Tenhou Instructions / Mahjong Day

Okay, I tried having a Mahjong day a while ago, but only Biggums showed up due to what I have concluded is bad communication on my part. Biggums was the only one looking at my twitter at the time, and I was a bit unclear on times in the like. I'm going to try again on Saturday for me, which should be a bit into Sunday for those with timezones of GMT+0 or greater, at 12:00 AM GMT. I'm not gonna change that this time around, to avoid people showing up an hour late (Sorry, Osamu.:( )


Also, I realize that some people may have gotten lost when they looked at Tenhou, so here's a step-by-step rundown of what all is needed. First, enter the following link into your URL: http://tenhou.net/0/?7447


You will come to a screen with two blue links in ">>" bullet points. Click the top one if you would like the game to open in a new window, or the bottom one if you would like to keep it in the current one.

Ignore the adverts and click on the blue "サーバに接続 " (Connect to Server) once it loads. Be careful not to click on the blue link next to the english word "L O A D I N G . . .", as it will refresh the page.

Once you have, you will come to a page which I will show you below the cut.

The Cyan text is my added explaination. The leftmost button is your ID registration; click it if you would like to register an ID with the name you have in the input box to the right. If so, you can keep track of your records and such on the main channel. But you don't need to for Mahjong day; simply put a name into the input bar and click your gender in the tab to its right. The top option is "Male", the bottom "Female". After that, you can choose to play with "Premium" settings or "Economy" (bottom and top in the tab, respectively). It doesn't matter, but I always play Premium as a personal preference, as it has voices and cooler sounds. Once done, press OK.

This screen has a bunch of stuff that we don't need for Mahjong day; you can see http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ if you're curious. The important thing is that the room we'll be playing in is Four-Player Open Tanyao, No Red Tiles, East Set Only, or the Second Row, First Column. We could also play in Three-Player Open Tanyao, Red Tiles, East Set if we only have 3 people playing. But I'm going to aim for 4.

Basically, click on the button next to the X:X (which will have numbers in place of the X once we get going) of the room we say we're playing in. If you're registered, you can talk in the chat window at the top left. But I should have a chat box that I'll link to on twitter going by the time we're all set up.

For the actual gameplay, check out http://arcturus.su/tenhou/gameplay.html, as he does a great job explaining it. Other than that, have fun, and please ask questions if you're at all confused!