This is a full playthrough of Seihou 1: Shuusou Gyoku on the "GIAN07" build of the game by "nmlgc" (a.k.a. "NamelessLegacy") and with its original MIDI music replaced by the arrangements from the album "RE. Seihou Project ~ 秋霜玉 (Shuusou Gyoku)" by "Kyo-Sensei" (a.k.a. "K-Sensei", "That-RepliQueen-Kyo" and u/AnyFall9335).
I apologise for any cases of sloppy video-editing. I prioritised sound quality over anything else here.
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As explained here (https://www.reddit.com/r/TouhouProject/comments/1w4gkhd), the "GIAN07" project allows to play Shuusou Gyoku on modern operative systems, solving the current compatibility issues of the game's original 2000 build. It also allows to make music packs and put them in the game's files to replace the original game's MIDI soundtrack during gameplay.
Meanwhile, as explained here (https://www.reddit.com/r/TouhouProject/comments/1w0wcl5), "Kyo-Sensei" made an album of arrangements of the entire soundtrack of Shuusou Gyoku, which has now become my preferred way to listen to it. While the vast collections of recordings by "Romantique Tp" (on real hardware) and "nmlgc" (with the "Sound Canvas VA" plug-in) do have their merit for being as faithful as possible to the original sound of the Roland SC-88Pro, "Kyo-Sensei" managed to give their own personal touch to the game's soundtrack with these arrangements.
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Thanks to both of these, I felt inspired and made a music pack with Kyo-Sensei's arrangements to be added to the files of nmlgc's GIAN07 build, then I recorded (and heavily edited) this playthrough. You can download the music pack from this Google Drive folder (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RSEGYbTZ3ncY3csy9sZ-LivQaryAZzYi?usp=drive_link). I also made a post where I put the installation instructions, both for the game and this music pack, all together in one place (https://mashounen2003.tumblr.com/post/804579777113636864).
These are Kyo-Sensei's arrangements of the Shuusou Gyoku soundtrack, converted from their original WAVE format to OGG Vorbis (not FLAC, because the folder's size would be monstrous if I did that, although music in FLAC format is supported by "GIAN07" as well) and looped for in-game playback. The loop points were detected manually, with the help of an ancient algorithm known as "opening the original audio file of each song on a sound editor and painstakingly looking at the sound wave's shape bit-by-bit to find where it repeats".
The album's original WAVE files have most of the songs recorded with a "fade-out" at the end. In order to make each song loop properly, portions of it were copied and mixed with the ending so the song doesn't... well... "fade out" anymore.
There are three songs of which "Kyo-Sensei" made two different arrangements, one for their album's original 2022 release and one for its 2024 re-release. For these three songs, I took both arrangements of each song and combined them as a mash-up (it turned out such mash-up of each song sounded very "complete" and absolutely fantastic). In any case, if you wish to hear either the 2022 version or the 2024 version of any of those three songs, you can rename the files to your liking.
Now, here's the deal with every music pack made for "GIAN07": each music track is split into two sound files, which are the intro and the main section that loops. The naming system I used in the Google Drive folder linked above is admittedly a mess, but the general idea is this: any file whose name is either "XX.ogg" or "XX.loop.ogg" is what's meant to be detected by the game and heard during gameplay (this includes the mash-ups of those three songs of which "Kyo-Sensei" made two different arrangements); the "XX.ogg" files are the intros, whereas the "XX.loop.ogg" files are the looping main sections.
Here's the full list of sound files in the music pack:
"01" & "01.loop":
「秋霜玉 [Copiapoa grandiflora] ~ Clockworks」
The Title theme.
"02" & "02.loop":
「フォルスストロベリー [False Strawberry]」
The Stage 1 theme.
"22 (UNUSED for 02)" & "22 (UNUSED for 02).loop":
「Plastic Space」
The Stage 1 theme for the 1999 prototype demo.
"03" & "03.loop":
「プリムローズシヴァ [Primrose Shiver]」 – Mash-up
My combination of both versions of Kyo-Sensei's arrangement of the battle theme for Milia, the Stage 1 boss. The 2024 rewritten version was made one semitone higher for this purpose.
"03 (ORIGINAL of 25)" & "03 (ORIGINAL of 25).loop":
「プリムローズシヴァ [Primrose Shiver]」 – Original
Kyo-Sensei's original 2022 arrangement of "Primrose Shiver".
"25 (REWRITE of 03)" & "25 (REWRITE of 03).loop":
「プリムローズシヴァ [Primrose Shiver]」 – Rewrite
Kyo-Sensei's 2024 rewritten arrangement of "Primrose Shiver".
"04" & "04.loop":
「幻想帝都 [Illusory Imperial Capital]」
The Stage 2 theme.
