Touhou lost media

[vanyk]

On 11/16/2024 at 2:42 AM, Pinky Cat said:

ZUN’s Super Mario Maker Level

On 11/16/2024 at 2:42 AM, Pinky Cat said:

永遠亭訪問ゲーム Java Version

Great findings, added to the list.

On 11/16/2024 at 2:42 AM, Pinky Cat said:

SumireArche

On 11/16/2024 at 2:42 AM, Pinky Cat said:

Suwako Hates Mario Party

On 11/16/2024 at 2:42 AM, Pinky Cat said:

silvestole

On 11/16/2024 at 2:42 AM, Pinky Cat said:

Donations Please - WMV (Walfas Music Video)

Added.

On 11/16/2024 at 2:42 AM, Pinky Cat said:

[アニメ] 東方 - 東方活動写真館「橙の幻想郷音頭」

Lost Video Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20120421173016/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu9d4M81dZ0

橙の幻想郷音頭 THB Wiki Page: https://thwiki.cc/%E6%A9%99%E3%81%AE%E5%B9%BB%E6%83%B3%E9%83%B7%E9%9F%B3%E9%A0%AD

東方活動写真館 THB Wiki Page: https://thwiki.cc/%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%B9%E6%B4%BB%E5%8B%95%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F%E9%A4%A8

I see. Alright, I removed this from the list.

 

19 hours ago, Denist said:

Wow! I didn't think my video would inspire you to find other things! Thank you so much for finding ZUN's level from Mario Maker!

18 hours ago, Titrik said:

Of course, you don’t know me, but I want to thank everyone who was active here, I’m the same person who gave Denist the idea to insert about Mario in the video and I’m extremely glad that Pinky Cat found it)
(sorry if it's not enough or if you don't like something else :( )

Your videos about lost media are good. Thank you for your findings.

[Pinky Cat]

Update about the 永遠亭訪問ゲーム Java Version.
I have contacted @nochrom about the 永遠亭訪問ゲーム Java Version and they responded that their pervious computer broke down, so they don’t have the game.

Unfortunate, but that just means a possibility is gone.

[Dioxaz]

Hello everyone, I finally attempted to overcome my legendary laziness.

Firstly, I would like to thank anyone who posted in this topic. This is a true goldmine!

I'm also glad my previous contributions on /jp (yes, post 33725346 on thread 33578796 was me) proved useful to the thread and actually helped Denist make his lost media video.

Now about [東方] ハルノカケラ by シオビ, I swear I saw the original source posted on post 1 once. Anyway, this was originally posted on a BBS (see post 57), and its download link was thankfully saved by the Wayback Machine. This is actually the original source, before being uploaded to Nico.

The reasons I'm posting are in fact the following:

I'd like to share another very recent meltdown from Japanese MMDer aja. They have been active from 2010 up to 2022 (with a long hiatus between 2014 and 2021). Just like with たぴこ, this is genuinely one of those cases where you really wish the author would never come back rather than do that. While their work were nothing extraordinary, they were one of the very first into making Touhou MMD starting from 2011. This is what their Nico profile looked like (the account has been nuked). Unfortunately, I only saved a few videos, as I was only interested in their (not so bad) 幻想闘演目 MMD drama series. 4 or so episodes were produced with a presumably lost episode (due to HDD failure) resurfaced in 2021. If anyone has the rest (which is very unlikely), please share. Meanwhile, this is what I saved.

Edited November 18, 2024 by Dioxaz
My hand slipped and hit Enter by accident

[Dioxaz]

Sorry for the double-post. My hand slipped while typing and that resulted in an incomplete post. My bad.

Second reason, I'm currently hunting a piece of MMD animation that was recently reposted on Bilibili and simply named "【东方老物】东方文花帖 附赠CD提取PV". I for the life of me am unable to find anything relevant related to that animation. Search engines are of absolutely no help. There are 2 other reprints on Bilibili but none of them has a source and one of them even states having idea where that comes from. The fact that there are no credits in the video doesn't help. The only thing one can figure out is that it's based on 東方文花帖 (presumably Double Spoiler) and that it apparently was released on DVD. I'm unable to trace back the original product. So if anyone has heard of it and remembers when and where it was released, you're welcome. The music used for this PV is an arrangement of 少女秘封倶楽部 that some of you might recognize.

