RPGMaker Trans v4.1 & Good Things Come to an End

So a TLDR: This blog has moved - go to the new RPGMaker Trans Website

Also on this day: RPGMaker Trans v4.1 released. Changelog etc on the new RPGMaker Trans Website. This is the last release that will be announced here.

Why move?

Why? This blog has never been ideal. The comment system has been a pain at times, and from my perspective, writing posts is a bit of a pain due to me wanting to write most of them on the train when I have no internet.

While there are some kinda nice things, it's nothing I can't have on the new RPGMaker Trans site. So that's where I'm moving this stuff. It's pretty fully featured - comments by Disqus, offline editing etc. I'm hoping to get analytics to work soon, but that's a project for another day.

Will this blog continue to exist? Dunno. I'm currently exploring the possibilities, but it seems unlikely. In any case, see you over at the new site

RPGMaker Trans v4.01 Beta Released

So my version numbering system insists it's time to add a .01 to the number, and who am I to argue? There were a lot of letter releases anyway...

RPGMaker Trans v4.01 Beta is hopefully the last beta release before I declare all of these changes non-beta.

Enhancements:

1. Fixes bugs! Lots of bugs! In no particular order - regex's now translateable again (broken by previous bug fix), GUI tries multiple ports before failing, doesn't ignore unnamed scripts, the rebuild patch button the GUI should now work
2. CLI mode now takes the patch and output directory as optional arguments; if they're not specified, it follows the _patch and _translated conventions.
3. Reworked the GUI
4. Exposed a feature that can dump labels for translations (for games with lazy programming which combines interface and display code)
5. Killed off a bunch of Ruby code that I don't need now I have the unmarshall module
6. Patch Banners: A patch can now contain the special files banner.txt and banner.html to display a message to the user. The CLI uses banner.txt; the GUI will try banner.html and then fall back to banner.txt. It's highly recommended anyone using this feature checks to see that the output looks good!

And that's all. Hopefully there are no big bugs in this release and I'll be able to promote it to being non-beta next week.

Oh, and also a new website. I'm not bothering with the current one because the new website is a lot easier to work with, but not quite complete yet.