Touhou Install Guide

A short guide to get you started with playing Touhou

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How to install Touhou with English patches

Acquire the Games

You can acquire the games digitally from:

• Steam (Not recommended due to Steam DRM sometimes present),

• DLSite (Affiliate Link),

• Piracy sites (recommended getting one with pre-packed with thpatch then) only use as last resort, SUPPORT CREATORS.

For physical copies see Touhou Wiki’s Purchasing Guide for information.

Installing thcrap

• Browse to the folder that contains your Touhou games and remember it.
  • Steam: Go to your installation for Steam, right-click on your game in the client, select Manage and then Browse local files.
  • Other: Wherever you selected to download/install the game.
• If you see a thcrap folder you can skip the downloading part, and probably the installing part too.
  • However, if you downloaded multiple games and see thcrap in each of the games’ folder, you should probably consolidate the installation.
• Download THCRAP, and extract it somewhere close.
• Run thcrap_configure.exe thcrap.exe.

Installing the English patch

Wizard stlye (Current)

Also known as thcrap_configure_v3.exe.

• Intro page, click Next.
• Select English, click Next.
• Should automatically detect your installation if in common place.
• You can try again, by clicking the Search automatically button.
• If still doesn’t work, click Search in folder, and choose which folder, you have downloaded it in.
• Note that, you will have to redo this, if you move the games, so make sure to move the games before.
• Click Next once you have selected all the games.
• While the translations are downloading, if above legal drinking age, drink beer, as ZUN intended.
• Click Finish.

Legacy

Also known as thcrap_configure.exe.

• After clicking Next and it is downloading a few files; scroll up and double click on lang_en. Click Next.
• Wait for it to download stuff again >.<.
• Just accept the default name aka click Next.
• Next again, and again. We do really need a new GUI… Oh, we have one now!
• Select your Touhou folder (that I made you remember above) in the popped up folder browser.

  If you have multiple Touhou games, select the folder that contains all of them!

• After this, grab the right side of the window and extend it, and click on the ones that DOES NOT contain (not recommended).
• After done, click yes.
• Wait till it downloads the patches. Grab a coffee; if something goes wrong somewhere you might be pulling all-nighter >.<.
• Click next. You’re done!
• Go click on one of the shortcuts it created and have a go! If you don’t like shortcuts, check out the next section:

Optional: Get Universal THCRAP Launcher (aka. UTL) for short

• Go to this page and download utl.rar.
• Follow the instructions here.

Optional: Setting up vpatch

By default

• Go to this page and download it.
• Extract it and follow the instructions in the provided text file.
  • Which basically is copy the right thing to the right place.
  • You need the vpatch.exe, vpatch.ini, and the right dll for your game, copied in the game’s folder.
  • Note that both rev4 and rev7 has dlls for th10, th11, and th095.
• Configure the vpatch.ini file to your liking. You will probably want to set a few things like actually enabling vsync if you aren’t using 60hz monitor, changing the resolution, changing if it should be borderless, or ask if you want it to be full screen or windowed every time, for games that didn’t had this functionality.
• For older games it also ports back some of the newer games’ features, like Ctrl skipping in dialogue or replays.
• You must run vpatch.exe.

  Note: Vpatch will always launch thxx.exe or the like (except th06), so if you want it to run the static English patch, you will have to rename those.

Touhou 6 is a bit more janky

• Since ZUN decided to use Japanese in file names, and Windows XP back then didn’t knew what UTF-8 is, unless your system is fully in Japanese, your Touhou 6 won’t run, since it doesn’t match up with what vpatch except, since your file name is in mojibake.
• You will have to follow instruction about this on thpatch’s site.

Adding it to thcrap

Legacy

• Go to your thcrap folder, open the config folder, and inside it, open games.js˛ IN A TEXT EDITOR.
• Edit the lines that have paths to your games (usually ending in “thxx.exe”), to and change the “thxx.exe” part to “vpatch.exe”.
• This is an example file of how your thcrap/config/games.js should look like, if you want to use it with vpatch..
  • Yours will probably need to look different.
• You can just launch thcrap regularly.

Modern

• New thcrap should automatically detect vpatch in the scanning for games part of configuration, so you should just re-run that.
• Just to be sure choose “Rescan” instead of “Add new games” (This is for the legacy configurator).
• For the wizard-style, you should be able to choose vpatch as the version of the game.

Troubleshooting

“d3dx9_XX.dll not found”

• Install DirectX 9 from here.

Touhou 6 runs above 60 fps and is on steroids

• See the thpatch section on it, here.

Other issue

• Something went wrong and not listed here? Oh no! However, you don’t need to worry as a bunch of tech monkeys, who got left with the code base mess that an angry German made is available at THPATCH’s Discord server’s #support channel.

How can I contribute?

Linguistically, via translations

That’s easy! Just register, and start translating on the thpatch wiki.

Programming and coding

Sure! Head over to THPATCH’s Discord server and we will sort you out.

Monetarily via tips

• THPATCH

Using thpatch for your modding needs

That’s a bit more complicated… but you can get started by joining the THPATCH’s Discord server if you need any help, and reading trough this and at least 1.0 from this.