What the fuck do we do now?
>>50815081FuckThat really sucks man
>>50815081Americans aren't awake yet. I'd give it a day or two longer before concluding it's real, could very well be the April fools joke from yesterday
>>50815081>>50815087>>50815156Click on the Team Shanghai Alice logo
I always mix up DMCA with YMCA
>>50815291Thankfully 2hu has a parody for everythinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip9eAYWEJpY
>>50815167It’s 403’d now what did it do?
>>50815550https://team-shanghai-alice.com/moriya-response.mp4
>>50815770huh
>>50815081>redirects to touhou newsWait so it wasn't just an elaborate rickroll?
>>50816735Would be strange if it stayed like this, the april fools site is still up and seems like a joke.https://team-shanghai-alice.com/
yes, to me it seems like a joke, and hope really is...
unlike the team-shanghai-alice.com domain which was bought the 31st of march, this one seems to have existed for a long time. Hopefully this is just a joke and they are just using this to give other touhou sites more visibilityhopefully the moriya shrine site will be back
well yes the yomoyama one has been around already, if i good recall its there where you can found guidelines of uses term with the girls...that one out of shangai-team xD might be definitely the joke of the staff of the site, at least i hope cause i really felt really sad when i was the site taking down
oh dear im sorry, what the fuck i just wrote haha i guess im not good at doing many things at the same time and writing
I'm not in their discord server so take this with a grain of salt. According to some people there a staff member went rogue and gave the website and domain to Team Shanghai Alice.
>>50817022For some reason I joined their server ages ago and yeah that's what it says in their announcements, they can't contact some important guy so they're assuming he went rogue and banned him. Nothing on whether the site will return or not.I never really cared about them but seeing another piracy site die sucks nonetheless.
This is legit so fucking ass. Yeah the main games are easy enough to find outside of that website, but it was very convenient since they were pre-patched and whatnot. But the biggest blow comes down to all the fangames that got exploded in the process, these are gonna be a lot harder to piece back together.
>>50817164Yeah, this is my biggest concern. Losing the older fangames hosted on there would be a huge loss. Always back up what you can, gents. Hoping their staff/discord can figure something out.
>>50816800It now redirects to 2hu news siteit's over
First Hackanai, now a rogue staff member? Real damn shame, wouldn't be surprised if Hackanai influenced someone and they did it out of guilt or some bullshit.
How did they just let 1 guy secretly selling out the site like that unnoticed lol?
>>50817164Now that you mentioned it, there is absolutely no way to obtain EoSD-PCB-IN anymore without piracy. Even ZUN admit recently that the fan probably have more access to those game than him, cause they have the CD or a copy on their machine
Do they still have the permanent Discord link? The link in Wayback Machine is dead. :(
what now?what can we even do?
How the hell did this happen and why? It's such a baffling development with no motive from the party behind it.
>>50817648>with no motivethey paid him. it's literally said on op's pic, they talk about a buyout.
>>50817651maybe i should start my own piracy site to cash in on the zunbux
ZUN is a shabbos goyAnd like all other ones, he will pay
>>50817651I assumed that first part was a legitimate April Fool's prank since it had a rickroll and was done on April Fool's and then it happened during that when no one expected otherwise. Because why have the rickroll? That's not how Japanese would ever do it. And why not keep the message up for longer if it was real?
>>50817499The link is still there, but invites are paused.What a fucking trainwreck of a scenario.
All the forum posts...gone with the wind...
>>50817686I'm personally still operating under the assumption it's an April Fool's prank gone wrong and they just fucked it up. According to posts elsewhere, if you looked up the domain that the DMCA notice page is posted under, the registrant is based in Georgia- the Moriya Shrine website also has its registrant based in Georgia. Don't know if that's entirely true, since I didn't get a chance to check this DMCA page.
Did people really have no backups whatsoever over fangames?It's a brutal oversight to host backups within the same server.
>>50815081what were we doing before?
I want to give myself a chance to save the important touhou stuff.Where I can get all the mangas + CiLR. The official games. Some good fangames and all the hifuu albums and official music? And how much would it weight in Gb?
fyi a lot of the official games, fangames, and other stuff are on nyaa.siStill sucks a lot and I mean a LOT of stuff was supposedly wiped out with this. How long was the Moriya Shrine online for? I think this was some ploy by someone malicious to cover their plan to give the website over to Team Shanghai Alice and disguised it as an April Fool's prank. It makes the most sense to me.
