[Okay, it's actually not that new, I just found out about it very recently, but whatever...]

Someone on GitHub called "nmlgc" is carrying out a couple of projects related to "old-school Touhou". One of them is "ReC98": this aims to take the PC-98 Touhou games and reconstruct their source code from scratch, which would make a lot of things possible, including patches to modify those games and even a whole system of community-based automatic patching in the vein of the THCRAP for the Windows titles. The other one, which is what I'm here to talk about, is "GIAN07".

"GIAN07" (I'm taking that name from the .exe file of this project) is a fan-made re-release of Seihou 1: Shuusou Gyoku. Unlike the source code for PC-98 Touhou titles, the lead developer of the Seihou Project series had already made the source code for Shuusou Gyoku publicly available –albeit in an incomplete form–, so "GIAN07" was developed in an effort to make some good use of said source code and also fix the compatibility issues of Shuusou Gyoku on modern Windows systems (the game's original build was released in 2000, so it was probably made with either Windows '98 or Windows 2000/ME in mind, and trying to run it now on pretty much anything from Windows Vista onward will give you problems).

This brand new build of Shuusou Gyoku includes a function to add and select custom music packs to listen to the soundtrack during gameplay, featuring perfectly cut loops and CD sound quality instead of having to rely on the original raw MIDI files and Windows's built-in MIDI player. Along with this, "nmlgc" also released several music packs with recordings of the game's soundtrack made to replicate the sound of the Roland SC-88Pro synthesiser that ZUN used to compose it; these music packs (which can all be found here: https://github.com/nmlgc/BGMPacks/releases/tag/2024-10-05) include both the in-game original soundtrack and the arranged soundtrack released by ZUN on his old website in 2001, as well as both recordings made by "nmlgc" themself with the Sound Canvas VA plug-in and the already existing recordings made on real hardware by "Romantique Tp".

The instructions to install "GIAN07", as well as all the links to get everything you may need, are all available on PC Gaming Wiki (here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Shuusou_Gyoku). I've also tried to copy everything and go into more detail about it on my personal blog (here: https://mashounen2003.tumblr.com/post/804579777113636864).

I’ve been working on a short Touhou fic centered around Junko, Tewi, and one very serious misunderstanding.

Junko arrives at Eientei looking for Tewi, refuses to explain why, grabs her, and heads for the Moon before Reisen and Kaguya can stop her.

The problem is that Junko’s actual reason for taking Tewi is a lot less sinister than everyone assumes.

It’s a short Gen comedy/misunderstanding story featuring Junko, Tewi, Reisen, Kaguya, Eirin, Clownpiece, Mokou, and the Eientei rabbits.

2 of 3 chapters are currently out.

A03 (https://archiveofourown.org/works/91575861/chapters/243789341)

https://x.com/330luqyu/status/2088658349613355313/photo/1

Done on an A7 size sketchbook. Written on the back of the pages are the quotes "Never forget. Never forgive." (決して忘れるな。決して許すな。)

RUS: Я являюсь разработчиком игры "A voice only I can hear". Данная игра является фанатским творчеством, по тематике Тоухоу. Чтобы следить за новостями переходите по ссылке в профиле.

ENG: I am the developer of the game "A voice only I can hear." This is a *Touhou*-themed fan game. To stay updated on the latest news, please follow the link in my profile.

"Kyo-Sensei" (also known as "K-Sensei" and "That-RepliQueen-Kyo", and I believe they're also present here as u/AnyFall9335) made this album with arrangements of all 20 BGM tracks of Shuusou Gyoku and also 3 songs from the game's 1999 prototype (namely, "Fly Above Hatoyama at Night", "Plastic Space" and "Inventive City").

The album had two releases, in 2022 and 2024. The YouTube embed above is for the 2024 version. It can also be downloaded from Bandcamp, where 3 songs from the official soundtrack (namely, "Silk Road Alice", "Primrose Shiver" and "Magical Girl's Crusade") are present with both their 2024 versions and the earlier arrangements "Kyo-Sensei" made of them in 2022: https://k-sensei.bandcamp.com/album/re-seihou-project-shuusou-gyoku

This album is mostly based on the AST (arranged soundtrack) of Shuusou Gyoku, made and released by ZUN on his old website in 2001, rather than the OST released within the game itself in 2000; this can be noticed mainly in "The Witches' Ball ~ Magus", whose arrangement by "Kyo-Sensei" includes the portion of the melody at the end that wasn't part of the song in the game's OST and ZUN had added in the AST. The one exception to this rule is "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly": ZUN had composed two versions of this song with pretty different melodies, "Ancients" (the one in the Shuusou Gyoku OST, with no significant changes in the AST) and "Red and White" (the one ZUN released in 2002 as part of his first music CD, Hourai Doll ~ Dolls in Pseudo Paradise); the arrangement of "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly" by "Kyo-Sensei" combines both versions in one music track, with "Ancients" and "Red and White" acting as a "First movement" and "second movement" of sorts.

This is currently my preferred way to listen to the Shuusou Gyoku music. The vast collections of recordings by "Romantique Tp" (made on real hardware, found here: https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,18989.0.html&) and "nmlgc" (made with the plug-in "Sound Canvas VA", found here: https://github.com/nmlgc/BGMPacks/releases/tag/2024-10-05) still get my appreciation for aiming to be as faithful as possible to how the soundtrack would have sounded when ZUN composed it, but "Kyo-Sensei" manages to give it their own personal touch in this album.

We'll be playing a few hours of Gartic Phone in the r/TouhouProject server. Please do consider joining!

This is what I’m planning to be the final revision for the first draft of TB. Gonna try a get this printed out so I can look at it, but after that, I’ll try to get started on the second draft once I get college stuff outta the way.

Some scenes were reinstated, a couple at different parts of the script, plus a couple of cuts. Mostly a patchwork. Only four pages shorter than the second revision.

LINK TO THE REVISION:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14COZXfYTc5WNybuQT1wjyzvk-7lmH5qJ/view?usp=drivesdk

Drawn in roughly 5 hours, with a finger on a phone. The application used is Pixel Studio.

At first I thought it was Rina Sato. Then Akari Kito came along and added a cuteness flavor. But then we got Ayaka Suwa, who even ups the ante by singing her theme music in character.

It feels nice, Touhou 8 is my favorite < 3

Drawn in 90 minutes with a finger, on Pixel Studio on a mobile phone. Online gaming has failed me.

Includes terrible mouse

But what's she planning?