Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!

[ExPorygon]

But I've already told that I used every toolkit I found in internet and none them worked for me. The only thing I want to know is how to use them properly, with a guide or a video or anyting... Or if someone could hint me how to use the Touhou Toolkit because a tried to extract with it and it didn't worked for me at least. Thanks.

Some one made a GUI for it IIRC. I don't remember where it is though. It might be on the wiki page too. That's all I know though.

[Drake]

thtk doesn't entirely work on th14 anyway. Here are the enemy portraits.

because paged

[Tengukami]

Some one made a GUI for it IIRC. I don't remember where it is though. It might be on the wiki page too. That's all I know though.

I think the GUI is even on that wiki page.

[Camilo113]

thtk doesn't entirely work on th14 anyway. Here are the enemy portraits.

Wow Thanks! Those portraits were the ones I was looking for! Thank you very much!
But I have  aquestion concerning the Character Portraits of Touhou 14 specifically. Why the ones that appear in the game, the ones with replaceable face when extracted, have much better quality than the full body portraits? Is it possible to find, make or get the full body portraits with that awesome quality? Thanks in advance!.

[Drake]

You can't. The full-body portraits are the spell card cut-ins, and there aren't any different versions of them in the game. If you play the game at higher res you can see that it still uses the same one as with lower res.

[game2011]

Regarding Flandre's "kyu" power:
Does it destroy things, regardless of size, absolutely and completely in a single blast, leaving behind absolutely no soul, pieces, blood drops, shards, fragments, etc.?

I'm getting tormented by a frightening fanboy because I did not portray her power that way in one of my fan fictions...  That's just only one of the reasons he's pestering me, though...

Seriously, can't I have my own creative input?!

Thanks in advance!

[Drake]

That is not what her ability does. I'm not sure where he would get the idea that her ability eradicates everything, including even souls. All it does is crush / blow stuff up, physically. Like, the only time where she actually uses her ability, on the meteorite, it explodes into a gazillion pieces. Remilia even shows Aya a piece of it.

[game2011]

Now that I think of it, she really did only use that ability once in canon...  Guess that means we cannot be sure about the "size factor", meaning whether that ability will make something, like, the Death Star explode entirely instantly or causing a portion of it to blow up.  He also had an issue with me when she only made someone's arm blow up and not the whole body (said person is about three meters tall)...

[Sagus]

Size probably doesn't matter at all for her ability, seeing as it's based on destroying the point of most pressure of the object. Regardless of size, there's going to be one at the core of any solid thing, I reckon.

Maybe you can say that she can specify which "eye" goes to her hand? Like, "the point of most pressure in a person's arm" instead of just "the point of most pressure in a person"? There's no real basis in canon for this, but eh. Her abiltiy has a ton of unknowns.

[Camilo113]

You can't. The full-body portraits are the spell card cut-ins, and there aren't any different versions of them in the game. If you play the game at higher res you can see that it still uses the same one as with lower res.

Ouu, wall that's to bad but anyway Thanks for the images!!, I really appreciate it!  (I really like ZUN art).

[Biakmon]

When did Flandre destroy that meteorite? - when its was still well above in the sky or when it was nearly impact pt

[Drake]

In the sky, but it was close enough that they could tell it was heading for the SDM, and enough that Remilia found a fragment of it.

[Biakmon]

Is there a complete map of Gensokyo out there with all the different locations (including the PC-98 - Mugenkan, etc...)?

[Sagus]

I think the most accurate map of Gensokyo to date is this minecraft one. They use some creative license, but the general location of things is pretty accurate, IIRC.

[Biakmon]

I think the most accurate map of Gensokyo to date is this minecraft one. They use some creative license (the Sanzu River circle Gensokyo for some reason, for one), but the general location of things is pretty accurate, IIRC.

I had already watched that video when it first came out but you sure the locations they use are accurate?
Any flat map out there also...? I already know some of them out there with good illustration but in general they did not include PC-98 one.
- Anyone has info when the next chap of touhou manga may come out?

[Tengukami]

Actually Danbooru had a couple maps of Gensokyo.

[Sagus]

They all lack the PC-98 features Biakmon wanted, though. Except for this one, which's kinda confusing, but maybe it suits his needs.

[Tengukami]

Yeah, been a while since I last checked.

[Biakmon]

What the difference between the Lunarian and the moon rabbits? I mean apart from the presumably "rabbit ears"...

[Sagus]

Lunarians are humans that fled the to the Moon a long, long time ago  to escape the impurity of the Earth. Some of them are implied to be high ranking gods.

Moon rabbits are beings that live in the moon. It's unclear if they're youkai like the rabbits from Earth (created from humanity's imagination) or if they were made by the lunarians themselves. At any rate, the lunarians consider them to be little more than tools, and use them to do manual labor (like farming and cleaning), as pets, and as basic infantry.

Interesting to note is that the lunarians themselves don't consider the moon rabbits to be youkai. Reisen (the one with floppy ears from SSiB, not the Reisen that lives in Eientei) wasn't even familiar with the term "youkai", IIRC

[Biakmon]

Is there a thread about "Umineko no Naku Koro ni" games/manga storyline here on this site? 
Actually I have some questions concerning that horror mystery/fantasy game but if there already a thread about it's then better for me to check out what they have b4 asking my questions.

[hungrybookworm]

Youkai are weak to spiritual attacks, right? But what exactly is a spiritual attack? Is it possible to kill a youkai with one?

