Running games on 3DS and mobile devices

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Was wondering if anyone has heard of EasyRPG? I was trying to find a way to play RMXP on handheld and ran across this!

• https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player
• https://easyrpg.org/

It allows people to play rpg maker games on the 3DS, but it's only for 2000/2003 - BUT it's open source. I unfortunately am rusty with C++, but thought I'd share in case anyone on here can fork this and make it work for RMXP.

 

[Nomi]

It would be amazing if it was updated to work with RMXP! Cool discovery!

 

[Deleted member 1065]

RPG Maker XP games cannot run on that kind of device because games are interpreted in Ruby. Ruby is very heavy to emulate, the lower GHz your CPU has the slower the game runs (RMXP games expected a Pentium 4 at 1.5GHz and even with that it lags).

You'd think mRuby would be the solution but you're wrong because mRuby is way slower than CRuby, it's not designed to run games. As a record, 3DS CPU is 0.268 GHz and new3DS CPU is 0.804GHz. (This mean your game would run 1.8 to 5.6 times slower than on a recommended computer).

If you really want your game to run on that device you have two solution:

• Rewrite the whole RPG Maker XP engine in C++ and get rid of the Ruby Scripts
• Use the official Nintendo SDK that allows you to make 3DS games with Unity (and get rid of Ruby Scripts)