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Patchy Illusion Team103 days ago (1 edit)

I don’t have a Steam Deck, but assuming you’re on Windows:

If you’re not using these exes already, you should try running the “StartFullscreen” or “StartWindowed” executables. RPGmaker by default supports MIDI playback. If the Windows that comes with the SD has MIDI support out of the box, this will use Window’s synth table for playback. If not, you may have to install something like “CoolSoft VirtualMidiSynth” and a “soundfont”.

The reason I recommend trying these executables is because there have been reports with problems regarding MIDI playback support with EasyRPG. You could also try other builds and see if any of those play properly https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player/releases

(We found out that version 6.0 seems to work most of the time, but it’s still not perfect).

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DUOBIS103 days ago

Thanks for the quick response! Steam Deck runs on a custom Linux OS. Anyway, it turns out I just can't read 😅 

I ran the game with Proton and it booted up and played fine, however, Linux doesn't normally support MIDI files, and it seems to be a nightmare to make it do so.

After struggling for hours to figure that out, I finally realized that you literally wrote on your installation instructions to use EasyRPG Player. Once I did that, the game played perfectly and the music worked as well. 

Thanks again for your response and thank you for your hard work on the translation!

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Patchy Illusion Team103 days ago (1 edit)

I’m glad you figured it out!

I knew the steam deck has both a custom Linux and Windows, but I wasn’t sure which one you were trying. I figured Windows was easier to set up if the problem was MIDI support. I suppose either Proton isn’t set up to do MIDI passthrough out of the box, or the original RPGMaker engine is expecting to find some files that don’t come with the installation, or something along those lines.

Just for curiosity (in case someone has the same problem in the future), did you run the Windows version of EasyRPG that comes with the game on Proton, or did you download a native Linux build of it?

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DUOBIS102 days ago

I downloaded the native Linux build - Super easy and worked right away!

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Patchy Illusion Team102 days ago

Awesome. Thanks for the reply!

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