[DEVEL] LIBLCF AND LCF2XML

Hi all, this is an introduction about some developer stuff related with RPG Maker 2000/3.

liblcf

liblcf is a library to handle RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 game data.
It can read and write LCF and XML files.
Part of C++ source files can be regenerated from templates and CSV files using a Python script.

Examples of the usefulness of the library

- Better RTP dependency scanners
- Game translation tools
- Game interpreters and editors
- Game data analysis (e.g. automatic game data information retrieval for websites)

Support

RPG_RT.ldb: 100%
RPG_RT.lmt: 100%
MapXXXX.lmu: 100%
SaveXX.lsd: 75%

Features
- ANSI/SHIFT_JIS to UTF-8 conversion (WinAPI or iconv)
- Binary and XML native file format support

Dependencies

- libexpat (optional, for XML reading)

How to fill more SaveXX.lsd unknown data

- Edit the fields.csv file inside the csv folder with WordPad/Excel/LibreOffice Calc and fill with new Save chunk information
- execute generate.py (requires Python) to regenerate C++ files from csv
- rebuild liblcf.

License

liblcf is released under the MIT license.

Source code

https://github.com/EasyRPG/liblcf/

lcf2xml

LCF2XML is a small command line based tool to convert RPG Maker 2000(3) data to XML and vice-versa.

Examples of the usefulness of the tool

- Helps liblcf improvement
- Low level game data and savegames editing
- Game interpreter development and debugging
- Game data analysis

Supported files

RPG_RT.lmt, RPG_RT.ldb MapXXXX.lmu, SaveXX.lsd and their XML versions.

Usage examples

lcf2xml.exe Map0001.lmu mymap.xml
lcf2xml.exe mymap.xml Map0001.lmu

lcf2xml.exe Save01.lsd Save01.xml
lcf2xml.exe Save01.xml Save01.lsd

lcf2xml.exe RPG_RT.ldb thedatabase.xml
lcf2xml.exe thedatabase.xml RPG_RT.ldb

lcf2xml.exe RPG_RT.lmt maptree.xml
lcf2xml.exe maptree.xml RPG_RT.lmt

Download

Continuous builds for Windows:
https://easy-rpg.org/jenkins/job/lcf2xml-win32/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/lcf2xml.exe

License

lcf2xml is released under the MIT license.

Source code

https://github.com/EasyRPG/LCF2XML/