• Spellcard practice replays are currently not detected correctly; they’ll show up as standard practice runs. We’re investigating whether we can get these auto-detected by the replay uploader; if this turns out not to be the case, the upload page will have fields added for you to mark the replay as a spellcard replay and state the card number.

We’re getting the gears moving on the patch process as well; we can’t give any kind of date for when it’ll be ready, but we hope to have the game in English for everyone soon!

UPDATE: ZUN has released an update patch for Ten Desires; you can get the patch here. The replay uploader has been updated to show the version of the game for the replay; older versions may or may not work in the patched version of the game. User replays are also working correctly now, so renaming replays should no longer be necessary.

Note: If you’ve been a dedicated seeder, be sure to save the new torrent in the same directory as the old to decrease the amount you’ll need to download in order to seed the new torrent.

Once the torrent has been fully seeded, the gallery.gensokyo.org archives will be reenabled with the last three release cycles’ doujin available for direct download. Keep an eye on this post for an update on this!

UPDATE: gallery.gensokyo.org has been reopened, so you should be able to resume direct downloads of the past three releases.

Since, unfortunately, it turns out all of the doujins slated for release this time still need some tweaks or fixes, and  to avoid scheduling problems I would have had for the next update,  I’m postponing today’s update to next Sunday.

We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and hope you may rejoin us next week when regular service is expected to be resumed. Thank you for flying Gaku-Touhou.

Thanks for your patience!

As some may or may not know, there have been a couple of people working behind the scenes to license some of the official works. Through some pushing and pulling, we have finally gotten some headway and may be making our first official release soon!

Read more to see the whole story.

Thanks for your patience, and the direct download gallery should be up by this weekend with the two most recent releases still available – for older work, just select the files you want from the torrent.

Thanks again to everyone that follows our releases!

Update: The torrent is up at NyaaTorrents. If you don’t want to download the whole archive, remember to use a Bitorrent client that allows downloading specific files, such as µTorrent. (And remember:  m9(°Д°) We want YOU to help seeding~)

Official – Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 19 – Miraculous Cicada

Of all things, it’s an unusual type of cicada that finally makes Rinnosuke go out and seek someone’s help to explain something. And not just anyone, for that matter.

Official – Silent Sinner in Blue Chapter 19

Toyohime has Yukari and Ran tied up so they would sit through her lecture on femto-metaphysics. Everything seems to be going the Lunatic way, isn’t it? (Note: This is a temporary low-quality version.)

Mitter Nacht Bibliothek – Autumn Dusk

Autumn finally comes for the Aki sisters. And with it comes the unavoidable sibling rivalry.

Can’t Fix the Helmet – Sakuya Izayoi, Run, Kill! (Gensokyo’s Blade Runner) Director’s Cut/Final Edition

Sakuya has to help Patchouli clean-up after the events of Patchucon! (I guess that makes this a doujin comic about a doujin game of a doujin game.)

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Thanks to Solamarle, furball, IcedFairy, Kyon, Yggdrasil325 and everyone else!

The doujin archives here at gensokyo.org are definitely among the most popular parts of the site; currently, about 80% of the “business” we do here is devoted to providing these doujins. This is becoming a problem, though, as the high demand for them is making the rest of the site suffer rather badly.

This brings us to a decision. There are a few options that we can take at this point; the first would be to try to locate a different hosting service that can handle the load a bit better. I personally don’t think this is terribly likely, however, as the issues we’re experiencing here would likely just carry over to a new site as well, and most of the terms of service I’ve been looking over seem to make it possible for the hosting provider to drastically increase the cost of hosting if this happens.

The second option is to pay for a second hosting plan, keep everything but the gallery where it currently is, and simply host the gallery out of a different provider by itself. It bears the downside of doubling the cost for the site, and again many hosting providers seem to be setting rules against this – specifically banning the use of their services as an online file archive, which is what our gallery primarily is at this point.

The third option, and the one that I currently lean towards myself, is to set up a paid account with an online file hosting service like mediafire and use that to host  the files. The advantage to this is that it’s slightly cheaper than paid hosting with another provider, and with a paid account there would be no banner ads attached to the downloads (which I would prefer to avoid, as I’d like to avoid even the appearance of trying to profit off the original work of the doujin artists we’ve scanlated). The downside is that many file serving services have file quotas based on countries, and the files themselves would have to be individually uploaded and linked, which will take a great deal of work to set up (although probably not that much more than the original gallery software here required).

So with these suggestions in mind, what do you think? If you’d like hard numbers to do your own research, the gallery currently does about 750GB in transfer bandwidth per month; this tends to vary a bit, but has been steadily increasing since the time the site originally opened in September of 2007. Bear in mind that for separate hosting services (of any kind) we’ll need at least this much bandwidth capacity, preferably with a good amount of room to grow.

Leave your comments and suggestions below, and let us know what you think!

http://gallery.gensokyo.org/archive/

The link has also been posted on the Touhou Wiki’s Comics page and Comics by Release page for other who visit there regularly.

If anyone would like to help redirect the zip links in the Touhou wiki to the proper address, you’re more than welcome to do so until the admin straightens out the plans and design for the archives.

Thank you for being patient m(_ _)m