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Hello.

I will host a game of Marathon Phoenix with Touhou sprites Saturday, June 28th at 5:00 EST. This is similar to the DOOM co-op games if you ever played that. Though, this can only accommodate 8 players total ingame, unlike modern net DOOM.

Download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12_s9gEJswHvyRtnX17GaNFwgonWnoPq2/view?usp=sharing
Please note this is slightly new version. This has hosted for 4/jp/ a couple years back, so if you have that please use this new version.

This is an old game with an old engine so a few things are needed to be done before joining for the best experience. A lot of these settings cannot be changed while ingame:
- Run Aleph One.exe and select Preferences>Player. Change your name here and choose a color if you like. I recommend checking the box "Show crosshairs". Default Marathon never had one, but this scenario plays a bit better with it on.
- Back within Preferences, in "Graphics" select the following options: Make sure that "Overlay map" is checked on. Select "Rendering Options".
- Within Rendering Options select "Advanced". Make sure texture filtering for "Walls, Landscapes, and Sprites" are set to "none" for near.
- Within "Graphics" There should be 2 different HUD styles, in the section "HUD Plugin". I recommend "Enhanced HUD" as that has a correctly aligned crosshair. Change the setting "HUD Size" to make it fit; "Largest" should work. This somewhat dependent on your resolution. You can change the resolution in game with F1 and F2 keys.

- IMPORTANT!: Back within Preferences, go to "Controls" and UNCHECK the option "Auto re-center view". Mouse feel should be set to modern. Select "Mouse Advanced" and change to your preference. I like sensitivity about 0.050 or less for X and Y. Then use higher mouse DPI values to compensate for a smoother mouse look. "Raw Input Mode" checked as well. Back within "Controls", select "Move" tab on the top and set "Run/Swim Behavior" to "Always Run Hold to Swim" . Look over the rest of the keybindings within "Controls" and change to preference. By default, "Tab" is the interact key, and the key to respawn when dead. "\" key to chat while ingame.

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Fifth month frontiers.

Hisoutensoku is an expansion to Touhou 10.5, made by Tasofro with ZUN's approval. It's a fast paced fighting game featuring all your favorites from the Touhou Project.
Sign up at https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/V6jwtP05GB or reply so I can add you manually.
View the bracket at https://challonge.com/wapsoku5

I've setup the game myself so all you have to do is download https://files.wapchan.org/sokupack.zip, run SokuLauncher.exe, and choose the first option (Giuroll). May need to update the launcher first.

Wiki: https://hisouten.koumakan.jp/

This tournament will be livestreamed at https://stream.wapchan.org/r/sokutourney

April 22nd, 2025

Wapanese Channel creates /djn/ offshoot: Touhou, Visual Novels, and fanworks

Following the Vanishing Imageboard in Digital Paradise incident in the middle of this month, Wapanese Channel has been a place of refuge and reorganization for many affected. The administrator, figamin, has been making efforts to welcome the new arrivals, and also to help them assimilate to local culture. One large class has been categorized as those users who post primary and fan-made content for shmups, VNs, and other doujin works. At the time of the incident, this discussion was relegated to a board it shared with general computing and gaming, but it was quickly made apparent that one board could not hold both topics comfortably after the increase in site activity. It was this fact that spurred figamin to create a new board, /djn/, specifically for this type of discussion.

The decision has been accepted and even hailed as good by many. Still, it is not without controversy.
Most grievously, after it was announced that the board would allow character threads, several readers contacted me to voice their opinions that it was ridiculous that no Tengu threads had been made.
Furthermore, it has been alleged that figamin is working with a local impoverished shrine maiden in exchange for a cut of the donations she hopes to receive from these new users.

This article, as always, aims to spread awareness, but my work does not end here. Rest assured, I will continue personally monitoring this incident, as well as reaching out to figamin for comment.

(Shameimaru Aya)

This board has been claimed by Moriya shrine. Remember to pay your respects every time you visit here!

I am the shiki of my master
Spin is my body and focus is my blood
I have grazed over a thousand shots
Unknown to death, nor known to continues
Have withstood time to grow many tails
Yet, those hands will never fluff anything
So, as I pray — Unlimited Mofu Works

April Showers with Suwako!

Hisoutensoku is an expansion to Touhou 10.5, made by Tasofro with ZUN's approval. It's a fast paced fighting game featuring all your favorites from the Touhou Project.
Sign up at https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/eoBiiPVngp or reply so I can add you manually.
View the bracket at https://challonge.com/wapsoku4

I've setup the game myself so all you have to do is download https://files.wapchan.org/sokupack.zip, run SokuLauncher.exe, and choose the first option (Giuroll). May need to update the launcher first.

Wiki: https://hisouten.koumakan.jp/

This tournament will be livestreamed at https://stream.wapchan.org/r/sokutourney

This thread is also for coordinating soku friendlies for the month of April

Since we have a rule against AI art I figured it would be important to clarify that I won't be banning people or deleting posts for posting stuff ZUN put in Touhou 19/20. My personal view is very much against the use of it but it wouldn't do anyone here good to just ban the discussion of it outright especially since it's such a big franchise.

This thread was broken off from >>695

Hey /djn/ have you ever played Jigoku Kisetsukan? It's a Touhou inspired bullet hell game and it turns 10 years old in two days. For a while it was the closest thing you could get to a Touhou game on Steam before they started allowing those there.
Soundtrack's pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToyIrntkB7c

Don't think we've done a proper /vnt/ event yet, so for this month (running from April 3rd - May 3rd) we are doing a high score challenge for Touhou 6 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil)!
If you don't have this game, it's pretty easy to find with google or nyaa. I recommend using an English patch.
Very simple to participate - just upload a replay (results screenshot is optional). Make sure the replay is the only file you upload or it won't be attached (will try and fix this soon) Be nice. Don't cheat.
I've played this game a few times over the past few years, but have finally started to try and get decent enough to 1CC (still only on easy with max lives and bombs). I'm sure at least a few of you can beat this with higher difficulties.
Top players will be immortalized on a soon to be added static page.
If someone feels like making OC (not reposting existing stuff) they might get on that page too. Get shooting!

It's that time of the month again /djn/!
Remember to say 'rabbit rabbit' as you wake up on the first day of a new month and you will be blessed with good luck!