the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is a vertical scrolling shooter and the sixth official game of the Touhou Project series. It is the first to be released specifically for the Windows operating system and the first by Team Shanghai Alice. All games before Embodiment of Scarlet Devil were made for the PC-98 series of computers and were released by Amusement Makers.
Unused Character Name Text#
冴月 麟 (風)
冴月 麟 (花)
This text can be seen by opening 東方紅魔郷.exe in a hex editor and navigating to address 6BB80 in the final version, or 56998 in the trial version. They read "Satsuki Rin (Wind)" and "Satsuki Rin (Flower)". Because it is located near the names of other player characters, it is thought that the names were intended to be used for a player character that wielded wind and flower spell cards.
(Source: Rian Sakuragi, etc.)
Unused Enemy Graphic#
It looks similar to Rumia, but with a few differences. It is thought that it may have been intended to appear as a mini-boss character in stage 1.
(Source: Rian Sakuragi, etc.)