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Rinnosuke Morichika's Theme [ キュアリアス上海古牌 | 森近霖之助のテーマです]
Theme from the Touhou fan-game Touhou Unreal Mahjong (東方幻想麻雀 Touhou Gensou Māzyan). Composed by ZUN.

The music file used for this extension is from Touhou Unreal Mahjong 4N, but as far as I know, the song is the same throughout all the versions/expansions of this game, probably even the Nintendo Switch version.

The thumbnail for this one is perhaps the more interesting part, as I haven't used the title-screen + character portrait this time. This is because I was unable to extract the game's data. So instead, I had to manually make the thumbnail by removing the background from various screenshots.

The Title Screen logo and Rinnosuke's portrait is pretty self-explanatory, I took a screenshot and remove the background, and added a subtle black border around it.

The background is perhaps the most interesting part. The background comes from the "Gallery Viewer" from that game, but because I had no way to extract the game's data, how did I managed to get it clean like this?

Well, I went through a lot of the artworks in the game, and manually covered all the parts to make the green background without any elements whatsover. Some artworks were small or were in different parts of the screen (not exactly in the middle), in which, I was slowly covering all the spaces to make the background completely element free.

By manually removing each of those artworks in different locations, eventually, I got the green background restored. The background never changes between artworks, which made this possible.

For example, there's a Sakuya artwork that is mostly located at the bottom of the screen, and there's an artwork for Kisume that is located at the top of the screen. Because there's transparent areas between those artworks, I can just remove the difference between them (the artworks themselves), and slowly re-construct the original green background. It took about 15-ish different artworks to be able to reconstruct the background.