Touhou Hisoutensoku Rollcaster Official Release

I’m a bit late on the news this time because of RL issues (this is why we need more volunteers to update this blog; contact guuchan if you are interested). Better late than never, though.

Thanks to Fireseal, Touhou Hisoutensoku can now be played with rollback enabled; long story short, intercontinental play with low delay is now possible. All you have to do is download Sokuroll and run it after opening Touhou Hisoutensoku, and you’re done!

As always, the best place to find matches is at #hisouten@irc.rizon.net. Pop in for some intense PvP matches!

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2012 End-of-Year Tournament

2011 End-of-Year Hisoutensoku Tournament | Banpai-Akira

#hisoutensoku @ irc.rizon.net

Hosts: Kiko, Remilia-Scarlet, LunarSpotlight

TOURNAMENT TIMES:

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SWRSToys Usage Guide

Since nothing interesting is happening in #hisouten, I thought I might as well write up a proper guide for using the modules that come with the SWRSToys download provided on the wiki. (In any case, it should be noted that the SWRSToys bundle linked to includes Google Translated readmes courtesy of sazn, if this article does not suffice.)

The following modules are included with the .rar, although more are available.

To install: Extract the archive to your Touhou Hisoutensoku folder. Make sure your game is patched to 1.10. (If you have Soku+, then you will need to back up your SWRSToys.ini which came with Soku+, since the mod also uses SWRSToys.) Uninstalling simply involves the removal of those files.

SWRSToys.txt:

● INSTALLATION

1.Paste everything in the rar (d3d9.dll, swrsToys.ini, and the Module folder) into your Hisoutensoku folder.
2.Finished.

● UNINSTALL

1.All that shit you pasted in? Delete it.
2.That’s it.

● How to use SWRSToys (people that don’t know, look here)

1. From the Module folder that you placed in your Hisoutensoku folder, select one and remember the name.
2. Open SWRSToys.ini in Notepad
3. Find the name of the mod you want to use, and the corresponding line in the .ini, and delete the [;] from the beginning of the line
4. Read the instructions for that mod in its particular folder very carefully

● When you would like to stop using a particular mod, please replace the [;] at the beginning of the line in SWRSToys.ini

That’s all? Not quite. The help files for the modules themselves are unfortunately either poorly translated or not translated at all, which can prove to be an issue. Thus, the usage instructions for some of the important modules will be covered below:

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NotMeidou 2.45

If anyone here paid attention to the Meidou 2 post and the tournament schedule, you will notice that there is no Meidou planned for July. This was originally intended as a free time slot for a midyear tournament, but since certain other players insisted on hosting several tournaments despite there already being the Meidou series, I’ve canceled the plans for the midyear tournament. There will still be a NotMeidou mini-tournament as usual.

NotMeidou 2.45 will be a round robin tournament. Instead of it being a free-for-all RR, however, it’ll be conducted in “rounds” (the bot will tell you who you are going to play next, so don’t worry about it). Games will be best-of-1 sets.

The special twist here (as is always present for the casual NotMeidou meets) is that you cannot use a certain character again if you lose a game with her. (So if you picked Youmu then lost to Bobman’s m4d 360-n0-sc0pe subsun sk1llz, you have to switch to somebody else for the next set).

Lost with your main in an upset? Better brush up on the BnBs for your alts, because you can’t use her again for the rest of the tournament. Of course, no one says that you have to use your main from the outset, although just for the hell of it there’ll be a character lock (which means whoever you send up first, you keep playing with her until she loses, at which point you must switch to somebody else).

Registration will be taken both automatically and manually; PM Nonoriri on IRC or type !register in #hisoutensoku to register yourself.

As a reminder, NotMeidou 2.45 is on July 21, 19:00 UTC for EU, 19:00 EDT for NA.

To register: PM me (Nonoriri/Aristocrat) on Rizon with your region. You can make changes at any time before the tournament starts. The registration will be finalized on tournament day. Registrations are open from now until the tournament starts.

Meidou 2.4 Format Update

My apologies for the late update. Meidou 2.4 will be in the Pairs format with all entries being teams of 2 players. Team members will play best-of-three sets with each team member playing a specified opponent from the other team. For example:

Team 1 has members Alice (A) and Bob (B). Team 2 has members Claire (C) and David (D).

A plays vs. C, and B plays vs. D.

  • Let’s say A wins vs. C and B lost to D.
  • At this point both teams have one win each, so the winners of each match play each other to break the tie (A plays vs. D).

However, if one team wins both of the initial matches (A and B both won), then the team moves on without needing to play the third set.

Registration will be manual instead of automatic; PM Nonoriri on IRC to register your team.

As a reminder, Meidou 2.4 is on June 23, 19:00 EDT for NA. EU was delayed due to Euro 2012.

To register: PM me (Nonoriri/Aristocrat) on Rizon with your region and team preference. You can make changes at any time before the tournament starts. The registration will be finalized on tournament day. Registrations are open from now until the tournament starts.

Meidou 2.3 Postponed

Because of Meidou 2.3 falling on the Diablo 3 launch weekend, I’ve decided to postpone Meidou 2.3 one week. It will now be held on May 26, 2012, at the same hours as originally scheduled.

Enjoy destroying your mice/index fingers, whichever comes first!

P.S. As for why the North American servers kept getting taken down, it may or may not be because of this.

