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

The Secret of Mossbrook
A downloadable game for Windows

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. 

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.

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.

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

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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