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Thank you very much! Already added.

Hello. Thank you very much for this finding. I have already updated information about it. This thread is somewhat alive, but I haven't had a lot of free time lately, so I rarely search for the lost media.

This sounds interesting. Some circles often send DMCAs, so I can only offer to reupload them here or on a mirror account, but I'm not sure it will 100% help. We can only hope that all the arranges are in TLMC.

A small but intersting update (which I somehow missed) The Comiket trial version of RMI was recently found and you can download it using this link: https://mega.nz/file/VFBSGAoa#xkdKRcaswJ0RXEaX2Q-lDX8FmzDpCYYl1O2r7h-kuzc There is also a full playthrough by Nightmare Taxation:

Hello again. I was not active for some time, but now I have some new lost media. There is an update about 無窮動の大図書館　～ Perpetual Witches. Now you can download this game for free: https://sites.google.com/view/omu-touhou/頒布物情報#h.pkucp59i3y6l ( https://mega.nz/file/4bF3hJZK#q6I0oRhAtydrS3g0cpcpO7sDCWnRrDlQ1EZq2xSeZWg ) This game is something like Impossible Spell Card but with ability cards. Recently, I found a Korean RPG fangame but this game is abandoned. Creator's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMr7hCq69G0_IANiUtyNOvg Also there is some info about 秘封ぼうえんきょう / Hifuu Bouenkyu. There was an archive version of this game, but it is lost: https://vntouhouff.forumvi.com/t124-topic Original topic: But there are also some good news. Recently I have found an enormous video archive from different Touhou events. Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGh55yf0Wi_VW-nuUatsKrw/videos That is all for now. At the end, I would like to say that, in my opinion, it would be great if there were some latest fangames on Moriya Shrine such as Abyss Soul Lotus, Treasure Castle Labyrinth, Ultimate Vitality of imagination and Little Doll Queen. But alas!

If you are talking about Artificial Dream in Arcadia, this fangame is really successful and managed to get a lot of attention. This game is really good. If you are interested the 2 fangames I was talking about are 鈴集無名の丘 ～ Little Doll Queen (good game, with beautiful patterns (but mostly they are not hard) and cute artstyle) and 東方宝天京　～ Treasure Castle Labyrinth (also a good game). Both games were released on August 11. Yes, they are shmups (maybe it is the reason why they were unnoticed). It seems like most Western fans watch only Asprey (I have nothing against him, he makes good videos). But there are a lot of other videomakers and streamers, for example PigeonVoyageur, Horrible Tales, williewillus, CrisdaOff (funny highlights). Alas, they are also not popular. I agree with you.

Thank you, for your reply. I agree with you, I am sorry, if my post was too offensive. ZUN said that he didn't expected Touhou to be popular in the West. In his view, fan translations would be better than official translations (he is not wrong, especially if you remember the official translations of fightings). Japanese auditory is his main target. You can compair views on different Touhou remix music channels and see that there are less views than several years agree. I agree that listening to the same tune is boring, but for this situation Touhou style music exists (the last somewhat well-known albums are IBP and CoUD but more new ones are less well-known). But the problem is that Touhou remixes popularised Touhou greatly. Most devs use Twitter for announces, but most of such announces are left unnoticed. Creators of one of those two games tried to popularize their game via youtube (mostly the game's ost was uploaded), but it didn't help. Some playthroughs of those two games had more than 1000 view, so I hope you know the names of those two games. To be honest, I noticed that something is going wrong when ASL was nearly unnoticed in Western Community (this great game has been in development for 5 years), while WWW and DLW got much more attention in the Western Community. About "passive" fans, again nothing was made to make them more active. And don't say it is because Touhou games are hard, then why there are a lot of Geometry Dash fans? Also there are a lot of fangames in different genres, so everyone can play what they want. I am bad in phychology, so I don't know how make them more active. Yes, the community could make a great "Phantasmagoria", but sadly, nobody makes it. Soku fans didn't wait, they just created Soku 2. There were some good attempts to create a new "Phantasmagoria": TH09x (my most favourite, because it add a lot of new characters), 幻想戦劇夢 ～ Wonderful Battle Dreamer (good), FRI (not bad). But those projects are not well-known. And because the community us passive now, I am not sure the new ones will appear. I agree with you. I wish he would make patches like in old days. (and mods are very stable nowadays even if they turn Touhou into another game) From what I know, just a little bit better. They wrote a lot of mails to ZUN (and posdibly BeatMARIO), but ZUN's reply was something like "yes I know about the problems, I could fix them if they realy bother you". Also there was a tournament, where nearly everyone played as Chiyary, and ZUN saw the process. So, nothing really changed. The only active community now, is Chinese one. Oh, there is a new game with new characters, the next weekend there will be scripts with more patterns for them. Oh there is bad netcode, we will fix it. At least Western Community fixed bugs and balance. Here you are. I would be glad if more people knew about Touhou modding.