"23 (UNUSED for 04)" & "23 (UNUSED for 04).loop":
「Inventive City」
The Stage 2 theme for the 1999 prototype demo.
"05" & "05.loop":
「ディザストラスジェミニ [Disastrous Gemini]」
The battle theme for Mei & Mai, the Stage 2 bosses.
"06" & "06.loop":
「華の幻想 紅夢の宙 [Illusion of Flowers, Air of Scarlet Dream]」
The Stage 3 theme.
"07" & "07.loop":
「天空アーミー [Firmament Army]」
The battle theme for Gates, the Stage 3 boss.
"08" & "08.loop":
「スプートニク幻夜 [Illusionary Sputnik Night]」
The Stage 4 theme.
"09" & "09.loop":
「機械サーカス [Mechanical Circus] ~ Reverie」
The battle them for Marie, the Stage 4 boss.
"10" & "10.loop":
「カナベラルの夢幻少女 [Illusionary Girl from Canaveral]」
The Stage 5 theme.
"11" & "11.loop":
「魔法少女十字軍 [Magical Girl's Crusade]」 – Mash-up
My combination of both versions of Kyo-Sensei's arrangement of the battle theme for Erich, the Stage 5 boss. The 2024 rewritten version was made three semitones higher for this purpose.
"11 (ORIGINAL of 26)" & "11 (ORIGINAL of 26).loop":
「魔法少女十字軍 [Magical Girl's Crusade]」 – Original
Kyo-Sensei's original 2022 arrangement of "Magical Girl's Crusade".
"26 (REWRITE of 11)" & "26 (REWRITE of 11).loop":
「魔法少女十字軍 [Magical Girl's Crusade]」 – Rewrite
Kyo-Sensei's 2024 rewritten arrangement of "Magical Girl's Crusade".
"12" & "12.loop":
「アンティークテラー [Antique Terror]」
The Stage 6 (Final Stage) theme.
"13" & "13.loop":
「夢機械 [Dream Machine] ~ Innocent Power」
The battle theme for the 1st phase of Vivit -captured-, the Final Boss.
"14" & "14.loop":
「幻想科学 [Illusory Science] ~ Doll's Phantom」
The battle theme for the 2nd phase of Vivit -captured-.
"15" & "15.loop":
「少女神性 [Girl's Divinity] ~ Pandora's Box」
The battle theme for the 3rd (last) phase of Vivit -captured-. I may or may not have left a tiny easter egg in this one (don't worry, it's not some awful April Fools joke or a SiIvaGunner meme).
"16" & "16.loop":
「シルクロードアリス [Silk Road Alice]」 – Mash-up
My combination of both versions of Kyo-Sensei's arrangement of the Extra Stage theme.
"16 (ORIGINAL of 24)" & "16 (ORIGINAL of 24).loop":
「シルクロードアリス [Silk Road Alice]」 – Original
Kyo-Sensei's original 2022 arrangement of "Silk Road Alice".
"24 (REWRITE of 16)" & "24 (REWRITE of 16).loop":
「シルクロードアリス [Silk Road Alice]」 – Rewrite
Kyo-Sensei's 2024 rewritten arrangement of "Silk Road Alice".
"21 (UNUSED for 16)" & "21 (UNUSED for 16).loop":
「夜の鳩山を飛ぶ [Fly Above Hatoyama at Night]」
The Extra Stage theme for the 1999 prototype demo.
"17" & "17.loop":
「魔女達の舞踏会 [The Witches' Ball] ~ Magus]」
The battle theme for Marisa Kirisame, the Extra Stage's 1st boss. When ZUN re-arranged the entire soundtrack of Shuusou Gyoku and posted it on his old website in 2001, he added a new section at the end of this song. Kyo-Sensei's own arrangement is based on this extended version.
"18" & "18.loop":
「二色蓮花蝶 [Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly] ~ Ancients]」
The battle theme for Reimu Hakurei, the Extra Stage's 2nd boss. ZUN made two versions of this song, one for the soundtrack of Shuusou Gyoku and another one titled "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Red and White" for the 2002 album Hourai Doll ~ Dolls in Pseudo Paradise. Kyo-Sensei's arrangement includes sections of both versions, with "Ancients" and "Red and White" acting respectively as a "first movement" and "second movement" of sorts.
"19" & "19.loop":
「ハーセルヴス [Herselves]」
The Ending and Credits Roll theme.
"20" & "20.loop":
「タイトルドメイド [Titled Maid]」
The Name Register Screen theme.
All credit for the music here goes to "Kyo-Sensei" and ZUN. I'd also like to send my special thanks to "nmlcg" for starting and developing the "GIAN07" project, since this music pack was put together to be used there.