Posted November 19, 2022 by Campbell
#RPG Maker #Arcade Machine #MAME #Emulator #VX #Ace
This version has some small bugfixes, but it's extra awesome because I put it on an arcade machine!
Bugfixes:
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!