My opinion may be controversial about this topic. I just wanted to share my thoughts. I don't want to repeat others' thoughts, because everyone here gave good points about this game. UDoALG is not as good as we thought it would be and could be. It looks like the game was made in 4-5 months (for example, Chen's spinning animation had been done 5 hours before the game was sent to print). And we don't know whether most problems will be fixed. Let's hope BeatMARIO or somebody else would persuade ZUN to work more on Touhou 20 (BeatMARIO successfully persuaded him to add multiplayer in UDoALG and has already told ZUN about the problems with UDoALG recently). What actually surprised me is the community reaction. I'm used to traditional "it is over, Touhou is dead" (because people have been regularly saying that since TD) and "I buy games to give ZUN money for beer". And... that's all. Most fans just wasted their breath, but nothing changed. Some fans say: "ZUN does not listen the fans", have you tried to talk with him or send him a letter about the problems? There are cases when small Touhou doujin circles ask him to write music for their games and he agrees (so we have official Shinki theme remixes (not only in AUS) and more Rinosuke related music). And when they get such questions, what do they reply most often? "I haven't tried, but I am sure he won't listen to me". And it seems like most fans think in such way, because ZUN has no idea what is happening in fandom. He gets invitations to Reitaisai and different meetings so he might think that everything is okay. And he rarely watches Touhou-related fan content himself (I don't know why), so he doesn't have the complete picture. Well, let's imagine that ZUN is that bad that he doesn't want to hear his fans and makes Touhou only worse. But there is a problem: the fanbase is the one who creates Touhou. I offen hear the point that Touhou has enormous amount of fanmade content (especially in Touhou introductions), but there is the same problem: that's all, again. Most people just say that there is a lot of stuff, but it seem like nobody is interested in it or knows about it (and it is really a big problem, that fanbase doesn't know about the content it creates). Touhou remixes aren't popular now, Touhou style music is still not that known. Have anyone noticed those 2 good fangames which were released a few days before UDoALG's release? Anyone? I do not say that "anyone must create at least one fan works", but I'd like to see at least good advertising of the fanmade content (I can't call 3-4 playthroughs a good advertisment of those 2 games). So people would know about alternatives. This reminds me a similar situation in TBoI community. There were times (before Afterbirth+ release) when this game didn't have any good modding instruments and mods like Godmode were one of the best, but you could see that they are just fanworks. Then Antibirth was released and this mod looked like original TBoI but better and with more content. A few weeks after Antibirth the official DLC was out and it was not that good in compair with Antibirth. So Edmund (the creator of TBoI) had to fix everything and he cooperated with Antibirth developers. And after that the next DLC was actually good. What lessons can we learn from this situation? The community had the alternative and most of the community KNEW about it. The creator also knew what was hannening in fandom. And they didn't even need to make a new game, they modified the original one. A lot of old Touhou fans say that they would like to see Touhou 8 remake. Well, why won't they create the one themselves modifying the original game? Wait, modify original Touhou games, is it possible? Yes, it is for a long time, there are already a lot of good mods (for example loddk (th15, thcrap), umalt (th18, thcrap), subhatred (th11 (only extra), thcrap), DDDDDDDDDDDD (th14, standalone), epro (th17, thcrap)), which don't just change textures, text, music, but also change patterns and add new spells or mechanichs. There are already several guides and instruments to make the modding process simplier. But still a lot of fans avoid this part of community and it is still not that popular (Yomi tried to popularize it. His most popular video about Touhou mods has 61K views, but you see the actual result). So we returned to the same problem: Touhou community knows nearly nothing about itself. And after that the question arises: why the community of the game which does not rely on fanworks could fix the problems, while the community which is based on fanworks doesn't even want to try? This situation is quite sad and disappointing. Western Touhou community is very passive and we should improve the situation. I hope this post is not for nothing. GOOD NEWS for the ones who still play UDoALG or want to play it. There are already several modifications that can make your game process much better. All these mods you can install using thcrap (if you want to use the mods that changes gameplay in multiplayer, both players must have the same mods, otherwise 100% desync): Th19BugFixes (Fixes most bugs and crashes. DON'T USE IN RANDOM MULTIPLAYER MATCHES) lang_en (English patch, the game is mostly translated, but if you know Spanish or Chinese I would more recommend using lang_es or lang_zh-hans, because they are translated more than lang_en) Th19StoryBGMChange (Proper music for story mod (read ReadMe.txt in "alt" directory in the mod's directory for more info)) Th19Balance (Characters are much balanced. Also big nerf of Chiyary, and Rin fix. Read ReadMe.txt for more info. DON'T USE IN RANDOM MULTIPLAYER MATCHES) Th19StoryBalance (Story mod is much more balanced. DON'T USE IN RANDOM MULTIPLAYER MATCHES) Th19FixOrinLV2 (Fix Orin LV2 bug (included in Th19BugFixes). DON'T USE IN RANDOM MULTIPLAYER MATCHES) Th19BigPortraits (Changes portraits for attack animations (customizable, only boss attack animations with big portraits by default. More info in ReadMe.txt in the mod's folder)) Th19ExAttackResAnimFix (Fix some extra attack animations (included in Th19BugFixes)) th19pofvui (UI is like in POFV) visuals (Player's shots are less distracting) th19gohei (Reimu's player sprite is with gohei) th19oldspr (Changes some boss sprites to old ones) alphes (Alphes styled character portraits) BetterSoundClue (Changes some sound effects) SakuyaTouhou19 (Adds Sakuya) TESMgoofs (Meme, but with good boss attacks. DON'T USE IN RANDOM MULTIPLAYER MATCHES) Th19Chaos (Unstoppable waves. DON'T USE IN RANDOM MULTIPLAYER MATCHES) AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, the netpatch for better p2p matches: https://github.com/RUEEE/th19p2vp

