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Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« on: February 22, 2010, 10:18:53 pm »
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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 10:46:32 pm »
... must start searching Google ....



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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2010, 11:03:45 pm »
a doujin section for hyperspin would be pretty nice ;)

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2010, 11:04:15 pm »
Yeah.
I've played almost
all of these.
"Amateur" Japanese games
are great fun.
There's some quality fighters too.

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2010, 11:09:03 pm »
can you recommend some of the fighters?

and, do you know about any official japanese shmups for pc? I was thinking of checking out play-asia to see if some were worth buying

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2010, 11:50:19 pm »
These were all free on the Doujin Soft website, but now the site is just a forum and I can't find the games anywhere. I still have a few of them, but deleted the 16 GB worth that I did have (because I thought I would be able to just get them again...dammit).
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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2010, 11:58:34 pm »
Ether Vapor is great.  I also have Touhou - Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.  Raiden III is a great game too for PC CD Rom.  Hard to find in English though.  I bought the English version a few years ago at a Japanese website, which is now out of business.  :(

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2010, 01:07:16 am »
shateredsoul,
This place has many
doujin games.
http://amit.dabydeen.com/doujin.html
You need to have patience though,
because this dude linked youtube videos
to every game, so it takes a looooong time
to load up.

As for fighters.
Check out Vanguard Princess.
It's a free all girls fighting game
supposedly made by a former
Capcom employee.
Very well made game.
« Last Edit: February 23, 2010, 01:21:13 am by Gorotsuki »

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2010, 09:25:27 pm »
The only problem is that a lot of them are only 1 player.

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2010, 11:39:42 pm »
a couple of the Touhou shooters are 2p.  As are teh Touhou fighters.

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2010, 02:29:48 pm »
I am big fan of these. Got own section in hyperspin for this kind of games. Last week I finished dling pack of over 400 Doujin games. Got next week free from work so might got time to finally sort out fighters and shmups and other stuff.  :cheers:
 Only downside is that usually text is japanese. Still menu screens and options are luckily pretty often english, or at least understandable. There are some sick videos on youtube, try search words: bullet hell.

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2010, 03:05:14 pm »
The particular Touhou game that I mentioned (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil) was translated to English, so there's a patch out there that makes everything "readable".  Also, what's cool about it (not sure if this is true in other Touhou type games) is that there is a button that "slows" you down so that you can dodge more accurately when needed.  Very cool.

See Embodiment of Scarlet Devil in action here:


By the way ... this video is SICK!  Bullets are crazy!


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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2010, 03:17:39 pm »
We had one of the Touhou 2 player games running on my cabinet last year at Quakecon 2009.  It was a BLAST to play.  I have since collected the whole Touhou series of games and will eventually get them setup on my cabinet.

These Doujin ones look great too.



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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2010, 04:20:27 pm »
Nice! Tohou looks great

One word of warning for the Doujin games though.. I found this great thread that had a bunch of these games, but had files that were detected as trojans. So if you download make sure it's from a safe source.

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2010, 05:55:37 pm »
Blue Wish Resurrection and the other games from this guy: http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/x_xgameroom/Works/works.html are all very good. And totally free.

Joystick support + keyboard controls (arrow keys, z=fire1(hold for focus shot) x=bomb c=full auto).

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2010, 05:57:19 pm »
Blue Wish Resurrection

...is awesome.

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2010, 06:13:07 pm »
I'll have to try those.

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2010, 07:35:29 pm »
Joystick support + keyboard controls (arrow keys, z=fire1(hold for focus shot) x=bomb c=full auto).

The nice thing about this is my cab is already set up as:

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2010, 07:49:08 pm »
If only this would display fullscreen on my vertical monitor:



Download trial version: http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/winnt/game/se481428.html

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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2010, 08:43:01 pm »
Wow thanks! These games look awesome.  

Has anyone figured out how to make the games fullscreen? I went into the screen.txt file for eden and noticed it said something about fullscreen but the rest was japanese.

In that same file I noticed there was a 1,  changed that to "0" and it's fullscreen but there's a lot of borders around the whole play area (on top and on bottom too)
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Re: Has anyone played doujin soft shmups?
« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2010, 09:07:51 pm »
to get crimzon clover fullscreen click on the middle option (on top above 16 and 32 bit)