CHERRY'S PROFILE

It's possible that a DynRPG version might appear some day. But we can't make any kinds of promises.

It actually happened! :D

Degica has now, by order of KADOKAWA GAMES/Enterbrain and in cooperation with me, finally released an official English version of RPG Maker 2003 on Steam.

At this point I would like to give a big thanks to Archeia who put a lot of sweat and blood into this translation as well.

Link on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/362870/
Price: $19.99

It should also be available on rpgmakerweb directly. EDIT: There you go: https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/products/programs/rpg-maker-2003

This finally officially allows creating commercial games with RPG Maker 2003 (after a registration). Fortunately, there is now also a license for patches.

There is also an official English RTP. Although it has the same content as the existing inofficial one, it has different filenames; but no worries, you can have both RTPs installed alongside each other.

This version is 1.10, which has been a bit tweaked and tuned by us:
* The fullscreen work properly, also on newer devices.
* The event editor was changed a lot:
** Its look and labels have been aligned with RMVXA - with colors and partly more information in the list than previously.
** It has a horizontal scrollbar, can copy events as text and loads large events faster.
** It's possible to copy event all commands between battle events and map/common events (although it will show a warning, because they still can't be modified while being in the "wrong" place).
* The help file now also works on Windows Vista/7/8.
* Maps can't get lost that easily anymore when a PC Cleaner is used.
* Multiple instances can be opened at the same time, and you can create direct shortcuts to projects in Windows Explorer.
* Battles go faster.
* You have 1000 pictures, 100 labels and 9999 switches/variables/etc.
* Picture commands also work while a message is displayed.
* The fonts are now directly integrated into the engine and don't need to be installed by the player.

A full changelog is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXlXZIXdjxVq5gh_lPFuFLMbMRzZe4BKPpRI13ZD2Qc/edit?usp=sharing

Unfortunately the source code was lost over time. Therefore, it was a bit difficult to implement the real "killer features". Also, I originally planned to include all the bugfixes from DynRPG as well, and I wanted to integrate the CommonThisEventPatch, but there was not enough time. There will be updates, though.

Best wishes,
Cherry

PS: Screenshot of the event editor:


EDIT: Version 1.12 is out with a huge picture revamp! Check out the changelog or this teaser poster

Since atbMode is part of RPG::system and RPG::system is one of the objects which the RPG Maker saves to the LSD files, the setting doesn't need to be set again in onLoadGame (think about it: Without the switch, when you change it in the menu, it also persists when you save and load again!).

Oh, and why is there a #define NOT_MAIN_MODULE ? It *is* the main module, so with this #define, it will produce a broken DLL because you didn't have any module in the DLL defined as main module :D

Yes. Because window_style is an "array of flags", each stored in one bit of the value. We are interested in the 32nd bit from the right, whose value is 0x80000000, so we use "&" to filter it out. This means the value will either be 0 (bit not set) or 0x8000000 (bit set) after filtering.

oh damn, it should be GWL_STYLE = -16, with a minus
I'd assume it would work with XP as well because the game window class is "RGSS Player" in XP as well