The 8th part of Questionnaire ("When did you discover Touhou?") is really surprising. If the statistic is true (most of the participants answered honestly), a big percent of fans who knew about Touhou since PC-98 remained, but most of the fans from the Golden Age (PCB-UFO) didn't participate in voting. Did they move to other fandoms? But still characters and soundtracks from EoSD-SA are most highly ranked, Most of voters discovered Touhou in the period from 2015 to 2020. So it might explain, why for several years in each voting around one third of participants had not voted before (this year again). But it can't explain some strange results from previous years. There are some other interesting moments. Around half of the fans have not played most of the mainline games. In "Touhou original game competitions" (question 11) there are UDoALG (the latest "Phantasmagoria" (which is not a "Phantasmagoria")) and Soku, but no AoCF. More than one third of participants discovered Touhou via Youtube, so it maybe the best instrument for popularization. Less than half of the fans likes Touhou Fandom (IMO, it is a problem), even Touhou games are more loved.

I added your channel to the list. These flashes are nice. Thank you.

I will be grateful if you could send me some flashes. I will add them to the list. Thanks in advance.

Recently, I have found something really interesting. The Chinese Library of Alexandria of Touhou Doujin content which was also burned several years ago. It had over 10 thousands of different items (For now, Moriya Shrine has less than 1 thousand items). Today I will tell you about Down Touhou Wiki or Down Station. I'll start at the very beginning. In 2012 several large-scale resource sharing websites stopped services one after another. Touhou fan content sharing instantly returned to the era of torrent seeds, and some files have been lost. But misfortunes never come singly. At the end of 2013, TLMC announced that it would stop updating, which meant that no one would collect and organize new files on a large scale (Taimowang (台魔王), the main provider of Touhou fan music resources around that time in China, also disappeared). When the Touhou fan content was facing destruction, in order to protect it, nine persons stood up and established the Down Station with THBWiki support. After the efforts of many people in the first one or two years they went from archives of ancient times to archives of the latest exhibitions, from doujinshi to albums and games, the Down site has gradually become the website with the largest amount of Touhou fan resources, supporting a large number of Touhou fans. However, as time goes by, policy changes on resource sharing websites have caused many resources to become invalid. Faced with such a large number of resources, it takes a lot of effort and time to check the invalid links one by one, find available files, and transfer them to the backup server. In addition, the Down site was originally a website created by someone in a short period of time. The system stability and security were worrying, and the stability of the backup server was also not good. It often self-destructs and downloads fail. For most maintenance personnel, there were more interesting things to do than continuing on the Down station... Of course, the above were not the main reasons for closing the site. The last straw that broke the camel’s back was: In the current copyright environment and the increasingly close relationship between the Chinese and the Japanese fan communities, so they thought it was not appropriate to do something like this site. They thought everyone should use legitimate channels to support fan creators. After that the project was closed. So yes, it was self-destroyed (with THBWiki help) in January of 2018. They promised that they would make a shipping guide, but the site is *down* now. And some content from there may be lost. Now you know what can happen in similar situations, so I hope something like that will not happen with Moriya Shrine. The only Chinese alternatives (I know are left) are lilywhite and thdog. And here comes the punchline. 8 months later (August 18, 2018) in the official magazine of THBWiki there was an article where DoujinStyle was mentioned as one of Touhou sites (in neutral-positive tone). If you didn't know it is a pirate doujin site with Touhou music and games. So THBWiki just advertised a pirate site after they closed their one "because of legal reasons". So The Library was burned for nothing. To be honest, it is quite sad. What do you think about this?

