FDELAPENA'S PROFILE

I think unofficial hacks to the official RPG Maker is hard to emulate and do better things supporting original LDB, LMU and LMT formats. This formats are closed source and hard to read (RPG Maker 2003 has serious errors reading its own format in several versions, prior to 1.04). XML format and a public and extensible specification is always better because is open and transparent. You can find errors easily. Easier to share files between users and fast editing and debugging editing with plain text editor that files. RGSS is nice because you have the code available and ready to run. Why not to do the same with the file format?

For example, a proposal for the new file format:

Data/Actors/0001.xml
Data/Actors/0002.xml
...
Data/Skills/0001.xml
Data/System.xml
Data/Texts.xml

If you want to share with other game project developers any data file is a lot easier with this design. With a monolithic LDB and hacked on top of LDB is not nice to share data with your project mates and had to synchronize the cooperative work.

A possible example XML design of Actors/0001.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<actor>
<name>Alex</actor>
<title>Soldier</title>
<charset character="1" transparent="no">chara1</charset>
...
</actor>

I know this able for Linux, if you want:

http://rpgmaker.net/games/2752/

Editor is going on, too.

Greets!