Meidou 2.3 Format Update

After asking players for alternative tournament formats, the overall preference seems to be overwhelmingly in favor of a 50/50 teams tournament. Thus, Meidou 2.2 will be in the Teams format with all entrants split into two big teams. Team members will play best-of-one sets, first team to wipe out all other members wins. Every team member has two “lives”, or two chances to be sent up to play, except the team captains, who have one life each.

Registration will be manual instead of automatic; the NA team captains will likely be the two streamers, Muii and Duckator. EU will need two volunteers as team leaders.

As a reminder, Meidou 2.3 is on May 19, 19:00 UTC for EU, 19:00 EDT for NA.

To register: PM me (Nonoriri/Aristocrat) on Rizon with your region and team preference. You can make changes at any time before the tournament starts. The registration will be finalized on tournament day. Registrations are open from now until the tournament starts.

Meidou 2.2 Format Update

After asking players for alternative tournament formats, the overall preference seems to be overwhelmingly in favor of a 3v3 teams double elimination tournament. Thus, Meidou 2.2 will be in the Teams format. Team members will play best-of-three sets, first team to wipe out all three other members advances. Registration will be manual instead of automatic.The bracket will be double-elimination as usual.

Explanation.

As a reminder, Meidou 2.2 is on April 21, 19:00 UTC for EU, 19:00 EDT for NA.

To register: PM me (Nonoriri/Aristocrat) on Rizon with your team name, region, and tentative team members. You can make changes at any time before the tournament starts. The registration will be official once every member confirms it. Registrations are open from now until the tournament starts. This post will be updated with the participants list once I get some registrations.

Preferably, games will not occur concurrently (so the stream can grab every match). I will see how this works out when it happens. I also fixed the bot (which broke because of an undocumented mIRC hash table bug), so there should be no more scripts randomly breaking during the tournament. Probably.

Currently participating teams:
EU:

  • Team of justice OwO: BBQ233, Remilia410, Dream144
  • Team #CAUTION: Stefani, vathana, ChickyChan
  • Just another soku team: Adepht, JustSmash, [N]ot[A][P]ro
  • Salty Batman Grrrr: GoingUP, FireballFlame, Oddness
  • XenNessDraco: Xenda, Nessx4, Draco

NA:

  • Slackers of Gensokyo: Aristocrat/Nonoriri, Bane, Blue Rogue auric
  • Pocket Dimension: SILENT1497, Pockets, Shintear Kain
  • <3bob: Duckator, bob51, Muii
  • We all secondary Aya: xxsaznpride, Kei123, Yaffy
  • Team going to beat <3Bob: Steve, Huz, Hazelyn
  • MarisaLoveTriangle: Sigets, Inconspicuous, Freudia
  • Not sure: PhoenixM, Trey15, Magister
  • Last minute Entrees: Bobman, Kinzer, aoko
  • Renyuri: Renee, Lyuri
  • ZX+Evan: ZXNova, evanhuangok

「Meidou 2」 – Progression

FOB UPDATE: Duckator has taken over the hosting of the final Five Orb Break tournament on February 18, 2012. This is a 3v3 teams tournament. Interested players should contact Duckator in IRC or drop a message in #hisoutensoku.

FOB7EU: (brackets)
FOB7NA: (brackets) (teams)

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In case you are not familiar with what has happened recently, here is some supplementary material:

  • <RyuuguuKomachi> No, I’m not playing this game again
  • <RyuuguuKomachi> at least not here
  • <RyuuguuKomachi> maybe at komike
  • <RyuuguuKomachi> k but anyway good luck ya’ll

Both Muii and Magister have said goodbye to the channel. It is truly a shame that something like this has occurred due to the effects of one user. While I can’t do anything about the situation with #hisouten at the moment, I feel that I should begin hosting tournaments again. Perhaps actually complete one pass through one of these series this time. Hopefully, this will breathe some life back into the community. Unlike Meidou 1, I’ll actually be able to host this one without any change of schedule, since there is no longer an issue with organization.

(I know it potentially cuts into Finals Week for some of you guys; sorry! It’s not a ranbats series like Meidou 1, however, so missing one won’t hurt.)

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#hisoutensoku @ irc.rizon.net

Host: Aristocrat/Nonoriri

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And The Most Favorite Play Prizes Of 2011 Year End Tournament Go To…

After a one-week poll in our IRC channel, the top voted plays are:

EU: 28A, 28B, 32B and 33B (four of them since they all got the same number of vote)
NA: 21B, 48B and 57B
(the play numbers match to this list)

And among them, here are my picks:

EU: 28A/32B
NA: 57B

Which means the winners of the most favorite play prizes are:

EU: Leerius
NA: SuwakoMoriya

Leerius demonstrated a solid performance in both of those games. Got the Patchouli well covered, didn’t commit much mistake, and got some tactics thrown in here and there. I wouldn’t say it’s a perfect Patchouli, but she is smooth enough to be a role model for those who would like to pick her up, either as a new character or as an existing intermediate user.

SuwakoMoriya plays a solid Suwako as ever. I might appreciate some interesting/unusual playstyle, but if that means making too many meaningless moves and exposing self to openings for opponent to take advantage of, I’m afraid I can’t exactly appreciate it. Comparing to that, SuwakoMoriya got the drill on Suwako, which is an interesting character to begin with.

So congratulations, Leerius and SuwakoMoriya. I will get in touch with you in IRC channel for your prize. And thank you everyone for participating in the tournament, hope you had an enjoyable time. I will look forward to seeing you again in our next tournament. 🙂