/jp/ - Otaku Culture

http://blog.livedoor.jp/coleblog/archives/52172852.html
and in semi-related news, I found a 2ch thread where they were worrying about how to save rare items as well

>>39336223
Any interesting finds?

Was anything else taken down?

Did you guys figure out some sort of database to store all the stuff yet?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCwRdDJCwSz9ZjWaePb9UgiaYBywJjOS1YzStaHyxyQ/edit

This google doc from last thread has some stuff going on in it. Figured I'd repost it.

Some links from last time. I don't think they've run out just yet.
>>39231497

A sort of dropbox from last time.
>>39231845

I can fetch more but this seems to be the most important.

>>39341024
you are all still welcome to upload to
townhouse.fumofu.moe
dont worry about dupes, and dont worry about share duration, stuff doesnt get deleted unless it's literally pizza.

>>39341322
I'm starting to upload some stuff from doujinstyle. I'm trying to play through each one and write up notes on the basic controls and any potential issues they have so it's going a bit slow.

>>39343320
which user?
or you can just make a share link whenever you're done.

good thing somebody is doing all this so i don't need to

>>39336215
Can I get a qrd?

>>39349936
Moriyashrine DMCA'd by ZUN.
A overzealous translator informs various circles and fangames start disappearing from Moriyashrine.
/jp/ starts GAP (Gensokyo archival project) in an effort to save fangames specifically. (Mostly, there's a subtheme of saving doujinshi/manga work as well.)
The goal is to create an updated torrent so that they do not disappear into the ether.

>>39341322
Do you have Koishi's Lumo?
I found this image on my hard drive, I have a copy but I don't know how well it works.

It was apparently removed from steam so it is endangered, but maybe it should be.

I will test it tomorrow. If someone else hasn't submitted it already.

>>39350270
nope, sorry anon

>>39350270
After being deleted, wasn't it uploaded on the circle's website? Or maybe it was one of their other games.
The only game of theirs I have is Satori Five! with the ero Minesweeper bonus. I can upload it later.

Check moriyashrine right now, and start saving shit.

>>39350270
https://professorzero.itch.io/lumo
is this not it?

>>39351385
This is it, but it's missing the 7zip that the Steam version had.
>>39350270
Please do share your version of it, the developer's secret Touhou lewds may be forever lost otherwise.

>>39351357

>>39351668
Aite. I gave it a little test. Its text is partially translated but the voice acting thankfully remains untouched. I'll have to play this more fully with my touhoufag frens sometime.

Would other anons like me to make a tmp.ninja / anonfiles?

Why was Lumo removed from steam in the first place?

>>39357632
A dig through the "Game over" screen files in the locked asset folder gives a hint.

(Nude Koishi.)

>>39341322
I have logged in, where is everything? Do I just upload?

>>39357729
just upload and then share the folder.
i kept people's uploads separate from the main folder because there's no way to prevent someone from just deleting or renaming

https://townhouse.fumofu.moe/share/hAQRONRj
this is almost everything that's been uploaded here

>>39351668
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1231290/discussions/0/3097886855338545584/
theres this partial link in this discussion. can't quite recognize which filehost uses this format.
/s/1YuzvOyho1gBoCwttPI_EnA

>>39359767
The version of the game I have is newer than this one. My rar is from June 2021

I see someone has a version of LUMO on this archive but its much, much smaller than my version. (100mb vs 2gb)

However, my upload speed is atrocious, I tried over an hour to upload mine but its very slow going. I'm going to be uploading it overnight so I can use my computer today.

>>39360124
what site was the share for?
for future reference

>>39360689
I'm going by the date he posted the link.
I did not access it.

It looks like dropbox based on the /s/ but that did not work.

>>39360124
>my upload speed is atrocious
This is why I have drives just filled with media and games incase my internet goes out or I am uploading something massive.

Are any of you folks interested in Adventures of Scarlet Curiosity?

>>39365301
That's the 3d remilia game right?

>>39365373
Yeah but you can play as Sakuya too if you like

Downloads are back up on moriyashrine
its a sanny miracle

>>39365997
inb4 ZUN files a cease and desist order and threatens to sue

Uploading the 2.1GB Koishi's Lumo.
I see some others, but I know this one works once you do some file magic. I will include a readme.

Also, for some reason windows defender calls it out.

>>39366015
We will see if it sticks.

>>39366086
Thanks!

>>39366015
He should be C&Ding the people who use Touhou to promote their real life ideologies instead.

Bump. Standing by to put this on my large seedbox once a torrent is available.

>>39370594
Yeah I'm surprised he wasn't ever told about that. That seems worse than people from wherever else their local currencies get stupid downloading some game like WBaWC...
Peoples impression of the message ZUN wants to say gets changed in a completely different manner and affects the view of the project as a whole due to those works.
I'm a bit afraid to hear his answer if he does respond to that though because it'll unleash hell in the fandom from all sides forever.
>>39371384
There are several torrents on Nyaa right now that were made for individual games within the past several days, but nothing with everything in it. Might as well start there.

Does anyone still want the freeware fangame Moyashi Monogatari? I got it from the dev's GDrive.

>>39371920
Is that different from Gensou Garden Monogatari?

>>39366086
Dammit. I got up to an [object Object] error with the upload.. I don't really know what causes it.

>>39370594
I don't think that would even slow them down.

>>39365997
Not for long I assume. Did we ever get an explanation on why links are suddenly up again?

>>39372636
I honestly don't believe they'll be up for long, I'm downloading what I can now.

>>39372636
I assume that the measure must mean that the files themselves are hosted in some other country, or they're ballsy.
I'm going to download all the printworks so I can throw them up later if necessary. Although there's already been efforts to recover most of them for another torrent.

Does this version of the game have a translation or is it still the same with this dev? I heard he was the guy who deliberately made it harder to patch.
https://moriyashrine.org/files/file/688-fantasy-maiden-wars-complete-box/

>>39372903
Someone posted the translations last thread >>39229674

>>39372483
Gensou Garden is a game about Yuuka gardening ala Harvest Moon. Moyashi is a Cave Story like parody game about Patchouli.

>>39372903
The team doing the translation were waiting for the game's final update and since it got released a little while ago they posted an update to confirm they're making progress but it could take some time because there's a shit ton of stuff. They can't even use the translations from the individual games either because complete box adds new stuff and changes some of the old dialogue. Sadly they announced that they were cancelling working on the 4th game because it's a deprecated product at this point but we'll get to see it in complete box anyway.

>>39373237
Well I was mostly considering getting the complete box, so looks like I don't lose anything that way. Glad they still seem to be working on it, I've seen the game around for ages and its visuals and music were pretty appealing, but I'd never given it a shot.

>>39366086
https://nyaa.si/view/1513199
I was able to get the steam version of Koishi's LUMO with NSFW patch and DLC. Let me know any discrepancies.

>>39374601
i might have to move it to the sukebei section since there's naked koishi boobies included...

>>39350010
Pretty much the only semi-important thing that's missing is that ZUN didn't aggressively try to take down the site, as the original DMCA notice came and went a year and a half ago or something like that.

>>39373170
>Cave Story like parody game about Patchouli.
Sounds neat. The only link I found within half a minute of googling is a 404, so a reupload would be good.

>>39374601
>>39374785
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c3e0c58f15b5a7c8e07348a0d770ec04675d4808&dn=Koishi%27s%20LUMO.zip&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce
I'm just leaving it off nyaa for now

>>39372903
The closest thing I could find is a menu transaltion, it seems to work on the latest version.
https://files.catbox.moe/t6x092.7z

>>39372636
Its just a ballsy unannounced move so people can get their shit saved. Don't expect it up for long.
t. discord fag

>>39374856
Might have been a "keep legal people" happy move like people suspect
Really hope people aren't harassing the guy over this shit

>>39375582
>harassing the guy
Who? ZUN? Or the owner of MoriyaShrine?

