skyinstaller VS Avalonia

Trails in the Sky is peak JRPG goodness. If When you eventually get hooked, you have 7 more connected games to explore. The storyline, the music and the combat mechanics are incredibly well done. Just like any good story that takes time to introduce its characters, it starts slow. The first 2 games have a very lively female lead. Use this for voice patches.

I've finally gotten around to adding Steam Deck support to SkyInstaller (although in beta)! This should make installing the voice mods on Steam Deck much easier. You do not need developer mode or an unlocked filesystem.

You can mod all 3 Sky games to have voices, I personally recommend it!

I’m playing on the Vita personally so I haven’t needed to find it myself. Quick google search got me this: https://github.com/chyyran/skyinstaller

https://github.com/chyyran/skyinstaller You can use this to add the voices from PS Vita to the game. Same JP voices as in cold steel

Get it here: https://github.com/chyyran/skyinstaller

WPF is not the best example of open source, as some components are still closed source. Though it only runs on Windows, a closed source operating system, so perhaps that is not so important.

https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2554

That said, there are cross platform, open source .NET UI frameworks out there, including one that is inspired by WPF:

https://avaloniaui.net/

You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.

[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].

The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.

See my comment [2]

[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128

Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.

Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/

Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."

(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )

It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.

Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.

[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)