The Touhou PC-98 Restoration Project

I always wondered why it was the sixth position in the series that gained mainstream appeal.<p>I haven&#x27;t played the game, but it&#x27;s hard to ignore the culture that grew around it - especially that just like every device will eventually be made to run DOOM, every <i>display</i> device will eventually be made to show &quot;Bad Apple&quot;.

I&#x27;m nearly certain that the remix culture of Touhou has led to Zun to being the most covered artist of all time.<p>But don&#x27;t just take my word for it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;touhoudb.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;touhoudb.com&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m really happy to see all of these projects to decompile classic games, and do byte for byte matching to prove equivalence. For those who aren&#x27;t aware there&#x27;s a rapidly growing scene for decomp projects, largely in N64 games[1], but that scene is spreading to many other different console and PC gaming communities as well. I&#x27;ve seen decomp projects for GameCube, Wii, GBA, and more. There&#x27;s even a dedicated website made for helping to produce matching code on a per function basis[2] for many different architectures. If anyone is interested in getting involved, feel free to message me for more details and I&#x27;ll see if I can help point you to the right community for your interests.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;n64decomp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;n64decomp&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decomp.me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decomp.me&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;ve never gotten (into) Touhou culture. What&#x27;s the appeal? Do you like other music besides VGM? Were you into the tracker scene and it&#x27;s mostly a way to keep that alive? Was there a common board or chan everyone hung out on?<p>It&#x27;s just always been right outside the periphery of any social group or outlet I&#x27;ve been part of.

The project has a proper website[0], with a progress blog[1].<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rec98.nmlgc.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rec98.nmlgc.net&#x2F;</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rec98.nmlgc.net&#x2F;blog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rec98.nmlgc.net&#x2F;blog</a>

&quot;highly responsive to prayers&quot; has a somewhat of a unique gameplay and is not a vertical-scrolling stg like the other games in the series. in fact, I don&#x27;t think I have ever seen anything similar. you should give it a try.

My favorite video game franchise (Ys) has its roots on the PC-98. Thankfully not only the code seems to have been preserved considering Ys 1 and 2 are the games with the most ports I currently know up to modern PC era.

I always wanted to play the first game in the series! It looked really interesting compared to the others, since it looks like a weird mix of Arkanoid and Space Invaders

Check Taisei as a libre Touhou game.