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>What is this?
Era games are a group of (usually) Japanese-developed text porn games.
They're not exclusively related to the Touhou franchise, but it's one of the series with the most era games.

>Games usually discussed here
eraTohoTW - Comfy Touhou dating simulator with time stop shenanigans.
eraTohoK - Tactical game about conquering Gensokyo through any (absolutely any) means.
eraMegaten - Dungeon crawler based on the Shin Megami Tensei series, with tons of characters from other series (Fate, Touhou, Madoka, etc) included.

>Links
- WIKI: https://wiki.eragames.rip/index.php/Main_Page
Guides and downloads for all era games. For TW you should get the eng-development version, eng-release is several years old.
- GIT: https://gitgud.io/era-games
Git repository that has latest official builds to any of the games, you can sometimes find more recent versions than the ones on the wiki.
- AUTO UPDATER: http://madhammer.club/files/era-updater.7z
Fetches the latest version of TW, K or Megaten from the official git, no login needed.
- TW NEODEV: https://gitgud.io/Pedy/pedy-tw/-/releases
Git repository with a version of TW that gets more frequent updates. Might introduce more bugs, though they usually get fixed on the following release.
- JAP WIKI: https://seesaawiki.jp/eraseries/
- TRANSLATOR: https://wiki.eragames.rip/index.php/Sugoi
Automatic translator which copies text straight from the game. Comes with an optional customized built-in offline model.
Direct link for the latest version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w-WRHrqDDTcht4cbdP2NKjhXG2RWYMLi/view
- BUGS?: https://wiki.eragames.rip/bugreport.php
Report them over here.

>How to play?
Run anchor.exe (or Emuera, depending on the game), japanese locale is advised so you don't run into untranslated text.
If you wish to manually update, delete old files aside the sav and dat folders to avoid any bugs.

>How can I help?
Read https://wiki.eragames.rip/index.php/Contributing for starters.
You could try your hand at translating dialogue, there are guides currently in the TW folder (in #Translation) on what to do, not sure if it that folder exists in other games.
Another guide is:
1) Download an IDE. VS Code, for example.
1a) If using VS Code, install the EraBasic addon
2) Select UTF8 encoding
3) Open the ERB files and edit them
That way you can now edit files without much trouble.
The path for files to edit is usually the ERB folder:
K: ERB/口上
TW: ERB\口上・メッセージ関連\個人口上

You can also report bugs or typos here on the thread when you see them.
If you'd like to either edit or add your own portraits, the files are located within the 'resources' folder in webp format. You can use paint.net to edit them.