KURZOV'S WEBSITE

WARNING: This site is undergoing heavy renovation. Pages will look rough and inconsistent.
(This warning has been here for years now and I haven't really changed it much.
If I ever move to a proper site - and off Neocities - I'll probably design a new look for all this.)
Most of these pages were designed for desktop view, not mobile.

Hello. I'm Kurzov, and this is my website.

Touhou Project and Adjacencies
Ancient How-To(uhou) Stuff
A long time ago, this was the meat and potatoes of this site - a couple tutorial pages about how to get some of the more frustrating parts of running Touhou games over and done with. Back when these were written, I was serving as a backend site editor for the Moriya Shrine - yes, that Moriya Shrine. A lot of folks were having trouble with running the games, so I made a couple tutorials/how-to guides on how to get the games running.
[IMAGE] Windows-Era Touhou Troubleshooting
Western computers can have trouble running Touhou games. This page lists some common issues that you may run into when trying to play Touhou, and how to solve those issues.
[IMAGE] Neko Project II (PC-98 Emulator)
The first five Touhou games - Reiiden, Fuumaroku, Yumejikuu, Gensoukyou, and Kakaidan - were designed, developed, and sold for the NEC PC-98 series of personal computers, which ran its own versions of Windows (3.1, 9X, 2000) as well as MS-DOS. As a result, games made for the PC-98 (especially so-called '98-DOS' games) are mostly incompatible with western systems. You'll need to grab an emulator, such as Neko Project II, to play them on Windows. The default settings that NP2 comes with don't play nice with the early Touhou games, so this guide was made to help folks set the emulator up in the proper manner.
[IMAGE] Working with THCRAP
Since no Touhou game has yet to provide a "good" translation that the fanbase can agree on (most have none at all), fan translation projects have to pick up the slack. THCRAP is the community's answer for the official games - it's autoupdating, supports game modding, and has lots of other fun stuff like patch stacking, fighting game translations, and even Mima (finally!). Sometimes THCRAP can be a bit... troublesome, so I made this guide to help you get the most out of this piece of software.
Touhou Secondary Works
Some Touhou fanworks that I find enjoyable. Some are mine, others are not.
[IMAGE] RiG Series by HakureiDeity
Through unfortunate circumstances, a human finds themselves inside Gensokyo with no memory of anything that came before. Things are exacerbated by them being (involuntarily) taken under the wing of a certain Yuuka Kazami, a youkai not particularly known for her love of humans, but instead for her love for battle, and in turn, violence. This results in some adventures throughout Gensokyo, meeting the residents, facing the dangers and experiencing life there, while the shadow of the past creeps closer...
Mainline: Reborn (RiG1) - Resurrected (RiG2) - Retribution (RiG3) - RiG4
Side Stories: Of Light and Darkness - Strawberry Crisis - Creator's Delusion
[IMAGE] Kisume Quest by Kurzov
During the events of Touhou 19, tsurube-otoshi youkai Kisume travels to the Ancient City with her friend (or at least the closest thing to a friend she has), earth spider youkai Yamame Kusodani. The place is a mess. Missing residents, burning buildings, the whole nine yards. The two of them are now on a mission to find some missing oni, as well as local hashihime Parsee Mizuhashi. Is the chaos a result of the events going on in "New" Hell, or is there another reason for the chaos...? Take control of Kisume and get to the bottom of all this!
[IMAGE] Luciola Crying by AmiPurple and Kurzov
Set in an Touhou A.U., Luciola (Crying) is a reimagining of an alternate Gensokyo, almost from the ground up. More physical fights, a completely new underworld, and eventually a whole lot more... Bits of our own creations, Len'en, Seihou, Touhou, and many other inspirations put together into a world blender...

Miscellany
Everything that doesn't really fit into any other category.
[IMAGE] Twitch (kurzov22)
From time to time, I stream things. A schedule no longer exists, at least for the moment.
The Curse Off Blog
In which Kurzov tries to write his own blog. The name is a perpetual placeholder. Inspired by the sites ran by AJ/Tyron ("worldsbe.st") and FromJason ("The Notebook").
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[IMAGE] YouTube
My YouTube channel. I haven't uploaded here in quite a long time.
Discord
I run a Discord server. It was supposed to be linked with my Twitch page. However, because I have no schedule, it was pretty dead for a while.
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[IMAGE] (Ex-)Twitter (@Kurzov_)
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(@kurzov@gayrobot.club) Mastoderp/Pleroma/Fedi-Verse
Nonsense from the edge of my head.
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