Saturday 29 March 2014

RPGMaker Trans v2.04 Released

Another new release. Two things:

  1. Support loading patches with a UTF-8 BOM
  2. Support saving patches with a UTF-8 BOM (via an option)
For those who don't know what a UTF-8 BOM is, it's something Microsoft invented to identify UTF-8 documents. It's almost universally not recommended for technical reasons, but certain text editors on Windows require it. Of course, using a UTF-8 BOM on editors that don't require it could break those editors, hence why it's an option and not enabled-by-default.

Microsoft: Breaking standards since (insert some arbitrary date here)
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15 comments:

  1. Unknown30 March 2014 at 12:03

    I am Maker and I make game with RPG Maker, I like this blog !

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  2. Jasper1 April 2014 at 08:55

    Still unable to patch Violated Heroine, version 1 did work but now won't open.

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    1. Habisain1 April 2014 at 09:46

      Firstly: http://habisain.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/on-version-199.html

      Next: Any error messages? System specification? Operating system?

      If you want me to be able to help you, then you're going to have to at least give me some idea of what is going on rather than a simple 'it doesn't work'.

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    2. Jasper1 April 2014 at 19:23

      I apologize for not giving more info than, "it doesn't work."

      No error message, I select the game exe and it doesn't seem to recognize that it does anything, no error just nothingness.

      Windows 7 64bit.

      I understand no longer supporting it going forward, but preventing ver1 from not working altogether?

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    3. Habisain2 April 2014 at 03:20

      Again: http://habisain.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/on-version-199.html

      Specifically, if I didn't do this, then I wouldn't be able to get 2.x working and I'd have to deal with more bug reports from people using the 1.99 version who didn't bother upgrading. Unfortunately, this was the reality before I killed 1.99 permanently.

      What is the directory that you're trying to patch? What you're saying should work across versions, because this is one area of code which did not change. Also, is there an rpgmktranslated file in your source directory? Because if there is it might interfere (although it shouldn't)

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    4. Jasper2 April 2014 at 05:52

      It isn't in the source directory, it is two folders deeper.

      F:\My Games\RPGV\VH is where the game exe is located

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    5. Habisain2 April 2014 at 07:13

      What isn't in the source directory? The source directory is the directory containing the game.

      A long shot, but have you tried not having a space in the directory name (i.e. change the name to something like F:\RPGV\VH?)

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    6. Jasper2 April 2014 at 09:58

      Sorry, the patch file isn't in the source directory, it is two folders deeper, but moving it to a separate directory made no difference.

      I just tried moving everything to be just in the main portion of the drive (F:\VH and F:\PATCH), but it still doesn't work.

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    7. Habisain2 April 2014 at 10:11

      OK, to clarify the situation:

      1) The problem is that after selecting RPG_RT.EXE in the GUI, nothing happens.
      2) Inside the game folder (F:\VH), there is no file specifically named 'rpgmktranslated' or 'rpgmktranspatch', and there is a file named 'rpg_rt.ldb'. (capitlisation may vary)

      If that's the case, then could you upload your F:\VH directory somewhere and e-mail it to me (habisain at gmail dot com). I've tried to reproduce this bug and failed. To reduce size, you can delete the following folders before uploading: Backdrop, Battle, CharSet, ChipSet, FaceSet, GameOver, Monster, Movie, Music, Panorama, Picture, Sound, System, Title (note - these are the standard RPGMaker folders - anything else is something I may need to look at).

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    8. Jasper6 April 2014 at 08:02

      Sent over dropbox to you. Thanks again for assisting me with this issue.

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    9. Habisain6 April 2014 at 17:03

      Yeah, I can see the problem straight off. There are two files in the VH directory, one is RPGMKTRANSLATED and the other RPGMKTRANSPATCH (the ones I mentioned before). Not sure how they got there (maybe you tried to patch the game into it's own folder? Not a good idea), but they need to be deleted as one of the effects of those files is to tell RPGMaker Trans that the folder is *not* a source game.

      In all honesty, if you did try patching the game into it's own folder, translation patches won't do anything. You're better off downloading a fresh copy of the game.

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    10. Jasper6 April 2014 at 20:27

      That fixed the issue right up, thanks!

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  3. powerofvoid12 April 2014 at 07:20

    v2.04: Linux: Discovered that the program now requires Python 3.3 (magic number 9E 0C = 3230, because you use the second byte first)

    I'll probably want to get that the next time I decide to play (or replay) an RPGMaker game that requires patching.

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    1. Habisain12 April 2014 at 09:52

      I'm pretty certain I mentioned that before... Python 3.3 has been used since v2.01, maybe 2.0 final...

      In any case, the reason for the change is that Python 2.7 has some issues on Windows with long/non-ASCII paths. I've never really been able to figure out exactly what the issue is (partly due to difficulty reproducing and narrowing down why it occurs), other than the fact that Python 3 doesn't exhibit it. This is probably due to Python 3's better Unicode handling, but honestly, I don't know that for certain.

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