Mossbrook v1.2: RPG Maker on an Arcade Machine!


This version has some small bugfixes, but it's extra awesome because I put it on an arcade machine!

Bugfixes:

  • Martha no longer gives the wrong advice if the player never found the wizard hat.
  • The game no longer locks up if Burt kicks you out of his house while you have a familiar.


Several years ago I built an arcade machine with my brothers for my dad's birthday. 

[Dad]'s Arcade

I didn't like the standard MAME launcher, so I did what any insane person would do and wrote my own! It's basically a custom menu screen where you can select any game, whether or not it's an arcade game.

Custom Arcade Menu

I was worried about the controls lining up properly. RPG Maker VX Ace has very rigid input options by default, but I got lucky. The top row of buttons are all assigned to keys that RPG Maker recognizes! All I had to do was swap the Sprint and Action keys in RPG Maker's F1 menu to make the controls a bit more intuitive. If the buttons didn't map well to RPG Maker's keys, I'd probably have to find a script to change the keybindings.

RPG Maker title screen

Success! The in-game control prompts are all still for the keyboard, but it all works perfectly.

Playing RPG Maker on an arcade machine!

Playing my RPG Maker game on the arcade machine!

... And now as I'm writing this I noticed a mapping error. That's a problem for a later build.

Thanks for reading!

Files

Mossbrook_v1.2.exe 189 MB
Nov 09, 2022

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