NEW PROBLEM: RMVX COMPRESSION ISSUES

Doing final playtesting of Everything Turns Gray today to see if a contributor-who-wishes-to-remain-nameless-for-now's Fatigue Bar script worked well or if it broke anything else.

It works fine, and it didn't break something else, but I discovered a different and completely annoying problem that will further delay release.

My "Weapon 2" slot is broken, and just devours any weapon put into it. If you have a broken plunger handle in one hand and try to put a tire iron in your off hand? Shlorp, no tire iron. Same thing if you switch them up. So it's not the weapon, it's the slot.

Here's a snapshot of the scripts I'm running in case some of you guys are familiar with this error or know what might be causing it:



This wasn't happening before...I did add a bunch of scripts (mostly stuff I found in Geondun) a couple weeks ago, and I strongly suspect it's one of them that's causing this. I just don't know which one. (I'm pretty sure it's NOT any of the KGC scripts.)

I edit almost every script that I use, Max, so I highly advice against stealing scripts directly from my projects. =D To get clean versions, either ask me where I got them first or just nab what you want from Mithran <3 <3 <3 : http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=9011 (look at his signature).

Sorry, I looked at them, so your name wasn't on them, and figured they were free to yoink. :) I edit some of the scripts I use too, so I understand what you mean.

1) Yes, that's probably what it is.

2) I didn't get any of the KGC things from you...I did take Passive Skill after seeing what you did with it, but I took it from the KGC Library. I only actually took Advanced State Prob+ and Params+ from your game.

3) You should post a guide to messing with the DBS algorithms. You're very good at it.

Yes, your solution worked, by the way, thanks a lot for your help!

New problem:

When I try to compress EtG in RMVX, (encrypted or unencrypted seems to make no difference) it produces the self-extracting .exe, but it also produces a 50MB nonsense file called test.002. When I try to extract EtG, whether or not it's in the same directory as the mystery file, it fails, and the extraction crashes. 100% of the time. Same goes for other people downloading it.

After some experimenting (Mage Duel compresses fine, other projects don't) and research on other forums I figured out that RMVX does this whenever a file comes out to more than 128 MB.

How do I fix this?

Oh, and no one be a smartass and say "make your game less than 128 MB"; I can do that by removing the VX RTP, but the last time I did that, I got a lot of flack for it. I could also gut my project of all of its music, but I have gotten a lot of positive response on the battle radio feature, and I don't want to compromise it.

Why is RMVX such a flawed, flawed, flawed program? First the variable thing, now this? Does anyone know of a patch for this?

Define music editor? Audacity allows you to import MP3s, tinker, and then export them again, but I'd have to do that one-at-a-time which would be very time consuming and tedious, a real motivation killer.

Is there some program that will let you do many at once?

Yeah, instead I just removed two songs from the Battle Radio track list and some various MP3s that weren't used. Got it down below 128 MB...barely. :'(

I will release one version with the battle radio and no RTP (the one I just packed) and another with the RTP and no battle radio. I will call the former the "Hardcore" version and the latter the "Casual" version....for no real reason at all. :P