>>39374909
God bless you, "More than .2mB/s upload speed" man.
I was uploading to anonfiles since I couldn't put it in the townhouse.

>>39375687
Either or really, ZUN getting harassed by rabid westtoids and the MS owner getting harassed by moralfags

>>39373237
>The team doing the translation were waiting for the game's final update and since it got released a little while ago they posted an update to confirm they're making progress but it could take some time because there's a shit ton of stuff.
Really? Where have you read this? I haven't seen Clarste post anything about Complete Box recently, and he was one of the main translators. And I remember Clarste kinda just got ignored when Sanbondo was discussing about making a translation on their Twitter.
Also, I'm not fully sure if Phoenixx Inc. is gonna help making an "official" translation since Sanbondo got them to help out publishing their game on consoles, and they've made Touhou fangame translations in the past.

>Sadly they announced that they were cancelling working on the 4th game because it's a deprecated product at this point but we'll get to see it in complete box anyway.
Some anon stole the SomethingAwful lp translation and made his own patch like a year or two ago. There's no need to rely on the goons anymore for FMW4.
https://mega.nz/folder/xh9gAYRJ#M9-qLJqA8lqL1EHfSUG9DQ

>>39376930
no worries, i put it in townhouse too.

>>39377446
Nevermind I found it.
Not gonna lie, I'm a bit disappointed at the lack of progress. It's been almost 3 years since CB came out and they still haven't fixed the english font issue. I'm starting to fear this might come out after 2025.

>>39374909
thanks
was wondering a tiny bit as why did it disappear from steam
was thinking of buying it but was worried with how much i have on my account and stuff
also do i have to seed it for a 1:1 ratio since idk how
if i have to then sorry because dumb brain don't know how since this is the first time i tried torrenting and stuff

>>39378369
you dont have to seed anything.
it's just etiquette.

>>39379631
wait
it's fully translated right?
or isn't?

nvm it has english translation

>>39380298
>>39380462
baka

So where do you guy put all these games later?

>>39385076
torrents

>>39385373
What VPN do you guys use?

>>39387143
pprivate internet access is good

>>39387241
Do you think NordVPN is OK for fast downloads and seeding torrents?

>>39388139
i used it before and it was fine but the fact that they put out so many ads now is kinda sketchy in my opinion

>>39388139
Do not use any VPNs if you can. Tor is a safer option VPNs do nothing but sell your data no exceptions

>>39388139
That's the shit that gets shilled in my face every few seconds so probably not, I use torguard because its only $5 a month and I get proxy's to go along with it so I don't have to have the vpn on 24/7.

>>39389931
Tor is slow as fuck what are you on about, schizo?

>>39388139
it's just obscure japanese shit, i doubt your isp will care
they're motivated by protecting their company from big hollywood lawyer bucks, not kenji and his ESL lawyer in bumfuck japan

I'll be randomly uploading games I have on my external hard drive during the next days. You can find them here https://townhouse.fumofu.moe/share/j5ZFg-PH . There will definitely be dupes since I won't bother translating the names.

>>39387143
IVPN has treated me alright so far.
$6 a month, its a little slow but I don't mind.

>>39387143
HMA VPN

th98tuc got DMCA'd. I'll have to do a change of plans on my end in the next 12 hours, and after the push only the emulators and configs will remain, "touhou.hdi" will be gone from the repo. Get it while you still can and mirror it far and wide.

Peace out.

>>39396926
Saved. These are dark times.

>>39396926
Damn. When it rains, it pours, huh?
Who sent this one? Surely it wasn't ZUN too?

>>39397441
While the info is [private]'d, it's reasonable to assume it was Ruw.

Also, since the rest of my day will be extremely busy, I had to finish the job sooner than expected. The infringing packages are gone, but the website has been rewritten in a way that I believe many will find cathartic.

>>39397896
you could add PoDD Marisa being traced from Rance IV on there as well

>>39391866
schizo is when you trust your data with profit driven companies that are known for their constant data "leaks". No VPN is better than VPN

>>39396926
What's the point of DMCAing games that haven't been sold in over 20 years and has traced/stolen assets anyway?
Also GitHub is shite and usually complies with DMCA trolling, so that doesn't help either...
I have a feeling ThCrap and similar projects might get hit next.

Although there's already some torrents of the PC98 Touhou games I just wanna throw a heads up that there's also a large compilation torrent of (almost, assuming) every PC98 title with about 8 seeders.
If you value PC98 games as a whole I'd advise you to check it out and seed it as well.

>>39336215
https://spaztron64.github.io/th98tuc_site/
anyone has ever downloaded this before the dmca? I'd like that touhou.hdi but I can't find it

>going after abandonware
Holy shit ZUN and his ricekike lawyer are such massive faggots. No way I'm ever buying official games ever again.

>>39402914
Holy shit this guy is pissed off and rightfully so.

>>39403023
Who are you quoting?

>>39403037
Nice job missing the point of his post

>>39403037
Deez and Joe.

>>39396926
if you're the guy that has the github the alicesoft game you didn't remember was Tōshin Toshi 2

17.5 isn't on nyaa?

>>39403248
I believe it is, but it's a separate torrent.

>>39403274
>>39403248
it isn't on nyaa from what I can see.
searched "17.5", "Gouyoku Ibun", etc

>>39403023
Same
It's very clear with this now that there's hostility towards the overseas fanbase and whatever small amount of JP side that bothers to download the PC98 titles
I imagine there's only a DMCA against it since he shows off the games at exhibitions only, one which happened quite recently in the middle of the original DMCA / wiki drama, otherwise he'd probably give less than two fucks
>>39403401
Vaguely remember getting it on Nyaa but maybe I have dementia

>>39403480
>there's hostility towards the overseas fanbase
Wtf ZUN hates westerners now? He has traveled to America before to meet his western fans. What made him change his mind when he arrived there?

>>39403507
It's the trauma of seeing burly men in bad cosplay dresses...

>>39403248
Get it off moriyashrine while you can

Seems like only this torrent on Nyaa has GI (unpatched)
https://nyaa.si/view/1508037
There's also all-in-one pack on Rutracker with version 1.02.

>>39402914
Here's the touhou hdi, the shared launcher it's got is a pretty nice piece of software and it would be a shame to see it lost.
https://mega.nz/file/Pkdi2DgT#tA3rSlLInWxdTUzv1SmHhrMuAXnQ4FEdhltN5sY_gG0

However, I'll also present you with the new pack I've just completed (coincidence, I know) after working on it for the last few weeks.
https://mega.nz/file/SkECyKDB#2YtgpI_CevXX_4DXJsv2KM4l8SOK43c-xU04meXCMLg
It comes with simple shortcut icons so you can launch each game directly and quickly. It also comes with both the japanese and english versions of the games and two different emulators which can be switched by swapping a folder (or running an included script which does it for you).
One of the two emulators features lower input lag than any of the commonly used ones.

>>39403401
https://nyaa.si/view/1508037
it's in this pack

>>39404060
How's the chest? I hope you're doing well.

>>39404060
Thank you!

So what is going on? I just saw the news that the old games got taken down from archives. And what can I do to help?

>>39405128
>>39350010
^^^^

Check the townhouse archive, if you are in possession of any fangames not in there. Upload them here (Torrent, etc.)

>>39405184
Sadly I don't have anything to upload, but I'll be willing to help with seeding any torrent

If you guys compile a list of official and fan game torrents, I can help with seeding.
Have about 1.5TiB available for this, if needed.

