Hacking [RELEASE] EasyRPG Vita - RPG Maker 2000/2003 player for PSVITA

[M[u]ddy]

Not only Japanese characters. Some German games have umlauts in their filenames, which won't work either.
Are we even sure the Vitas file system supports those characters?

Also Vampires Dawn 1 has some serious sound problems. The main menu music is playing way to fast and none of the sound effects is working properly either.

 

[VitaType]

Not only Japanese characters. Some German games have umlauts in their filenames, which won't work either.

Which definitely is bad manner, even in the unicode-age.
ä -> ae, ö -> oe, ü -> ue and ß -> ss/sz so it's compatible with the fixed first 128 ASCII signs. Thats how to name game resources in german.

Are we even sure the Vitas file system supports those characters?

I have files on my Vita which are displayed with umlauts in VitaShell.
Therfore I think its not a problem with the filesystem but the (homebrew) programs.

Also Vampires Dawn 1 has some serious sound problems. The main menu music is playing way to fast and none of the sound effects is working properly either.

The sound seams to be better in the english version. Don't know why.

 

[Mastak]

A user on reddit pointed out that he was able to transfer yume nikkki with winscp by going to the advanced settings and setting the encoding to utf-8. Maybe this works?

 

[Sabishinbo]

A user on reddit pointed out that he was able to transfer yume nikkki with winscp by going to the advanced settings and setting the encoding to utf-8. Maybe this works?

To some degree. I was able to transfer over Violated Heroine, but some of the characters/textures aren't rendered. I would assume that this is a side effect of the Vita not being able to decipher the Japanese unicode filenames. Pic related. http://prntscr.com/c30egn

 

[Kaibutsu01]

I'm also having issues with sound/music. In both Yume Nikki (which I managed to transfer) and Ib (has no filenames with non-unicode characters), none of the sound effects play correctly, and in Yume Nikki's case, the music pitch/speed is totally off.

I hope Rinne can update this soon, though he's porting a lot of stuff for Vita.

 

[VitaType]

To some degree. I was able to transfer over Violated Heroine, but some of the characters/textures aren't rendered. I would assume that this is a side effect of the Vita not being able to decipher the Japanese unicode filenames. Pic related. http://prntscr.com/c30egn

Are you sure that this game dosn't needs a run time package (there is one for 2000 and one for 2003) which isn't installed?

Paths:
ux0:/data/easyrpg-player/rtp/2000
ux0:/data/easyrpg-player/rtp/2003

 

[Mastak]

Are you sure that this game dosn't needs a run time package (there is one for 2000 and one for 2003) which isn't installed?

Paths:
ux0:/data/easyrpg-player/rtp/2000
ux0:/data/easyrpg-player/rtp/2003

Yes the reported missing files are RTP files, I know these filenames. You can also use Dons (unofficial) translation instead of the japanese files, EasyRPG will do some redirection voodoo in that case, but the result is not always 100% correct

 

[Sabishinbo]

Are you sure that this game dosn't needs a run time package (there is one for 2000 and one for 2003) which isn't installed?

Paths:
ux0:/data/easyrpg-player/rtp/2000
ux0:/data/easyrpg-player/rtp/2003

From this site, right? https://tkool.jp/support/download/rpg2000/rtp
Funny thing - It actually says something about missing RTP files upon start-up, but I would've never guessed that EasyRPG would require 2000-3 RTP builds. I'll try it out now, arigato.

 

[SapphireDaisy]

Sweet! trying this asap.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Yes the reported missing files are RTP files, I know these filenames. You can also use Dons (unofficial) translation instead of the japanese files, EasyRPG will do some redirection voodoo in that case, but the result is not always 100% correct

huh, it does report it doesn't find the RTP, but those games don't use it, it's fine to ignore the warning.

 

[Mastak]

huh, it does report it doesn't find the RTP, but those games don't use it, it's fine to ignore the warning.

Yeah it's just a warning to notify that this can happen. But the user with the real missing files warning played Violated Heroine and this seems to depend on RTP assets.

 

[Mr.Positive]

Chain of Retribution doesn't display the character classes correctly, and enemy sprites don't disappear after you defeat them.

 

[Rinnegatamante]

EasyRPG Vita is now officially released!

You can grab latest nightly always updated to latest commit on official repository from official Jenkins system here:
https://ci.easyrpg.org/job/player-vita/

 

[M[u]ddy]

I'm also having issues with sound/music. In both Yume Nikki (which I managed to transfer) and Ib (has no filenames with non-unicode characters), none of the sound effects play correctly, and in Yume Nikki's case, the music pitch/speed is totally off.

I hope Rinne can update this soon, though he's porting a lot of stuff for Vita.

The sound issues seem to be caused by incompatibility with lower sampling rates. By re-encoding the wav files with 44.1kHz you can fix the issues.

EasyRPG Vita is now officially released!

You can grab latest nightly always updated to latest commit on official repository from official Jenkins system here:
https://ci.easyrpg.org/job/player-vita/

This one doesn't run very well. It instantly crashes with most games for me.

 

[Kaibutsu01]

Okay, now games run mostly fine, but I have a few things to report.

- All games so far: Stuttering when sound effects play. It's very slight, but still noticeable. Gets worse if many sound effects play on sequence.
- Yume Nikki, LcdDem and similar Yume-Nikki fangames: Run very well, but once you activate the bicycle/sneakers/(item for walking faster) and walk around tiles that make different noises, the app will probably crash.
- LcdDem: load times are pretty long. Like, half-minute long or so.
- Answered Prayers: Game is very slow. Probably because of rain effects.

 

[Martoto1267]

does some one know where are the 1 and 2 buttons mapped on the vita because some games use them to access menus like zelda 1 and metal gear solid rpg

 

[Rinnegatamante]

does some one know where are the 1 and 2 buttons mapped on the vita because some games use them to access menus like zelda 1 and metal gear solid rpg

Atm this is the current mapping: https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player/blob/master/src/psp2_ui.cpp#L124-L151 (Shouldn't be hard to understand)

Basically 1 is right analog down and 2 is atm not usable (i think 8 on triangle can be replaced, does it exist a single game using 8?)

 

[Mastak]

Concerning the audio (I'm another easyrpg dev): Could you test it again with this build here (it's a different one then Rinne linked):
https://ci.easyrpg.org/view/Pull Requests/job/player-vita-pr/3/

Games with bad title music seem to be Yume Nikki and Vampires Dawn?
If the music is still bad in these games could you record a Video (with Audio of course ) of the title screen of one of these games for me so I can listen to it? Maybe I have then an idea what is wrong.

And I really talk about BGM, not sound effects.

 

[Mr.Positive]

OFF's Sounds and Animations are working now, although there's a big FPS dip when you ride the train in Zone 1.

Chain of Retribution still has the problem where class names are being rendered as random symbols.

 

[M[u]ddy]

Concerning the audio (I'm another easyrpg dev): Could you test it again with this build here (it's a different one then Rinne linked):
https://ci.easyrpg.org/view/Pull Requests/job/player-vita-pr/3/

Games with bad title music seem to be Yume Nikki and Vampires Dawn?
If the music is still bad in these games could you record a Video (with Audio of course ) of the title screen of one of these games for me so I can listen to it? Maybe I have then an idea what is wrong.

And I really talk about BGM, not sound effects.

Music and sound effects are fine in this build.