ALT Screenshot of my initial design notes for the upcoming replay format used in the ReC98 builds of Shuusou Gyoku and PC-98 Touhou. Taken from https://github.com/nmlgc/ssg/issues/36#issuecomment-3429282865.

ALT Screenshot of Shuusou Gyoku's main menu with the Game Start option selected. Rendered on Windows with IPAMonaGothic, demonstrating its matching metrics and roughly similar look. Taken from the ReC98 2025-01-25 blog post.

ALT Screenshot of Shuusou Gyoku's main menu with the Extra Start option selected, rendered on Linux using Cairo and version 1.56.0 of Pango with MS Gothic, demonstrating how all 14-pixel text is shifted down by one pixel and how all Japanese characters in 16-pixel text are pushed down by 2 pixels if there are Latin characters on the same line. Taken from the ReC98 2025-01-25 blog post.

ALT Screenshot of Windows 11's Explorer at the Extra large icons setting, displaying an .exe binary that is supposed to have a 128×128-pixel icon in addition to a 48×48-pixel one, but Explorer strangely shows the 48×48-pixel variant in the center of a 256×256-pixel box. Taken from the ReC98 2025-01-25 blog post.

ALT Screenshot of a table comparing all Linux desktop environments and window managers that were listed on the Arch Wiki and were installable from regular, non-AUR package sources in terms of their support for and implementation quality of manually transferred and class-derived window icons. Taken from the ReC98 2025-01-25 blog post.

ALT Screenshot of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/seihou-shuusou-gyoku, the Arch Linux AUR page of Shuusou Gyoku's 100% native ReC98 Linux source port.

ALT Screenshot of https://flathub.org/apps/net.nmlgc.rec98.sh01, the Flathub page of Shuusou Gyoku's Flatpak Linux source port. Kind of an embarrassment with the lossy graphics, to be honest, but what can you do…

ALT Screenshot of the four SysEx messages of タイトルドメイド, Shuusou Gyoku's name registration theme, as decoded by Domino, showing off a seemingly invalid message.

ALT Screenshot of the history window in the GS Advanced Editor (GSAE), showing the results of sending a GS Reverb Macro #20 message and how it gets turned into a bunch of other reverb-related messages with very wild values.

ALT The peak amplitudes of every track in Shuusou Gyoku's arranged soundtrack, as rendered by Sound Canvas VA at maximum volume. Shows off clipping in 13 of the 19 tracks, and some particularly egregious double clipping in the Extra Stage theme, シルクロードアリス.

ALT Stereo waveform of Romantique Tp's recording of Shuusou Gyoku's Extra Stage theme (シルクロードアリス), highlighting the excessive left-panning. It might have even made compositional sense if Silk Road Alice was supposed to be a ""Western-style piece"", but it's not. 🎺

ALT Screenshot of the BGM pack selection menu introduced in the Shuusou Gyoku P0275 build, highlighting the <Download> option.

ALT Screenshot of the Sound / Music menu of the Shuusou Gyoku P0275 build, showing off the new volume control and BGM pack selection options.

ALT Screenshot of the GitHub release page for the Shuusou Gyoku SC-88Pro BGM packs.

ALT Screenshot of Shuusou Gyoku's Music Room in the P0275 build, showing off MIDI visualization despite playing back the Sound Canvas VA rendering of the OST version of the ending theme (ハーセルヴズ). Notice how the MIDI TIMER now shows the amount of MIDI pulses, and how MIDI device selection is hidden.

ALT The current translators that have expressed interest in translating PC-98 Touhou into a specific language, using the new non-ASCII support that Touhou Patch Center has agreed to fund. Most notably, there will also be an Arabic translation.

ALT The current plan for adding Arabic-script support to the future PC-98-native text renderer.