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The feedback in the last week has been good, so here's the final release of the new Touhou98 Experience v2.00

Here's a recap of its main features:
- Custom Touhou-styled icons for diving straight into the games, no need to set up any emulator settings.
- Both Japanese and English versions of the games are included.
- The game disks are free of any custom settings and score files, for a brand-new game experience.
- Two different emulators (DOSBox-X and Neko Project 21fmgen), which can be easily swapped to suit your preferences.
- Lots of useful extra stuff.

Here are the most important changes from version 1.01 to 2.00:
- Improved the default emulator settings to make the games run much more smoothly, especially on intensive sections like MS Extra.
- Replaced NP21/W with NP21fmgen, which fixes the issue of the menu bar being invisible in fullscreen mode and the crashes when going fullscreen on some computers.
- Removed the per-game config files and modified the config swapping script, to make it edit the emulator's settings file directly instead.
(This means that the emulator's settings can now be modified without them getting overwritten the next time you start a game.)
- Updated the th01 (jp) HDI disk with the Anniversary Edition update made by nmlgc.
(This fixes all the glitches and makes the game run more smoothly.)
- Moved the exe files to a new individual folder for each game, similarly to the windows games included in the "all-in-one" pack.
You can find the rest on the changelog file.

The only change from the 2.00RC version linked on on the OP is a fix for dosbox-x not entering fullscreen mode properly. That makes this update very recommended for anyone who has downloaded that version.

Regardless of whether you're using v1.00, v1.01 or v2.00RC, you can update to the new version by simply copying your hdi files from the "disks" folder over to the folder of the new version.
I recommend keeping the new HDI file for th01 if you want to play the new Anniversary Version update. If you have played th01 already you can copy your savefiles by using the DiskEditor tool included (instructions are included in the pack).

Announcement thread for the new PC98 pack that was completed earlier this week.

Have you always wanted to play the PC98 games in english but were too lazy to set things up and fiddle with the emulator's settings? This pack was made for you.
Simply unpack it, run a script which checks your windows version and gives you a suitable emulator, then double click a game icon to play it. The emulator's settings will be changed depending on the game you've chosen.

Main features:
- Custom Touhou-styled icons for diving straight into the games.
- Both Japanese and English versions of the games are included.
- The game disks are free of any custom settings and score files, for a brand-new game experience.
- Two emulators included, one of which (NP21/W) features a fullscreen mode with lower input lag than any of the most commonly used emulators.
- Open source.
- Lots of useful tools included.
If you've already played the games but you're interested in playing them on NP21/W with reduced input lag, you can copy over your hdi disk files from your current emulator.