JanRyuMon
April 28th, 2009 by Osamu
So, yeah...
In around 90 minutes from posting this Janryumon should be coming out of Closed Beta. It looks really impressive and reminds me a lot of the arcade game "MJ"
I've heard that it's free for the most part so I'll definitely be trying it. You may also need to use a proxy to access the site since it doesn't work for most people I've asked.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
>Free charge if you do sparrows pearls, please click on the free charge pearl sparrow.
>※ Free of charge and pearl sparrow, sparrow pearls or less constant ownership of the player, how to charge it for free.
Fuck I wish I knew Jap.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Tor let me register an account, but I can't initiate the actual game (the red, circular button I mean).
Any advice for a Mahjongophile out of water?
April 30th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Independent Observer: Pearls seem to be the thing you need to buy accessories like rings for you hands.
I don't think you are able to use a proxy to play, when I try it's failing to connect to their router server or something.
I hope someone e-mails PlayNC JP about this.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I think you may be right Osamu, I tried quite a couple. Even if it did work, it'd be embarassingly slow and tedious. Thanks anyway.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:52 am
Any luck getting this to work? The link won't work for me.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Well the site only loads for me when I use a Japanese proxy, so they're probably trying to block baka gaijin, in which case you'll have to use something like freecap to hook the traffic from the program and send it through a SOCKS proxy.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Any reason to play this over Tenhou or Toupaiou?
May 4th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
How does one use a Japanese proxy and wear SOCKS or what have you? Not sure how it works.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I managed to get to launcher (with tor, but using ie not ff), and to install +update everything, but after that i cant connect (probably because tor doesn’t apply to janryumon program which is on HD). If I read correctly it is open-beta, so that’s probably why its not available for ppl outside Japan.
May 4th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
It isn't actually banning of non-japanese ips (I think), there are a few people outside of japan who can connect to it so it might be just that the server has a bad routing or whatever. Also it isn't just Janryumon's site, I can't connect to anything related to PlayNC's JP sites (www.plaync.jp and http://www.ncjapan.co.jp) I would e-mail them but can't find any sort of information that doesn't lead to one of those sites.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Tried putting the IP of a Japanese proxy server in my Internet LAN proxy settings, but no luck. Any ideas?
May 14th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Has anyone made any progress?
I can't access the site either - without a proxy that is - but I was able to access it through the internet at my school and luckily from one of my friends computer. I can use a proxy to get to the main page, but the registration doesn't work. I tried installing the JanRyuMon program by getting the exe from my friends PC - but that didn't work either. I really want to be able to play at this site and don't want to go to my friends place everytime to do so!
If contacting PlayNC will solve the problem, I'd be glad to do it but I doubt my Japanese will be enough. Could someone with more fluent in Japanese contact them?
My impression of the site was great. It was a lot better than I expected. I especially liked the fact that the PC reads out the han values of the hand, and the animations for limit hands are awesome! And finally the animations of drawing a tile after you riichi are my favourite. It feels just like the real thing!
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 am
It seems that the site blocks non jap ip-s but sometimes it just randomly allows some ppl. As for the game, for registering and downloading there is a 2nd filter and all non jap-s are blocked. This is a sad day, for every non jap mahjong fans. I was just amazed that something like MJ4 actually came out to pc but yea we wont get any of it , as it seems so.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 am
Ruro: I will be making a guide on how to connect if you can't connect.
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Ohh i would be grateful for it because I'm interested in this kind of "flashy" mahjong game. And also keep up the good work really like the blog :) (the post on how to defend helped me a lot).
May 30th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
This works for me by the way, I´ve been using it for a few days and stumbled upon this article. I had no problems accessing the site and no problems with starting the program and playing. My friend also started this today and he had no problems either...Except we hade to use internet explorer.
As far as the points thing go. It takes points from your account when you play that you need to charge, but there is a button for it (so no payment required). It charges 7000 points and when your points drop below 4999 you need to recharge. When this happens, just click the button (in your account on the plaync shop).
As for a Finnish aquintance of mine, well, it didn´t load for him.
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Not really banning Japanese IPs, for I can enter. However, my IP isn't really all conventional anyhow, so I wouldn't strive to be the example.
Anyways, I could register and play without any trouble. It's actually a great server to play on. Even with my 256mb of RAM, it runs smoothly. Not as smoothly as Tenhou would perhaps, but this does have a lot of additions such as the hands, the glow and the lightnings. It's a perfectly portable MJ for the most part.
Only trouble, as usual, people who think they are Naki no Ryu and call every tile even when they stop multiplying. Only came accross two, but still. As I go up in ranking they'll probably won't be a problem.
Thanks so much. This became my favorite server thus far (besides Tenhou, but I don't really have a credit card to keep it up for longer than the trial version every time). I was then looking for a mahjong server that's free, without any troubles and where I feel comfortable.
Osamu's blog has brought to me only great things. Kudos for the posters.
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 am
Hi there xKime.
You don't have to pay for tenhou, you just need to change the client mode to economy. Refer to http://arcturus.su/tenhou/login.html on how to change it.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Ah, Osamu, thank you very much. I should have realized this, I can read and write Japanese without any trouble whatsoever, but my computer isn't displaying Japanese characters on software, only on websites. Moreso, my asian IME is working only for Chinese. So I'm stuck with NJ Star Com, which really doesn't let me read and write on software.
I like both, Tenhou and Janryumon very much, and I appreciate your help. I'm quite fresh new to "online" Mahjong, even though I play quite often offline. I'm becoming very fond of playing online, though. I'll be seeing you around then. Good day~