EasyRPG Alpha (1305)

February 20th, 2011, 22:29 Posted By: wraggster

News via http://www.aep-emu.de/

EasyRPG is a free, open-source clone of RPG Maker 2000/2003. It is available for various platforms, including Windows, Wii, PSP and Linux.


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Hello everybody,

as usual its time for the “progress log”.

If you dont care scroll down and download the alpha .

For End Users:
Weather effects [glynnc]
Move command improvments [ghabry, glynnc]
Shop scene improvments [ghabry, glynnc, niltonpd]
Bugfixes in Tilemap code [glynnc]
Game interpreter optimizations/fixes [ghabry, zhek]
Unicode support [ghabry, glynnc]
XYZ support [glynnc]
Picture support [glynnc]
Fixes for 16bit rendering [glynnc, zhek]
PSP Port [zhek]
Fix Fullscreen and 320×240 (default resolution) [zhek]
Editor: All important Gui elements created [fdelapena]

Because of some missing features in SDL the new default renderer is now Pixman (xrender software fallback).

And there are of course again lots of fixes in the Event Interpreter. More and more games become playable.

For Developers:
Bitmap refactoring [glynnc]
SoftBitmap and PixmanBitmap classes [glynnc]
Sdl independent freetype class [glynnc]
utf8 fallback for systems without wchar [ghabry]
cmake support [takecheeze]
wip audio backend refactoring [zhek]

Alpha Download (r1305):

Windows: Download x86 build

Linux: Compile yourself (there is also cmake-support)

Wii: Download Wii build

PSP: Download PSP build (bit older then other versions)

Dingoo: Download Dingoo build by shin-nil

Sourcecode: SVN checkout

Installation instructions:

Place it in the game directory (where RPG_RT.exe is) and execute it.

Other important information:

Missing features: No battle scene, no load or save, no vehicles, some menus are implemented in the Rpg2k-version only. Most of this is planned for the next alpha (or beta?).

Wii: To hear midi music you have to extract timidity in /data/timidity/ (of your sd or usb root). And there is no mp3 support for this plattform yet. The RTP can be placed in /data/rtp/2000 and /data/rtp/2003

PSP: To hear midi music you have to extract timidity in the game folder (you should have timidity.cfg and a folder instruments then). Rtp Paths are not supported. The RTP can be placed in /data/rtp/2000 and /data/rtp/2003.

Fonts (Windows only): To get text rendering like in RPG_RT you have to put the RM2000.fon in the subdirectory Font of the game directory (the folder where rpg_rt.exe is).

Fonts (Not Windows): You have to place the included font file into your game folder ([gamedir]/Font/DejaVuLGCSansMono.ttf) otherwise the player will terminate.

Encoding: Because the old Rpg Maker is not an unicode application you have to specify the encoding to play such games properly. Open the RPG_RT.ini in your game folder and create a new section:

[EasyRpg]
Encoding=codepage
Instead of “codepage” you have to write the codepage number, thats 1251 for cyrillic and 932 (shift jis) for japanese. Note that some fonts dont have the required glyphs. For japanese support you have to put the file msgothic.ttc in the Font directory.

Reporting problems: When the windows version crashes it creates a crash dump file in the same directory. You can send it to us for further analysis (together with a short note what you did).


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