Author Topic: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 2 (Please look here before anywhere else) (Read 174288 times)

Tengukami · « **Reply #780 on:** June 26, 2012, 11:11:24 PM »

Created by Emarrel, I remember first seeing it on Pooshlmer in 2008, but it might be older than that.

Drake · « **Reply #781 on:** June 27, 2012, 01:30:13 AM »

While I can't vouch exactly for Emarrel's motive behind starting it, the primitive hitbox patch I made earlier was probably the clinching factor, since the method I (ab)used opened the path for him to replace all of the graphics. It was released late 2008, and him and I had some back-and-forths on how it's done. He went forward with the whole revamp shortly thereafter. At the time though, there weren't Touhou archive tools available whatsoever, so we used this roundabout method where we'd use the english patch's functionality to replace the images.

Tengukami · « **Reply #782 on:** June 27, 2012, 12:25:17 PM »

And create a festive Christmas patch!

Chuckolator · « **Reply #783 on:** June 30, 2012, 10:44:21 PM »

The only recording of Submarine Illusion (Kasumi's theme from Marine Benefit) I can find on Youtube is a little different from the ingame theme. Any way to get the actual, ingame theme?

never mind, I found it here if anyone else happens to wonder the same thing sometime.

Cystral Dragon · « **Reply #784 on:** July 02, 2012, 05:27:27 AM »

Just asking around here, any language experts around here? There's a song I'm pretty sure isn't Japanese but a couple of friends insist it is so. It sounds too Western to me.

The song in question is
Ⅰ　Refrain of memory by Secret Messenger and it is a remix of the UFO Stage 5 Theme.

Drake · « **Reply #785 on:** July 02, 2012, 07:53:40 AM »

It's latin. "estia", "sortia", "bore", "mente", etc. The album is rearrangement of Touhou music done to the style of Madoka Magica, which has latin lyrics.

Sungho · « **Reply #786 on:** July 03, 2012, 07:54:25 AM »

One of Yakumo Yukari's skillcard in th105 and th123 is named 至る所に青山あり.
Very roughly translates to 'A green mountain exists at the place *null-subject* arrives' or something like that.
From what I can find, it is part of a poem written by 月性 when he left his hometown to study,
Something about his determination to not return until he fulfills his dreams, and there are plenty of mountains to be buried wherever he goes.

The question is, why is it translated to 'Bound to the Grave'?
Actually, I can't even figure out what 'Bound to the Grave' is supposed to mean.

Polaris · « **Reply #787 on:** July 03, 2012, 11:21:10 PM »

The full quote here is「人間到る処青山有り」, which indeed comes from that 月性 guy. I suppose it would be translated as "Throughout the world there exist green hills"?the implication is it doesn't matter where you go, because there are green hills everywhere to be buried in. Of course, it seems you already gathered that much.

The partial phrase 「至る所に青山あり」 removes the "world" aspect of it, though it would still be something like "There exist graves everywhere". The initial translation appears to have been "Bound for the Graves", and I suspect the translator looked at 至る (いたる) "to reach, to arrive, etc." and 所 (ところ) "place, location" separately instead of seeing 至る所 (いたるところ) "everywhere, all over, throughout". Combining that with 青山 (せいざん) which can be translated as "grave, burial place", you can see how the translator came up with "Bound for the Graves", where "bound" is along the lines of "headed for, destined for". This translation, "Bound for the Graves", seems to have been misinterpreted into becoming "Bound to the Grave", likely because the second person believed "bound" was the past tense of "bind". And that's where we are now.

I'm not really sure how the name corresponds to the skill itself, but that's not that important.

Hinacle · « **Reply #788 on:** July 04, 2012, 04:24:26 PM »

After playing Defiant of Shrine Maiden I noticed that Koakuma appears with short hair and then later with long hair. Short hair Koakuma is referred to as Koakuma A and Long hair Koakuma is referred to as Koakuma B (I have also seen this in some fanworks.) Does anyone know where this originated or what it's about.

Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin · « **Reply #789 on:** July 04, 2012, 09:17:41 PM »

Basically, there's no official art of Koakuma and her sprite is just vague, so "short hair" versus "long hair" is two different interpretations, which for some reason some people decided should mean that there's two different individuals.

Chuckolator · « **Reply #790 on:** July 05, 2012, 05:10:03 PM »

EoSD replay saving for practice mode. Does a patch exist?

game2011 · « **Reply #791 on:** July 14, 2012, 04:11:17 AM »

Does this confirm ZUN releasing something official at this year's Comiket?
http://www.pooshlmer.com/wakaba/res/534922.html

Thanks in advance!

Drake · « **Reply #792 on:** July 14, 2012, 04:22:05 AM »

It means he's probably registering, but whether that means selling something new or not, you can't really say. His twitter will explode if something happens, and his main blog site will update if he's releasing something new, usually about two weeks before the event.

Kaze_Senshi · « **Reply #793 on:** July 15, 2012, 02:40:04 PM »

If I move up in direction of the enemy shooting does this make more damage or is just my impression?

Hanzo K. · « **Reply #794 on:** July 15, 2012, 02:46:43 PM »

Actually, it does. As more shots are hitting the enemy at a much faster rate.
It's called Shotgunning. It's at it's best when you can slip right in front of a boss.

Take the infamous 'Icicle Fall ~Easy~'. The safespot there is a prime example of Shotgunning.

