dammit why does he and Jinx make stages of touhou games but never lets the public play them grrrrrrrrrAccording to one of the Youtube comments, copyright infringement.
Well, this Touhou looks good... only that when you realise the game humiliates you by giving you 10 points for each spellcard clear, and each shot landed on an enemy gives you 0.001 points, and your lives and spells are nullified. Also, when the game outright blatantly states that THEY DO NOT KNOW THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU USED TO TAKE OUT THE SPELLCARD.The 10pt spellcards aren't very new. I think that's the bare mininum for spellcards, since I don't believe the point of these things is score. I think the multiple spellcards at once was a pretty cool idea, though.
Also, when that 1 life-up KILLS YOU. That is undignified and underhanded, and certainly not fitting.
However, of praise is the revolutionary idea of actually fitting multiple bosses in one boss stage, and the final spell at the end was rather satisfying. Also, the way it requires you to focus on your fundamental strategies like streaming... but the way they set it up that you cannot blind-clear it [i.e. first run] is bad.
Fairies with Master Spark, Utsuho's nuclear blasts and stuff with mini-non-directional lasers? Good job.
Well, this Touhou looks good... only that when you realise the game humiliates you by giving you 10 points for each spellcard clear, and each shot landed on an enemy gives you 0.001 points, and your lives and spells are nullified. Also, when the game outright blatantly states that THEY DO NOT KNOW THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU USED TO TAKE OUT THE SPELLCARD.are you joking
Also, when that 1 life-up KILLS YOU. That is undignified and underhanded, and certainly not fitting.
However, of praise is the revolutionary idea of actually fitting multiple bosses in one boss stage, and the final spell at the end was rather satisfying. Also, the way it requires you to focus on your fundamental strategies like streaming... but the way they set it up that you cannot blind-clear it [i.e. first run] is bad.
Fairies with Master Spark, Utsuho's nuclear blasts and stuff with mini-non-directional lasers? Good job.
Does this person use ZUN's engine, or is the engine completely self-made?Very likely self-made, noticing the rendering differences, not counting graze and spell times, stuff like that.
Is this person different from the person who made the th12 Sakuya video?
From what I know, he has successfully hacked every Touhou game, and, for his major projects, uses a special hack of Fairy Wars that he has altered to add all kinds of extra functionality. The engine he used for this was most likely a version on his Fairy Wars hack.Source please. All the little missing details and changes in basically every video point towards an original engine.
All the little missing details and changes in basically every video point towards an original engine.AFAIK, none of the original games are built to support the wide-screen format occasionally showcased in his works. It would be easier to write a rendering engine from scratch than using assembly hacks to force the game and all of its elements and data into an entirely new display mode, and make the transition to it so seamless as well.
The fluidity of all new effects and mechanics would be hard to do as a straight-up assembly hack; I'd think there's a high-level programming language behind them instead. I was always under the impression he'd written a danmaku engine of his own and simply modifies the source as needed for his projects. Can't really say I have any sources to back me up though. ;)
Did yuke made the [Touhou ?El Shaddai] series too? These videos are hilarious but they have more focus on dialog parts in the place of only focusing the gameplay.You're missing out. They're mostly hilarious because of the dialogue.
You're missing out. They're mostly hilarious because of the dialogue.
He made the El Shaddai ones, I think. And he is most certainly not using Danmakufu (It'd take a LOT of time and effort to get Danmakufu to run with those mechanics.)1. Probably he uses a secret MotK's thread that contains all game's content, including sprites, title screens, fonts etc. (hee- (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=197.0)hee)
Also, he's done works with all the games, so I think that if he made his own engine, it's only used in his major projects (The Wide screen one, etc.). I doubt that he made his own engine to show Icicle Fall with one ring of extra bullets in it.
Also, he used the same spellcards in his Danmaku Tutorial and in Unreasonable Mechanism, and I doubt that he'd completely rescript his code, so he's most definitely using the same script language for all of his major projects.
Finally remembered where I heard the music in the video before.I downloaded those, but it doesn't play right at all. I hear some instruments, but it doesn't actually sound anything like what's in the video... Is there something I need to do with that .rcp file or whatever, or a special player I need to be using?
Both the stage theme and the boss theme are from ZUN's Strange Works (http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/ZUN%27s_Strange_Works). The stage theme is 夢幻回廊 (Infinite Corridor) and the boss theme is 宵闇の魔術師 (Magician of the Twilight). Both songs can be downloaded at ZUN's site (http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/music_old.html) (the six songs at the bottom of the page).
I downloaded those, but it doesn't play right at all. I hear some instruments, but it doesn't actually sound anything like what's in the video... Is there something I need to do with that .rcp file or whatever, or a special player I need to be using?It says right there on the web page, those files are written with the Roland SC-88Pro instrument, so they would only sound as intended with 88Pro hardware or sound font. The .RCP is just a MIDI file format favoured by Japanese musicians, so they are the same songs in .RCP format.
The themes sound pretty much the same using Quicktime7.Your QuickTime 7 probably just played the MIDI files with whatever default MIDI instrument your system has, and you may have something like Roland Canvas installed on your system (Windows themselves only come with a horrible General MIDI instrument; I have no idea about Macs), so the MIDI files come out better. Perhaps that's also how Yuke recorded his music for the video, as he doesn't necessarily have the authentic hardware either.
P.S. @Drake: Sorry about all of the fuss about Yuke's engine. I really don't know anything about Windows programming, and I'm judging based off of the background graphics and how he used everything. I might be wrong, but I still doubt he created his own independent engine from scratch; at the very least, I think that he most definitely used part of ZUN's engines.It is easier to write a new engine than to rebuild ZUN's.
Sorry, I don't have the time to do the research. This is as far as I know. Given Touhou's fame, it's quite possible someone has recorded those songs using authentic hardware and uploaded them to the web, but whether you can find them is another issue.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIlpRZw09o
PLEASE ENJOY YOUR UNZAN FISTING.
Speaking of Unzan fisting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=h7Wdzmu98AE#t=477s)