We got a request if we could provide EasyRPG Player binaries for Windows RT (ARM). You can get them in the download section under “contributed ports” because we provide this without any support. Creating this port didn’t require much effort because it is highly similar to the other Windows builds.
This port is probably of not much interest for most users because Windows RT does only allow signed desktop apps and Windows store apps. To run the Player your system must run in test mode. Running in test mode is not supported by Microsoft, do it at your own risk!
As usual this was also integrated in the Jenkins build service (and of course in the download section under “Continuous builds”). We don’t have any system with Windows RT, but the build system is almost the same as for the other Windows systems, it should “just work” without further maintenance.
You are a developer and want to maintain a port for another system? Feel free to contact us!
Installation
RTP
The RTP installer won’t run under Windows RT. Install the RTP on your normal Windows system and copy the installed files on your Windows RT system.
For RPG2K games: Set the environment variable RPG2K_RTP_PATH to the RPG Maker 2000 RTP path
For RPG2K3 games: Set the environment variable RPG2K3_RTP_PATH to the RPG Maker 2003 RTP path
Games
Same as for Windows: Copy the games anywhere and PlayerArm.exe in the game directory (or one directory above to use the game browser)
If you are celebrating christmas: Merry christmas! For everybody else: Today is your lucky day!
Today we release version 0.4.0, Codename “Poison Attack”.
This version introduces a simple game browser for all platforms (except Android, which already has a native one) and fixes lots of important issues in the game interpreter and battles. Furthermore the new conditions and events of RPG Maker 2003 v1.11 (The official English release) are supported now.
The new version codename refers to the next database tab (skills), and “Poison Attack” is the first skill in the list.
Battle
The battle against Sylvia in Unterwegs in Düsterburg resulted in a hang because battle animations were repeated endlessly (#656).
Fixed a divide by 0 crash during battles in Mystic Sunrise because some battlers had zero MP (#653).
Battle event pages with start condition “actor turn” or “enemy turn” don’t run multiple times now in the same turn. This fixes repeated message issues in OFF (#674).
Boss battles finally working better in OFF
Fix hang in battles in Monigote Fantasy when using idle animation states (#608).
Pending battle events were not correctly cleared in RPG Maker 2003 battle system when the battle ended. The next battle deadlocked the game (#652).
Loading a save from RPG_RT didn’t restore RPG 2003 battle commands correctly, rendering battles impossible (#601).
Pressing F12 during a RPG Maker 2000 battle crashed the game the next time a battle started (#419).
Interpreter
There were many fixes to the interpreter which are a bit difficult to explain. Most of them are related to the execution order of events and special corner cases of the RPG_RT interpreter. In short: Many games will work better.
Ib: Interpreter hanged in the sketchbook bucket house (#629).
Ib: Picking of one piece of the Guertena painting was not possible. The reason for this was that there were two events that started when pressing “Enter” but Player only started one (#669).
Ib: Pressing decision/cancel key in the Mirror was closing it mostly instantly. This issue was also affecting Wadanohara (#645).
The “Measure time until key is pressed” method of “Process Key Input” incremented the counter ten times faster than RPG_RT, affecting Clock of Atonement (#659)
Mimicry Man: Message Window was not closing (#589).
Monigote Fantasy. Entering houses required touching the tile twice (incorrect handling of “On Touch” events) (#654).
Unterwegs in Düsterburg. A bug in move route handling (Event command: Proceed with Movement) resulted in a hang in Grandys house (#650).
Unterwegs in Düsterburg. The interpreter froze in Grandys Zimmer at Königsberg (#665).
The Sacred Tears: TRUE and Standstill Girl
The main character was not able to move because these games used move routes that could finish in one update tick (e.g. commands like “Change sprite” or “Face left”). RPG_RT will not block the movement in such cases but Player did. This fixed movement in The Sacred Tears: TRUE and Standstill Girl. Which is quite ironic because of Standstill :D.
Standstill Girl is not standing still anymoreThe hero in Sacred Tears can walk now
The cursor in the title scene of Sacred Tears: TRUE was not displayed (#559).
