RPG MAKER 3 (FOR PS2) HELP!

Hi Remington! ♥

I grabbed rpgmaker3 awhile ago, back when my PS2 disc drive still worked.(I still need to get it repaired).

I haven't played rpgmaker3 a whole lot, but one place you might want to check out, even though it doesn't get a whole lot of activity these days is: https://www.rpgmmag.com/forums/

They have a very basic guide on variables under their guide section - it involves creating a NPC that will give you 2 coins that you need to drop into a well. Depending on which coin you choose to receive it sounds like something different happens - this may not be what you're looking for it, but it's a start.

They also have a bunch of rpgmaker3 games available for download there as well.
https://www.rpgmmag.com/rmvault/rm3/games

Let us know if this helped Remington ♥

EDIT:
Unrelated: Is there a "Does anyone remember RPGpavilion?" thread somewhere?

You know, I had RPGMaker 3 years and years ago, and I'd completely forgotten about it until you mentioned it just now.

Sorry I can't actually help you out with it. I found it so user unfriendly, I could barely figure out how to get anything done at all. As far as I was aware of, there were no online guides I could turn to at the time. Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that completed games made with it are actually still available.

I'm not too familiar with that version but an idea of how to get a random number popped into my head. Put invisible/unseen code throughout the dungeon that increases a variable by different amounts, and put them in places that will trigger based on how the player is moving around.

So for example you could have invisible 'on hero touch' events in front of doors, so every time the player enters or leave that room the variable changes. Put some of those events in the middle of rooms, so if by chance the player touches them the variable changes. Add it to existing events, so when the player opens a normal chest it increases that variable. So if they didn't open that chest before the random chest, the variable would be different compared to if they did open that chest first.

Therefore, based on the actions taken by the player, in whatever random order they happen to trigger them, you will end up with a different(random) variable each time the game is played. You probably want to increase that variable by small numbers, or you could take that variable and divide it by something to make it smaller, and use that remainder in branches to give different items. Does it have Modulus? Use that on the variable and the remainder will be different each time.

Or, maybe a simpler idea, have a background process that increases a variable by 1 every X seconds. When it reaches the limit of possible choices in that chest, have the variable set to 0 and it starts over again. So when the player opens that chest, the variable could be anything. Which will be different depending on the timing of opening that chest.

No problem, but you misunderstood my "timer" idea. It only uses variable add, condition branch, and wait. Assuming there is a common event, or even just parallel process.

Common/Parallel Event Code:

Set Variable +1
IF Variable = 4
...THEN Set Variable =0
WAIT 1 second

Every second the variable increases by one, and resets to 0 when it hits any old number(based on how many possible items in the chest). Put 3 branches on the chest for each number and you have a randomly selected item based on time.

I wouldn't worry so much about abuse, unless it's a chest you can repeatedly open. The player will only have one chance to open the chest, never having a second opportunity to do something different to even try and figure out if there is anything else in that chest. Even if they could open it multiple times, the chances they would figure out that certain invisible actions affect the chest is pretty low. It wouldn't appear any different than pure random chance, which you would have done if the engine had the option, and can create with my method. Any random process can be repeated(abused).