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RPG Maker 2000/2003 (EasyRPG)

Background

EasyRPG Player is a game interpreter to play RPG Maker 2000, 2003 and EasyRPG games. It uses the LCF parser library (liblcf) to read RPG Maker game data.

EasyRPG Player is part of the EasyRPG Project. More information is available at the project website: https://easyrpg.org/

Author/License

The EasyRPG core has been authored by

  • EasyRPG team

The EasyRPG core is licensed under

A summary of the licenses behind RetroArch and its cores can be found here.

Extensions

Content that can be loaded by the EasyRPG core have the following file extensions:

  • .ldb
  • .zip
  • .easyrpg

RTP files

You must download the RTP2000 and RTP2003 from here. They are exe/zip files but can be extracted with e.g. 7zip. Create rtp folder in system folder. Put the extracted data in "rtp/2000" and "rtp/2003" to system/rtp accordingly.
retroarch system rtp 2000
2003

Databases

RetroArch database(s) that are associated with the EasyRPG core:

Features

Frontend-level settings or features that the EasyRPG core respects.

Feature Supported
Restart ✔
Screenshots ✔
Saves ✔
States ✕
Rewind ✕
Netplay ✕
Core Options ✔
RetroAchievements ✕
RetroArch Cheats ✕
Native Cheats ✕
Controls ✔
Remapping ✔
Multi-Mouse ✕
Rumble ✕
Sensors ✕
Camera ✕
Location ✕
Subsystem ✕
Softpatching ✕
Disk Control ✕
Username ✕
Language ✕
Crop Overscan ✕
LEDs ✕

Directories

The EasyRPG core's internal core name is 'EasyRPG'

The EasyRPG core saves/loads to/from these directories.

Loaded content's directory

  • Save##.lsd (Save files)
  • Save##.dyn (Additional save file data used by some games)
  • Save.lgs (Global save data used by some games)
  • easyrpg_log.txt (EasyRPG log file)

Frontend's system directory

  • easyrpg-player/config.ini (configuration of the engine)

Geometry and timing

  • The EasyRPG core's core provided FPS is (FPS)
  • The EasyRPG core's core provided sample rate is 44100 Hz
  • The EasyRPG core's core provided aspect ratio is (Ratio)

Controllers

The EasyRPG core supports the following device type(s) in the controls menu, bolded device types are the default for the specified user(s):

User 1 device types

  • None - Doesn't disable input. There's no reason to switch to this.
  • RetroPad - Joypad - Stay on this.
  • RetroPad w/Analog - Joypad - Same as RetroPad. There's no reason to switch to this.

Controller tables

Joypad

RetroPad Inputs EasyRPG core inputs
Up
Down
Left
Right
Decision
Cancel
Cancel
Shift
Number 0
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
Number 4
Number 5
Number 6
Number 7
Number 8
Number 9
Settings Menu
Reset
Fast Forward (x3)
Fast Forward (x10)
Debug Menu (Test Play mode only)
Debug Through (Test Play mode only)
Debug Save (Test Play mode only)
Debug Abort Event (Test Play mode only)
Last update: 2024-04-25