That will be it for the moment, but I'd like to bring your attention to lost MMD models, in particular those by Mudspike/ImpulseJP. Everyone remembers their Marisa, but less their maid and enemy fairies models. Marisa is still available on 3d.nicovideo.jp but the fairies are lost to time. It's sad to see such iconic models (notably very brilliantly used by カーボン士 on Let's Take This Outside!!) vanish. One of their filenames were:

- zakofairy20131223.zip
- fairymaid20130820.zip

They were also part of a very old torrent named "Touhou MMD model data" which indeed today is broken (only 27.5%). I really doubt someone still have the entirety of this torrent on their hard drive but one can always hope.

In the future, if interested I may share more obscure animation (not totally lost but unavailable in decent quality for 2020s standards).

Edited November 18, 2024 by Dioxaz

[Pinky Cat]

Welcome to the Moriya Shrine forums, Dioxaz! Recognize you from your posts on Touhou MMD and for your translated subtitle work. Looks like MMD animations are getting added to the Lost Media thread.

[Pinky Cat]

Found the download link for リグルイ1.5 on the developer's website, so that takes care of the bonus Wriggle game in the Wriggle magazines.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130830115623/http://28.pro.tok2.com/~bonyoh/touhou/xmas2011.html

[vanyk]

On 11/18/2024 at 10:44 PM, Dioxaz said:

Hello everyone

Hello Dioxaz. Welcome to this forum. Thank you for your findings and information, it really helped a lot.

On 11/18/2024 at 10:44 PM, Dioxaz said:

Now about [東方] ハルノカケラ by シオビ, I swear I saw the original source posted on post 1 once. Anyway, this was originally posted on a BBS (see post 57), and its download link was thankfully saved by the Wayback Machine. This is actually the original source, before being uploaded to Nico.

Added to the post.

On 11/18/2024 at 10:44 PM, Dioxaz said:

I only saved a few videos, as I was only interested in their (not so bad) 幻想闘演目 MMD drama series. 4 or so episodes were produced with a presumably lost episode (due to HDD failure) resurfaced in 2021. If anyone has the rest (which is very unlikely), please share. Meanwhile, this is what I saved.

On 11/18/2024 at 11:15 PM, Dioxaz said:

a piece of MMD animation that was recently reposted on Bilibili and simply named "【东方老物】东方文花帖 附赠CD提取PV"

Added to post too. Sadly, I don't know more info about this.

On 11/18/2024 at 11:15 PM, Dioxaz said:

That will be it for the moment, but I'd like to bring your attention to lost MMD models, in particular those by Mudspike/ImpulseJP. Everyone remembers their Marisa, but less their maid and enemy fairies models. Marisa is still available on 3d.nicovideo.jp but the fairies are lost to time. It's sad to see such iconic models (notably very brilliantly used by カーボン士 on Let's Take This Outside!!) vanish. One of their filenames were:

- zakofairy20131223.zip
- fairymaid20130820.zip

On 11/18/2024 at 11:15 PM, Dioxaz said:

Touhou MMD model data

Added to the post.

On 11/18/2024 at 11:15 PM, Dioxaz said:

In the future, if interested I may share more obscure animation (not totally lost but unavailable in decent quality for 2020s standards).

That will be great.

Again, thank you for your information.

 

19 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

download link for リグルイ1.5

Thank you for the info. Added.

[Pinky Cat]

Here is another discovery from Sshori’s blog, this time on a game called 東方知霊奏 that was created by doujin cirlce AloMarron.