Switching from charset to tileset graphics was broken. This resulted in a hang in the library of Boy Ichiro’s Modesty (#667).
Support for music loop condition in conditional branch. This fixes a hang in the intro cutscene of のび太戦記ACE (#655).
The rain sound effect was played hundreds of times in Vampires Dawn. Parallel common events are now suspended when the start condition is not met anymore (instead of reset) (#453).
Incorrectly render order (Z value) when tiles were substituted in Æ: (#620).
The new event commands and conditional branch conditions introduced with RPG Maker 2003 v1.11 (English release) are supported now (#587).
The “Change Equipment” was not working correctly (#688)
When an event contained multiple battle encounters the interpreter jumped to the condition handler (win/lose) of the last one (#610).
The call inn command was not working properly, it was not recovering the party and this was making games much harder to play (#631).
Fixed KeyInputProc for games that were created with RPG Maker 2000 and later converted to RPG Maker 2003 (#604).
Events on the map were not refreshed by all events that altered variables (#590).
Screen flash timing was not working properly (#644).
F12 (Return to title) did not reset all values (#651).
Web
Web Audio issues were resolved and now supports MIDI and MOD playback (#641).
Many improvements for Android (they were already available in the PlayStore since months, but to sum it up):
The buttons are resizable and multiple layouts can be saved. Also portrait orientation is now supported. You can get vibration feedback when you press a button (#598, #597, #591).
Support for systems with x86 CPU (before: only ARM). If it was crashing on start up on your device: Try again.
“EXFONT” rendering (glyph symbols rendered when using $a-$z and $A-$Z codes) finally works. It was broken because our lazy Android maintainer did not update our library for PNG rendering since years :P .
Wadanohara with ExFont on Android
Hungarian translation (#648). Thanks to Farkas Ürdüng.
Portuguese translation (#686). Thanks to Kennedy Cirino da silva and Daniel Paim de Mattos!
Other fixes/improvements
XP support was dropped, sorry!
A Game browser was added (#664). This allows loading games from the current directory. Navigating in other directories is not yet possible, but is useful for embedded devices.
Game Browser showing the many games our developers have
Weather effects were not persisting between maps (#592).
NOT included in this release
Some features were planned for 0.4 but couldn’t be finished error free in time: Screen shake and tiled rendering mode for system graphics. They will come in a later release a few months later.
For developers:
This version started using C++11 features to make development more pleasant.
Windows: Because of C++11 you need to build Player with Visual Studio 2015 and because older versions are already unsupported (#595).
This was a quick one. In 0.3.1 we found a critical bug that hung the Player when loading some maps. This version is codenamed “Hornet” because that’s the 3rd enemy in the official English RPG Maker 2000, in Don’s translation the 3rd one is “Spider”.
Besides this crash fix we also introduced some other improvements that didn’t finish on time before 0.3.1: Battle animations finally work as expected everywhere, this includes animations on the whole screen and animation on targets, additionally sound effects and flash effects are executed now (#365, #574)
Another interesting one broke ゆめ２っき (Yume2kki). This game faded out the screen at the beginning and then showed a message box which got instantly closed using “\^” and showed the screen again. So this message box was never visible and completely useless (same for the fade out/in), but the Player had a bug that had the closing logic of the window in the drawing code which was never called because it is faded out. Now the closing logic is in the normal update loop and the game finally starts. It seems this game was designed on purpose to break the Player :D. (#577)
Music was not playing in the battle in OFF. The cause for this was that many parts of the Player code used the Database default music/sound effects and not the ones in the savegame data (the ones that can be altered via events). A gigantic “Search & Replace” resolved this issue everywhere. (#581)
Another annoying bug that crashed the Player randomly after ending a battle since a long time and nobody ever found a reason for is #580. But the cause is finally found: It happens when a battle animation plays on the map while the battle is started. But this is finally resolved so you must not be afraid of that crash anymore :)
Games that used bitmaps with a width that was not a multiple of four were rendered incorrectly. This affected the game “Mimicry Man”. (#583)
liblcf got some more chunks documented. These chunks are not yet used by the Player, but will be in a future release. Thanks to Cherry for the help! (#152)
