About Moriya Shrine
This website itself was started in December of 2011 by Ace Of Arrows, who has stepped down January 27th 2017 due to personal issues.
The position of Admin changed hands a couple of times across the years and is nowadays shared by Spag and Nitorium, while Nitorium is the current owner of the website itself.
We are no longer affiliated with Ace anymore.
Our Goals And Statements
We are dedicated to providing games in a ready-to-play state when possible.
we avoid providing a mere installer unless for whatever reason it is absolutely necessary, for things such as copy protection or the game needing use of your registry, or if an installer is requested by users.
We are dedicated to providing already-English-patched games where possible.
If we cannot offer a pre-English-patched game, but it has a patch you can use, we will provide directions how to use said patch.
In case we missed a patch or one was released after our upload we'll update our files to include them once we know about it.
Using the above-stated two items, we are dedicated to making you do as little work as possible in obtaining and enjoying games.
Nobody likes to do a ton of work, so we save you as much trouble as we're able.
Moriya Shrine Community
At the point of updating this page, the Moriya Shrine community is using various platforms which are managed by the Admins, Hosts and Staff who frequent the platforms.
Discord
-> Server: Moriya Shrine
-> Administrators: Nitorium and Spag
Matrix
-> Space: https://matrix.to/#/#moriyashrine:eientei.org
-> Administrators: Spag and Maden
XMPP
-> Room: [email protected]
-> Owners: Izuru Yakumo, Mima-sama, Maden
Stuff We Don't use Disclaimer
Do not believe people who claim the Shrine has an official community anywhere other than the locations listed above;
we don't have an official Tumblr or Instagram, for example, so any place claiming affiliation with the Shrine anywhere except as listed above is likely not telling you the truth or it was abandoned.
Availability Disclaimer
Moriya Shrine at its core aims to make Touhou content available to everyone, as a number of original releases, official or fanmade, are not officially available anymore or are otherwise not easily accessible.
However, we strive to provide visibility to developers. Where possible, if any given work has an official source, the link(s) will be listed on the content's respective Moriya Shrine page. We encourage users to support the developers by purchasing the content they enjoy.
Additionally, a page on the site will only be taken down if the download/file is broken or violates our guidelines.
About Site Groups (roles)
See below for our current site groups and what they mean.
Shrine Gods - Site admins/owners. They have absolute control over the site. No other group is above this one.
Kannushi - These are essentially the site mods and site editors. They are responsible for site maintenance and approving/denying regular user (Onshi) uploads. They also manage the downloads on the site so if there are any issues or broken downloads, let them know.
Shrine Maiden - These have the same permissions as regular users. The only difference is that their uploads do not need to be verified by staff. These users have the most trust from us. If trust is broken, contrib role will be removed permanantely.
Onshi - These are the standard users after they register and become verified. Can access all parts of the site. If they decide to upload content, they will need approval from the Maidens.
Youkai - These are essentially guests. They have no power. They cannot download until they register.