While we have Wine and Proton nowadays, they're not always the best solution and one developer decided to get RPG Maker MV/MZ games on Linux.
The project available on GitHub has a "collection of shell scripts" to get the job done. The result should be that any game made with RPG Maker MV/MZ will run properly on Linux. The developer notes that compared with running them through Wine, you'll see a "Sharp increase in fps" compared with it from "2 to 4 times" higher, which sounds pretty great to me.
It also allows you to play the games across more architectures including x86-64, i386, armhf and arm64.
A pretty interesting idea, and goes to show that if you don't bring games to Linux for whatever reason, someone else will somehow.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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fenglengshun May 14
Oh my god, I love this. I've used normal nwjs for so long, and sometimes it has weird annoying issues that I don't know how to fix. I don't even know you need to manually fill in package names in package.json files (since MV often doesn't give it a name) to fix issues running with nw >v.0.72 until earlier this year. Don't even get me to weird scripts and filename issues.
If this could just automate everything, it would really, really help with all the RPGM games I play. I'm definitely going to try this on Black Souls - really need to finish that one, one of these days.
If this could just automate everything, it would really, really help with all the RPGM games I play. I'm definitely going to try this on Black Souls - really need to finish that one, one of these days.
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Even though RPGs simply aren't my thing, and my favourite RPG Maker game (2004's Yume Nikki ) is both not an RPG at all and is way too old for this project, this is really cool to see - it's always good to see a broadening of the Linux-gaming landscape. 
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StoneColdSpider May 14
Quoting: PenglingEven though RPGs simply aren't my thing, and my favourite RPG Maker game (2004's Yume Nikki ) is both not an RPG at all and is way too old for this project, this is really cool to see - it's always good to see a broadening of the Linux-gaming landscape.Does Yume Nikki have bombs???......
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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderDoes Yume Nikki have bombs???......No - just a lot of really weird stuff.
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StoneColdSpider May 14
Quoting: PenglingSo....... Its a mind bomb????.........Quoting: StoneColdSpiderDoes Yume Nikki have bombs???......No - just a lot of really weird stuff.
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