"Zun" is a pseudonym for Junya Ota, a japanese guy who invents his own shmups, gives out demos for free and sells the full versions for $10 (if you happen to be in Japan, shops selling them here take the double or more). His games are known as the Shrine Maiden games: He calls his game series "Toho Project" or "project Shrine Maiden".Blade wrote:I'd like to know a little more about this Zun game, I've never played it, the music is great!
His games are famous for their beautiful so-called "curtain fire" bullet patterns, great music and some really wacky anime-style characters. He made 5 games for the japanese PC PC98, and has up until now made 3 games for Windows. In later years his games have become immensely popular, selling tens of thousands of copies of each Windows-game.
His three Shrine Maiden games for Windows are called Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (#6), Perfect Cherry Blossom (#7) and Imperishable Night (#8).
He has a web site at www16.big.or.jp/~zun/, where you can download demos of the games. If you don't know japanese, it might be a bit hard to navigate, but just go to Shooting Game, click on one of the games and then navigate around until you find some files to download. The files you download should be named thXtrYYY.lzh, where X is either 6, 7 or 8 (game number) and YYY is the trial version (often 013 or 003 och something). The files for the demos are about 5~10 MB big. The smaller files are just patches for the full version.
Scarlet Devil uses japanese file names, so it won't run unless you set your Windows to accept japanese as a non-unicode language (Control Panel/Languages). The other games should work, though sometimes the full versions won't install the .wav-music files if the system won't accept japanese.
There is a Shrine Maiden-only shmup site at www.shrinemaiden.com