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===Doujin Games===
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Revision as of 23:53, 16 November 2014

Microsoft Windows (Windows for short) is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft. It's used on personal computers across the world and it seems to be the most popular operating system in the world. "Windows" is also a term to describe the Touhou Project in general when excluding the PC-98 games.

There has been many versions of Windows, such as Windows 98 (not to be confused with the PC-98), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows 8 is their latest edition.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was the first Touhou Project game developed for this platform, which was able to play on Windows 98, SE, ME, 2000 and the XP. Shuusou Gyoku was technically the first game for this platform, but it's part of the Seihou Project that it wasn't directly created by ZUN. All the games from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (Touhou 6) all the way to Impossible Spell Card (Touhou 14.3) were made entirely for this platform. They are distinguished from "the PC-98 games" (from Touhou 1 to 5) for Team Shanghai Alice having been branched off from Amusement Makers.

Games for this Platform

Official Touhou Games

Doujin Games

Overview on the Touhouverse

Terminology

"Windows" or "the Windows games" as a term refers to any from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil onwards in the Touhou Project by the Western community; this includes all the games, CDs and comics. This can also be called "recent Touhou works", "Today's games" or simply "The Touhou Project". It's supposed to distinguish them from the PC-98 era that holds the first five games of the Touhou series. It's also used to reflect the modern music, graphics, complex stories and characters that occur in all the material, which is by many fans considered new or modern.

Setting

Unlike the PC-98 era of the Touhou Project, a lot of details is shown on the project. The project is set in Gensokyo and has many characters from humans and youkai alike.

The Windows games are often split into 2 generations, more recently 3, with Mountain of Faith being the dividing point. This is because Mountain of Faith introduced a new game engine that has been used in every Touhou Project shooting game since. Additionally, the plots of the Touhou Project games starting with Mountain of Faith have become more connected to each other, up until Hopeless Masquerade. A unique plot was introduced in Double Dealing Character, making it the third generation for the Windows.

Unlike incidents that have happened in the PC-98 games, the incidents that occur are more series and somewhat complex with a major change in the climate or suspicious occurrence in Gensokyo. It's up to Reimu or whoever volunteers to go out and solve the issue.

Additional Information

  • This platform was a fresh start for ZUN as he was no longer limited to 16-color graphics.
  • The last main series game to officially work on Windows 98 is Phantasmagoria of Flower View. Shoot the Bullet and Mountain of Faith will run as well, but show some oddities like missing BGM. From Subterranean Animism on, the games depend on a newer DirectX 9.0c build not supported on Windows 98.
  • The first game built with Windows Vista in mind was Undefined Fantastic Object.
  • The first game built with Windows 7 in mind was Double Spoiler.
  • The first game built with Windows 8 in mind was Double Dealing Character, with double resolution from 640×480 to 1280×960.
  • All the games from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil to Phantasmagoria of Flower View are able to play on Windows Vista/7, but in some cases, the title screen won't display properly and that it don't show the image of Reimu Hakurei. Enabling Windows Aero may help.
    • Embodiment of Scarlet Devil will sometimes stop working when launched. This sometimes only happens without Aero.
  • If using Vista or Windows 7, all the games from Double Spoiler onward will disable Aero and switch the theme to "Windows 7 Basic" or "Windows Vista Basic". Windows will switch back to Aero after exiting the game. There exists a patch for Ten Desires to prevent this and allow the game to play in Aero.

Fandom

  • Windows characters are seen separate from the PC-98 characters by many fans (Excluding the ones that returned).
  • An unofficial tool exists to convert the .wav music of all games with ZUN's involvement to .ogg and patch the games to read from those files in order to save disk space.