Homebrew Official EasyRPG 3DS - RPG Maker 2000/2003 Player for 3DS

[Mastak]

Yep, I remember the MIDI loop points, I implemented them myself a few times. Very game specific feature, I'm pretty sure people didn't have it in mind when designing the MIDI standard and it's just an arbitrary controller command RPG Maker decided to use.

Yepp, controller command 0x111...

Okay because some people want to test (includes MIDI):
Here is the CIA https://easyrpg.org/downloads/tmp/easyrpg-player-latest.cia
And a 3DSX ZIP: https://easyrpg.org/downloads/tmp/easyrpg-player-3ds-latest.zip

 

[hidd12]

Lower screen with the numpad now appears corrupted and tested on .flow, its telling me some textures are missing/main room is almost fully white (O3DSXL 11.2 Luma+A9LH)

 

[Mastak]

Lower screen with the numpad now appears corrupted and tested on .flow, its telling me some textures are missing/main room is almost fully white (O3DSXL 11.2 Luma+A9LH)

We recently updated to latest devkitARM and ctrulib version, will check. Don't have a 3DS here but Citra also renders it a bit incorrectly it seems.

.flow is probably a problem with the encoding detection. Does it use japanese files? If yes open the "RPG_RT.ini" of the .flow game and add

[EasyRPG]
Encoding=932

This forces "shift-jis" (Japanese encoding). Then restart .flow.
There is currently no way to overwrite the encoding from the generic GameBrowser.

 

[hidd12]

We recently updated to latest devkitARM and ctrulib version, will check. Don't have a 3DS here but Citra also renders it a bit incorrectly it seems.

.flow is probably a problem with the encoding detection.

Does, renders properly now with no fragmentation/missing textures, skips a few frames rarely, but the sound is properly sync'd up.

Problems I have noticed since I updated:
-On OFF the sound lags a bit and as such sounds as if fragmented
-Some games experience lag while ingame (lots of interactive/moving sprites on screen) and while opening/closing menus (Tho I'm on an O3DS, so makes sense that it lags ; -; )
(Tested on OFF, Yume Nikki, .flow, Touhou Mother, Space Funeral, Wadanohara, The Gray Garden, Ib)

 

[magpiess]

Hey there, I don't know how actively this is being developed or monitored, but I'm scratching my head over this so I'm wondering if anyone can help. Ever since I got a9lh + luma on my system I haven't been able to use this at all. Beforehand I was able to use the 3dsx through Soundhax fine (the numpad was glitched and Space Funeral would crash after about five minutes of playing but I chalked that up to general instability) and played through about half of Yume Nikki. Since I fully hacked my system however I have been unable to get the player to run. When I go through the CIA it immediatley crashes back to the system menu. The crash log reads "Error: Couldn't initialize audio. Error code: 0xD880A7FA" Going through the homebrew launcher is similarly unsuccessful, the player initializes but stops completely when the bottom screen turns green and I have to hard reset. Considering that it worked before and that I haven't updated the system menu, really not sure what's going on here.

Other pertinent info:

N3DSXL
System Version 1.3 U
a9lh + luma

 

[Mr.Faq2015]

Which version did you download? Download the latest official version (the only one?), avoid nightlies for the time being

Edit: did I really miss 0.5.1? Holy s**t... Going to test it rn

Sent from my 1DS with A9LH using Discord Nitro

 

[hidd12]

I switched my O3DSXL for a N3DSXL, gonna test as soon as I can get a new microsd card

 

[Mastak]

@magpiess
We reworked the sound system and it only uses ndsp now. Right after 0.5.1 we were made aware that this needs a DSP firmware on your SD card, otherwise it crashes... We plan to provide a visual warning for this with 0.5.2 (expected in a month before the summer break )

You can get the DSP firmware dumped e.g. with this tool by Cruel: https://github.com/Cruel/DspDump/releases
Just run this once, then EasyRPG should work again

Features of the new sound system:

• No audio glitches anymore (before you sometimes got random noise).
  
• Fade In/Fade Out works.
• MIDI support!
• Pitch (speedup/slowdown audio playback) works. But only on N3DS because we run on the 2nd core to prevent framedrops and threads on this core have a very small CPU time window only and pitching takes too long :/.

