• Updated for v1.06a.
• Fixed the clipping of the left side of some text.
• Profile names now support SJIS correctly.
• Several typo and alignment fixes.
• Fixed several bugged win quotes.
• Added Reisen’s missing win quote.
• Fixed loader not handling the version correctly.

A big thanks to mauve for the work in getting this put together!

To download the patch, click this link.

  – Updated for v1.10a.
- Fixed the clipping of the left side of some text.
- Fixed the BGM names in matches.
- Profile names now support SJIS correctly.
- Minor typo and alignment fixes.

v1.1a – released 2011/10/22
- Fixed music room crash.
- Fixed connection error crash.

The English translation for Touhou Hisoutensoku is complete! You can download it at this link, or head over to the new patches section for additional patch notes – check the tabs at the top of the page or click on this link to get there.

Be sure to patch the game to version 1.10; you can download the patch at Tasofro’s website – look for the download titled “東方非想天則 Update File Ver1.10″.

If you have both games but don’t have access to TH10.5 content from TH12.3, you’ll need to edit the configex123.ini file in the TH12.3 directory. Change the “path=” variable under [th105path] to the folder in which you have TH10.5 installed.

Big thanks as always go out to the patch team: Akira, TMN, Mefidex, Halbarad, and mauve!

After several months of hard work by a group of dedicated translators, editors, and programmers, the English patch for Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is finally available! To download, just click on the image above or on either of the mirror links below.  Just make sure to have SWR itself updated to the latest current version (1.06); you can download the patch from Tasofro’s website here.

• gensokyo.org mirror
• mizuumi.net mirror

You can check out the official page for the English translation patch here.

Big thanks go out to mauve, Halbarad, Rotals Nartnona, _dk, Akira, TMN, and Mefidex for all their hard work on the patch!

For the second time in as many weeks, there’s been a significant update to the Touhou Project Replay Archive – match replays from IaMP and SWR can now be uploaded and archived! Check out the main upload page to add your own, or the updated Vs. Matches page to see what’s been added!

Many thanks to mauve for his assistance in breaking down the IaMP and SWR replay formats.

Seems everyone’s releasing something this year; it’s the first time Reitaisai is going to be at the Big Sight. A much larger venue than last year’s means an overwhelming increase in participation.

++GAMES++

First off, we have the two biggies:

Twilight Frontier has announced the release of Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. You can read more about the release announcement here.

Team Shanghai Alice has announced plans to release a demo of Touhou Chireiten~ Subterranean Animism, the 11th game in the Touhou canon. You can read more about this here.

Finally, on the doujin game front, the final version of Marisa & Alice (Mariari) will be released by Desunoya.

Read on to see what else we’ve learned.

++DOUJINSHI++

There’s so many doujin planned for release, it’s hard to count all of them. Here’s what we have so far in no particular order.

• Personal Color is releasing a doujin starring Yukari, Youmu and Yuyuko. It appears to be the first half a longer doujin.

• Ishikiriba is planning to release a doujin collaboration based on their webcomic, Yagokoro Labs.

• Winter Scenery plans to release a doujin featuring the Scarlet Devil Mansion crew.

• Hole of Yago will be selling a new doujin titled Metapo!!, featuring Alice and Marisa.

• 3-Chome has a new doujin about Alice, named Kouma no Kuni no Alice.
• Wi-Z GARAGE will be selling the 300 parody/tribute, Tales of 30.
• Ennui Akadako is releasing two doujin, Kami-sama wa Okyaku-sama desu about the Aki sisters, as well as what appears to be a compilation of old works titled Hitomatome.
• Asatsuki Dou will be releasing a doujin entitled Happy End, about Koakuma and Patchouli.
• happy flame time is releasing a new doujin.
• Kagero is releasing a doujin. You can see the cover here.
• Yumeiro Goromo is releasing both a doujin and an artbook at R5.
• KFC has a new doujin out, entitled “Flowery Flier.”
• ReverseNoise is releasing a doujin seemingly about mahjong.
• Golden Pe Done is releasing half a doujin.
• Saku Saku Tei is releasing a doujin entitled “Witches Don’t Look Back.”
• Hashiya is releasing two doujin: Red-Black Moon, Jasper Star and Road of Eastern, a collab with Rengeza.
• Fuantei is releasing a doujin entitled “What’s that!?”
• Haniwa’s Store will be selling their new doujin, “A Doll’s Wish.”
• Mizutaki is releasing a doujin named “Brilliant Gensokyo”.

++MUSIC++

Many different groups are releasing a slew of new music, ranging from orchestral works to techno to any other genre you can possibly think of:

• Alstroemeria Records is releasing a “Best Of” album featuring some of their best songs to date, including Bad Apple!!, Alice Maestra, Dreaming, and more, entitled “Exserens – A selection of Alstroemeria Records.” In addition, they will also be taking part in “Gossun-Remix 1″, a Marisa Stole the Precious Thing remix album produced by IOSYS. A demo of Exserens can be found on their website.
• sisimai-brothers is releasing a new album entitled 東方冬風雪灯.
• UI-70 is releasing a new CD, titled Riddles Covered in Flowers.
• ~xi-on~ is releasing an MoF only album, previously released at M3 2008 Spring.
• TAMUSIC is releasing a new CD entitled Touhou Nocturnes for Pianoforte [Spirit].
• Lime-Green is releasing three albums: an MoF Piano solo, MoF electro and EoSD electro.
• Vn’dyk is releasing a new album entitled Ein Klang Multidimentional.
• Masamitei is releasing a new album.
• Style.S is selling a new CD; crossfade can be heard by clicking on the link.
• Chocoa is releasing an album entitled ~Toho the First~
• SJV-SC is releasing an album entitled Divit, first released at M3 2008 Spring.
• Hobby Atelier Carrotwine is releasing an album titled —Rei— Gettenyahime.
• mistbell is releasing a new album.
• Silver Forest is also selling a new CD.
• SOUND HOLIC is releasing two new CDs. You can hear samples of them here. (SOUND HOLIC is after Alstroemeria Records.)
• SYNC.ART’s is coming out with a new CD as well.
• IOSYS has three new CDs, a new original CD and two “Marisa Stole the Precious Thing” remixes that other circles are participating in.

Finally, a bit of sad news: Spiral Music will no longer be participating in Reitaisai 5. According to their blog, all data was lost or corrupted during a computer crash. The one track that was undamaged is available for free download on their site. They will, however, be participating in Comiket 74. We here at Gensokyo wish them the best of luck.

That is all we have for now. If you would like to be constantly updated, please feel free to check the forums.

Twilight Frontier, makers of Immaterial and Missing Power (in combination with Team Shanghai Alice), have released an official demo for Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, their new fighting game, along with announcing that the full game will be sold on May 25th at Reitaisai 5.

The demo features Reimu, Marisa, Alice and Aya as playable characters as before, three stages to play on, a full menu with configuration and netplay settings, many changed gameplay elements (compared to the older demo from Reitaisai 4) and a three-stage preview of the story mode, played as Reimu and set just prior to the events of the full game.

Since Tasofro’s mirrors are a bit slow (at least for the moment), we’ve got a couple of English mirrors for you to use:

• gensokyo.org
• mizuumi.net

Thanks to furball for translation and to the folks at #iamp and #swr for the use of their mirror.