Author Topic: Miscellaneous Questions Thread (LOOK HERE OR DIE) (Read 183936 times)

Hanged Hourai · « **Reply #870 on:** December 04, 2010, 08:11:49 AM »

Has ichigo done vocals for Phantom Ensemble?

jigglyppuff8 · « **Reply #871 on:** December 04, 2010, 08:04:39 PM »

Doesn't look like it.

Hanged Hourai · « **Reply #872 on:** December 04, 2010, 08:06:04 PM »

Darn. Well thanks anyway.

Wisp · « **Reply #873 on:** December 04, 2010, 11:49:05 PM »

Hey guys, anyone here know the name of this program? Asking here because Utena told me to. :V

capt. h · « **Reply #874 on:** December 05, 2010, 01:34:31 AM »

Quote from: Ryuu on December 03, 2010, 09:02:51 PM

the problem with #3 is that it requires a collaborative effort between a lot of different groups and someone willing to host all of this data and front the bill for the bandwidth usage

Aw, that's too bad.

EDIT: I was going to ask about an image, but then I realized that I could google the text of the .jpg filename.

I am curious about the perma-banned avatar though. I'd like to know if there is a color version.

Hanged Hourai · « **Reply #875 on:** December 05, 2010, 04:43:24 AM »

I'm new to the Godmother powers thing. How do I change thread titles?

Tengukami · « **Reply #876 on:** December 05, 2010, 04:49:29 AM »

Quote from: Hanged Hourai on December 05, 2010, 04:43:24 AM

I'm new to the Godmother powers thing. How do I change thread titles?

This thread is for asking miscellaneous questions about Touhou rather than site mechanics, so you might have better luck PMing a mod.

Hanged Hourai · « **Reply #877 on:** December 05, 2010, 04:51:07 AM »

Ok then. I'll do that.

Wisp · « **Reply #878 on:** December 07, 2010, 12:25:04 AM »

Oh, well. If nobody knows the name of that program, how about this one?

Hanged Hourai · « **Reply #879 on:** December 07, 2010, 01:02:33 AM »

Captain H., feel free to accept me as your new god.

Through mine own efforts, I have remastered the banned pic into color.
Yes it stinks, but this is what you get for free labor, so enjoy it.

[attach=1]

capt. h · « **Reply #880 on:** December 07, 2010, 05:43:17 AM »

Quote from: Hanged Hourai on December 07, 2010, 01:02:33 AM

Captain H., feel free to accept me as your new god.

Through mine own efforts, I have remastered the banned pic into color.
Yes it stinks, but this is what you get for free labor, so enjoy it.

[attach=1]

Thank you!

game2011 · « **Reply #881 on:** December 07, 2010, 10:01:37 AM »

Oriental Memory of Forgathering Dream and Broken are the same theme, but remixed and play during different places, right? The former is the credit theme for Touhou 7.5 while the latter plays before you fight Suika and then later serves as her theme song in Touhou 10.5. Fan-made remixes and vocals make me get those two confused on which is which...

Also, are extra stage bosses considered the true final bosses? Take most Sonic games for example: The true final boss cannot be fought until you obtain all the Chaos Emeralds or something like that, but even when you defeat the "fake" final boss, you can still see the ending, though it's not the real one. In Touhou, are the final bosses fought during the main playthrough considered "fake" final bosses while the extra stage ones are the real ones?

Thanks in advance!

Sophilia · « **Reply #882 on:** December 07, 2010, 03:12:50 PM »

Final bosses are generally the ones responsible for the incident that the game is based around. Extra bosses are usually unrelated to the incident, but have connections to other characters or events in the game. So in a story sense, no, extra bosses are not "true finals," though it is quite possible to argue this for Yukari and Nue. And in a gameplay sense, they're more like the optional superbosses you unlock in a New Game Plus. You have to get the true ending before you're able to access extra bosses, and in a couple cases you have to do it multiple times.

As for Suika, I'm no music expert, but I'd say that they're different pieces arranged around the same theme. Also of note is that this theme also is reprised for part of the SWR ending as well.

orinrin · « **Reply #883 on:** December 10, 2010, 06:46:33 AM »

Not sure if this will get an answer, but did ZUN compose Suwa Foughten Field or Player's Score first? Nereid says it might be the former, but I'm not sure.

Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin · « **Reply #884 on:** December 10, 2010, 07:06:45 AM »

I don't think anyone actually knows for sure, but if there is some obscure source for it somewhere, I dunno what it is.

Azure Lazuline · « **Reply #885 on:** December 10, 2010, 09:27:57 PM »

Since he still uses the "Player's Score" theme for games after that (including a remix for Fairy Wars), and he almost never re-uses/remixes music unless it's in the menu, that means one of two things: he made Player's Score first and Suwa Foughten Field was a reference to it, or he's lazy and didn't want to compose a new score screen theme. Either one is possible.

orinrin · « **Reply #886 on:** December 10, 2010, 11:49:44 PM »

Quote from: Azure Lazuline on December 10, 2010, 09:27:57 PM

Since he still uses the "Player's Score" theme for games after that (including a remix for Fairy Wars), and he almost never re-uses/remixes music unless it's in the menu, that means one of two things: he made Player's Score first and Suwa Foughten Field was a reference to it, or he's lazy and didn't want to compose a new score screen theme. Either one is possible.