Is there a thread about "Umineko no Naku Koro ni" games/manga storyline here on this site? 
Actually I have some questions concerning that horror mystery/fantasy game but if there already a thread about it's then better for me to check out what they have b4 asking my questions.

If there isn't one in Sara's Audio-Visual Import-Overflow Retail (or Akyuu's Arcade I guess, wherever VNs end up here) then you can always make one yourself and ask. (Though if your question's just 'whodunnit?' then PM me and I'll tell you )

[snowflake247]

This is sort of an embarrassing question (normally I don't like "that kind" of fanstuff), but is the "Tsurupettan" song based off of an existing Touhou theme, or is it an original melody? I notice the Touhou main menu theme in the beginning, but is there any other theme incorporated? I'm just curious for some reason. I don't even like the song that much.

[hungrybookworm]

This is sort of an embarrassing question (normally I don't like "that kind" of fanstuff), but is the "Tsurupettan" song based off of an existing Touhou theme, or is it an original melody? I notice the Touhou main menu theme in the beginning, but is there any other theme incorporated? I'm just curious for some reason. I don't even like the song that much.

It's based off Kaguya's theme, Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess, according to Silver Forest's own site. I can't hear it either though.

[Drake]

- Title theme
- Really fast Lunatic Princess chorus
- Talking
- Highly-arranged Lunatic Princess opening
- More chorus
- Eirin Eirin part
- etc

Youkai are weak to spiritual attacks, right? But what exactly is a spiritual attack? Is it possible to kill a youkai with one?

"Spiritual" in this sense are things like traditions, adhering to your word, your convictions and rationale, your pride, that sort of stuff. Youkai are in essence these alone, as they are really "just" made up explanations for things. If you can remove what makes a youkai what it is, then its existence is threatened.

Say for example, you have a youkai that says they're really good at hide-and-seek and pride themselves on it. Then you beat them. This might as well be more "damaging" to them than if you had ripped out their heart and burned them alive.

[Clarste]

"Seishin" can also mean mental or psychological.

[seburoh]

Is there a reliable way to actually purchase music from circles/bands for somebody that doesn't really know Japanese? I've recently gotten really into touhou fan music butt don't really know where to be looking to get the albums. I guess as an example, I was looking for re:takes and a couple other minami albums earlier, but couldn't really find my way around the distribution links. Afraid I'll get lost halfway through purchasing and end up paying but with no idea how to redeem, if I was getting a download vs physical copy, etc.

Some specifics which probably would help;
-Looking for legal downloads basically, not really in the need for physical copies but whatever works. I'd like to be supporting the people who make this cool music, instead of freeloading it when I should be paying.
-Most of what I tend to look for is under IOSYS it seems, so how to get their music would be the most useful if it'd be different per circle, but I've run into the same problem while looking at other groups, like The TOWER from Cytokine, and Lovelight from...whoever did Lovelight.

[monhan]

Is there a reliable way to actually purchase music from circles/bands for somebody that doesn't really know Japanese? I've recently gotten really into touhou fan music butt don't really know where to be looking to get the albums. I guess as an example, I was looking for re:takes and a couple other minami albums earlier, but couldn't really find my way around the distribution links. Afraid I'll get lost halfway through purchasing and end up paying but with no idea how to redeem, if I was getting a download vs physical copy, etc.

Some specifics which probably would help;
-Looking for legal downloads basically, not really in the need for physical copies but whatever works. I'd like to be supporting the people who make this cool music, instead of freeloading it when I should be paying.
-Most of what I tend to look for is under IOSYS it seems, so how to get their music would be the most useful if it'd be different per circle, but I've run into the same problem while looking at other groups, like The TOWER from Cytokine, and Lovelight from...whoever did Lovelight.

Try using N-Forza's service in this thread.
Dunno about digital stuffs, but I'm sure he can take care of that if it's available.

[hungrybookworm]

"Spiritual" in this sense are things like traditions, adhering to your word, your convictions and rationale, your pride, that sort of stuff. Youkai are in essence these alone, as they are really "just" made up explanations for things. If you can remove what makes a youkai what it is, then its existence is threatened.

Say for example, you have a youkai that says they're really good at hide-and-seek and pride themselves on it. Then you beat them. This might as well be more "damaging" to them than if you had ripped out their heart and burned them alive.

Hm, I think I get what you mean. Like, if Kogasa doesn't manage to surprise literally anyone it could actually really hurt her? How would something like that work for a youkai *of* something, like Yuuka being a Flower Youkai?

"Seishin" can also mean mental or psychological.

Ahh, now this actually makes a lot more sense to me. So would something like, say, post-traumatic stress disorder be seriously dangerous to a youkai?

And actually, with all this in mind, would youkai be more vunerable to curses than humans?

[Blue]

-Most of what I tend to look for is under IOSYS it seems, so how to get their music would be the most useful if it'd be different per circle, but I've run into the same problem while looking at other groups, like The TOWER from Cytokine, and Lovelight from...whoever did Lovelight.

You can probably use Forza's service as mentioned above for the IOSYS albums(or you can order through their shop, which will ship overseas if you email them), but the Cytokine album is probably too old to be found in stores that sell doujin music, so you'll probably have to wait until it pops up on Yahoo Auctions Japan. Lovelight(which is by Alstroemeria Records) is definitely too old to find in most places, but Bad Apple has been rereleased on a couple of their other albums, if that's why you want it.