>>50817828Okay. I will try to download them and I will come here if there is something I can't find.
>>50817709after the original DMCA they switched to only hosting torrent files instead of direct downloads. Those torrents should still work.
>>50817828everyone's saying "omg this stuff was lost forever" without actually saying what specifically was lost
>>50817858probably the biggest repository of fangames (a lot of which were pre-patched with translations that don't exist individually anymore)
>>50817413There's no way to obtain an overwhelming majority of fangames without piracy. This is the reason why people like HakanaiBlue and this rogue mod faggot are the lowest scum on the earth; I don't give a shit about downloading the official games but where am I going to find dumps of forgotten fangames from the mid 2000's? Fucks sake, it was an issue trying to find Genius of Sappheiros's PSP version, and that's a game ported to a console! You'd think it would be easy, but nope!That being said, everything on the website is torrents and have been since HakanaiBlue's faggotry. So at the very least it's not impossible to find links, but finding torrent files is arguably more annoying than finding DDL's if they weren't uploaded to major torrenting sites, and now they're not even going to be categorized.
Thewayback machine let's you browse the site just fine, so at least there's a list of the fangames that were in it. Tried a few download links but nothing worked sadly
Bet it was a fag who went rogue
i shoot bat twice
>>50818028Which 2hu is this?
>>50818042some brazillian fan character
>>50818051I actually looked it up because your post made me think you were taking the piss, and it seems like it's a vtumor. So I guess this thread's dead now?
>>50818067really? i didnt know that
Darn, I didn't even get to download Seihou before the site went down...
>>50817413You can get those games (and the official fighting games not on Steam) from AKIBA-HOBBY, they ship internationally too (see image). The real loss is the fangames. Whether you can get any given one of those is completely up in the air.I think Mirenva archive may have a decent subset of them as torrents, they had everything myrient had and it looks like on the order of 200GB of zipped fangames. Who knows if that's everything moriya had though.
>>50818094I can say with confidence then Myrient absolutely did not have everything on the shrine, and it was brought up earlier but the move to torrenting really did not help the older fangames since seeds were not that common.
>>50815081Nigga's never heard of nyaa
>>50817880A few years ago we tried to make a torrent called GAP (Gensokyo Archival Project), not sure if that has the fangames from Nyaa or not but it was created in response to Hackanai Blue and the original DMCAs.
>>50818102That's unfortunate. And have to echo your sentiment about torrents. Since Mirenva went up recently there's plenty of seeds, but as time goes on who knows how many will continue, especially for older/niche systems and games.>>50818091Good news, I can confirm that Mirenva Archive has Seihou (under the touhou project collection), and since it just came online there should be enough seeds going on that the download should be relatively speedy. In other news, the third one is literally free on DLsite right now if you use coupons. 1 and 2 have had source code releases, but without the assets they're not that useful.
I decided to look around on the net and some redditors (bleh) mention that a user called _tormentium which handles the domain decided to go rogue and give it over to Shanghai Alice/redirect it there, apparently their discord is in confusion and disarray but most people still want the site to exist.My guess is that, unless the person who fucked with the domain owns the servers, they'll recreate the site with a new domain or something.
>>50818158supposedly a screenshot from the discord
>>50817709I mean someone somewhere probably downloaded all the fangames but you'd have to wait for that person to show up and reupload them somewhere else.
>>50818162If this true we are kind of cooked dont you think
>>50818259What does cooking have to do with that screenshot?
>>50818259Fr this would not be bussin bruh
The real response to this should be to do an assessment of everything on the Moriya Shrine (archives should still be up) and cross reference it all from stuff we onow is archived sp we can find out what's missing and track it down
Amazing I think like a day before I was looking up the original version of the touhouvania gamesbecause the font on the new releases is freaking horrendous and now this happens
I haven't needed it in about a decade, but I can't imagine the loss of the random useful links and discussions related to the fan games, especially for both old games and older versions of games.another win for the schizos that are always nagging about data hoarding everything you can these days.
works for me
>>50818530Looks like it just came back
>>50818530>>50818544I've been got.....