• 東方知霊奏 Website Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160321160626/http://alomarron.com/trs/
• 東方知霊奏　トーナメント戦 (Tournament Match 1) on Youtube: https://youtu.be/MBu2mC7vAHI?si=u077PABZu2f_1lCD&t=128

 

東方知霊奏 is described as a “QUIZ x STG” which had the player answer quiz questions while dodging danmaku. Additionally, this game had online support for multiplayer, where tournament matches of up to nine players competed for the best score by answering the questions correctly while dodging waves of danmaku for each question.

 

By the way, this game did not limit itself to one question format, instead opting to use multiple question formats, such as multiple choice, true or false, spell the word, fill in the blank, etc. Also, question genres were not restricted to only Touhou and as such there was genre like gaming, science, and sports to name a few genre that could be selected. Speaking of selection, the game was able to quickly describe the question format and question genre to players with a “spiritual score” that used musical notation as shorthand to describe the upcoming set of questions.

 

Moreover, players were not restricted to answering a default set of questions as players had the option to create their own set of questions. That pretty amazing for an online quiz game. Plus, the visual presentation and soundtrack work together with the forest fairytale vibes its tries to build on. Overall, I say 東方知霊奏 is a pretty Touhou quiz game, if this game was still playable in 2024.

 

As a piece of lost media,東方知霊奏 was an online Touhou game and its servers have been long shut down, rendering it online multiplayer unplayable. Nevertheless, AloMarron distributed versions of 東方知霊奏 as physical discs for doujin events, so finding these discs should hopefully contain software still playable offline. But that is not the only release to be searched for. What if I told you that there was a playable Unity port of 東方知霊奏 on iOS?

As a preview iOS release, this iOS version was not on the app store and instead people had to buy a download card from AloMarron that contained a serial code for iOS users to download the game on their device.

• Twitter Post: https://x.com/karinharp/status/464238774013018112
• Release: https://web.archive.org/web/20150202032808/http://alomarron.com/trs/HR11/
• UDID Connection Guide: https://x.com/karinharp/status/464912850301882369

Spoiler

 

Anyway, 東方知霊奏 is not the only release of AloMarron that should be considered lost media. According to this catalog on Suruga-Ya AloMarron released Touhou games from 2010-2016, but most of these releases are location test versions of his Touhou games. Of these releases, AloMarron released four other pieces of Touhou fanworks:

• AloMarron Works 2010 SUMMER with MQMAIII (A CD of unknown purpose)
• AloMarron Works 2010 Autumn with MQMAIII (A CD of unknown purpose)
• 東方知霊文 and its v1.5.0 remaster update (Quiz x STG Game)
• 東方紅奏饗 (Quiz x Rhythm Game)

Spoiler

 

AloMarron Works 2010 SUMMER with MQMAIII

AloMarron Works 2010 Autumn with MQMAIII 

 

 

東方知霊文 and its v1.5.0 remaster update

 

東方紅奏饗

 

That is all the information I have for now on AloMarron with their Quiz x STG genre fusion game.

Further Reading/Watching/Viewing:

• AloMarron Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20160403212742/http://alomarron.com/
• 東方知霊奏 Web Manual: https://web.archive.org/web/20190324163011/http://alomarron.com/trs/manual/trs_C83_web_manual.jpg
• 東方知霊奏　トーナメント戦 (Battle Match) on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdbp9DeHuWU
• 東方知霊奏　トーナメント戦２ (Tournament Match 2) on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCCljlIENA
• Antamanide’s collection of Alomarron Download Cards: https://x.com/Antamanide/status/665796926567116801
• Blog Post about 東方知霊奏: https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tetuyou3/e/e328106a4ee87b46256e583d39a131f0
• DMRevolution's Review of 東方知霊文: http://dmr443.blog21.fc2.com/blog-entry-208.html
• Quiz Magic Academy (QMA) by Konami; the game being parodied: https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/qma/18/top/index.html

 

Edited November 28, 2024 by Pinky Cat
Added DMRevolution and QMA to further reading.

[vanyk]

8 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

Here is another discovery from Sshori’s blog, this time on a game called 東方知霊奏 that was created by doujin cirlce AloMarron.

