A new board has been added to Save-Point, it being The New RPG Maker Central Archive. It has been months since RPG Maker Central went down, and this week, DerVVulfman uploaded apparently 10% of the scripts he stated he managed to salvage from the site before it collapsed.

The News of the World focused upon the Presidential debate between Biden and Trump, the result of which even President Biden could not dismiss. Liberal newscasters such as Van Jones, Chris Wallace and MSNBC's Nicole Wallace had all suggested Biden drop out of the race; this reiterated by the New York Times. And Top Hollywood doners threatened to cut funds unless he does. Despite this, Biden states he will have scheduled a second debate. And of fact checks, Biden's statement of not losing any military under his watch clearly false given the Afghanistan withdrawl, and Trump's 2020 Executive Order to deliver insulin at a mere $35 blocked by Biden whom issued his policies. The U.S. Supreme Court made many decisions this week, that it is legal to clear encampments and prosecute repeat offenders in unauthorized areas, struck down the federal governments ruling in the Chevron case for weak interpretations of the law, confirmed anyone accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of fraud has a right to trial by jury instead of their own internal tribunal, and ruled that that the government cannot prosecute January 6 defendants including Trump under 1512©(2) for generally obstruction as the law would need to show they impeded the delivery of documents or objects needed for the January 6 proceeding. However, the Supreme Court denied Steve Bannon;s request to stay out of jail pending the outcome of his appeal. Of other elections, the first volley of votes in France's Snap Election called by Macron have already gone favorably to his opponent Le Pen, this with Le Pen's promise not to send French Troops to fight in Ukraine and despite Macron's threat of a civil war if he loses. In Canada, Trudeau’s conservative rival now opposes mass migration after seeing Trudeau's policies in action, citing housing and job creation as main factors. And a new report revealed Trudeau's failure at rescue operations in Afghanistan, pursuing refugees over Canada's own citizens trapped by the Taliban. Meanwhile, the inflation rate in Argentina's grocery bill flattened to 0% under the new Milei Preisdency. And Columbians are worried that their unpopular socialist president, Gustavo Petro, will attempt to change their nation's consitution to remain in power, Petro's administration already caught wire-tapping his nation's own Supreme Court judges. In the Middle East, Israel had issued a statement that it has nearly removed Hamas from Rafah, and had begun creating a fresh water supply after the United Nations themselve warned they may cut aid. However, do note that a Hamas billionare claimed that Gaza's destruction was part of their own goal. And Israeli forces discovered that a member of "Doctors without Borders" was himself a terrorist wearing a Islamic Jihad uniform. Meanwhile, Iran has been found to have been hiding nuclear development from the IAEA and U.S. sanctions by concealing activities inside Universities connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Mexican cartels laundering money with help by Chinese bankers, Economists warning Trump as a danger found to be linked to Biden Administration, a former Obama-era ICE director blasting Biden as ISIS-linked migrants cross the southern border, the Wall Street Journal denouncing Russia's trial of Evan Gershkovich, a report confirms CIA interference in 2020 election with the letter to discredit the Hunter Biden Laptop Story the Taliban meet with the United Nations whilst demanding a ban on women present, and Maldives's Climate Change Minister arrest for practicing black magic all hit this week's news.
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For many in the game development community, the Malware attack on the Japanese Publishers of the RPGMaker line hit this week's News of the Cyber World. The Russian-linked hacker group not only claimed responsiblity, but have also threatened to release company employee records unless payment made. With Artificial Intelligence, there is a lot of back and forth. Google's Gemini AI, made infamous for rewriting history with its illustration software, is being made available in to school teenagers. Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Record have filed lawsuits against Artificial intelligence (AI) companies Suno and Udio for stealing content to train their music-generating AI systems. And photographers beware as Facebook/Meta has now bgun labeling actual content as AI generated fakes. Yet, there is so much hype for artificial intelligence, that companies have begun lying about the use, development or effectiveness of AI in their products. The U.S. Supreme Court chose not to rule on the case before them over Social Media Censorship, claiming not enough evidence. However, a letter of dissent was made within the court pointing that discord between points of view is meant to be allowed, and not censored; this a view many social media users expressed. Meanwhile, the U.S. Surgeon General has requested Congress force warnings upon Social Media such as those for Tobacco Products, this following studies of their impacts on adolescents. Scrutiny of China's Temu phone application as a cover for malware and data theft, Tesla facing two recalls over windshield wipers and loose trim, a Florida gamer attacked with a hamemr by a rival who flew all the way from New Jersey, Google burying Trump Campaign site in their search results, and more hit this week's cybernews.

