DREAMAKER

I can absolutely recommend anyone to not use this software. While re-inserting, lines from the Event code sometimes merge with other Event code in the weirdest way I've ever seen. For example, I had a Message that was merged together with a Choice Option, making a lot of my code completely messed up and causing a lot of weird bugs. This program seems to be very buggy at its current stage and I can only recommend to avoid it. The errors that will arise in your game while using this software are absolutely unpredictable.

Greetings,
Tw0Face

author=Tw0Face
I can absolutely recommend anyone to not use this software. While re-inserting, lines from the Event code sometimes merge with other Event code in the weirdest way I've ever seen. For example, I had a Message that was merged together with a Choice Option, making a lot of my code completely messed up and causing a lot of weird bugs. This program seems to be very buggy at its current stage and I can only recommend to avoid it. The errors that will arise in your game while using this software are absolutely unpredictable.

Are you sure you didn't edit some of the characters that are needed to tell RPG Maker which commands start and end where? If you edit them it will screw up your event commands, but otherwise it should be just fine.

author=lavendersiren
Question: does this tool work with projects updated to work in the most recent version of steam 2k3? If not, are there any stable alternatives?
My game needs some heavy text editing done and this tool would be perfect for that.

No, it doesn't. It was never updated to support the new and changed event commands, so even if it did work it would probably break your game.

author=Tw0Face
A software made for the purpose of just editing text messages shouldn't be able to screw up basic programming strings to cause weird bugs all over the place. Using this software was my worst decision I've ever made since I started using RPG Maker.

I mean, it'd be ideal if it didn't allow for that, but I haven't yet come across any other tool that does what DreaMaker does, let alone in a more waterproof way that's beginner-friendly. I'm not even sure if it's possible to make a tool that allows for easy mass translation in a singular text file like DreaMaker does without requiring code-based marking symbols to indicate where messages start, stop and which type they are, because without those markers it would be impossible to tell what kind of message you're trying to put back into the game and where it belongs.

There might be a way to make a different translation/text editing software for RPG Maker that's easier for beginners to use, but I'm not too sure how it would work and if it would be doable to make in a reasonable timespan by members of the RPG Maker community, because this game engine series is not exactly aimed at programmers in the first place.

I get your grievances, but I'm also not sure if/how those can be fixed in either DreaMaker or an alternative tool/software.