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New update, Touhou 6-10 confirmed to work fine with Crossover. 6-9 work with fullscreen, 10 works windowed. 11 and 12 execute fine, although they crash the bottle when they close. Worse, after displaying the initial loading screen, 11 and 12 go completely blank. From the sound I was able to infer the game was playing properly, since I could hear it scrolling through the menus and playing a game. Still unplayable, but this may have something to do with the graphics card of the computer I used and may not be a universal problem, since others have manged to get 11 and 12 to run through crossover.

Other than this hitch, the games can be run by following the instructions present in the section on running them in Linux. One problem that can surprise you is the locale. When installing or running the games, the Japanese text will prevent the game from executing properly if your locale isn't set to Japan (this is in System Preferences->International->Formats). This can be circumvented by renaming the relevant folders with English characters. Of course, this won't work with installs, but it does mean that you don't have to keep your computer in Japan mode every time you want to play Touhou. Hope this information can help more Mac users enjoy these games.

Just wanted to update this page, Touhou 6-11 all run fine using Crossover Games for OS X. I haven't tried Touhou 1-5 so I can't confirm if they work or not, the Touhou 12 demo DOES NOT work. They also can't run in fullscreen, so what I did was used the Zoom feature in Universal Access to get them as close to fullscreen as possible. They all run fullspeed except for when you capture a large spell card (and everything turns to points)


My friend owns a Mac, and would like to know how you would run a touhou game under a mac. I read somewhere that it had to do something with extracting something. Can all games run properly under a Mac?

Thanks~ Jonathanasdf 05:14, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Being a Linux user, I can't say for sure that this will work, but the tricks mentioned in Running_in_Linux should probably apply for Mac OS as well. Wine, a program to run windows executables, is cross-platform for most non-Microsoft operative systems.Look up the [Wine FAQ], search for the Mac section, and you will hopefully get enough information to get all things running. Good luck! TOUHOU-Tyle 07:40, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Heh... [Quote]: If you are running Mac OS X there are no official builds yet. The main reason is that Apple X11 is badly broken, and Wine doesn't run well with it. We don't like giving users a bad impression of Wine.

So yeah that is the problem. According to this http://blog.seiha.org/2007/08/touhou-mac-vs-pc/ some person found a way for it to work :S Jonathanasdf 07:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I see, I missed the sentence for Darwine that said "DirectDraw and Direct3D applications do not run at all", which of course will make all Touhou games unplayable. Too bad :( TOUHOU-Tyle 08:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


No the new version of wine makes touhou games 99% playable. Its just that Macs can't run wine. So you don't know of another method right :(
Thanks for your time though. Jonathanasdf 08:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Well, as mentioned in the FAQ above there is a wine port to Mac, called Darwine. But then again the wine FAQ claims that "DirectDraw and Direct3D applications do not run at all" for Darwine. The only way to be sure is to test and see. TOUHOU-Tyle 16:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


You could use CrossOver, which is kind of like a (developmental?) port of Wine to Macintosh. Unfortunately, it's not free, but it runs all Touhou games from 6-9 (unfortunately, the others can't be run, and the fighting games don't work) and can run them as well as they can be run on Linux, with a few minor glitches here and there. As for the cost thing, you can easily find cracks for this software.
Please remember that you could also run Boot Camp on your Mac, or some form of Virtual Computer environment. However, Boot Camp requires you split you hard drive space to some degree, and virtual machines make a real woman out of your RAM.
These are what I recommend, anyway. --ArseneLupin3 19:55, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure about any of the others, but i got the UFO demo working with crossover so i'm guessing all the others would work as well.


I bought Crossover, but 11 crashes for me after I select the resolution

Update: User:pixelheresy 21:44:05, 16 January, 2010 (EST)

With the current version of Crossover Games (8.1.4) and with adding native support to the following files:

d3dx9_36.dll
imm32.dll

The following games will work (with all current updates and English patches applied):

TH6 - The Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil
TH7 - Perfect Cherry Blossom
TH7.5 - Immaterial and Missing Power
TH8 - Imperishable Night
TH9.5 - Shoot the Bullet
TH10 - Mountain of Faith
TH11 - Subterranean Animism
TH12 - Undefined Fantastic Object

The following game works in its original form (without patches applied):

TH9 - Phantasmagoria of Flower View

The following games (still) do not work

TH10.5 - Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
TH12.3 - Unthinkable Natural Law

As a note, 7.5, 11, & 12 seem to require being run in windowed mode. The others can be run fullscreen.

http://autor.theendoftheground.net/Touhou/ could probably help.

http://www.megaupload.com/?f=ZGX7XO8J could probably help too.

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