Info

Soku Lobby is a matchmaking service for the Touhou fighting game Hisoutensoku (12.3) 「　東方～非想天則　」. It provides a fix for the game’s built-in netplay, which reduces latency between players. It also has chat features so you can talk to your opponent and other players while you play. The interface provides a list of everyone online, and everyone in-game – it is easy to find a match. This is a downloadable program that connects to a central server.

Here are some links that you will find useful (if you ask a question in the lobby, which is answered by one of these, you will probably be ignored).

• FAQ
• Rules
• Related Posts
• Chat Commands
• Changelog

Current News

• March 13, 2012 – The server has been migrated to a new host. You don’t need to update or change anything.
• January 23, 2012 – The lobby has been updated to v0.7 – this has new netcode and spectating (thanks to Fireseal for the code).
• December 23, 2011 – The lobby will be offline on December 25 (Christmas) starting just before midnight (EST) on the 24th.
• December 19, 2011 – The lobby and chat rooms will be migrating to a new server. More server updates to come soon.
• September 25, 2011 – Soku Lobby does not support v1.10a, please keep using v1.10 until support is added

Features

Note that not all of these features have been implemented yet, but are planned.

• Netplay fix – Improved communication between players when playing. The delay has been reduced.
• Relay – Can’t forward your ports? The relay allows you to still play even though you’re blocked out.
• Chat – Chat with other players in the lobby, game rooms, chat rooms, and PMs.
• Statistics – Views stats about yourself and others’ for things like: character most used, win-ratio, and playtime.
• Ranking – Played in optional ranked matches to see how you stack up. Ranked matches let you find other players at your skill level.
• Custom rules – Restrict certain stages, BGM, and characters. You can also turn weather off.
• Replay Bank – Watch any match that has been saved by you or someone else.

Please donate!

Goal: $200 Current: $200!

If you like the program and would like to see it stay online, please donate! Server costs are now $20/mo. – so anything helps. Donations go towards helping the lobby’s server stay online and supporting development, plus you get an achievement and mentioned below.

Donations

Thank you to the following donators!

Name	Amount
Culukeh	$200
benjix	$90
Blue Rogue	$50
PhoenixM	$50
-	$50
Hazelyn	$45
sigonasr2	$35
Native Faith	$30
Yaffy Fan	$25
SILENT1497	$20
NanoSatellite	$20
bidoof	$20
linkcma	$20
Shuue	$15
aquamarin	$14.73
Aristocrat	$13.37
Samidare	$10
Bane	$10
Dango	$9.99
-	$6.59
Bobman	$5
Andy	$5
pichu0102	$5
-	$5
Undi	$1
-	$1

Not everyone provided a username when they donated. If your name isn’t on this list, please email your receipt and I’ll make sure you get credit!