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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.
Tags: Misc, Open Source
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fenglengshun 14 May 2024
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.
Pengling 14 May 2024
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.
BlooAlien 14 May 2024
Another goodie for Luxtorpeda to add to their toolbox?
StoneColdSpider 14 May 2024
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.
Does Yume Nikki have bombs???......
Pengling 14 May 2024
Does Yume Nikki have bombs???......
No - just a lot of really weird stuff.
StoneColdSpider 14 May 2024
Does Yume Nikki have bombs???......
No - just a lot of really weird stuff.
So....... Its a mind bomb????.........
hardpenguin 14 May 2024
So like EasyRPG but for MV and MZ editions!
fenglengshun 14 May 2024
So like EasyRPG but for MV and MZ editions!
From what I saw, it's closer to a wrapper. nwjs is the engine, and rpgmakerlinux-cicsoffs runs it with custom parameters. Similar to how Bottles runs Wine with custom parameters or how LEGUI runs locale-emulator.
WMan22 14 May 2024
So like EasyRPG but for MV and MZ editions!

I remember thinking the other day: "Man I wish there was EasyRPG for newer versions of RPGMaker". Then I come across this article. Would be nice if this results in luxtorpeda entries.
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