>>50818554>>50818544>>50818530It still says 403 forbidden to me
>>50818570Works on my machinehttps://moriyashrine.org/
Im genuinely saddened and surprised that there are no backups. That said, I do think rebuilding the site is possible and viable if they act right now, just gather up everything from people when this is fresh in their minds
>>50818621Anon... >>50818544
>>50818621Tragic isn't? I wish there was a way to bring it back....
Did everyone fell for an April fools joke legitimately, in 2026?crazy
>>50818659Well it did extend a day past april 1st
>>50818659Your joke was shit, Torm.
>>50818661maybe admin overslept
>>50818659in fairness they changed it from the DMCA screen to a redirect to the TSA website after april fools
>>50818659Man this would be such a cruel april fools joke. like you literally got me redownloading the big touhou folder after deleting it for the 11th time lmao
>>50818544I can't even say this was a shitty april fools prank, because they already did an april fools prank on april fools. Following it up immediately with another prank for the next day or two is fucking insane, especially when these were the same retards who nearly killed their own site for absolutely no reason because of a DMCA claim ZUN never cared to follow up on, meaning it's completely realistic to assume the faggot admin would kneel once again for no reason.Man, even MotK wasn't as retarded as this.
She wants to congratulate you on your successful prank, mister admin!
>>50818708>even MotK wasn't as retarded as thisThere are like, 3-4 retards from this website. Few of them are ZUN/Ruw shills while the last one follows up the whole "Touhou was never good" narrative.
>>50818733Thank you :D
>>50818736I'll be completely forward with you in saying I genuinely do not remember a single god damn thing about MotK or why I ever held any disdain for it on any level beyond it simply being a forum. The reason has escaped me over the years and it was probably never anything personal but instead something repeated from other anons. And in retrospect, I'd take a dozen MotK's over whatever the fuck the modern western Touhou fandom is now, both within and outside the context of this incident.
>>50818640I thought that was anon baiting
>>50818753>>50818708Sorry to ask but what is MotK?
Yeah, it was just a prank that spiraled way past April 1st. If you're still getting redirected to the official Team Shanghai Alice site use a different link than the default page.https://moriyashrine.org/whats-new/
>>50818884Oh my fucking goooooodThese mfs made me download the dreaded Touhou folder again. Now I have to engage with this franchise more aaàaaaaaaaaaa
>>50818889You will never escape
>>50818924Bro dont give me ptsdI have been trying to leave this franchise since I ever joined and I am unable to. I always come back and I swear is paranormal.
>>50818826Lurk moar.
>>50818991No I mean I know that it is Maidens of the Kaleidoscope but whats the deal with it?
>>50818158Hakurei Shrine.org?
>>50819072Never mind I'm a retarded "didn't read the whole thread" SUBHUMAN
>>50815081Why should I care about this shit?I don't care about fangames and I own all the official games already
>>50818544motherfuck
>>50818950Are you ok?
>>50818708It was a great prank because now people are actually alert to how fragile the website is and more backups with be created by users
>>50819236I am fairly alright. Its just that thing specifically. Touhou has always been that franchise that I feel really empty when I am not with. The weird thing is that I feel is spiritual, I literally have never felt like that for any other franchise and it becomes extremely distressful when you actually try to leave and do something else and end up in the same place as before.
>>50819279I think you got your feelings mixed up bro, buy a beer or something.
>>50819297What do you mean?
>>50819303You don't "hate" touhou.
>>50819325I have mixed feelings about Touhou. Both a rare dislike and a heartfelt love.
>>50819358No dude, you have this common symptom of only having one interest and being upset about it, go play something else and get into other franchises. You don't have to be on touhou mode 24/7Unless you mean that you hate certains aspects of touhou, which again it's not rare at all, you can like certains things and dislike others, you just have to accept that they exist.
>>50819392>No dude, you have this common symptom of only having one interest and being upset about it, go play something else and get into other franchises. You don't have to be on touhou mode 24/7You may not believe me. But I don't have that symptom.There is many other anime and games I enjoy as of now. Hell I was watching 3 animes as of recently that I like and have been into their fandoms somewhat.
>>50819477The latter then.
>>50819495The thing I hate of touhou is more the fandom and the egregorious amounts of porn. If those two were gone I think my relationship with it would be actually quite tame.
>>50819504I knew it, refer back to this then>>50819392
>>50819511Okay.
>>50819504You sound like an underage faggot.
I fucking hate April Fools so much.>>50819504God what a pussy. Porn ain't gonna kill you, go back to Tumblr you weirdo puritan.
