Astroboy RPG -- Official Thread

[Hikari Tail]

Btw i finished Tima's coloring.

[Daichi]

So lovely.
If you like, we can discuss her story a bit more? In DA notes so it'll be private, of course.

[tonigirl1000]

Thanks, but in my case that is not possible Fafner.
I feel neither human or alien to this planet, i care and i regret not having the power i need to protect those of this world.
This is autobiographical
Your friend, praying you the best, Toni

[Daichi]

[QUOTE=Daichi;78422]I see... What if we used a platform other than DS? Could that be done?

If you can tell me which game generator you use, I can tell you what can be done.[/QUOTE]

RPG Tsukuru 2003 / RPG Maker 2003.

[Hikari Tail]

hey Daichi sorry to be a bother but can you tell me once again what kind of eyes you want for Pero?

[fafner]

[QUOTE=fafner;78462]If you can tell me which game generator you use, I can tell you what can be done.

RPG Tsukuru 2003 / RPG Maker 2003.[/QUOTE]
I managed to find and download RPG Maker XP, which seems to be a different version of RPG Maker 2003. I had some difficulties to find my way because there are many Japanese websites involved, and I... erm... lack practice in reading Japanese In short, I can't read a thing If you can direct me to a place where I can download the correct version, it would be better.
Anyway, if the file formats are similar, it could be quite difficult without some documentation. Most of the data files use binary format, which is very difficult to reverse-engineer. Maybe the best would be to contact the firm that wrote it and see whether there is a version of the software that can generate games for other platforms than Windows. An alternative would be to get documentations of their formats; explaining the reason to get those documentations might make them more cooperative (or not, depending on their interest in the topic).

[Daichi]

hey Daichi sorry to be a bother but can you tell me once again what kind of eyes you want for Pero?

Nah, you aren't a bother. Well, the 'whites' of his eyes are black like in the book, but I want him to have irises and pupils as well. I changed my mind about the colour, think they'll look better yellow. Thanks.

[QUOTE=Daichi;78516][QUOTE=fafner;78462]If you can tell me which game generator you use, I can tell you what can be done.

RPG Tsukuru 2003 / RPG Maker 2003.[/QUOTE]
I managed to find and download RPG Maker XP, which seems to be a different version of RPG Maker 2003. I had some difficulties to find my way because there are many Japanese websites involved, and I... erm... lack practice in reading Japanese In short, I can't read a thing If you can direct me to a place where I can download the correct version, it would be better.
Anyway, if the file formats are similar, it could be quite difficult without some documentation. Most of the data files use binary format, which is very difficult to reverse-engineer. Maybe the best would be to contact the firm that wrote it and see whether there is a version of the software that can generate games for other platforms than Windows. An alternative would be to get documentations of their formats; explaining the reason to get those documentations might make them more cooperative (or not, depending on their interest in the topic).[/QUOTE]

Okay, you should be able to get it here:
http://z05.zupload.com/download.php?file=getfile&filepath=6118

Now there's a slight problem. RPG Tsukuru 2k3 is a Japanese-ONLY program. RPG Maker 2k3 is like a fansub. The company didn't approve it and it's available for free in America because it went unlicensed over here.
It seems to me that Enterbrain figured out that there was a market in America, but only after 2000 and 2003 were imported by fans.
In other words, I can't contact them because in order to reach a broader audience (not to mention my Japanese grammar sucks eggs), I went with the fan-lated version.

[Hikari Tail]

..irises and pupils what are they again? sorry my english is really bad.

[Daichi]

That's okay. Man, you speak English really well! I only know one other person with English as a second language who speaks it near as well as you.
My other friends... They forget most of the conjunctions. "I good today. How you doing?"

The iris is the ring of colour that separates the white part of the eye, and the black part in the middle. The black part in the middle is called the pupil.

I know English is your second language. If you don't know a word just ask me.
I'm a walkin' dictionary. X-P

[fafner]

Okay, you should be able to get it here:
http://z05.zupload.com/download.php?file=getfile&filepath=6118

Now there's a slight problem. RPG Tsukuru 2k3 is a Japanese-ONLY program. RPG Maker 2k3 is like a fansub. The company didn't approve it and it's available for free in America because it went unlicensed over here.
It seems to me that Enterbrain figured out that there was a market in America, but only after 2000 and 2003 were imported by fans.
In other words, I can't contact them because in order to reach a broader audience (not to mention my Japanese grammar sucks eggs), I went with the fan-lated version.

Too late, the file has been removed

This sounds bad... Reverse-engineering text files is usually not very difficult, but binary files is of random difficulty It may be a straight forward format (such as 2 bytes for width, 2 bytes for height, then raw data follows according to size), but it may also be incredibly complicated to accomodate many different ways to store data, with cryptic data formats and unknown modes hmy: I may give it a try, but I don't intend to spend months on it.
Let's be clear: I may be interested in spending months on writing a software that emulates Game Maker Whatever Version, but not on reverse-engineering