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In ver. 0.01a of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, the rod card was called ペンデュラム Pendulum and the pendulum one was called ナズーリンロッド Nazrin Rods and their abilities were also switched. This was temporarily corrected in ver. 0.02a, just to be broken again in ver. 1.00a. In ver. 1.10c it was finally fixed.

The position of the cards in the selection menu has also been changed in ver. 0.02a, when the actual Pendulum card became the first one and Nazrin rods became the second. In ver. 1.00a the order got reverted back as how it was in ver. 0.01a, however in ver. 1.10c it was changed again to match ver. 0.02a.

Defeating the final boss in a draw (untested if true for bosses that aren't final) will make you restart the game from stage 1 with the stage 1 boss replaced with the boss you drawed against. You keep all your cards obtained before drawing, you can obtain Zanmu's card for a story mode playthrough this way, yes getting the same card again on the second loop will make the effects stack on top of each other.

This might be repeatable for multiple loops of the game, if you can force a draw repeatedly.

Touhou ~ Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost - 06 - Yachie & Saki (youtube.com)

Glitch happens around 1:02:30

Hello and thank you for sending this!

For a visual reference, I will add some screenshots/gifs from your video:

the moment when you got the Draw (gif)

the moment you started stage 2 while having Zanmu's card equipped (screenshot on the left)

the stacking of cards (screenshot on the right)

Your explanation is a bit different from the other variant I've heard, but it also makes sense. You pointed out that "Defeating the final boss in a draw (...) will make you restart the game from stage 1 with the stage 1 boss replaced with the boss you drawed against."

Nylilsa (at nylilsa.github.io/#/bugs/th19/draw-glitch) offered a different explanation to this glitch "It is possible to be sent back to Stage 2 (...). You will keep all of your cards (...). This also happens when you beat the last boss of Story mode, in which case you will obtain a card and be sent to Stage 2." While the statement answers the part from your message of "untested if true for bosses that aren't final", it doesn't consider the rematch as stage 1.

Your explanation makes sense as of why you got Zanmu's card, because in a regular run you don't get any card when you beat the last boss, the screen simply fades and the ending scene begins.

But you do get a card after the stage 1 boss, so if that boss was replaced by Zanmu, then you'd get her card at the end of the stage.

The Draw glitch existed ever since ver. 0.01a. Addamelech (at x.com/Addamelech/status/1655318363118116867/) posted that "I was at stage 2 vs Aunn and I died (...) the game registered it as a Draw. It still sent me back to st1 vs Marisa and I now have 2 repeated mini Hakkero cards."

For context, in the trial version of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost stages 1 and 2 from story mode had the opponent randomized, but stage 3 always had the same opponent. In the full version, each stage has its own established opponent.

Nazrin's story mode had Reimu/Marisa/Aunn as a possible opponent for stages 1 and 2, but Seiran as the certain stage 3 boss. In Adda's case, Marisa was the stage 1 boss and Aunn was the stage 2 boss. The Draw happened during stage 2.

Now, based on what you encountered in the full version, Aunn should have been the stage 1 boss after this Draw, but Adda faced Marisa once again. It could be due to the randomization of the opponents, that since the boss isn't a fixed character like in the full version, it just picked one of the three possible options and it happened to be Marisa once again. This situation also checks out for the other explanation (the one where you are sent back to stage 2), because yes, the next opponent in Adda's case was Reimu and not Seiran, showing that the stage after Marisa was stage 2 and not 3.

Which one of the two explanations is what actually happens? I don't know because I haven't checked the code, so if somebody has the passion, energy and time to research this, please let me know as I am curious about it!

This bug seems to have been fixed in ver. 1.10c.

Also, apologies that it took me so long to publish this ask (for reference to those unaware, @letspawsandreflect sent it back in April 2024, now it's July 2025). I didn't forget, it was one of those cases of "I'll post about it next week" and months passed until now.

In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, when you go to the Ability Card menu option from the Pause screen (in order to view your current equipped ability cards), you can briefly see some text in the background.

If you pause the above video at the right time you can make out "所持中のアビリティカード Ability Card", "発見済カード一覧 Unlocked Card List" and "戻るQuit" text.

The 1280x960 resolution seems to be the most "complete" in terms of displayed items. The name of the spellcards is shown in the top right corner, the VS Player Select menu has some indications under the ability cards and whenever you win or lose, the awarded star appears at the top of the screen.

For the 960x720 resolution, the spellcard names are not correctly aligned anymore, there are no instructions under the ability cards in the VS Player Select menu and only the star when you win shows up on the screen. If opponent wins, their star won't appear.

For the 640x480 resolution, the spellcard names are so badly displayed that on the opponent's side you are not even able to see the whole name of the spellcard because it gets cut out by the screen margin. There are no indications under the ability cards in the VS Player Select menu and again, only the star when you win shows up on the screen. If opponent wins, their star won't appear.

The VS Player Select menu and spellcard name issues existed in the trial versions as well. The star thing did not exist in the trial versions and was implemented only the full version. But it seems that it has not been implemented to properly work on all resolutions.

640x480 resolution - trial versions

960x720 resolution - trial versions

1280x960 resolution - trial versions

In ver. 0.01a of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, if you play a VS mode match and you don't check the card select menu before you start the match, your opponent will not have any card displayed on their side. But if you play a bit with the card select menu before the match, then your opponent will have the ability card on their side. Closing the game and reopening it will always make your VS run not have an ability card on opponent's side if you didn't mess around with the card select menu prior to starting the match.

A very strange thing happens if, after playing on ver. 0.01a, you decide to open ver. 0.02a. The very first VS mode match played on 0.02a after you close 0.01a will NOT have an ability card for the opponent if you don't look around the card menu before starting the match. You would think "so what, it behaves like ver. 0.01a". HOWEVER, the next match WILL HAVE an ability card on opponent's side even if you don't play with the card select menu. In ver. 0.01a that doesn't happen. If you close ver. 0.02a and reopen it, you will continue to have an ability card on opponent's side even if you don't touch the card select menu at all.