Tbh all these Touhou websites, Moriyashrine and others, should be designed to be takedown resistant - use torrents as the download method, and allow to download all the things at once easily (via an RSS feed, perhaps). So many pros to this: allows people to contribute bandwidth, reduces bandwidth usage on the storage server, speeds up downloads, allows to easily preserve files in case the website/storage servers get taken down, etc. The only two cons are that anyone can monitor who downloads these files and that you need to use a torrent client, but with most platforms having a torrent client (and in-browser torrent clients like βTorrent existing) that's barely an issue.

Always loved how HorribleSubs/SubsPlease work: publish everything via torrents and XDCC. And not only do they publish on their own website, but also 3rd party trackers like Nyaa. If SubsPlease's website goes down, you can go to Nyaa, check the SubsPlease user and have access to all the files. Similar for XDCC, the bots are on Rizon and would remain there if the website gets taken down.

You can take takedown resistance even further, e.g. make the website available on Tor via .onion, so that if the domain name is blocked or seized, people can still access the website, provide db dumps (if there is any db to begin with and you want its data preserved), etc.

>>39341322
I'm going to upload what I have hopefully it won't take long

>>39405204
https://nyaa.si/user/john_money_anon
most of the stuff that gets uploaded to townhouse i end up making torrents for. I seed from two locations @1gb

>>39405037
Are you Fore?
In any case, I'm doing much better now thanks. Though I'm not sure I'm the guy you're thinking of.

>>39405417
>Similar for XDCC, the bots are on Rizon and would remain there if the website gets taken down.
XDCC bots are as easy to take down as websites, if not easier. Just complain to the hosting provider, it's not even protected by cloudflare.

>>39405644
Can you upload Adventures of Scarlet Curiosity

>>39405417
>>39406713
Some japanese used Freenet as distributed storage instead of PD, but things don't stay up there permanently if it's not downloaded or refreshed afaik.

As an open source perfect dark alternative, omnius-labs / axis (previously known as amoeba and xeus) also works as distributed storage but I haven't used that so don't know how popular it is.
https://github.com/omnius-labs/axis
https://github.com/omnius-labs/axis/releases

It appears to have windows and linux binaries now too.

I don't want to turn this into another screencap thread but there's a lot of bootlicking fan behavior elsewhere.
What do they have to gain by DMCA something they don't sell? Why attempt to make your indie franchise corporate if it started out plagiarizing (tracing and unauthorized "cameos") content? It's so nonsensical...
I wonder if ZUN will ever speak up publically, unless he already has on some obscure radio talk.

>>39407452
I bet he got the usual lawyer advice to enforce his intellectual property or it lapses and become generic.

>>39407452
literally who
>>39406833
https://nyaa.si/view/1514017

>>39407452
I feel like ZUN wants to stay as far away from these problems as possible and lets Ruw do whatever he thinks is best. He's got his kids to worry about already.

I hate Ruw so fucking much
>>39407592
People keep assuming what ZUN thinks or says. For all you know he could have the same opinion as Ruw and likely so seeing as how they've stuck together long term
Assuming ZUN is lax and wants to keep his mind off certain issues is how people ended up so shocked over the DMCA to begin with

>>39407601
In fact I'm not excusing him or saying he wouldn't agree with Ruw. Giving him complete control still makes ZUN the top responsible, just like a boss is responsible for his underlings' doing.
What I'm saying is I don't expect ZUN to ever say something about the whole deal, he doesn't seem to give a fuck either way.

>>39407586
I love you

>>39407452
Decades of corporations brainwashing consoomers into thinking that piracy is rape and murder.
People who whiteknight copyright crusades are literal NPCs without soul. They are less than animals.

>>39389931
Please do not use Tor for P2P file-sharing, the network isn't designed for high-bandwidth applications like that and if everyone does it it will slow it down for everyone.

>>39407722
love you too anon.

>>39407731
another symptom of humanity increasingly becoming shit
when will this insanity end?
i mean this for such people
don't mean it to talk about you so no need to worry

>>39407601
Always trouble. As long as we rely on torrents and good seeding it shouldn't be a problem however.
Question is how do they even find the places with downloads? Moriyashrine I can understand, but not the Github.

>>39407452
Unfortunately the bit about current copyright law being fucked is all true sadly. But stuff like this thread and the progress done on preservation give me hope. It sucks but the best we can do in times like this is pull together and do something.

Also hasn't Ruw always been kind of a shithead in comparison to Zun? At least last I heard.

>>39408792
Rats probably. We've seen a few of them pop up after all. Sadly there's also people advertising stuff on social media which is always a gamble.

>>39408792
The pack on the github was linked by the guy who made it on an announcement post on his twitter. A lethal combination.

>>39406863
The author of Amoeba/Xeus is a bit schizophrenic in how he changed the protocol several times over the years. Amoeba 4 was incompatible with Amoeba 5.

>>39407601
>I hate Ruw so fucking much
No offense, I always liked ZUN, but after he started joining this piece of shit I lost most of the respect I had for him.
I also will never have moral problems for pirating Touhou stuff from now on.

>>39412770
They've been partnered together since ZUN made Korindo TLD for tax purposes or something along those lines, right? So quite a while now.

>>39404060
I've uploaded this on archive.org yesterday
https://archive.org/details/touhou.hdi
the hashes doesn't seem to be equivalent, that means that one of those versions is a more recent one
can someone with more understanding investigate this?

>>39407601
>criminal
Lmao, what a sleazy piece of shit.

>>39407556
That's Internet advice, not lawyer advice; any half-sensible lawyer knows that this applies to trademarks and not copyright.
>>39409595
The best you can do is tell creators who treat their work like this to fuck off, and support the ones who go the extra mile. For a local example - Seihou Project's source code is MIT-licensed and on GitHub, go help that guy out instead.

>>39413419
>Seihou Project's source code is MIT-licensed and on GitHub
link plz?

>>39413748
https://github.com/pbghogehoge/ssg
https://github.com/pbghogehoge/kog

>>39413419
I thought Seihou just died off the face of the earth, so that's neat to find out about. Would be fun to make fangames for it with the same engine.

>>39413816
It requires some work, as the source code dump is incomplete due to poor bookkeeping. But it is there, and a sufficiently dedicated group of anons could probably resurrect it. The problem is that the assets are proprietary and no longer sold - DLSite only sells the third game (for $3).

>>39413150
I'll check in a few hours, I might have posted by mistake a version I've run on the emulator once.

Has not a single person in the west hoarded all those doujin games shared on Japanese networks over the years?

Why can't I create an account on nyaa? I can't upload anonymously either.
>>39414898
They were too busy buying fumos and posting epic 2hu memes on Discord

>>39414969
they closed registrations a while ago but never said why
>>39414898
people did but they put them on direct download sites which partially led to things being the way it is now, trying to make everything P2P when really we all should have done that years ago

>>39414969
>>39415149
Might be worth it trying to contact some of the guys who upload 2hu things to Nyaa if you want it there.

>>39414969
>>39415149
>>39415285
goodmorning sir
just upload the zip somewhere and ill put it on nyaa. no virus sir

We were spoiled by years of DDL with no worries of DMCA. What we need is a large v2 torrent of everything like the music archives. I would suggest ipfs but it isn't ready yet.

Speaking of, I have unlimited bandwidth and lots of space. If there is anything you can't get yourself but fear will be lost link it here and I'll archive it. I'm too busy to go looking myself at the moment but if I'm spoonfed links I'll mirror them as long as I can.

>>39336215
https://twitter.com/Ruw/status/1513951423536410628
You don't have a fucking house to spare to play some kusoge that Only works on a macchine discontinued in 2003? Fucking criminal

>>39413419
Some lawyers argue pirated software as counterfeit goods so they infringe trademarks. bs anyway.