Drake · « **Reply #795 on:** July 15, 2012, 09:51:14 PM »

That might be a bit misleading. Shotgunning is sitting in front of the boss so more of your shots will hit the boss, but only because usually your shots are spread in a fan. If you take say ReimuA in SA, there is no shotgunning because her shots don't hit any more often no matter how close you are to the boss.
Moving upwards while shooting is something different; you get the same amount of shots hitting, but just at a faster rate. However, this is almost completely pointless because at some point you'll probably have to move back down.

Hanzo K. · « **Reply #796 on:** July 16, 2012, 08:50:32 AM »

Well, I'm only a novice at the terminology, so I just refer to getting closer to the boss to improve damage, 'Shotgunning'.
(Y'do have to move closer to improve a shotgun's damage potential after all, even the ones that don't have as much spread.)

On-topic, why do people like that thing about Koishi? Y'know, Heartthrobbing Adventure.
Really, I can't see why people like something like that, unless they like the really grimdark stuff. (Or as I and some others call it, 'Grimderp'.)

Kaze_Senshi · « **Reply #797 on:** July 16, 2012, 10:20:26 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aqYsKZ-lxg&feature=fvwrel
Is this one the "Koishi's Heartthrobbing Adventure"? I only saw the start, I was giving up to see the rest but then a story started, after I'll see all of it and give my feed back

Quote from: Drake on July 15, 2012, 09:51:14 PM

That might be a bit misleading. Shotgunning is sitting in front of the boss so more of your shots will hit the boss, but only because usually your shots are spread in a fan. If you take say ReimuA in SA, there is no shotgunning because her shots don't hit any more often no matter how close you are to the boss.
Moving upwards while shooting is something different; you get the same amount of shots hitting, but just at a faster rate. However, this is almost completely pointless because at some point you'll probably have to move back down.

Well some spell you could avoid it moving up, so you can use this faster rate to increase the damage, maybe for example Chen's Blue Oni Red Oni or that spells of Youmu with bullet time.

Hanzo K. · « **Reply #798 on:** July 16, 2012, 10:23:28 PM »

...Yep, that's the one.

Drake · « **Reply #799 on:** July 17, 2012, 01:12:04 AM »

No character can beat Blue Oni Red Oni in one pass so you're still going to have to move back down, or attempt to rush back down through the bullets so you can move back up. In general, the damage from shotgunning would usually outweigh the damage from increased hit rate, especially since you can spend more time shotgunning than you can take moving upwards, and I wouldn't suggest consciously attempting to move upwards while shooting unless you were already planning on being up there afterwards or something.

Sanger Zonvolt · « **Reply #800 on:** July 27, 2012, 12:39:17 PM »

Anyone have a Zun style Rinnosuke picture?

game2011 · « **Reply #801 on:** July 27, 2012, 01:57:42 PM »

Quote from: Sanger Zonvolt on July 27, 2012, 12:39:17 PM

Anyone have a Zun style Rinnosuke picture?

To my knowledge, no such thing exists.

Tengukami · « **Reply #802 on:** July 27, 2012, 05:21:50 PM »

Quote from: Sanger Zonvolt on July 27, 2012, 12:39:17 PM

Anyone have a Zun style Rinnosuke picture?

Pretty sure if you search the Morichika_Rinnosuke tag on Danbooru you'll be able to find some.

Hinacle · « **Reply #803 on:** July 28, 2012, 04:07:22 AM »

Does anyone know what this says?

UTW · « **Reply #804 on:** July 28, 2012, 04:13:34 AM »

Quote from: Tengukami on July 27, 2012, 05:21:50 PM

Pretty sure if you search the Morichika_Rinnosuke tag on Danbooru you'll be able to find some.

Try narrowing it down with oota_jun'ya_(style), although there's only one Rinnosuke picture there.

cuc · « **Reply #805 on:** July 28, 2012, 06:47:33 AM »

Quote from: Hinacle on July 28, 2012, 04:07:22 AM

Does anyone know what this says?

You are asking about the backstory for Touhou Pocket War 2. (The game developer being Taiwanese, their Japanese is pretty bad, not that their Chinese is any good...)

In short, for some reason or another, the residents of Gensokyo has abandoned spell card battles and replaced it with figurine battles.

game2011 · « **Reply #806 on:** July 28, 2012, 04:14:06 PM »

Quote from: UTW on July 28, 2012, 04:13:34 AM

Try narrowing it down with oota_jun'ya_(style), although there's only one Rinnosuke picture there.

Thought he meant official artwork done by ZUN, which doesn't exist.

Sanger Zonvolt · « **Reply #807 on:** July 28, 2012, 08:35:07 PM »

Quote from: UTW on July 28, 2012, 04:13:34 AM

Try narrowing it down with oota_jun'ya_(style), although there's only one Rinnosuke picture there.

No results.

Quote from: game2011 on July 28, 2012, 04:14:06 PM

Thought he meant official artwork done by ZUN, which doesn't exist.

I'm just looking for any, be it Zun or Zun imitator.

チソウ タイゼン · « **Reply #808 on:** July 28, 2012, 08:38:59 PM »

How good of a fangame name is Touhou Hikari Shinsei or whatev (東方光神聖)
I not apt at Japanese quite yet so I can't come up with anything :V

Sakurei · « **Reply #809 on:** July 28, 2012, 09:36:55 PM »

not sure where to post this, so I'll just do it here :v

anyone else having an issue with downloading repays from gensokyo.org? everytime I try to download a replay there, my firefox opens a white window with random glibberish. welp.