mkxp-z
Open-source cross-platform player for (some) RPG Maker XP / VX / VX Ace games. A very heavily modified fork of mkxp. RGSS on steroids with a stupid name. (by mkxp-z)
mkxp
Free Software implementation of the Ruby Game Scripting System (RGSS) (by joiplay)
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3 | 2 | |
137 | 26 | |
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8.4 | 1.2 | |
11 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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mkxp-z
Posts with mentions or reviews of mkxp-z.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-30.
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Does anyone know about Falcon-mkxp and its incompatibility issue?
I actually hadn't heard of Falcon-mkxp before, but I have played around with mkxp-z a bit, and it was simple to use. AFAIK, it was last updated a few months ago, and it's pretty widely used (since it's used in Pokemon Essentials). You might give it a shot.
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Some RPG Maker XP games (read: Pokemon fangames) will run natively, with excellent performance, using mkxp-z. I suspect we will eventually be able to get most/all running that way.
The "mkxp" project is a cross-platform, drop-in replacement for the RPGMakerXP executable (the "Game.exe" file)—you copy the platform-specific binary and dependencies to your game folder, point it to the Game.exe file, and run that binary instead of Game.exe. It has sort of died and sort of been revived, and the current fork is mkxp-z. It yields performance improvements even on Windows, and on Linux the difference is night and day. It's so good that current versions of Pokemon Essentials include mkxp, and have for the past year, so recent fangames (I believe it's Pokemon Essentials 19+? Don't quote me on that) should work well on the Deck.
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Will Pokemon Essentials work on Batocera?
This thing's supposed to let RPG Maker games run without Windows https://github.com/mkxp-z/mkxp-z but I don't know if it works.
mkxp
Posts with mentions or reviews of mkxp.
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Some RPG Maker XP games (read: Pokemon fangames) will run natively, with excellent performance, using mkxp-z. I suspect we will eventually be able to get most/all running that way.
But the real reason for this post is that I suspect it is possible to get all Pokemon fangames running even without the help of their devs, and I'm hoping that if enough people try we will figure out how. My main reason for thinking that this is possible is Joiplay, an Android app that could (until Android 11's filesystem changes) run Insurgence, Uranium, etc. with acceptable performance. Joiplay appears to be based, at least in part, on the Joiplay developer's forks of mkxp.
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Putting out a $50 bounty on a Pokemon Insurgence to PS Vita
That said, there have been XP players on Android already, and I believe one (JoiPlay) has some compatibility settings for games using Pokemon Essentials. I haven't tried to see if Insurgence works on it, but they have an open-source base (mkxp) which could certainly be a starting point.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mkxp-z and mkxp you can also consider the following projects:
mkxp - Free Software implementation of the Ruby Game Scripting System (RGSS)
android-mkxp - A fork of android-mkxp modified for JoiPlay
Falcon-mkxp - Free Software implementation of the Ruby Game Scripting System (RGSS)