8 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

Anyway, 東方知霊奏 is not the only release of AloMarron that should be considered lost media. According to this catalog on Suruga-Ya AloMarron released Touhou games from 2010-2016, but most of these releases are location test versions of his Touhou games. Of these releases, AloMarron released four other pieces of Touhou fanworks:

• AloMarron Works 2010 SUMMER with MQMAIII (A CD of unknown purpose)
• AloMarron Works 2010 Autumn with MQMAIII (A CD of unknown purpose)
• 東方知霊文 and its v1.5.0 remaster update (Quiz x STG Game)
• 東方紅奏饗 (Quiz x Rhythm Game)

Great finding. Added to the post.

It is quite interesting to see a Quiz X STG Touhou fangame. I have see STG x singing, STG x Rhythm and STG x OSU fangames before (technically, the first one is not a fangame). But seeing such old game which also had IOS port is really interesting.

[Dioxaz]

@vanyk, @Pinky Cat You're welcome. Please note that my translation abilities are in fact very limited, I mainly assist in extracting subtitles (from hard-coded ones) and timing them. But I really like making more obscure or overlooked works more accessible because I'm certain they deserve it.

Okay, here are 2 obscure animation efforts that I acquired recently.

First is a PV DVD released in 2008 called "東方紅魔郷 ARRANGE PV" by circle "WITCH☆CRAFT" and featuring a very nice and early Reimu 3D model by ISAO. This was obviously made before the MMD era (MMD just came out or hasn't come out yet by the time this animation was produced). This isn't lost media yet, but only very bad quality reposts exist of this. So I'm posting a full DVD rip here. Now unfortunately, I couldn't make an ISO because the disc had very bad corruption or burning defects despite looking prestine, but I was able to copy all the files at least. That's why all the datestamps are wrong (they should normally read 14th of May 2008 at 7:52AM). There is also a very annoying interlacing glitch throughout the whole PV which makes the picture look very jittery (when deinterlaced properly). Probably an authoring bug or sign of amateurism. Some video expert might be able to fix this.

Second is a very well known dogfight animation from Mudspike (oh, what a coincidence again). Catalog number is MUDS-0001. This is the Reimu vs Utsuho fight. This already exists in 720p on YouTube on the creator's channel, so far from lost media (unless the creator melts down). But this DVD edition offers much better quality and even a subtitleless version. I'm offering a full ISO this time.

More will come later. A DVD ISO rip of 東方奇闘劇 3 from AQUA STYLE (only exists in very low quality uploads) and some very obscure thing called "東方見聞録" by circle FRAGILE ONLINE released in 2004, if I'm not lazy.

Edited November 25, 2024 by Dioxaz

[Dioxaz]

Okay, as promised. About 東方奇闘劇 3, I don't need to post anything as it has been archived on the Internet Archive already and there's a full DVD ISO there. You can also find 東方奇闘劇２- Supreme Duels as a DVD ISO, so the best imaginable quality (compared to typical late-2000s/early-2010s potato uploads). For those who don't know about them (or people stumbling across the post via a search engine), they were animated works made by AQUA STYLE mimicking game cutscenes. They also featured very nice voice acting.

東方見聞録 by circle FRAGILE ONLINE, released in 2004 (DVD authoring date: 22nd of June 2004). This thing is 20 years old! I'm offering a full DVD ISO. I wasn't aware but this circle seems to be Taiwanese. There are multiple segments consisting in a series of illustrations with dialogue at the bottom. The first segment is narrated by a male Taiwanese voice-over (with a funny distortion in the audio). There's one segment called Luna Dial which reminds of those Touhou Soccer animated shots (I haven't checked if they were made by the same artist or not) that has very poor video quality. And no, this is not due to the limitations of DVD (bitrate is a steady 7Mbps throughout the whole thing), but they probably had a very low quality asset to begin with (or their MPEG2 encoder was very poor).

Not sure if we have the first Touhou animated doujin release here (it's only 2 years after the official release of Touhou 06), but it is a nice piece of history nonetheless.