Is there a big archive for flash content?

>>39416729
Only know of IOSYS flash videos here: nyaa.si/view/132108
What kind of flash content are you looking for specifically? Certain games or videos?

>>39416752
Games like Apollo 13. I was looking through the ones on the Internet Archive and it seems the original sites that hosted them such as 3-me dot net are long gone. Was just asking if there was a compendium of them to go through as I was on the latter end of the popularity of flash games

I doubt flashgames are in danger of DMCA's but they still deserved to be archived

>>39413816
>Would be fun to make fangames for it with the same engine.
The seihou games are in a dire Need of a source Port, the game barely runs on modern systems
Not sure If it's a good starting point, but If you do plz source port

>>39416933
https://github.com/nmlgc/ssg/commit/3875ed3a256af977e5891f3f83e74d11b4054e48
This fork claims to have a Windows build file and some patches to make it all work.

Most the toeho doujins suck. That's why no one hoarded them. Or they did and then deleted them for room for cute toeho pictures.

Anyways Kyouko is my waifu. Thanks Zun you glorious bastard.

>>39417371
Theoretically, would you impregnate Kyouko Kasodani?

>>39417452
Already have, but she yelled a lot during it and it exploded my testicles so here i am on jp just trying to make sense of life.

>>39417186
Oh nice, that's the guy working on reverse engineering the PC98 touhou games (http://rec98.nmlgc.net/blog).).
It's good to know he knows about the existence of the seihou repos.

>>39417872
holy shit

>>39417872
I hate how well drawn this shitpost is

>>39417872
I usually hate these but this is more like a political cartoon than wojak shit so I give it a pass

>>39417872
context for the tranny?

>>39417908
hakanaiblue or something similar, he's the dude who saw ZUN's DMCA and started trying to get doujin circles to DMCA their games too

>>39407665
It's also possible he doesn't really know outside of the Moriya Shrine situation which to him is probably over and done with.

>>39417872
Lmao

>>39417931
he also seemingly didn't actually care that much about moriyashrine, because he said he sent a DMCA in may or 2021 (he did, not ruw) and asked in the email if they hadn't received it. I think he just sent it and assumed it had gone through, but now he's gotten ruw involved and he's a lot more persistent.

>>39417954
>he did, not ruw
Are you sure that email wasn't from ruw in the first place?

>>39417872
This is amazingly well drawn lmao

>>39417954
ZUN clearly cares enough to employ Ruw in the first place, so don't assume he just wants things "done and over with". It's reaching mental gymnastic levels with how people are trying to rationalize ZUNs actions.

>>39417907
I initially even wanted to add artist's note in the corner like here with link to some torrent in the speech bubble but I already spend way more time on that shitpost than it deserves so I didn't bother. Which is why pirate's crotch occupies so much space.

>>39417872
the only thing this is missing is stan kelly in the corner

>>39418096
If you want minimum effort you could grab some link and convert it into a QR code using some random website then paste it on the side of the pirate's box.

>>39417872
Holy shit somebody send this to ZUN but translated into Japanese

>>39418452
The letters are probably too small here

>>39418014
I think Ruw handles the Team Shanghai Alice e-mail, as it's generally intended for business communication.

>>39418452
I don't wanna start menacing ZUN honestly. If someone's gonna make a comic I think it can't really convey well or sympathetically if it's making fun of the people it's supposed to target anyway.
Could work for the translator though

moriyashrine back in business btw.

>>39418452
that would be the worst thing to do
it would only invalidate this behaviour

>>39413150
>>39414058
Alright, I've looked into this.
First I've checked if the hdi file I've posted here >>39404060 is clean, and can confirm it is after extracting and comparing it with the ones from the zips I have of both the dosbox-x and np21 versions of spaz's pack.
Then I've extracted it and the hdi on archive.org and compared them with winmerge. Considering that the last time the hdi was updated was on 05/12/21 (https://spaztron64.github.io/th98tuc_site/changelog.html)), the conclusion is that the hdi on archive.org contains some settings and score files for th04 and th05 that were modified by whoever used the hdi to play the games.
The rest of the files is identical, neither version of the hdi is more recent.

>>39418452
>>39418577
Yea no. Things are bad enough without more people poking this wasp nest.

>>39418064
Well either he or Ruw wasn't aggressive about it until now, so who knows.

Will everyone still complain if he made all his games available on steam or somewhere easily accessible if you had the money? I am assuming the answer is No and people just got complacent with how lenient he was up until now. Since Phantasmagoria of Flower View got announced for steam I am hopeful he will at the very least have 6~9.5 on steam soon.
>>39418577
I am assuming you used google translate there because that is a really bad translation.

>>39419302
I'd rather just buy a physical copy. Steam and most digital storefronts are garbage.
But at the end of the day it really shouldn't matter if someone wants to pirate his games or not, especially nowadays since he has multiple streams of renevue between gacha, merch, collabs, etc. Buying the games isn't the only way to support him financially anymore.

>>39419302
Copyright crusading is immense faggotry regardless, but copyright crusading + not bothering to provide appealing legit alternative is ultra giga turbo faggotry. It is literal vandalism and the fact that people don't go to jail for this is a proof that copyright laws are malicious and it's our moral obligation to break them at every opportunity.

>>39419302
>Will everyone still complain if he made all his games available on steam or somewhere easily accessible if you had the money?
Probably
I was With him when he dmca'd moriya Shrine
Sure, you could get Doom eteral or the MCC for the price of a steam copy of One game, but I think It's time people start supprting ZUN, especially the people that actually play the games
I personally went out of my way to get original physical copies of the Touhou games because I loved them
I have specifically a problem With the pc98 dmca, you can't rerelease Those on modern stores

>>39419302
6 will never happen, I don't think
it needs to be fixed to run properly on modern systems and ZUN doesn't have the source code, so while he could just put a precompiled version up, I think if he was going to put it on steam, he'd rather remake it

>>39419591
ZUN should definitely release remakes

>>39419584
>>39419362
I didn't know he took those down too, damn. That is definitely a Nintendo thing to do. I also have my own physical copies but not everyone wants to buy a physical these days and the games are on steam and most people use Steam so it would be the easiest way for most people (I am pretty sure).
>>39419591
That's unfortunate, I hope he does but I don't think he will.

>>39419782
You have physical copies? Can I see them?

>>39419807
I still haven't opened eosd because I beat the version I pirated a long time ago. I don't want to make a mess getting all of them, eosd was just on my desk.

>>39419971
Rad. I hope one day I can get a copy of at least one game so I can personally say I did.

Honestly is it wrong I'm not really freaking too much out about any of this
We're seeing people come together to save as much as possible, Moriya is running again for now, and regardless of dmcas this stuff will probably be pirated until the last server on earth shuts down
I don't agree with Ruw or Zun handing these out in regards to the pc-98 stuff but I'm not gonna waste my time dooming or bitching at either of them but instead pulling my energy to help if I can even if it's small efforts like just seeding stuff for the time being

>>39418791
>>39418826
Ah yes ZUN on the moral high ground getting his lawyer to file DMCA complaints on abandonware but making a silly cartoon joke about it would just be too rude

>>39422490
The joke is fine
Sending it to people just to make them madder wouldn't be

>>39422490
I'm not sure sending a comic with offensive stereotypes to the guy who tells radio co-hosts off for making jokes about gay people would go down well.

All the DMCA's did was tarnish ZUN's reputation with his fandom that only grew because of how easygoing he is (used to be?) about using his series and characters in doujin works. Piracy won't stop (as usual) and the strikes only served as an inconvenience to the the real fans who have trouble buying older games, some of which aren't even sold legitimately anymore. We finally made it /jp/ ! 2hu is a proper AAA western gaming series now!