According to a multi-national cybersecurity firm, Chinese Hackers have now intentified attacks on Taiwan, stealing its intellectual technology and spying on its diplomats. The cybersecurity's main focus has been upon "RedJuliett", the Chinese sponsored hacking group responsible for Microsoft's "Flax Typhoon" hack detected by Crowdstrike last year. While RedJuliett had attacked other countries, over half of its attention has been directed towards Taiwan.

If curious What's up with other RMers, Remi-chan posted some new game footage for her game which will not be available until its next installment, the confrontation between her game's heroes and the mistress of Pandemonium herself. But with that, she revealed some placeholder sprites for her newly revealed character and graphics for new optional events for the Disc 2 demo of her game. After seeing this, Kain Nobel flattered her for her diligence, but he himself has no content to post due to other considerations.

Enter a world of tropical beaches in Starmage's A Sun-Kissed Fantasy. A short RPG game, it tells the story of a man found by one of the local surfers, a man whom lost his memory and strives to find it and his way home. Told in a visual novel style, A Sun-Kissed Fantasy is Starmage's entry into the Harold Jam 2024 Game Jam from RPGMakerWeb, featuring custom character art and a simple sideview battlesystem.

If interested in playing an RPG adventure of galactic scale, Rave Heart by Starmage is now on Steam at 48% off. Become the personal bodyguard to a space princess in the Xerxes galaxy, uncover your past, and be aware of the brewing war to come.

Continued from RPGMakerWeb's Christmas GameJam is Starmage's Heroes of the Seasons, now at half-price at Steam. The winner of the honorable "Fan-Favourite" or "People's Choice" award, venture into the world of Vyen and protect all holiday cheer from the evil King Frinch.

Following a change in the thread's title, DerVVulfman discovered another article describing ADOBE'S HEADACHES. For this week, the U.S. has now filed a lawsuit against Adobe for deceptive practices such as concealing extra fees behind hidden urls, and made it near impossible to cancel subscriptions.

If you like sports competitions, DerVVulfman discovered what is apparently the last backyard competition by former NASA engineer, Mark Rober. Asking him What are YouTubing? would unveil the third Backyard Squirrel Games, this time revealed as a competition in true Olympiad fashion.

National Integrity is on the mind of many nations in this week's News of the World, whether U.K. is struggling with illegals crossing the English Channel, Islamic Terrorists posing as Ukrainian refugees with some arrested in Germany, and the U.S. southern border being flooded with China-made illegal drugs. Elections also hit this week's news, France's Clémentine Autain made a call for violence against conservative opposition while a report showing that the same illegal aliens crossing the U.S. border given access to voter registration by the Biden Administration. China is crossing many lines, now having committed acts of piracy within Philippines’ territorial waters which was caught on camera. And for its support of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, NATO's chief suggests consequences for fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. Meanwhile, Putin leveled threats against South Korea for giving aid to Ukraine and hypocritically blamed the U.S. and Ukraine for strikes in civilian territories despite their months-long missile and drone attacks into Kyiv and other occupied cities. Recent hearings on Covid Origins unearth documents of Fauci colleagues refuting the 'naturally occuring' theory pushed in 2020, U.N. Nuclear Watchdogs reporting that Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal is being wholly ignored, the Vatican levies charges a U.S. ArchBishop whom accused the Pope of reinstating a Cardinal known for serial sex abuse, and the death of famed actor Donald Sutherland hit this week's news.
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Battles with System Tools and System Analysts were What's up among our RMers this week, as a program cleaning tool almost spelled disaster for Steel Beast 6Beets. But following the good news that everything was safe and Steel's was able to restore everything. Following his success, Remi-chan announced victory in her endeavor to finish her menu system; and in celebration presented revised video of her game-project's battle with the powerful administrator of her game's universe, and later screenshots. Steel Beast was impressed and queried about the HP bar mechanism, which DerVVulfman answered while wishing Steel a happy birthday, and noted that the battle's ferocity may be nothing compared to what comes later.

