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Shoot the Bullet

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Shoot the Bullet
Shoot the Bullet cover
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
Shoot the Bullet guide on StrategyWiki
Shoot the Bullet on Wikipedia
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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

Touhou wiki article for Shoot the Bullet

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

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) <Steam-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) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1420650/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

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]
  1. Download the ENB DX8 to DX9 converter.
  2. Extract files to the installation folder.
  3. Game should run as usual.

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
Hard disk drive (HDD) 170 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible


Notes

  1. 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1420650/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1420650) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Shoot the Bullet on Touhou Wiki - last accessed on 2023-12-29
  2. Shoot the Bullet on Steamdb - last accessed on 2023-12-29
  3. Touhou Wiki - Game Tools, Dx8 to Dx9 converter - last accessed on May 2023