>>39422642
He is. He always made it clear: fanworks yes, redistributing any official data no.

>>39422678
I'm aware, there used to be very loose rules like not posting canon endings or using his characters to promote racism (etc) either. The rules got updated to fit JP laws later but now that the series is more open to the West we might see more a aggressive approach in regards to doujin works too.

>>39422705
I doubt that. The only thing we've really seen is ZUN asking that digital music distribution go through a middleman which gives him a cut - and also is only open to well-connected artists - and even then only BOOTH really acted on it. Last I checked, some JP Touhou doujin circles continued to post albums on DLSite like nothing happened. There was also an incident a few years ago where Ruw asked a Western Indiegogo campaign for a Touhou fangame to shut down, essentially implying that Team Shanghai Alice doesn't see crowdfunding as a valid form of doujin self-publishing. Actually clamping down on doujin works would be a major blow to the Touhou fanbase, and most Touhou activity is in secondary works.

>>39422748
>ZUN asking that digital music distribution go through a middleman which gives him a cut
This actually did cause a stir on youtube uploads. Most channels thought it was a copyright troll but the takedowns were legitimate, it included original themes and some remixes from various doujin groups.

>>39422642
>All the DMCA's did was tarnish ZUN's reputation with his fandom
Western fandom, Japanese don't seem to care or are otherwise buckbroken about piracy

>>39422748
>There was also an incident a few years ago where Ruw asked a Western Indiegogo campaign for a Touhou fangame to shut down, essentially implying that Team Shanghai Alice doesn't see crowdfunding as a valid form of doujin self-publishing
Oh yeah that Smash clone right? Though the people who got hit with the C&A weren't exactly people I'd run to defend given how they acted.

>>39422791
>>39422748
>>39422814

I'm under the impression that the reason he don't like Crowdfunding is that it allows creators to circumvent giving him a cut? If thats the case, I guess that's fair?

While I would not be taking any form of crowdfunding, all this is making me like the prospect of making a fangame a whole lot less.

>>39422791
That was the other part; the middleman acted as a distribution company, handling uploads to Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, YouTube and other platforms. At that point, they just enabled Content ID too.
>>39422814
>>39422846
That Smash clone, yes. In general, ZUN proposes two modes of operation for Touhou derivative works:
1. Self-publishing. In this situation, ZUN does not take a cut, but you operate under some restrictions - you must fund the work yourself (no seeking investment, and they see crowdfunding as a kind of investment), you must not represent a corporate entity, and such.
2. Going through a Team Shanghai Alice-approved publisher. In this situation, ZUN does take a cut, but you're allowed to do all the fancy corporate things like getting an actual budget and publishing on console.
As I said, I believe strongly that ZUN clamping down on unauthorized fanwork would destroy the doujin scene - and, as most Touhou fans are secondaries, severely hurt the franchise's long-term profitability. Consider what Konami did to a Tokimeki Memorial doujin work in the 90s.

>>39407601
Huh, he actually deleted that tweet.
>誤解を与える内容に成っていたので削除

>>39422935
Honestly those bullet points aren't too bad, plus self-publishing seems to be what 90% of people do anyway including with doujin books (r18 or otherwise)

That Konami story has me curious, what happened there? Some skeevy porn book or something? Then again discounting their current rep they've always cracked on fan works.

>>39423029
Probably either was told to or decided that enough of a mess was caused so he decided to scale back

>>39423033
http://gaming.moe/?p=2938
>circle makes doujin hentai OVA for Tokimeki Memorial, a dating sim franchise aiming for the more mainstream console market
>distributes it at an event
>1.5 years later a tabloid journo finds it somehow and makes a clickbait article about it
>Konami sues the circle to recoup losses
>doujin artists flee the Tokimemo fandom, rightly fearing that they might be next

>>39422814
>>39422935
In regards to the smash clone, (i kinda followed it for a bit, but my memory is iffy given that it was 8 years ago now that it got announced and worked on), but part of the shutdown was also because the team "FromSoySauce" claim to have sent zun an email asking for permission to crowdfund, but never actually did, and then there was some fuckery too where they tried to copyright the touhou characters as their own. Again, i didn't keep up a whole lot, so take what i say witha grain of salt.

>>39423177
They did ask ZUN for permission but not check if they actually received it, but I'm not sure if they did it before or after Ruw contacted them.

>>39423065
Hahaha that's actually pretty wild. I wonder if that ova got archived in anyway or if it's just gone.

Wait, hold on. I just saw this thread today, what? I read everything and overall got the gist of the situation but why is it happening now? Zun's always been very lenient on fan-made content on the franchise, so why the change now? Did something major happened behind the scenes?

>>39423363
No no no. It's dmcaing official stuff, but what happened was a translator offered to help with dmca notices for fan game circles and after at least two games got booted from Moriya Shrine people started archiving everything they could. Zun and his lawyer have only dmcaed actual official stuff and the major one is the pc-98 games really.

>>39423471
Also wanna add that another thing that lit the fuse was potentially losing Moriya Shrine which has titles that have long gone to seed. Meaning a lot of history could have been lost in the process.

>>39423201
Not that anon, but you can actually find it online now on sites like sukebei and similar torrent sites. It's funny how it caused so much of an uproar despite how bad of an OVA it was.

>>39423558
It's also on Archive.org and hilariously enough, YouTube with all the smut removed

>>39419302
>Will everyone still complain if he made all his games available on steam or somewhere easily accessible if you had the money?
No, I'm looking forward to getting the early games. I think it's a bit shortsighted to blank on the pc-98 titles though.

I also want the Tasofro games, but they're seemingly not also going through the digital process (yet? only their most latest games)

>>39423363
>fan-made content
Official content is not fan-made content. The entire discourse is over Ruw explicitly targetting games which are impossible to acquire legally without spending $1000+ on second-hand copies (Touhou 1-5). Some people are also upset about Touhou 6-8, as they are only available via import stores and not on Steam - but anyone into /jp/ media knows that any attempt at gaijin legal consumption tends to be suffering.

>>39422490
I wonder if you realize that there's a difference between malice and ignorance. At any rate if you want someone to consider your position, antagonizing them is a good way of making sure they never will.

Go ahead and come across as whiny and see what happens. Otherwise you could just reasonably explain that you're just concerned with preserving games that have otherwise been lost. If you really wanted, you could even share the scads of evidence that piracy generally helps sales. ZUN, despite being ignorant of the west, can't not realize that a huge amount of his popularity in that sector, nearly all of it in fact, was born off the back of illegal downloads--or so you'd think, but if he really has not realized then reasonably reminding him of that could work.

Basically a lot of people are ignorant and think that "wrong is wrong" or some nonsense, narrowly.

>>39422800
Japanese people will harass you if they find out you pirated anything. In general they, like most normals, don't understand even simple concepts like "I can buy it after I pirate it" or "I was never going to buy it, but if I pirate it I can spread it to someone who might" or even "lol did you forget about the used market that ACTUALLY results in lost sales?"

It's all very weird, very basic thinking that you could even easily disprove by reminding people that "borrowing media" and also "libraries, in general" exist, but omg scary piracy!

>>39424031
>Japanese people will harass you if they find out you pirated anything.
The key word is "find out". Mangamura got about 100 million views a month. Music rental shops literally had stacks of blank CDs by the counter. And it's not like everyone is this way - Ryukishi07 literally gave his fan translators a cameo.

