/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

I've been wanting to learn to play mahjong. I know if I play a videogame it would give me a nice boost, but all I can google is some sort of stupid pairing games (wrongly) named mahjong.

So, do any of you know of some software (hopefully in english) I could use?

[五角场！？ No.]

that tile should be 1 pin

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/mahjong/mahjong_e.html

[Anonymous No.]

>>3879873
A 1 sou is fine too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3879908
well, I was hoping for a videogame so I could use a tutorial option, but I gues that'll do just fine. I'm trying to give some smartass friend a little surprise.

[五角场！？ No.]

>>3879989
well if you have a ds
you can try mahjong navi
it has a tutorial for super beginners and all that
unless of course
you are japanese illiterate

you can also find tutorial websites that allow beginners to play with each other online
i have seen many western websites tend to do it this way

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/rs/touhou+mahjong

[Anonymous No.]

There's tons of information, but here's something to get you started.

http://www.tenhou.net/0/?L7447

For beginners
Everything you need to know about tenhou itself can be found here http://arcturus.su/tenhou/

Explanations for the tiles, rules, scoring etc can be found here:
http://www.ofb.net/~whuang/ugcs/gp/mahjong/mahjong.html
http://www.japanesemahjong.com/reachmahjong/intro.htm
http://www.delfosse.com/mahjong.html
http://www.reachmahjong.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99
http://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/mjfaq01.htm
http://www.reachmahjong.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=24&It
emid=67&limit=4&limitstart=8

http://arcturus.su/~alvin/mj/riichirules.pdf
http://arcturus.su/~alvin/mj/riichisheet-ema.pdf
http://arcturus.su/~alvin/mj/riichisheet-dk.pdf
http://arcturus.su/~alvin/mj/sywtpmj-1.4.doc

Games to test your Knowledge:
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/mahjong/mahjong_e.html
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/scorequiz/yaku.html
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/scorequiz/

[Anonymous of Austria No.]

>>3879989
Mahjong Fight Club (DS or PSP) are good games to play offline.
Yakuman DS has a Hint option, which not only tells you what it thinks is the best discard, it also tells you why it thinks it's the best discard.

Also
Go to http://tenhou.net/0/?L0000, click on the 5th tab and watch games of the highest ranked players you can find. Try to understand why they do what.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3879994
no ds for me. And yes, I'm aware that I could try an online mahjong client (I have already downloaded one from a so called "game buffet") but i didn't want to bother the hardcore players... but now that you mention it, I could play in a beginner group or something.

>>3879995
That seems interesting. Is the menu at least in english?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3880008
>>3880010
thanks, I'll check those

[Anonymous of Austria No.]

>>3880022
AFAIK, there is a translation project for Touhou Unreal Mahjong. (maybe there's a patch on gensokyo.org ?)

The menu in itself is not hard to understand anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3880026
Play with us next time we have a Mahjong thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3880087
I'll try to stick around more often, maybe next time I get lucky

[Anonymous No.]

Higurashi Mahjong.
Lets see if I can get this to work on my PSP.
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/141130277/higurashi+jan?tab=summary