Some very keen observers will notice the weird scaling artifacts on the video, when watched on a regular modern display. This is because the whole thing was produced at a resolution of 640x480 then loosely scaled using nearest neighbour to the standard 720x480 of NTSC DVDs (you never want to do that). Scaling it back to 640x480 using nearest neighbour will give you the correct picture back.

Edited November 26, 2024 by Dioxaz

[vanyk]

@Dioxaz, thank you for these interesting findings. I am sorry I didn't replied earlier. It is really interesting to see such old animations.

About 東方見聞録 THBWiki says that FRAGILE ONLINE is from Japan, not from Taiwan. They could collaborate with someone from Taiwan or that may be a Taiwan translation for this animation or there could be a circle in Taiwan with the same name (this is unlikely). They could publish this (or another/previous version of this if it existed) on the first Reitaisai or on Comiket that year, but it is hard to check it.

Again, thank you for the information.

[Pinky Cat]

Alight, I have been researching about Touhou mobile apps thanks to Sshirori’s blog posts on Touhou mobile apps. As such, I have compiled a list on Touhou apps. This list will not have every single Touhou app as most apps, but only the apps appeared to have original content created for the app itself.

Lost Mobile Touhou Apps

These apps were released to the public at some point in time, but cannot be played today.

 

アプリ – パルチェッカ | ゆっくりえらんでいってね！！ | めずらしいたけ ～Uncommon Shiitake Mushroom～

By: Muraoka Lab

Platforms: iOS

Sources:

• Developer Website
• アプリ – パルチェッカ - Blog Post
• ゆっくりえらんでいってね！！ - Blog Post

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Muraoka Lab published アプリ – パルチェッカ and ゆっくりえらんでいってね！！to the iOS app store, but めずらしいたけ ～Uncommon Shiitake Mushroom～ was not published on the app store.

Also, ゆっくりえらんでいってね！！was featured on the magazine iPhone Magazine which appeared to have been published for January 2010. That is all I can say on the matter as searching information on iPhone Magazine is difficult with its generic name, so any info about this Japanese Apple magazine would be appreciated.

These apps were delisted in 2011 as the author found the apps to be low quality, using the 2011 ZUN’s guideline changes as an excuse. The guideline changes involved the prohibition on the sale of Touhou works on mobile app stores without ZUN’s permission.

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おどってゐ | 東方⑨時計

By: 工房紙風船-KOBOKAMIFUSEN-

Platforms: iOS

Sources:

• Developer Website

• おどってゐ - Sshori Post

• 東方⑨時計 – NicoNico Video

• おどってゐ Pixiv Post

• 東方⑨時計 – Pixiv Post

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おどってゐ is a sequencer that also creates custom dance routine with Tewi. Also, there a 2016 MAD video using art from this app, using Tewi, black Tewi, and Reisen? It a bit strange since the artist's Pixiv, does not use the おどってゐ artstyle outside of this app, which either means the MAD creator made a reproduction of おどってゐ's artstyle, the artist has more art outside of Pixiv, or the art came from the app itself. 

東方⑨時計 is a Cirno-themed clock app.

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天子ちゃん危機一髪

By: Ryunosuke Inui

Platforms: iOS

Source:

• Developer Website

• Appure App Store Details

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Unlike the rest of their apps, 天子ちゃん危機一髪 did not release on Flash or Android. The game is about protecting Tenshi from Yin Yang Orbs by touching on the orb as they fly by.

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東方機巧音匣

By: Dwango Co., Ltd.

Platforms: iOS | Android

Source:

• Youtube Video Showcase

• Famitsu Article

• Appbank Article

• App Store Details

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東方機巧音匣 is an alarm clock app that uses Touhou doujin circle music as alarm music. There also two mini-game included: a true/false math equation game and a quiz about choosing out of two Touhou characters which one of them appeared earlier in the series.

This app was also paid, which means Dwango got permission from ZUN and mutiple Touhou doujin circles to publish on mobile app stores. FYI, this app was released after the 2011 guideline changes.

