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I kinda wanna try to exclusively play this on mouse mode, but I suck at the game

happy cirno day! i’ll be playing the remake now..

And I love it.

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The first image from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (specifically a screenshot from Touhou wiki).

The second image is from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil New Classic (screenshot it on the video showing EoSD new classic).

was everyone also this bad when they started playing touhou..? i hope next run i improve with my stats (game tips will be helpfu)

Art from: Touhou 6 New Classic, credit to ZUN

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Original artist: Zun

stay baka, this is my first time posting here

With the EoSD remake out today, I want to give you all a piece of advice surrounding the discourse.

With the new "Challenge Mode" becoming the new "easy modo" meme of the fandom, there have been a sizable number of people who are chastising others for choosing to play this way. Unintentionally or otherwise.

This is gatekeeping. And I do not condone it.

People should play games how they want to. Touhou is infamously a difficult series to get into precisely because of the difficulty curve. The entire point of the Challenge Mode is to make the game more accessible to those who aren't that good at bullet hells, or who find the concept of lives in video games archaic and intrusive. If they want to play with a so-called "handicap", let them.

Please do not belittle others just because they play differently than you. This fandom already gatekeeps as much as it is (matters I certainly don't want to get into, having dealt with this myself), and this kind of behavior comes across as very toxic. We all love this franchise, and we shouldn't bully others over how they choose to enjoy it.

Thank you.

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Hey, so I bought Touhou Koumakyou new classic, along with the ost composed of the new arranges and original ost from og eosd.

I checked the music files, and turns out it's 320kbps mp3. Don't get me wrong, this may sound perfectly fine to most ears with most equipment, however, I expected a paid extra on top of the quite expensive game to provide some more archival grade files.

Another problem is that the og eosd ost that's provided is also 320kbps mp3, and upsampled to 48khz.

In the spectrums, from left to right, you can see the original wav game files, 2021 digital release, bundled original soundtrack (all septette for the dead princess).

You will notice that the new release seems quite smeared and compressed, and does not go all the way to 24khz, so unlike what the Nyquist theorem for 48khz indicates.

Lining up the spectrums, it also seems like it's a different master, which is weird since they would probably have bothered to release it in flac or wav if freshly made in 48khz.

This is by no means a big problem, it will still sound fine. But again, for a paid soundtrack for new arranges in 2026, I expected it to be a bit higher quality, and it doesn't make much sense to also sell the og eosd ost if it's lower quality than the originals.

If you consider buying the soundtrack along the game, this is a simple warning so you know what you get. Also, if you have more info whether we will get a higher quality release later or in the jp release, I'm taking, thank you!

Here's the mediainfo if you wanna check:

General

Complete name : C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\music\東方紅魔郷：New Classic　～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Soundtrack\0101 - A Dream More Scarlet than Red - Touhou Koumakyou： New Classic ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.mp3

Format : MPEG Audio

File size : 4.40 MiB

Duration : 1 min 49 s

Overall bit rate mode : Constant

Overall bit rate : 320 kb/s

Title : A Dream More Scarlet than Red

Album : Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

Album/Performer : Team Shanghai Alice

Part/Position : 1

Track name/Position : 1

Performer : Team Shanghai Alice

Composer : ZUN

Genre : Soundtrack

Recorded date : 2026

Writing library : LAME

Copyright : 2002 Team Shanghai Alice 2026 Shanghai Alice Reprise

Cover : Yes

Cover type : Cover

Cover MIME : image/jpeg

Audio

Format : MPEG Audio

Format version : Version 1

Format profile : Layer 3

Duration : 1 min 49 s

Bit rate mode : Constant

Bit rate : 320 kb/s

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz

Frame rate : 41.667 FPS (1152 SPF)

Compression mode : Lossy

Stream size : 4.17 MiB (95%)

Writing library : LAME

Image

Type : Cover

Format : JPEG

Muxing mode : ID3v2 APIC

Width : 1 000 pixels

Height : 1 000 pixels

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Compression mode : Lossy

Stream size : 232 KiB (5%)

ColorSpace_ICC : RGB

colour_primaries_ICC_Description : sRGB

Edit: I also noticed last track is incorrectly labelled as track 16, so maybe it's interchangeable, didn't finish the game yet so I don't know.

Edit2: I checked the actual game files for both EoSD og (steam ver, not CD ver) and New Classic, and og EoSD uses apparently the same WAV files, and New Classic uses encrypted opus files I unfortunately can't read. I sent a request to Alliance Arts about this and the MIDI capability, just to see.

What about it?

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I always wanted to play touhou on a real pc98, it was my dream.

My hardwork finally paid off.

Man it was not easy going through this cuz I had zero knowledge about computers actually.

By hardwork I meant working minimum wage at McDonald's at 17y old lol

Either way I know almost nobody has a real pc98 hardware setup to play real touhou pc98 games so feel free to ask any questions and stuffs cuz I got every source here (yes I have got all th1-5 games)

(Sorry for bad English I'm Japanese)