Also important: Better use the continious build at the bottom of the download page instead. We encountered two regressions already: One is a savegame corruption when you play non-english games and save and the other is a scrolling error with backgrounds. These are fixed in the continious builds (and will be fixed in 0.5.2)

One upcoming feature (which is not in the continious builds yet): https://my.mixtape.moe/aiegxa.webm

 

[Vis_Mage]

Hey!

If possible, could someone help me out with creating a single-game CIA with easyRPG? (The tutorial is here: https://rinnegatamante.it/board/showthread.php?tid=64 )

I'm extremely new at all of this, and am not very good at these sort of technical things (it took me a long while to even get CWF on my 3ds in the first place). I'm completely stumped on the whole set-up process for all the pre-required required files (3dstool ,bannertool, makerom) needed for the process? Could someone help walk me through this, or even better, could someone send me a zip file of the required folder already set up? I would greatly appreciate it, getting some of my old RPG Maker games on the 3ds was one of the main reasons I looked into homebrew in the first place.

 

[Vis_Mage]

Bump.

 

[SomebodyElse]

Hey!

If possible, could someone help me out with creating a single-game CIA with easyRPG? (The tutorial is here: https://rinnegatamante.it/board/showthread.php?tid=64 )

Don't know if you're still looking for help, but everything that's missing from that packager can be found here, in the "stuffs" folder. Just put them in the same folder as build.bat. I think you need bannertool, maketool, hex_set, and 3dstool, but I just copied all of them to be safe.

It's worth noting, however, that there's really no good reason to do this, unless you're really set on having the games available from your home screen. The included .elf file is outdated (You can find an up-to-date one here), and if you want .midi support you'll need to download the .3dsx version (in the same link) and put the instruments folder and wildmidi.cfg file in the romfs folder. This adds around 20MB to each game you package. It's not a huge amount of data, but it's redundant data if you're going to have multiple games on your system.

More importantly than all that, I've been testing with one of the simplest games I have, and there's no real performance improvement from doing it this way versus just using the player normally. If anything, it runs slightly worse. There's also the point that, since EasyRPG is still pretty early in development and feature-incomplete, it's a lot easier to have your games separate from the engine so you don't have to repackage them when you want to update the engine.

 

[AllenHirai]

2 questions are you still working on this? And can you make a cia version? thankyou

 

[gnmmarechal]

2 questions are you still working on this? And can you make a cia version? thankyou

A cia version is available already...

https://ci.easyrpg.org/job/player-3ds/

 

[Mastak]

Correct, the only purpose of game specific CIAs is to have icons on the home screen, no change in performance at all.

We got a report that since latest luma and bootstrap9 and the new hb-menu our 3dsx file is not working anymore btw (because title selection is not supported), havn't investigated this yet, summer vacation break. So only the CIA is currently supported.

 

[Boured]

2 questions are you still working on this? And can you make a cia version? thankyou

1. No, said person quit the scene because reasons.
2. Refer to @gnmmarechal

 

[gnmmarechal]

1. No, said person quit the scene because reasons.
2. Refer to @gnmmarechal

EasyRPG 3DS is still being worked on, though, iirc.

 

[Mastak]

We usually don't work on new features for the 3DS version but we still provide updates and EasyRPG Player is under active development.

The latest 3DS-exclusive improvements: A visual warning on startup when the DSP firmware is missing and the touchscreen shows now a visual indicator which button was pressed.

 

[Gultigargar]

Sorry for the late reponse, but is there a actual good guide for this?

I used the old one https://blog.easyrpg.org/2016/05/player-for-nintendo-3ds/ from here, but it doesn't detect titles.

 

[Mastak]

Currently only the CIA works when you use the latest custom firmware.
For unhacked systems (just with HBL) the 3dsx still works.

Well you put (for the CIA) the games in "sdcard:/3ds/easyrpg-player" . Ensure that the games are extracted and contain a file called "RPG_RT.ldb".
For 3dsx the games belong in the folder that has the 3dsx.

 

[RogueZero]

Hey guys, first I got to really thank you for this project, RPG Maker is one of my favorite platforms and this is just awesome!
I wanted to know if it's still working as of 11.6, since mine just won't load games.
I'm currently on a non-cfw old 3ds on 11.6.0-39U using oothax 2.9.
I can launch easyRpg just fine, but when I try to launch Ib what seems like a loading bar just barely starts to fill and stops, and I tried waiting for an hour.
The game works fine on easyRpg for windows, and I have put the rtp files inside 2000/2003 respective folders.
Can someone confirm this, or help me otherwise? Thanks a lot