I have not got access to a computer with Windows system now, so I will try to explain using WINE. It seems like you might need to use Locale Emulator and run these games in Japanese. They might also require DirectX Redist (June 2010) to be installed, at least Suwako no Patcherisu requires this. I checked it with WinXP, Win7, Win10 API and everything worked after that. It seems like you are using Windows 11, so you might need to change compatibility mode. Also you might need to change some settings in launcher menu like this (all these game have the same menu) (for some reason fullscreen mode crashes WINE): About the last two games. For some reason they were uploaded here without extracting. They are packed like in CD disks, so you need a program which can open such files. I will use PowerISO 4.6. You will need to open .cue file with such program (.cue and .bin files must be in the same folder) and after that extract all files. After that you can find the game in the folder where you extracted all files. The .exe files you tried to open for the last two games were updaters which require the original game to be installed, so they didn't work. After pressing Yes (Si) in the opened menu you need to press the button on right from empty line (??? button) and select the game folder location, after selecting it press OK button. After that the updater will update the game automatically. I hope I helped you.

I am sorry I have not replied for a long time. I have added info about Gold Rush and trial versions of EoSD, PCB, IN and PoFV. Recently I have found some really interesting semi-lost media. Do you ever wanted to see big Touhou 3D MMO game? (we are not talking about VIVIT-99) A game with quests, fighting, crafting, building and everything is happening in Gensokyo? Well, there was a game like that. Today I would like to tell you about WILDLOTUS荒原幻想 (Trailer: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1N3411k7wM/ ) (Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793740/WILDLOTUS/ ). The development of this game began in 2019 and it has been in early access since 2021. I suppose that most of Western fans have not heard about this game before (sadly, even a lot of Western Touhou fangames have the same problem) because this is a Chinese fangame. Yes, technically this game is still in early access but de facto most servers are dead (according to old players). Also, I do not know how to get this game from Steam client (but according to Steamdb, this game exists and the size of this game is 15.45 GB). So, this is semi-lost media, because it exists somewhere, but I do not know any way how to get it. Well, if you want to play somewhat like that, where is a similar singleplayer game (that is much smaller). The name of this game is 阿麟和幻想乡 and it was announced a month later than WILDLOTUS荒原幻想 early access announcement and this game is still actively developed. The creator's channel: https://space.bilibili.com/183620905/video Download link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1bigLcqtYKHPt92qXBfs3NQ?pwd=0204 What do you think about these games?

Hi everyone! While I was searching for Touhou content I have found a lot of lost media. The goal of this topic is collecting information about lost media and links in one place. There are some categories for systematization. In each category the media goes from more well-known or having more chances to be found to more obscure. If you have some info about this lost media or some other lost media, post it. Special thanks to Pinky Cat, Denist, DestartreK1st, turtlegodking and Dioxaz for finding a lot of information and making corrections. Lost Sites Lost Games Found Lost Games Lost Music Found Lost Music Lost Fan Anime Found Lost Fan Anime Lost Mobile Touhou Apps Lost Other Media Found Lost Other Media Lost Fan Books Found Lost Fan Books Lost Animations Found Lost Animations Strange Disappearances Lost Youtube Videos and Channels Found Lost Youtube Videos and Channels