Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night.

Multiple early images of the game have been posted before the release of Trial v0.01 all images are sorted in terms of date.

Comiket Market preview paper#

Attendees of Comiket 65 on December 30, 2003 were given out a paper that announced Touhou 8: Imperishable Night. It is incredibly different from the final version.

• The time mechanic is completely missing.
• Many PCB textures can be seen in the first screenshot to still used at this stage, such as the Border of Life circle around the player, the spellcard declaration, and the multiple hitbox focuses scattered throughout the stage.

Debug mode photos#

On January 26, 2004, ZUN posted an early in-development image of Imperishable Night, it was found on ZUN's Diary.

January 26, 2004	Trial v0.01

• Letty Whiterock's name is in place of Wriggle Nightbug's. This is likely due to ZUN not creating a new ename file at this point in development.
• Time meter cap was at 1000 instead of 2000
• Point-life is capped at 50, being the same as PCB
• It seems Marisa's portrait has an open mouth

Screenshots from ZUN in the game files#

Within the files for Imperisable Night there is an image titled view00.jpg. This image is mostly accurate to the first trial version (v0.01) but includes a few differences. It seems to be the spell card Firefly Sign "Earthly Comet" which is a Lunatic spell card.

View00.jpg	v1.00a

• Development text is located at the top of the screen but is poorly blurred
• Difficulty Text is missing. Its assumed that this is Hard mode.
• Confusingly, It has 2000 time (easy mode). When Hard mode use 2700 time.

Character Showcase photos#

ZUN's website featured a page to showcase all the characters here. It includes many differences from the final.

• The time difference for stage 1 Lunatic is 2200 instead of 2500 in v0.01

Remilia and Sakuya#

Character Showcase image	v0.01

• Sakuya's Knives are a deeper blue color in the character preview., they are also longer and more consistent.

Character Showcase image	v0.01

• Remilia's bomb has much thicker lines in the character preview.