Tanuki Launcher is a cross-platform game launcher and WINE helper primarily made for the Touhou Project games. It supports all games from Touhou 6 onwards. Tanuki can also be used to launch any game, not just Touhou games, and it has an extra set of features, such as screen and audio recording, taking screenshots, Touhou scorefile backup, viewing and compressing Touhou screenshots, etc.
Download the latest instance of Tanuki in the releases page
If you have Scala 3 in your system, download tanuki.jar
If you just have Java in your system, download tanuki-java.jar
If you are running an x86_64 Linux system, download tanuki-linux-x86_64.zip
Information on downloading and running Tanuki
Tanuki requires the following to work:
- Scala 3 or Java 11 or later (unless running the native Linux binary)
- FFmpeg (optional, for all functionality related to image and video)
Tanuki's OS support extends to all operating systems with WINE support + Windows.
More information on platform support here
Full configuration information
To play games and manage your data, you need to add game and data entries to your config.txt. For Unix-like systems, this file is located in ~/.config/tanuki/config.txt. In other systems such as Windows, it's located/created where Tanuki is.
You can configure this file from within the launcher, or you can manually write your config text file.
Many more settings are available in the configuration documentation.
wine=wine
game=Touhou 7:/path/to/touhou 7/th7.exe
data=Touhou 7 Data:/path/to/touhou 7
With FFmpeg, Tanuki can record your screen and audio as you play Touhou, to record your gameplay. You can configure the recording settings for a more faithful or lossless video footage, or for a more lightweight footage, whether it's lightweight as in low CPU usage or as in low file size.
After you record your footage, you can view it as many times as you want with Gensokyo Cinema.
You need Scala 3 to build Tanuki from source. You can use the scalac compiler or scala-cli.
You can compile Tanuki directly with scalac this way:
scalac src/*.scala src/*/*.scala src/*/*/*.scala -d tanuki.jar
This JAR can be launched with scala or scala-cli
For more information and alternatives on compiling Tanuki, check the link below.