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Touhou Bad Apple Clock

By: Sam Pin Sang

Platforms: iOS

Sources:

• App Store Details

• Developer work experience on Linkedin

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A Bad Apple clock app with some videos and images.

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TIC-TAC-Touhou

By: Dominic Pratt

Platforms: iOS

Sources:

• App Store Details

• Developer work experience on Linkedin

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It is exactly as it sounds like, a Touhou themed tic-tac-toe game with dancing Touhou characters included. Also, this app is paid.

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Edited December 19, 2024 by Pinky Cat

[vanyk]

On 12/8/2024 at 12:43 AM, Pinky Cat said:

Lost Mobile Touhou Apps

Great findings. Added info to the list.

It seems like there are still some links to iOS app store for some apps you listed here.
Example: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/dong-fang-ji-qiao-yin-xia/id475658394
I don't know if they work (it doesn't load for me)

+ I found some sites which listed some Touhou apps:
https://dotapps.jp/hierarchies/QNimF5FK1I02h8c2
https://applion.jp/iphone/topic/190173/ (half an hour ago it was up, do now for some reason it is down)

[Pinky Cat]

7 hours ago, vanyk said:

It seems like there are still some links to iOS app store for some apps you listed here.
Example: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/dong-fang-ji-qiao-yin-xia/id475658394
I don't know if they work (it doesn't load for me)

The app store link don't load for me either, so I suspect it just means the app has been delisted rather than a connection issue.

 

[Pinky Cat]

Before I forget to post this, I have uploaded collection of scans for ZUN's column Which Came First, Hakurei Kannushi's Games or Beer? to Internet Archive. This collection contains the scans by Touhou Wiki and MoTK, plus new scans from February to May of 2018, the last 3 months of 2019, and then the rest of the columns for 2020 until the latest issue of January 2025.

Internet Archive Link: https://archive.org/details/zun-comp-ace-column

Edited December 13, 2024 by Pinky Cat

[vanyk]

17 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

The app store link don't load for me either, so I suspect it just means the app has been delisted rather than a connection issue.

I see. Well, it seems like App Store won't help.

15 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

Before I forget to post this, I have uploaded collection of scans for ZUN's column Which Came First, Hakurei Kannushi's Games or Beer? to Internet Archive. This collection contains the scans by Touhou Wiki and MoTK, plus new scans from February to May of 2018, the last 3 months of 2019, and then the rest of the columns for 2020 until the latest issue of January 2025.

Internet Archive Link: https://archive.org/details/zun-comp-ace-column

Awesome. Thank you for collecting these scans. Added to the list.

[Dioxaz]

@vanykThe Fragile Online DVD had "made in Taiwan" at the back, which probably confused me. Thanks for your info. It looked odd to me that I assumed them to be a Taiwanese circle, I looked a bit further and it appears that at least the lead member, Yu Shimoda, is obviously Japanese. Still, the Taiwanese voice-over was an odd choice. By the way, I bought that from Japan (Suruga-Ya perhaps, I can't remember) so I doubt this is a specifically Taiwanese release.

The main reason I'm posting is because of the partial meltdown (how surprising) of "iconic" MMDer Siraseuni (白瀬うに) who recently (at least after 2023) privated her Red Alert series. Now this isn't lost media as reprints exist on Bilibili but it's better to keep an eye on this one, as TouhouSubs' translation of the series is also gone due to quitting his YouTube channel in 2018 (and YouTube auto-privating unlisted upload in 2021). So here's the Red Alert Touhou MMD series in its entirety (episodes 0 to 7.1, remakes of 1 and episode 5.5 are also included), all with English subtitles from TouhouSubs. All original uploads from Nico (original smile encodes), no reencodes there. 9 episodes were planned originally but the series was aborted after episode 7.1 due to a computer/data loss incident.

