and the L80 Units), and more BS that I'm not gonna say. Because if I did, it's gonna be a long list. Unlike Cannonball, LostWord doesn't feel like a Touhou fangame to me. It feels more like a generic, everyday gacha RPG with Touhou slapped on it. If I wanna create Touhou LostWord, here's a list on how I would do it: Make it an actual RPG. Add an overworld mechanic. Make different universes have interesting/original enemies and bosses with different abilities. Add context on why we have to fight bosses. No copy and pasted boss fights. No events. Focus on the Main Story. No loli variants! Give the AUs a more interesting design. Balancing. Make the characters be more likable. Make it feel more like a Touhou fangame rather than making it a RPG Commercial of Touhou. Make the plots for the parallel worlds more memorable and interesting. Try including some basic Touhou enemies (Kedamas, Fairies, Wheel Ghosts, Onibis) be part of the story, if necessary. (From the cover of Touhou LostWord, I noticed that there are two fairies and I thought they'll appear somewhere in the game. But, nope. They're not there.) Not making the game too grindy. Less fan-service, more creativity. I wish LostWord is actually good. And I know that everybody else would want that, too.

who needs sonic when you have hatsune miku

Great finding. Added to the post. It is quite interesting to see a Quiz X STG Touhou fangame. I have see STG x singing, STG x Rhythm and STG x OSU fangames before (technically, the first one is not a fangame). But seeing such old game which also had IOS port is really interesting.

not good enough. Genre: Ship Doujinshi Pages: 13 Release Date: June 16th, 2020 Language: English By: jiayi (bunbun) Book Source: Gumroad =========================== A short MariAli book for today, featuring a little pouting from Marisa about her perceived inadequacy when compared to Alice. Fortunately, Alice reminds Marisa that she too, has her own strengths that Alice does not have. The story is what I describe as sweet and soft as there isn’t much of a deeper conflict aside from the one conflict Marisa has, which is resolved by Alice. Not much development, but this fault can be explained by how jiayi was pressed for time to release this book by MariAli day. That aside, I will state my opinion on Touhou ships. I am neutral on them, rather how much I enjoy a Touhou ship depends on how well the writing develops the ship. In my opinion, I prefer a more realistic/humanistic approach to relationships between Touhou characters; a focus on the more tinder moments. More explicit feelings should be risen to and not be handled out so freely as to me that feels like an unrealistic relationship that feels wishful. It should be acknowledged that my opinion would conflict with the reason to write such ship stories, to describe an impossible relationship under social norms, which is why I would like to say I like to mention one example of a “ship” story. Higan's Camellia is a KomAkyuu story that has excellent buildup of drama as Komachi realizes the consequences of befriending a child of the Miare. The buildup of drama is done as the Akyuu’s days to death come closer and closer, while Komachi tries to pull some strings at the Ministry of Right and Wrong to see if there is a way to save Akyuu before everything is said and done. When Akyuu’s death day arrives, a ceremony that acts both as her funeral and as her transport to the Ministry of Right and Wrong starts, with her executor being none other than Komachi. The tension is at its highest. While the events described in Higan Camellia do not reflect in the Outside World, the drama makes their relationship truly heartfelt as both Komachi and Akyuu have to consider how their relationship should continue given their unique life circumstances to each other. Higan Camellia is not just a relationship of love but also describes the steps to their relationship. And to tie this back to my opinion on ships, this simply creates writing that is more in-depth, and more humanistic for its given ship. Of course, the amount of drama in Higan Camellia is not required for me to like a ship story. Echoing Hearts is focused more on the moment-to-moment lifestyle of Kyoko and Kutaka, and that visual novel was one I felt needed the best rating for the writing category in Touhou Pride Game Jam 5. Simply put, I like to see the microcosms that come with such relationships, and as such I like to end this entry by returning to not good enough with a concluding line: seeing the lighter moments can be good relief all on its own.

When we were introducing ourselves for the RP thread, you said that the Touhou Reading Log thread was very interesting. I would like to inquire on the reasons why you found the thread interesting as feedback on the log, and also to know what was your reaction to the works introduced on the thread. This is all to say that appreciated your comment on the reading log. Thank you.

Damn son, video game creation, music production and drawing too? quite the varied skillset you got there. Which made me remember the whole reason I learned to draw was that I wanted to also get into game making but didn't want to use the free assets or buy any so I wanted to make my own. In the end I learned none of the actual important things in making games (stage designs) but instead went hog wild on character design. Tangent aside, I do go back on my older works and change it a bit sometimes but most of my sketches have a date to track my progress so I can look back to what I used to make, kinda like preserving the past. I don't feel like touching them despite seeing so many things I can change since I want a timeline of all my works. But you did give me the idea that I could force myself to be committed, I'll try on an illustration board perhaps? Yeah remembering all the details is definitely the issue here as you just made me realize. I think its on my sketch being too messy or not painting a clear enough picture of what it should be. Probably because of how I always finish my stuffs in 5-8 hours I didn't bother making sketches clear as the idea is still fresh in my mind that I never considered how I would see it the next day if it's still unfinished. Personally I like it when things are kept simple and with very little detail as possible, so I try simplify a lot of the designs and cut down unnecessary details that no one will look at for more than a second. Stuffs like clothing fold can get really funky so I try to use drawn references rather than real life photos since someone out there probably figures out how to draw the same thing with as few lines as possible. As for the process itself, its messy, hella messy, but I just try to sketch very lightly to not imprint anything permanent on the paper, and as much as I possibly can, I try draw as big as possible to make it easier to do tiny details and control line thickness. But hey, thanks for the advice I actually realized stuffs about how I work and how I could change them. Though I'm curios on what genre of music you make, do you upload them anywhere? or any of the other stuffs you make in general.

just so people don't get confused with the birthday numbers, my birthday is on October 3rd

Hi I just read up on this thread and I still don't know what the heck is going on. I guess you can have this video I found kTNJgXG1rG7bK9bN.mp4

Are you alive?

Its positive for them, as It is always a good thing to be able to change and enjoy other things, but on the other it does make touhou look a bit more barren. i dont see the series fans dying off anytime soon (considering the fangames have gotten less frequent yet higher quality in recent years), but I can see that there has been a noticeable decline in the amount of fan manga and doujin being produced/translated than there was in the early days. it makes me a little bit sad as i quite enjoy reading them, but as long as the artists are able to enjoy what they are doing its for the positive. I forgot about the second option, i guess i would prefer to keep a tie, especially since there are some newer high quality touhous to draw too (chimata, virtually anyone from 17 arc). idk i just wanna see more chimata