>>39424144
Rykishi07 is an absolute outlier. Make no mistake that creators who aren't bothered by piracy exists, but most are completely brainwashed into the "piracy is lost sales" narrative. They literally, simply, do not actually think beyond "you didn't pay for it (in one instance, at least)"

>>39424189
I've read many Twitter threads with doujin creators and it's not really about "piracy is lost sales". It's about control. Two major trains of thought I saw go something like this:
>If my doujinshi gets too popular, the original rightsholder might C&D me. I must ensure that it only spreads in culturally accepted locations and in controlled quantities. I cannot send a DMCA because that would reveal my identity to the pirates, unless I'm big enough to have a lawyer represent me.
and
>I want control over my doujinshi. Westerners think they're doing me a favor by spreading my work, but what if I don't want them to read it in the first place? I want to sell my 200 copies at Comiket and be done with it. If I engage with the West, it's going to be on my own terms, not theirs.

>>39424213
Well one doujinshi is an entirely different matter. Japanese companies can enforce copyright, they just tend not to based on good faith. I could understand worry over getting too seen, but it really depends on the company. There are not many who will act against you. Like afaik Nintendo is the first and only one that comes to mind for me, and I guess there's whatever the hell is going on with Uma Musume.

For two, xenophobia is definitely a thing, but I can't imagine it's actually that prevalent as a reason. Noticeable, probably, but that's since such times tend to be vocal, weird, and consistent (I've had several artists actually literally block me on twitter just for being American, not for even speaking to them, with at least one I found doing regular gaijin purges and launching into hour-long tirades about the West)

>>39424257
>Japanese companies can enforce copyright, they just tend not to based on good faith.
I see it more as Japanese companies only realizing doujinshi exists when it was already too big to get rid of.
>There are not many who will act against you.
Studio Ghibli is a prime example of a Japanese company who goes as far as to delete MADs from Nico Nico Douga. There are more, but it is indeed less common than in the West.
>For two, xenophobia is definitely a thing, but I can't imagine it's actually that prevalent as a reason.
I used Westerners as an example. The point was "I'd like to sell my work on my own terms, and I don't see people circumventing that as supportive", not "the filthy gaijins".

>>39424257
>such times
such types*

I also think recently there was a particularly notorious H game creator/xenophobe who recently went after /vg/'s porn game database.
Basically I don't know if I'd think of those noticeable types as "common", but I obviously haven't done any surveys or studies on the subject, and am operating on my own visible examples of the (also common in the west) sentiment that piracy is theft, that's that, and that's bad.

>>39424306
>I used Westerners as an example. The point was "I'd like to sell my work on my own terms, and I don't see people circumventing that as supportive"
Still smells xenophobic or rather, I could understand this if it's indeed a Japanese perspective. It's a perspective I consider dumb, but it's obviously still a thought pattern holdover given how many people will NOT post on dlsite but will always post on melonbooks--HUGELY assuming they even offer post-event selling at all

This idea is dying, however, or rather digital distribution is becoming more popular. That's nice, because honestly the old mindset is based on traditionalist silliness. I can understand the hermit who wants minimal visibility, but they're REALLY rare in actuality, and if you truly want little visibility... don't go out, don't sell 200 books, 50, or even 10. It's nonsense

>>39424335
>Still smells xenophobic
Some creators are, yes.
>thought pattern holdover
I do wonder if a lot of the doujin scene's customs is, indeed, just "we're doing things this way because everyone is doing things this way".
>and if you truly want little visibility...
An artist I followed wanted to release an artbook of Nintendo, Disney and Ghibli characters. The way he did it is by announcing it a day before Comiket, limiting it to 25 copies, then deleting all tweets once they were sold out. Sometimes it makes sense to do it this way, I suppose.

>>39424406
I mean if those notoriously litigious companies are the ones you're going to be trifling with, absolutely go like that if you're going to go at all. As has been said: for those companies, east OR west, just shut the fuck up if you're going to trifle with their IP. Work on it in silence and release it quietly, and possibly anonymously, and wipe all traces of your presence from the net. Everyone will understand.

As for this
>"we're doing things this way because everyone is doing things this way".
Quite sure that it is, with ZUN being a particularly prime example who took actual ages to consider digital distribution and a hugely influential figure (Toby Fox) to convince him to finally start proper distribution digitally (rather than whatever weird deal the playism thing was) because uh... yeah ZUN, you have fans in the west (because of piracy /cough)

>>39424431
>Toby Fox
I thought it was Twilight Frontier, who wanted to release their fighting games on Steam? Same with the PS4 permission.

>>39424450
Tasofro got ZUN to do a small partnership with Sony and get ULiL on ps4 (or was it 3? Probably 4), Toby was like "yeah you've got fans!" and ZUN was like "Really??"

I don't know about the exact timeline, but also given that ZUN doesn't seem to be taken responsibility for the Tasofro spinoffs getting put on to steam (yet?) if anything I'd say it's possible Tasofro asked, ZUN said okay, but didn't move his own games en masse just yet (evidenced by how slowly he, or whoever's responsible for the distribution, has been putting up the mainline games)

>>39424480
>whoever's responsible for the distribution
Given that announcements come from Mediascape, I think it might actually be Ruw's doing.

>>39424257
>I've had several artists actually literally block me on twitter just for being American
Holy based.

>>39424480
actually did some digging, and I was INCORRECT >>39424431
Though Toby did encourage him at the time ZUN claimed he was already planning to bring games to steam. Could've indeed been Tasofro. I'd believe it, they wore him down over a long time.
The only claim made was that Toby Fox was asking for official TLs, which was what ZUN was a bit surprised by--at the prospect of people really wanting that. Well, official TLs aren't likely though.

>>39424516
I don't like, loathe Ruw personally, he just comes across as smug and hardheaded. This is why in the first of these threads I at least was saying "don't bother talking to him". 1) such people don't get convinced of things and 2) they'll just take the arguments in bad faith

Thusly the only big issue is with PC-98's legacy though that brings up an old idea of traditionalism, imo.
Nobody's really bringing it up but it's perfectly possible that ZUN would prefer the PC-98 games sinking into oblivion. I mean, is there ANY indication otherwise? Quite the opposite. He's never sold them, doesn't officially acknowledge them, and when asked about them during the windows transition seemed to refer to them with some embarrassment as he insisted treating windows as a blank slate.
They WERE games he made when he was very young. I wouldn't be surprised.
It might bother people, but like... even in Japan, you cannot legally/easily obtain Touhou 1-5.

>>39424598
I think the newmeme terms applicable are moreso "cringe", "seething", and/or "obsessed" to spot a person silently appreciating your work, block them, and then start sperging over the next hour.

>>39424620
I mean, if not even M2 managed to convince ZUN...
https://twitter.com/hor11/status/1251841326682787842

>>39424257
>>39424620
>launching into hour-long tirades about the West
Can you give link or at least quick summary of what they were sperging out about?

>>39424812
I genuinely don't remember the artist, sorry. All I remember was that I found it to be a shame since their art was really cute, and I'd stumbled on it again on danbooru and was like Huh! Didn't I follow this guy? I wonder what happened, they quit drawing?

They did not quit drawing, and I did some digging to figure out why and possibly when I got blocked by searching for "block" (in Japanese) on his account, and finding a whooooooole lot of bitching across several years, usually every 5/6 months, about gaijin. Some of his complaints made sense, like how western fans frivolously repost art without credit (though honestly, it's hard to care; when you post anything on the internet, it will be stolen. If you don't want it taken, do not post), but he would openly talk about just arbitrarily banning anyone not japanese in order to just wholesale prevent that or... something, which probably had to take a long time--he was very popular.

>>39424780
Ehh, summary? It's such a pain to go through twitter threads.