白瀬うに has to be one of the most hilarious case of careless, unreliable and stubborn artist (my words might not be strong enough) I have ever seen in this MMD scene. Basically lost her mind after her hard drive incident in 2015 and has never recovered since. Always plans things to never complete (or work on) them afterwards. The most notable is the silently aborted Scarlet Alert project from 2015. There's also a collab video in 2018 that was never done, and a "reboot" project called Marisa-chan announced in 2019 that never saw the day. Spends her time between multiple long periods of hiatus/inactivity and locking-unlocking her Twitter/X page. Her last dumb (for me) move was privating an iconic and inspiring series such as Red Alert. What happens inside this woman's mind is a total mystery to me.

Now compare that to another iconic MMDer such as キューリ (author of the Mushishi Wriggle and Scarlet Karakasa series) and it's night and day. As an example, handling a similar data loss incident was piece of cake for them, as they did have backups. キューリ also seems to be a very nice, well-adjusted and fast-learning guy. By the way, Mushishi Wriggle has just started being translated into English by PoGu.

[vanyk]

20 hours ago, Dioxaz said:

The Fragile Online DVD had "made in Taiwan" at the back, which probably confused me. Thanks for your info.

Hello. Thank you for your information. I am glad my info helped you. Perhaps they participated in a Taiwanese doujin event and they printed copies there, maybe they had some other reasons for printing their copies there.
It seems like FRAGILE ONLINE published that DVD (or FDVD-0001) on C66. I found that Suruga-Ya page. But I couldn't find anything more useful about that. I only found some photos of the disk online.

Spoiler

 

20 hours ago, Dioxaz said:

So here's the Red Alert Touhou MMD series in its entirety (episodes 0 to 7.1, remakes of 1 and episode 5.5 are also included), all with English subtitles from TouhouSubs

Added. Well, their behavior is strange to me too, but it seems like some creative souls act like this.

20 hours ago, Dioxaz said:

Now compare that to another iconic MMDer such as キューリ (author of the Mushishi Wriggle and Scarlet Karakasa series) and it's night and day. As an example, handling a similar data loss incident was piece of cake for them, as they did have backups. キューリ also seems to be a very nice, well-adjusted and fast-learning guy. By the way, Mushishi Wriggle has just started being translated into English by PoGu.

That is really nice. Interesting info.

[Pinky Cat]

Quick end of the year updates.

Quote

こころ劇場 (Kokoro Gekijo) by NullPointerWorks
Site: http://nullpointerworks.blog.fc2.com/
Trailer: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm36115333

PigeonVoyageur has recently recorded an entire playthrough of こころ劇場 on their Youtube channel.

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THKaguyaMod 2.93
Minecraft 1.7.10 mod which adds a lot of things related to Touhou. The latest available version is 2.91.
Source: https://openeye.openmods.info/mod/thkaguyamod

I have done some investigation into this, and I have reason to believe version 2.93 does not exist, or at the very least developed by the original creator. Firstly, going through the original forum page for this mod has never shown any update past v2.90. The second reason is that searching up "thkaguyamod-1.7.10-2.91.jar", leads to a mod pack called Touhou Online ~ Master Spark!, which includes thkaguyamod as part of the mod pack. Due to these two reason, I believe that v2.93 is simply some sort of accident born out of including the mod in a modded server as the only mention on OpenEye for both v2.91 and v2.93 share the same file name, thkaguyamod.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79D4pqk2Uw (Nuclear Temmie ?)

Sturm Novahl's Youtube Reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HT9BDWgMQ&lc=Ugj9owQpNsUPIXgCoAEC.8CIQ6P0EvZ28CMPOVaW4qe

It appears Nuclear Temmie is likely a recreation of Utsuho’s theme Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom with temmie sound effects. This video appears to have been created by Sturm Novahl according to a reply they made for a request to create Nuclear Temmie.

[vanyk]

4 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

PigeonVoyageur has recently recorded an entire playthrough of こころ劇場 on their Youtube channel.

