Touhou lost media

[vanyk]

4 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

Update on 月刊ナイトバグ (Monthly Nightbug) and まんがイースタン

Added

4 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

Yep, a solution to download axfc.net is to wait, and then somehow the servers will be able to serve the files correctly?

Interesting. I don't know how it works, but maybe it works like that

4 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

As for the CORRUPTED notice for the last issue of 月刊ナイトバグ (May 2011), it appears that the corruption issue relates to axfc.net given that axfc.net gives a different MD5 hash on the online file info compared to the downloaded file. However, this is the first time I have encountered a file that is able to be downloaded from axfc.net that was corrupted, so hopefully this is an temporary issue.

It is strange. Maybe yes, it is a temporary issue.

[Pinky Cat]

Quote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmZZIBVZS4 (Gensokyo TV CAPITULO1 "Touhoupardy")

I have discovered the work the title of this Youtube video is referencing after I looked back on the earliest issues of Bunbunmaru Extra. Gensokyo TV is a short manga by Fenrizero & Habrock Starling that had three chapters published across BBEX #2 and BBEX #3, and indeed, the first chapter is about Touhoupardy. 

[vanyk]

19 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

I have discovered the work the title of this Youtube video is referencing after I looked back on the earliest issues of Bunbunmaru Extra. Gensokyo TV is a short manga by Fenrizero & Habrock Starling that had three chapters published across BBEX #2 and BBEX #3, and indeed, the first chapter is about Touhoupardy. 

Thank you for this finding. Added.

In addition, recently I found out that another meme gameplay video was hidden. Its name is "Most unhinged UFO run". Sadly, I don't remember who posted it.

[Pinky Cat]

東方花火祭 (Touhou Kahosai)

This game has a entry on the Touhou Wiki and THB Wiki, yet outside of the fact the game released back in 2009 for ComicDive 2 and was created by the group EFZClub, there not a lot of records online about what the game is, so I decided to do some digging.

According to a 2009 Chinese forum post about this game, the way the description describes the game makes it likely 東方花火祭 it is a Touhou parody of Meteos, a well-regarded matching puzzle battler game released on the Nintendo DS. 

As for the group, EFZClub, it appears this was a Chinese group active from 2005 - 2011, which was involved in ACG culture with a forum that discussed on topics of games, light novels, doujin, etc. There is a subforum for 東方花火祭, but unfortunately Internet Archive was unable to archive the forum posts themselves, and forum titles aren't very helpful in figuring more information about this game.

Aside from that, KyoriAsh was involved in both the EFZClub forums and Touhou Wiki, being the user who created the Touhou Wiki entry for 東方花火祭 in the first place.

 

Edited January 26 by Pinky Cat

[vanyk]

4 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

東方花火祭 (Touhou Kahosai)

Great finding. There is no surprise that such old games are lost nowadays. Maybe it is possible to find it somewhere (sadly, I couldn't find it). I won't be surprised if PigeonVoyageur makes a video about this game.

Added to the list.

[Pinky Cat]

ARCardiaZero

 

This is a mobile app that used AR technology on specific cards produced by Scarlet Agents. Now, neetpia's app trailer reports this app was supposed to release on August 14th, 2016 for both Android and iOS. However, it has been taken off from the Google Play Store, likely because when the app was released, it was called "ARCardiaZero" to reference being a beta version according to Scarlet Agents's Twitter post. Yet, no farther developments or updates on this app were mentioned after this beta release from both neetpia and Scarlet Agents.

This poses an issue, as while the android app's id has been found (com.Toho.ARCardiaZero), looking up this app on the usual apk websites only have entries for this app, but not downloads for this app. As for the iOS version, it seems likely it was planned to be release, but it appears the android version was released first due to Google Play Store's reduced store fees.

Anyway, I leave this post with copy of ARCardiaZero's Google Play description.

Spoiler

意識到套筒的是在AR的應用程序，將給予在套筒的字符。

スリーブを認識してスリーブ上にキャラクターを出現させるＡＲアプリです。

認識できるスリーブがもう１つ近くにあると、向かい合わせに表示され、スリーブに特定の動作をすると、キャラクターが特定のモーションを行います。

いずれはスリーブ上のキャラクターをプレイヤーのアバターとして、アバター同士で派手な戦闘ができるように改良していく予定です。

== License Agreement ==

*OpenCV-Marker-less-AR

Copyright (c) 2012 Takuya MINAGAWA

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