>>50819650Why do you have to assume I come from a platform I barely know of its existence bruh
>>50819659Oh so you're just a little bitch for the love of the game, gotcha.
what would have happened if it wasnt an april fools joke
>>50819504>egregorious amounts of pornMan you must hate basically everything
>>50819709>>50819650Bruh what do you people have for the porn? I literally was telling random anon #999 that I didn't like it and you all come like if you were artists themselves. Is nothing deep guy, not everyone is into Touhou for the hentai.
I don't trust anyone anymore.
>>50819504>>50819740IDK man saying "the worst part about 2hu is porn" while downplaying just make yourself look like a nigger.
>>50819684I would've killed a fellow jaypssie as a sacrifice in minecraft
>>50819755Can you trust me? :)
>>50819760>the worst part about 2hu is pornIn no part I said that it was the worst part bruh
>>50819776Would you sacrifice a /jp/sie to Moloch in Minecraft in exchange for getting gaped to Gensokyo (also in Minecraft)?
>>50819831In a heartbeat
>>50819779NO >:(
>>50819839What would the MC do in Minecraft Gensokyo?
>>50819845:''(
>>50819801>>50819740>bruh>my guyFuck off
Hey retards, the site's been back for like 4 hours.
This is a good reminder to download fucking everything and mirror it somewhere else.
Why do they keep calling these fangames instead of doujin games?
>>50819929Yeah we know>>50819939I would go by uploading things to archive.org first.>>50819946Because its a man's world.
>>50819929Don't call me a retard >:(((
>>50820057:D
>>50819946Because they're all the same thing.
>>50818439>>50819939coming from a very disappointing april fools, they really got me good. Great outcome though.but yeah I'm not deleting slightly obscure content I'm confident I won't use anymore.
>>50819504you're a faggotthere is porn of EVERYTHING
>>50818659April 3rd on my clock when the site was still dead.Yeah, no>>50818708motk turned into, unironically, a tranny infested shitholeAs in daily Alice roleplayers dumping walls of text about how Alice is trans and making everyone acknowledge it and pointing commenting that it isn't canon or merely showing disinterest is a ban.
>>50818708>>50818736>>50820296What is wrong with MotK anyway? Did it become like SRB2 MB in terms of cringe?
>>50820292everything?
>>50820461I am making porn of you post as we speak
>>50820521I don't believe you
>>50820342I don't think it was any major change, just the old userbase being slowly replaced by hormonally imbalanced newfags. You know, like how every Discord community ends up.
>>50819261People were already alert to that when the site was first "taken down" (read: admins decided to comply with a DMCA notice that had no follow-up for over a year) and we even did our own in the GAP Project, which wasn't 1:1 with everything hosted either as far as I remember. That's what makes it a stupid prank, it's relying on a serious event that nobody wanted repeated and nobody is prepared for. It's not quite the same level as someone saying "my cancer came back" but it's within the same string of logic.
>>50819740Quit typing like a nigger zoomer, you underage faggot.
>>50821402Do you know of archive repositories of Moriya Shrine?
>>50819504Learn to block the shit you dislike instead of crying about it. Trust me, it will make you far less miserable in the long run.
>>50821814Can you guys please stop replying to my post about the porn? It looks kinda pathetic at this point that complaining about that thing caused so much ruckus to some people. Truly proves that gooners are impossible to reason with.
>>50821841Return to reddit, nigger
>>50821841>goonersAnd just like that you've lost every semblance of a point you ever had. Why even LARP as an autistic /jp/sie if you're just going to randomly openly admit you're a /v/tween?
Spooky ghosts from the other side are in this thread oooooooh
>>50821841fucking kill yourself you niggerfied zoomer
>>50821925This thread kind of has no purpose now if you think about it.
>>50821944>>50821866>>50821850I don't come from Reddit but at least I don't come from nHentai either like you guys do haha
>>50821946The purpose of this thread is to show how far /jp/ and the touhou community at large have fallen.
>>50821947>nhenshitlol, lmao
This is not... the /jp/ I remember... *sheds a single tear*
The /jp/ you remember is elsewhere now.
>>50815081>>50815167>>50815770That's not funny!!
>>50821999Okay. Where?
>>50819504Hahahahahaha
So what now?
>>50822027likely in a retirement home judging by how old the original posters must have been