>>39424898
https://twilightnewspaper.wordpress.com/2020/04/26/m2-president-naoki-horii-interested-in-bringing-pc98-touhou-games-to-a-new-platform/
>During the audio commentary for the cancelled Cho Touhou Live Stage 2020 broadcast (in which they rebroadcasted the Cho Touhou Live Stage 2019 instead), BeatMario and ZUN were participating as commentators.
>At one point they have been talking about PC98 Touhou games and BeatMario suggested bringing them into a mini console. To which ZUN said that maybe Horii, the president of M2 (creators of PC Engine mini consoles) would be willing to do it.
>Naoki Horii responded to the transcript and enthusiastically says “I will say here now, I will do it”.

>Apr 19, 2020

>>39424945
I see, yeah...

I really do feel like my theory that ZUN doesn't want to deal with pc98, be it out of youngster shame or out of the blatant and usual doujin theft of art, is probably true

>>39424992
Conversely, there's this 2015 tweet from Ruw:
https://twitter.com/Ruw/status/554619150803279872
>There was some talk of not distributing the game because the prerequisite for playing the game is that it must be played in the exact same environment as an actual PC98 machine in a legitimate way (640x400 screen size stretched to portrait size, while the sound is properly 9801-86).
(DeepL)
Unfortunately, the original post Ruw was responding to is deleted, so we can't know if Ruw was talking about Touhou or a different game.

>>39424620
>He's never sold them
Yes he has. First at Comiket 52, then Comiket 53, and finally through ordering until September 2002. During that 5 year span, these games were commercial titles.

>>39425020
No, I know, I made a mistake but figured context should've made it obvious I meant "resold". The games have not been for sale since windows popped into existence, and neither have they been recognized via print works or anything. Even the official touhou magazine skips them entirely.

>>39425009
>stretched to portrait size
None of the 2hu games are like that. The only special case is yumejikuu and that one is 640x200 stretched to landscape 640x400.

>>39425009
And this 2019 exhibition from ZUN's Twitter account.

>>39422748
You know I heard something about some strange audio rules regarding Touhou works a while ago but never got to see an actual summary let alone discussion. With a move like that it feels like he'd almost consider asking for a cut with dojin comics and games, too. I wonder how much backlash there was over it at the time.
>>39424898
Not anything related to current happenings but it's always amusing to see a creator freak out over reposts from "overseas" when theres Japanese imageboard users who do the same shit. It's easier for them to just make up boogeymen instead of dealing with one of their own I guess.

>>39423029
I tried to archive it but archive.today services block my IP every now and then...think I use it too much
But other posts on Twitter have also brought up that post and there was one reply from an English user with a Cirno avatar, if there's any doubt. He probably deleted due to that reply if anything kek

>>39426272
As far as I know, the main problem was that the middleman was invite-only - unless you were one of the invited big circles or connected to them, you couldn't really get in, so you were effectively told to not sell your music digitally.

>>39426272
>>39426535
Keep in mind, also, that he already gets a cut from third-party corporate game publishing. If you remember NISA bringing a bunch of Touhou doujin games to the West, ZUN most likely gets a cut from these.

>>39426322
The user in question is Chinese, and I was told by a friend who's fluent at the language that even though the reply was in English, it was most certainly sarcastic. It's still up at this link: https://twitter.com/Cirnodaisuki/status/1514262105662242822

>>39407452
Good job on derailing the thread.

>>39427705
Silence umifag

>>39424620
I think the only specific toby fox thing I heard was that he asked/nudged/whatever ZUN to put the demo of WBaWC on steam. AT that point, I'm pretty sure we already had at least HSiFS on steam, and possible even LoLK

>>39424144
I miss Mangamura, it was one of the only reliable places with untranslated manga back then.

>>39425129
There was an event held around 7/22/21 where ZUN attended and played against people in Yumejikuu and PoFV.

The GAP! (fuck yeah!)
So what games do we have, do we need more and who has the most ready to go?

>>39431490
>what games do we have
Check the google doc / townhouse archive.
>do we need more
Yeah.
>who has the most ready to go
Presumably whoever runs the townhouse. Redundancy is nice, though.

>>39431541
u rang?
People upload stuff on townhouse and I basically just make only verify that it runs to the title screen. then i drop a torrent on nyaa. i don't always check the user folders for everyone, so if you upload something notable just post here or make a share link.

>>39432068
Is john_money going to post every fangame on nyaa or will he be leaving some out? I can see there are many fangames on Townhouse that are still not up on nyaa

>>39432094
still working on it, some of them have fucked up folder names. ill have to test them all manually this weekend.

>>39432129
OK. I uploaded Mystia Izakaya a while ago so if you could upload it on nyaa I'd be very thankful. Nobody should be required to pay money to the CCP.

I'm continuing to seed your torrents.

>>39432068
Oh, I see you've uploaded the new PC98 pack. Thanks for that, I'll make sure to post here any eventual updates.

>>39432253
I was trying to test that one, but it seems I just end up on a black screen.
running in a VM with Quadro RTX 6000, UnityCrashHandler64 launches after getting past the intro video.

Does any anon here knows what happened to Doujin Gravity? I think they got DMCA'd to the ground. Shame, they had some doujin games that are very hard to find nowadays.

They were the only website that had the original Touhou Puppet Dance Performance + Shard of Dreams installers. The Moriya Shrine version is "incomplete" and won't work with mods such as the Extended one. You basically need the original installers + translation patch from THPP, otherwise you're stuck with Moriya's 99% done version (Which should work well for the base game and expansion only but forget about modding).

>>39432068
Will you compile everything into a all-in-one at the end?

>>39432700
yes, that was the original plan.

Can anyone verify this is bugged? It's >>39432253
this guy's copy of Mystia Izakaya
http://townhouse.fumofu.moe/share/yyU9dpsi
[ jpsies ]

>>39418096
how'd I do

Grab everything off Moriyashrine now

>>39433155
I thought the guy was expecting another DMCA claim already. Why would he rehost the stuff if he wasn't prepared for it?

>>39433179
Because he rehosted in an EU country instead of the US thinking it'd be more resiliant to takedowns.

>>39433155
>Official content
Expected, but what about the fan games?

>>39434086
Grab anything you care about

>>39434146
I mean I'm cool, I have all the official stuff on my external hd and all the fan stuff I care about but I was just curious if this was site wide

>>39432510
You tried this?
https://nyaa.si/view/1511205

>>39433155
I grabbed all the games now. Anyone have the OSTs, or are they already in torrents?

>>39434608
Nobody answered me, but I recovered pretty much every single one of ZUN's music releases including print works and such. Skipped on SC-88 Pro versions of OSTs though.

>>39434806
shrinemaiden.com/index.php?topic=106.msg3719#msg3719 These?

>>39434806
dump it, i can post it as a mega torrent so i dont keep flooding nyaa.
about to dump about 40 more games from townhouse site onto nyaa, stay posted

>>39434970
I will see if I can do it tomorrow, it's 4 in the morning here

>>39336215
Ive had moriya bookmarked for a while and haven't checked it or /jp/ in months. Whats the damage report? Do they have everything under control or is the ship sinking due to no-fun fags.

I saw in the last thread the "remove your media llc" which is literally the same llc that took down a lot of kissanime's stuff before they went permanently down.

>>39435087
I was able to download a bunch of shit off of it but while I was downloading some fan games a few minutes ago the site seems to have went down.

Looks like the official downloads were just nuked.
Was in the middle of saving the OSTs for myself (since I'm impatient) and got access denied. Only got up to 14.5, guess I'll wait for it to be posted.

>>39435914
OSTs are on nyaa anyway.

>>39435971
Yeah, I'm not too worried. I was only saving it because the packs were convenient.

Anybody remember the old poltergeist mansion uploaders? The guys that used to upload the classical, techno, and rock music respectively on youtube like a decade ago?
Well KakashiMr went down too. I don't know how long ago but I know for sure his old videos were up a month ago.

>>39432812
Looking forward to that. That'd be a huge win for the community.

