You are free to transfer or copy it to others, but you are not free to reproduce it on other websites This sprite driver and the included sample game "StormySpace Why of course, it's a quick hex editing job! Very classy, ZUN.Īnd that's not all when it comes to PoDD! Let's examine the license terms of SPRITE16 that are included in Stormy Space, which are in SPRITE16.DOC: Looks very suspicious, doesn't it? What's with the random whitespace gaps? Well, thanks to m1yur1's research back in 2018, we can see what's really going on: Don't believe me? See for yourself:Īnd this is ZUN's distribution of it in PoDD. So far the only other known game to use it is PoDD, but this is something that wasn't known for nearly 20 years because ZUN obscured this information. SPRITE16 is a software graphics engine written in 1996 by PromisenceSoft, which was used in their sample game Stormy Space. There's a reason why the game looks noticeably lower res than the rest: It runs in 200-line mode, the only mode that SPRITE16 supports. With no re-release in sight, there's no better time to bring the legality of these games' existence to the public spotlight.įirst, let's go over the most egregious and well documented case: ZUN stealing credit for PoDD's graphics engine. One thing about the PC-98 Touhou games that isn't too well known is their.legally questionable nature.Ĭonsidering that Ruw (and by extension ZUN) is willing to fight against preservation efforts of a set of long abandoned and discontinued games for a discontinued computer platform
ZUN, copyright infringment, and credit theft Now that we got that out of the way, let's address this situation properly. look elsewhere for touhou.hdi (It's circling around, you'll find it). You can still get the preconfigured emulators here (DOSBox-X) and here (np21). This unfortunately means that the actual game data will need to be removed from this repo. So yeah, I recently received this oh so lovely e-mail from GitHub: Download a package based on your emulator preferencesģ.
PC-98 Touhou emulation, now for the masses! Setup has been drastically streamlined, bringing it down to 3 simple steps:ġ. Touhou PC-98: The Ultimate Collection Touhou PC-98: The Ultimate Collection created by spaztron64, 2021
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