Caanoo Nightly Build for Player

Thanks to Rikku2000 we are able to extend our range of precompiled player binaries with a new target:

The Caanoo. That’s an open source handheld, based on Linux. You probably never heard about it, in that case you should check out our other player binaries.

To hear midi music you have to extract timidity into the same folder as easyrpg.ini. The same applies to the RTP (RPG Maker 2000/2003 Runtime Package), these should be placed in “data/rtp/2000” and “data/rtp/2003”.

You will also need the Font Package, place the Font folder in the same directory as the Player (thats the directory of the RPG maker game you want to run)

Note that this is only a service for the community to make testing for non-developers easier. Don’t expect that the games run error free. Save/Load are still incomplete and no battle system is implemented.

Windows & Wii Nightly Build for Player

From now on you can get precompiled Windows and Wii binaries for the latest changes on EasyRPG Player via our jenkins server.

Windows

System requirements: XP SP2 or newer
All files are compiled using the Visual Studio 2010 compiler, 32 bit, release mode (under Linux using Wine :))

Wii

You need a way to execute homebrew. To hear midi music you have to extract timidity in /data/timidity/ (of your sd or usb root). The RTP (RPG Maker 2000/2003 Runtime Package) should be placed in /data/rtp/2000 and /data/rtp/2003

Besides Wii & Windows our jenkins server is also building versions targetting other plattforms by the way. Besides hardware limitations all versions should have the same compatibility, they all use the same codebase.

Crowdsourcing unknown savegame data

In order to allow proper saving/loading of games in EasyRPG we must support the RPG Makers save format (LSD).

Many of the data defined in the savegame is already figured out (because it maps to the LDB Database) but there is also a lot of temporary runtime data that is still unknown (but important to load the game correctly).

Now we ask you to help us figuring out the unknown data. What you have to do? Alter some data in the savegame, load it, see a change, report the change.

To make editing the save a bit easier we provide a tool for you: lsd2xml
It allows you to convert LSD files to a bit better readable XML files (you can open them with any text editor).

How to use it:
LSD2XML: Converts LSD files to XML. Just start the program, enter the id of your savegame (from 1 to 15) and press enter. It creates a Save[id].xml for you.
XML2LSD: Converts XML files to LSD. Same as the other one, but it takes a Save[id].xml and outputs the Save[id].lsd, so you can load it again via RPG_RT (which is kinda useful, you know :))
Both programs also support command line arguments, just pass a value from 1-15 as the first argument.

What you have to do:
When you open the XML file you will see a lot of sections starting with <unknown_…>. The value between the opening and the closing tag (often -1) is the unknown value. Change the value and then convert it back to LSD. Now try to see a difference (by loading it with RPG_RT, not EasyRpg Player) and report it to us (post the tag, the value you used and the purposes of the tag).
Another way is to create two savegames (at different times of course) and then compare the values in the save (there are also graphical diff tools for such purposes). This is maybe useful if you try to see if some events alter unknown data.

Example for a post:
[SavePartyLocation][unknown_25]: Movement Speed
[SavePartyLocation][unknown_2a] = 1: blocks movement
(Just figured these two values out, rest is your job)

Oh and sorry for only providing Windows versions of the program, but to run RPG_RT you need Wine under Linux anyway. ;)

Update (January 2013):
To run this under Windows XP you have to install Service Pack 2 (this was released 2004, please update your system). Does not run on Windows 2000 or older.

Update (May 2016):
lsd2xml has been replaced by a generic tool that can convert all lcf data to xml and vice versa: lcf2xml. It can run under Windows, Linux and probably other platforms and is available in our Tools Download section.The main difference is, that it has no GUI anymore, but can be used by drag’n’dropping a file on it.