How Can I Play Touhou Project Games?

ilike2game · Post by **ilike2game** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:11 am

So how does one play these games, have they been released on a certain platform or what?

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:20 am

It's a series of PC games.

From the Imperishable Night hi-score thread

moozooh wrote:The game isn't freeware. Which means you'll have either to buy it, or leech off the internet. Paletweb sells the game for $17.99 (the sheer volume of content packed into Imperishable Night provides a good bang for the buck here). As for leeching, search google for doujinstyle or go ask your favorite torrent trackers. (And be prosecutedt to the full extent of the jam.)

ilike2game · Post by **ilike2game** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:37 am

CStarFlare wrote:It's a series of PC games.

From the Imperishable Night hi-score thread

moozooh wrote:The game isn't freeware. Which means you'll have either to buy it, or leech off the internet. Paletweb sells the game for $17.99 (the sheer volume of content packed into Imperishable Night provides a good bang for the buck here). As for leeching, search google for doujinstyle or go ask your favorite torrent trackers. (And be prosecutedt to the full extent of the jam.)

Ok sweet so I can buy it, the other games in the series are available for purchase as well?

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:02 am

I have no idea about the availability of the older games, but Palet seems to have Touhou 6 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil) and onwards.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:12 am

ilike2game wrote:Ok sweet so I can buy it, the other games in the series are available for purchase as well?

6, 7, 7.5, 8, 9.5, and 10 are all purchasable at this point. 10.5 should be out soon. I also heard something about 1-5 being ported to Windows and up for sale by ZUN... a special order? It was over at STC somewhere, maybe you should check that out. You should know names, if you don't there's always the Touhou Wiki which is the only sane info site on the web. Proceed.

ilike2game · Post by **ilike2game** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:21 am

cool, last question, these will run on a regular pc, no great specs required?

DefaultGen · Post by **DefaultGen** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:43 am

Runs perfect on everything i've played it on (Imperishable Night) and is a *fantastic* game

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:40 am

ilike2game wrote:cool, last question, these will run on a regular pc, no great specs required?

you'll either need applocale, or you have to switch your unicode to japanese, to make this game run.
Since my pc isnt the most powerful I can tell that you wont need any high requirements.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:19 am

ilike2game wrote:cool, last question, these will run on a regular pc, no great specs required?

Perfect Cherry Blossom and Imperishable Night may slow down on bullet-heavy patterns if you're running them on anything lower than P4 1.5 GHz or its equivalent. EoSD just doesn't have that many bullets, and other games are very well-optimized (whereas I get 0.5% to 4% framedrop with PCB and IN, it's never worse than 1% with PoFV, StB and MoF).

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:43 pm

Well, I COULD tell you where you can download the Touhou games (Touhou 6-10 at least), but I'm not sure if it's okay to say it out loud here...

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:45 pm

I recommend to keep it for yourself, or either clear thing up via pm.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:50 pm

Yeah, especially considering there's basically an answer in the second post of this thread.

ilike2game · Post by **ilike2game** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:31 pm

no need, I don't mind dropping 18 bucks on a bad-ass looking game...I am going to pick up imperishible night and perfect cherry blossom I think, good thing palet takes paypal!

Warp_Rattler · Post by **Warp_Rattler** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:32 pm

Perfect Cherry Blossom English translation patch.

Imperishable Night English translation patch.

Just to make things easier.

Also, if you're ordering from Palet (which I highly recommend--despite the typical Japanese sketchiness of their website I've had nothing but good dealings with them for the past two years) you might as well order both games if your money allows--both airmail and EMS shipping are a bit spendy for a single CD, and I don't think your shipping cost will change much if at all for 2 CDs as opposed to 1.