Shoot the Bullet
| Developers | |
|---|---|
| Team Shanghai Alice | |
| Publishers | |
| Steam | Mediascape Co. |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | December 30, 2005 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Top-down view, Scrolling |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Shooter |
| Art styles | Anime |
| Series | Touhou Project |
| ⤏ Go to series page | |
| #6 The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil | 2002 |
| #7 Perfect Cherry Blossom | 2003 |
| #7.5 Immaterial and Missing Power | 2004 |
| #8 Imperishable Night | 2004 |
| #9 Phantasmagoria of Flower View | 2005 |
| #9.5 Shoot the Bullet | 2005 |
| #10 Mountain of Faith | 2007 |
| #10.5 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody | 2008 |
| #11 Subterranean Animism | 2008 |
| #12 Undefined Fantastic Object | 2009 |
| #12.3 Touhou Hisoutensoku | 2009 |
| #12.5 Double Spoiler | 2010 |
| #12.8 Fairy Wars | 2010 |
| #13 Ten Desires | 2011 |
| #13.5 Hopeless Masquerade | 2013 |
| #14 Double Dealing Character | 2013 |
| #14.3 Impossible Spell Card | 2014 |
| #14.5 Urban Legend in Limbo | 2015 |
| #15 Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom | 2015 |
| #15.5 Antinomy of Common Flowers | 2017 |
| #16 Hidden Star in Four Seasons | 2017 |
| #16.5 Violet Detector | 2018 |
| #17 Wily Beast and Weakest Creature | 2019 |
| #17.5 Touhou Gouyoku Ibun | 2020 |
| #18 Unconnected Marketeers | 2021 |
| #18.5 100th Black Market | 2022 |
| #19 Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost | 2023 |
| #20 Fossilized Wonders | 2025 |
Warnings
- This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).
Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet (東方文花帖 ~ Shoot the Bullet) is a top-down view vertical-scrolling shooter in the Touhou Project series of games. It is the 9.5th official game in the series. [1]
The original retail version was released on December 30th, 2005. The game was released digitally to Steam on June 19th, 2021. [2]
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | ||||
| Steam |
Essential improvements
Patches
Version 1.02a can be obtained here. The Steam version is pre-patched to 1.02a.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\th095.cfg[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1420650/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\scoreth095.dat[Note 1] <path-to-game>\bestshot\[Note 1] <path-to-game>\replay\[Note 1] <path-to-game>\snapshot\[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1420650/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Cloud |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | Requires Vsync patch | ||
| 60 FPS | |||
| 120+ FPS | |||
| Color blind mode | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse acceleration | No mouse input | |
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Keyboard and mouse prompts | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
|---|
| XInput-compatible controllers |
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| DirectInput-compatible controllers |
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| PlayStation controllers |
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| Nintendo controllers |
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| Other controller(s) |
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| Additional information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Input prompt override | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | No dialog outside text | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Fan translation | |||
| Indonesian | Fan translation | |||
| Japanese |
Issues fixed
DirectDraw problems from DirectX 8
Fixes multiple issues, like the Win10 full-screen error and DLL "Entry Point Not Found" error.
| Download files[3] |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 8 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
Mods
No Hitbox DATs
- Disables the showing of the player's hitbox whenever the Focus key (default ⇧ Shift) is pressed like earlier games.
Real Hitbox Patches
- Makes bullets' size more accurate to their hitboxes.
Touhou Ultra
- Makes the game harder by making bullets faster and in larger quantities.
Touhou Vorbis Compressor
- Can save up to 80% of the game's disk space by compressing the game's BGM music files into Ogg Vorbis with little if any effect on the quality.
System requirements
| Windows | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | ||||
| Operating system (OS) | 2000 | |||
| Processor (CPU) | 800 MHz | |||
| System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |||
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | 170 MB | |||
| Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible |
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%,%PROGRAMDATA%, or%WINDIR%might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1420650/. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1420650) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Shoot the Bullet on Touhou Wiki - last accessed on 2023-12-29
- ↑ Shoot the Bullet on Steamdb - last accessed on 2023-12-29
- ↑ Touhou Wiki - Game Tools, Dx8 to Dx9 converter - last accessed on May 2023