Great. Added.
Also it seems like this game can be bought: https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/186068854

4 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

I have done some investigation into this, and I have reason to believe version 2.93 does not exist, or at the very least developed by the original creator. Firstly, going through the original forum page for this mod has never shown any update past v2.90. The second reason is that searching up "thkaguyamod-1.7.10-2.91.jar", leads to a mod pack called Touhou Online ~ Master Spark!, which includes thkaguyamod as part of the mod pack. Due to these two reason, I believe that v2.93 is simply some sort of accident born out of including the mod in a modded server as the only mention on OpenEye for both v2.91 and v2.93 share the same file name, thkaguyamod.

The funniest thing is that it seems like v2.91 exists and (if I remember correctly) I got it not from this modpack, but I don't remember where I got it.
Anyway, if you are interested, I attached the file here: thKaguyaMod-1.7.10-2.91.jar (but it is better to play it with JourneyToGensokyo)
Maybe you are right and v2.93 never existed.

4 hours ago, Pinky Cat said:

Sturm Novahl's Youtube Reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HT9BDWgMQ&lc=Ugj9owQpNsUPIXgCoAEC.8CIQ6P0EvZ28CMPOVaW4qe

It appears Nuclear Temmie is likely a recreation of Utsuho’s theme Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom with temmie sound effects. This video appears to have been created by Sturm Novahl according to a reply they made for a request to create Nuclear Temmie.

Thank you for the information. Added.

Edited December 31, 2024 by vanyk

[Pinky Cat]

Is there any patchnotes that might come with v2.91 that might enlighten on the differences this update did to the mod? I would hope it did more than bug fixes and server support.

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Touhou Podcast - Episode 1, 2, 24, 25, 02X
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCERD8Mk4Fc9ia9VCpbI4Y7Q

@themanwiththepan Comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uebpGEAXNeQ
On other news, I decided to check the comments of EP 02X and 24, and found Youtube user @themanwiththepan is claiming he has the lost episodes, at least of 02X, 24, 25. Though it seems their contact info is through a “messaging app that is not TG (Telegram).” I don’t have the patience test out messaging apps for the time being, so I leave this info for others to check into.

 

Edited December 31, 2024 by Pinky Cat

[vanyk]

32 minutes ago, Pinky Cat said:

Is there any patchnotes that might come with v2.91 that might enlighten on the differences this update did to the mod?

There are no patchnotes, but I compared files between v2.90.1 and v2.91 and can say that v2.91 doesn't have one Mystia's spellcard which v2.90.1 has, but v2.91 added more spawn eggs, changed some AI behavior (?). These are all differences I found.

39 minutes ago, Pinky Cat said:

@themanwiththepan Comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uebpGEAXNeQ
On other news, I decided to check the comments of EP 02X and 24, and found Youtube user @themanwiththepan is claiming he has the lost episodes, at least of 02X, 24, 25. Though it seems their contact info is through a “messaging app that is not TG (Telegram).” I don’t have the patience test out messaging apps for the time being, so I leave this info for others to check into.

I didn't really get what he meant. How does he want people to contact him? 

[Pinky Cat]

56 minutes ago, vanyk said:

There are no patchnotes, but I compared files between v2.90.1 and v2.91 and can say that v2.91 doesn't have one Mystia's spellcard which v2.90.1 has, but v2.91 added more spawn eggs, changed some AI behavior (?). These are all differences I found.

Without having played the mod itself, or much of Minecraft for that matter, that sounds like a good chuck of content for a minor update. Good to know that v2.91 offers some form of changes.

 

57 minutes ago, vanyk said:

I didn't really get what he meant. How does he want people to contact him? 

It seems you need to friend request him on a popular messaging app that is not Telegram. What app he is talking about is unknown to me, but I am sure asking for contact in the Youtube comment section should hopefully give a response.

[Pinky Cat]

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

I have decided to check on those axfc.net links again, and I have found most of the links are now able to download the files. Yep, a solution to download axfc.net is to wait, and then somehow the servers will be able to serve the files correctly? Anyway, the pdfs that I have been able to download have been archived on Internet Archive.

IA: 月刊ナイトバグ (Monthly Nightbug)

IA: まんがイースタン

If you check out the Internet Archive links, you will also find which pdfs still need to be downloaded from axfc.net. 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.