>>39435914
an admin just confirmed. ZUN's legal just sent another warning so they nuked it all

>>39422595
wait, radio whos, when? What happened?

>>39436069
I can make a v1 torrent out of everything collected so far, if that's what the jpsies want

>>39436180
Yea they should just stick to fan games and doujinshi for the time being. At least till they find a sure fire way to avoid dmcas/the heat is off them.

>>39436069
>>39436241
>>39436253
only issue is that they need a little bit of organizing and renaming. I havent been doing my reps

>>39436253
accidental reply
have a banki

>>39435914
From Moriya? Yeah, not unexpected.

>>39436241
there are lots of things to upload yet.

>>39432510
There are two versions on moriya, this version looks like it has the original installers
https://moriyashrine.org/files/file/349-touhou-puppet-dance-performance-shard-of-dreams/

>>39436022
Yeah, KakashiMr did go down which sucks, but someone on reddit claims it was actually Square Enix, who I know have been hitting youtube Final Fantasy uploads.
The state of music on youtube has always been unstable, so keep downloading anything you enjoy. I've used http://www.scarletdevil.org/youtube/ to help with some lost KakashiMr uploads, but I can't guarantee how updated it is for other stuff.

>>39436269
I accept this picture of Banki and Waggy

>>39419584
>I have specifically a problem With the pc98 dmca, you can't rerelease Those on modern stores

You could and I wondered if that was the reason. It might end up like some dotemu garbage though.

>>39439557
I don't think he can honestly, he knows that he himself basically violated copyright with PC98 a few times.

>>39439771
>>39439557
It would be a 100% Nintendo move if he ended up selling the same old roms that have always been around in some DOSBox package like GOG does, in the sense of profiting off of the emulation scenes work.
The biggest copyright violator would be with the erasing of a software library license just to slap his own name on it. If that company found out (if they are still around in some shape or form) he could be in deep shit.

>>39439557
>>39439771

Hypohetically, What's stopping someone from making, say, a PoDD fan remaster in like, Pygame? The hardest part would be making the music and the bullet patterns, which are already basically done for you.

Just don't trace any art or steal any proprietary libraries.

>>39418577
>>39417872
>>39433076
Why does ZUN have a boner?

>>39442643
Well, why aren't we all playing PyTouhou (https://pytouhou.linkmauve.fr/)) now, and rather prefer piling patches upon patches on top of ZUN's original EoSD builds from 2002? Why has that project made minimal progress in the last 10 years?

The community simply does not want community-owned canon Touhou. They want it from ZUN, while largely ignoring who actually creates all the value for the Western fandom. Why should any developer put time and effort into a quality remaster with translations, replay support, online scoreboards, and proper playtesting, when ZUN and friends can come out at any time (>>39424945), dump a half-baked cash grab release onto Steam with none of those things, and would still get all the money and fan support? Creating fangames is the way more rational choice for people with the skillset.

They can take our games, but they can never take our waifus!

>>39432929
It doesn't work for me either. That's strange. At first it worked normally but it now gets a black screen after I uploaded it. I didn't make any changes to the game files so I don't know what happened. I downloaded it from here:

https://steamunlocked.net/1-touhou-mystias-izakaya-free-download/

>>39443671
Try to make it a .rar when you upload it.

>>39443680
Oh and I should elaborate.
If the site does some manner of changes to the files, making it a .rar would prevent it by compressing it all into the new format. After that it's just about downloading it, packing it up and comparing the performance.

>>39432253
b.s.
it's a good game and you should buy it for the 5-6 usd it costs

>>39442643
There's the remakes made by JynX, the creator of Len'en, and they look really good.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14032023
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17422373
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20487292
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23225799
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25917871

He made them for April's Fools in reverse order but they seem to be actually complete games he's simply never released, probably for fear of repercussion.

>>39444053
didn't hakanaiblue translate it in english anyway? he's the one trying to dmca old fangames, don't give him the funds to file more

>>39444688
He isn't the one who translated it.

>>39444688
It was some Discordfag who added some zoomer memes. Completely unrelated to the tranny translator

>>39443671
gave me brain cancer thanx for virus !!! mustard gas!

>>39444688
The game he translated was the Okuu one that's kind of like Akinator

>>39444090
He could always just release them for free someday, like the guys who made nes remakes of the pc-98 games

>>39445026
It's not a virus
>>39444053
I want to support the developers too but I would never forgive myself if I give any money to a game that is supported by the Chinese government. We're not talking about Taiwan or Hong Kong here. That is at least excusable. We're talking about a group of developers that had approval from the CCP to release their game. The proceeds are going to them. I'm not willing to support authoritarian governments and that's why I encourage others to at least boycott applications, programs and video games that were made in mainland China. That goes for things like Genshin Impact, Azur Lane, Arkknights, and Girls Frontline. It's the least I can do.

>>39432129
https://nyaa.si/view/1511318
This is not a music. You might want to check bin and iso files in general. They are cd images of the games.

>>39445523
I was working thru ssh terminal away from home, and I'm retarded. only ever used bin/cue for audio rips before.

>>39444709
sorry for mixing it up and thanks for the clarification
>>39445051
yes, i know of that one! it looks very cute

>>39445538
Yeah i'm trying to figure out how to archive fmw. Is it worth to find dig out original installers and patches or archive just the prepatched ones.

>>39445547
up to you.
prepatched will just be one folder, but including original + a folder for every patch may be more work than it's worth.

>>39429806
Mangamura was garbage with their watermarked images.

>>39445471
So the devs get affected (barely) and you do nothing that really affects the CCP (chronic clopping ponies?).

Here, consider this comfy owl.

>>39445471
>China is.... LE BAD
You are a brainwashed retard. If you're so afraid of giving money to LE EVIL then you should stop paying taxes.

>>39447192
>>39447381
Please lads, let's not derail the thread. I was going to tell him about how some of the companies who make games like girls frontline are actually against the CCP but that's not really a topic worth discussing here.

>>39447696
>Please lads, let's not derail the thread
It's just that one retard with its /r9k/ lingo and le epic image posting memes. I have no idea why he's here but it's just another proof that frogposters (you can pinpoint where he started) are literally scum.

>>39447192
>You have to give money to the Chinese because... you just HAVE to, OK?
I'm quoting you

>>39447696
I would hate the CCP too if I had to constantly censor drawings of beautiful 2d girls.

>>39436207
https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,13935.msg948604.html#msg948604
>When other guests were making gay jokes, ZUN got very serious, and said "gay jokes are disrespectful to real gay people".

>>39449420
Unbased
Jokes are jokes.

>>39449443
gays are jokes

anyone know where I can find a torrent of 17.5, the only one that I can find that says it contains it on nyaa just will not fucking download, it's been stuck at 0% for a full day

>>39449941
https://townhouse.fumofu.moe/share/djR3Fe8Z

>>39445471
Try not to consume /v/ and /pol/ for a while anon and take your pills too

>not wanting to buy a chinese made fangame gets your post deleted
absolute state of this board, just let people pirate what they want for their own reasons
no better than dmca moralfags

>>39455236
Maybe he got banned on a different board

>>39455236
I'm still here. The mods didn't ban me. I don't know why the jannies decided to purge all my posts off the board.

>>39457890
you've been naughty

>>39457890
One of janny's favorite vtubers is probably chinese.

>>39458772
it might be because of the anti chinese sperging that comes from the hololive threads now that i think of it
still, anon was well written in why he didn't want to and not "hurhurhurh zang stfu". mod moment
anyway, for the next thread; i know some dojin games have switch/ps4 ports, is uploading some of those OK or redundant? you can find them on various sites but not in torrent form afaik.

>>39458874
anything goes. I have plenty of space for tohoes.

>>39460458
>>39460458
>>39460458
new tread