RPG Maker

RPG Maker is a software series dedicated to RPGs development. Games made with these engines can usually be played through Wine or different source ports.

Native

RPG Maker 2000/2003

EasyRPG Player can run games made with RPG Maker 2000 and 2003on Linux natively.

You can install it from your distribution official repositories or download the executable from the website. To start a game, put the EasyRPG Player binary in the same directory as "RPG_RT.exe". Open a terminal emulator and run ./easyrpg-player. As it supports MIDI playback, you don’t need another program. Download a SoundFont file, rename it to "easyrpg.soundfont", move it next to EasyRPG Player and it will use it by default. EasyRPG Player can also be started with environment variables, custom settings from configuration files and command-line options like:

• --soundfont <soundfont>, to use a custom path for your SoundFont
• --project-path <path>, to change the path where "RPG_RT.exe" is located
• --engine
• --disable-rtp
• --encoding
• --save-path
• --show-fps --fps-limit --no-vsync

Now that you use EasyRPG Player, you shouldn't need .exe, .dll, .jar files and you can remove them from the game project directory except "RPG_RT.exe" (this one is needed). All RPG Maker 2000/2003 games aren't compatible with EasyRPG Player though.

RPG Maker XP/VX/VX Ace

mkxp and mkxp-z are both tools to run RPG Maker XP, VX and VX Ace games on Linux natively. These versions are known to use the Ruby Game Scripting System or RGSS. mkxp only has pre-built binaries for Windows at the moment and mkxp-z only offers automatic builds.

You can run a game from a terminal emulator with mkxp --gameFolder="game" and change settings from the command-line with --<option>=<value> or using a configuration file. Like EasyRPG Player, it supports MIDI playback and only require to run a game with mkxp --gameFolder="game" --midi.soundFont=/path/to/soundfont.sf2 where soundfont.sf2 is the SoundFont you downloaded.