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3/19/2025

So, I've finally gotten around to playing Touhou, and specifically Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the game I was recommended to play first by a cool peep (Thanks, Mer!). I've hardly touched the shoot-em-up/"bullet hell" genre before this (probably just Mii Force, which my kiddie ass couldn't beat). So, even on its easy mode, my ass was kicked into the moon well before Stage 3. Still, it's been really growing on me. The movement is hella smooth, and powering up feels awesome. Plus, the music is awesome and high-energy. No wonder why it's become one of the most beloved game series' in the internet (speaking of which, I should also get into all the neat animations made for Touhou :3 ).

Before that, though, I've had a really tough time getting it to work. Mostly, I just did not know where to get a good copy of the game. Moriya Shrine doesn't offer downloads anymore, and I found the Internet Archive's copy to be broken. Plus, myabandonware.com just links to the official CD of the game, which when including shipping, costs over $40. What the fuck? Then, when I tried to install from the copies I downloaded, they would instantly fail. If I tried it on my Pop OS desktop, my Ultramarine Linux laptop, my Windows 11 tablet, or on Lutris, vanilla, and even a full-fledged Windows 2000 VM (complete with pinball, too), the installer would just crap out in the initial stages. However, in this thread, Dushman helped provide a torrent link where I could download fourteen of Touhou's games (thanks, Dush!), and I found that they just worked with Lutris. So, yay! I got my Touhou now.

An interesting issue I found though: When I tried to play the second through fifth Touhou games, DOSBox, the emulator packaged in the torrent, seems to be booting up just the first game for some reason. Not sure why. Gonna see if it's an issue with DOSBox and how to solve it.

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