Yeah, I was thinking more of the former. Anyways, no point in wasting time thinking it over.

Ghaleon · « **Reply #887 on:** December 11, 2010, 04:13:48 AM »

I thought it was openly free since it's a danfumaku script, and the place I downloaded it from wasn't a place I was aware of that had piracy (shmup forum, whatever it's called). But after looking for Concealed the conclusion, I discovered that it is supposed to be purchased (CtC that is), and I'm getting a nagging suspicion that Phantasm Romance isn't supposed to be free either (I didn't know! *sobs*). The reason why I need to know for certain is because I publicized where you can download it somewhere to encourage people to try what I thought is free, but I'll have to take that down if I screwed up.

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #888 on:** December 11, 2010, 04:18:06 AM »

No, Phantasm Romance is free for legit, you're good.

Ghaleon · « **Reply #889 on:** December 11, 2010, 04:27:58 AM »

yay! thanks.

Smallfry · « **Reply #890 on:** December 12, 2010, 07:47:58 AM »

Does she use the 12 month calendar, or the cycles of the moon? This has been bugging me for a while, actually.

Iced Fairy · « **Reply #891 on:** December 12, 2010, 07:59:18 AM »

Eirin has probably invented a superior callender that auto corrects for the changes in earth's orbit.

However Gensoukyo in general uses the Lunisolar callendar with it's leap months and whatnot.

Smallfry · « **Reply #892 on:** December 12, 2010, 08:32:38 AM »

Quote from: IcedFairy on December 12, 2010, 07:59:18 AM

Eirin has probably invented a superior callender that auto corrects for the changes in earth's orbit.

However Gensoukyo in general uses the Lunisolar callendar with it's leap months and whatnot.

Perhaps. It's also possible that she turned some rabbits into satellites and used magic(hax) to send them into orbit, and send the information back.

scherzo · « **Reply #893 on:** December 14, 2010, 12:10:27 AM »

So I was reading karaagetarou's latest comic on danbooru, and a comment by one of the translators there jumped out at me:

Quote from: WAHa 06x36

It bothers me that nobody's actually translating the descriptions of powers in Touhou right. In this case [danbooru link], it's not "power to manipulate age", but rather something more along the lines of "enough power to manipulate age" or perhaps "about as much power as one would need to manipulate age".

All of ZUN's descriptions of powers are phrased like that. "About as much power as one would need to manipulate destiny", "about as much power as one would need to eat history". It's hard to find a good English phrasing for that that isn't awkward or too long, I suppose, but the way the Touhou wiki translations just leave it out entirely feels like you lose a very basic part of the charm.

Is this accurate? That is, is there a systematic mistranslation/misrepresentation of the Touhou girls' abilities on the english wiki in the manner so described?

Sabino · « **Reply #894 on:** December 15, 2010, 09:52:53 PM »

I'd have to agree on that one, since almost all that ability phrasings in Japanese are in
○○ 　程度の能力
with as much power to ability
So ZUN writes those abilities as if they aren't anything of as much power or significance (when the power is actually really significant)
Well, but then again, this word's charm might be lost if you phrase it in to english so, I'm not really complaining -Since I can't do any better

Wisp · « **Reply #895 on:** December 18, 2010, 03:13:48 AM »

Already asked 2 times and nobody answered, so I'll try asking again. Does anyone here know the names of these programs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut4-fs9eLkM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuOtwo8rIRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT_vU-TwyBE
If nobody knows, then do you guys know a program that lets me record Mario Paint? Thanks.

Romantique Tp · « **Reply #896 on:** December 18, 2010, 03:46:33 AM »

Quote from: Furry Wisp on December 18, 2010, 03:13:48 AM

Already asked 2 times and nobody answered, so I'll try asking again. Does anyone here know the names of these programs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut4-fs9eLkM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuOtwo8rIRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT_vU-TwyBE

What you see in those videos is the "piano roll" feature that can be found in midi editing software. (for example, SynthFont)
I can't identify what program they are using, but why do you ask ?

Wisp · « **Reply #897 on:** December 18, 2010, 06:07:03 PM »

Quote from: Master Bigode on December 18, 2010, 03:46:33 AM

What you see in those videos is the "piano roll" feature that can be found in midi editing software. (for example, SynthFont)
I can't identify what program they are using, but why do you ask ?

Piano roll? Thanks for telling me. Now I have to find programs that have that feature. I want to compose my own music and upload it to places like YouTube, and I've been looking for a program like the ones I linked to for ages now. The kind of program that I'm looking for is one that has that "piano roll" feature and is simple to use and easy on the eyes.

Drake · « **Reply #898 on:** December 18, 2010, 07:51:37 PM »

Somehow I can't believe you were searching very hard if you couldn't find any one program with a simple piano roll.

Wisp · « **Reply #899 on:** December 18, 2010, 08:03:21 PM »

Quote from: Drake on December 18, 2010, 07:51:37 PM

Somehow I can't believe you were searching very hard if you couldn't find any one program with a simple piano roll.

Hahaha, that's because I didn't know it was called piano roll. :3