If your game has underground monsters, science-fiction baddies, or anything with a late 80's vibe, be sure to check out what Eric Matyas is composing. Still Sharing His Original Music, he posted that "Sewer Creepers Down the Line" is his latest piece, but totally neglected his second work entitled "Grumpy Slimeball from Outer Space". But do remember, he does take commissions.

Last week, it was merely pencilwork. But this week, you can venture into Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing and bare witness to the sheepishly cute maiden now brought to life. Entitled 'The Lost Lamb of Eden', it comes with a quote and the traditional speed-draw that reveals Remi's pacing.

Near the end of the week, DerVVulfman proclaimed that he had Recovered PK8 Early Self-Scripts. Material he worked on before the release of his Self Data Suite, these scripts were the basis for his 2012 work. Roughly a dozen scripts, all were written in 2009 before the forum even rebranded.

If seeing a greeting post go poof was What's on your mind, DerVVulfman wanted to let them know that the poster violated one of the membership requirements.

Users of Photoshop became livid the moment ADOBE'S NEW TOS were unveiled. No ability to opt-out, you would be foreced to grant them full access to your work, much of the terms suggesting AI training and no ability to make proprietary content. After such backlas, Adobe responded that their lawyers were going to re-review the terms and that said terms would be revised within a week. However, whatever trust people had with Adobe had suffered.

This week's News of the World focused upon France where President Macron dissolved the nation' Parliament last week and called for Snap Elections, now refusing to resign despite the growing Conservative movement in Europe. As a result Le Pen's right-wing movement grew, this amidst condemnation of the so-called "Native French" by Macron supporter Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The gun case against Hunter Biden returned with a guilty verdict on all three charges, this just before President Biden stated he would not pardon his son. However, the Trump campaign stated that this was merely a distraction of the $15 million the Biden family had received from adversarial nations like Russia, Kazakhstan and China. And for Trump, he received some vindication after a video of Nancy Pelosi surfaced. In it, she admits responsibility for not having the National Guard present on January 6, 2021, this confirming Trump's statements that he indeed requested their presence. Most of Europe and the U.S. is backing Ukraine in its war against the Russian aggression, more aid packages promised by Vice President Harris while Germany hosts a recovery conference for post-war rebuilding. However, Russia attempted to propose a cease fire, demanding Ukraine give up territory and never join NATO. In the Middle East, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had been pausing action to allow Aid deliveries in Gaza from 8am to 7pm. Despite this, Palestinian sources made false claims that Israel's military was targeting the convoys. Of targeting, Pro-Palestinian protestors firebombed a building in the University of California Berkley campus, ISIS terrorists attempting to attack the Liberal Berlin Mosque in 2023 are having their day in court, and Houthi missiles fired on a Ukranian owned ship in the Gulf of Aden this week. Any nation has the right to control its border. And in California, over a ton of drugs were seized in the month of May alone. And recently 25 AK-styled rifles were confiscated, said guns destined for Mexican cartels. But it isn't just in the U.S. with border issues, Australia now contending with Chinese Nationals as its Border Force compelled a boat to return to their point of departure in Indonesia. New reports showing vegan plant-based fake meats now linked to heart disease, New Zealand reversing its plan to penalize farmers over cow flatulence, the U.S. DOJ's refusal to prosecute Contempt of Congress charges against Merrick Garland, Bolivian truckers preparing roadblocks for a strike over fuel shortages, and more this this week's news.
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Added to the list of available Web Browsers this week was the one by DuckDuckGo. However, he also pulled his recommendation for the Seamonkey browser, citing lack of support.

Despite infiltration by Chinese Hackers of their software, Microsoft defends its relationship with China in front of the U.S.'s House Homeland Security Committee. Despite the 2017 law China passed demands full access to any content, Microsoft's president claims they have refused China's demand for full access to the servers in their nation. This hearing was the result of a scathing report in April that errors by Microsoft allowed China-Backed hackers to breach government eMails.

Counterfeits hit the News of the Cyberworld with both Amazon and Meta underfire as scammers flood their market with copycat listings. And now revealed, parts that Boeing had been using included titanium components from China whom falsified the specifications. Google is using its money to avoid another lawsuit, paying over $2 Million to cover damages from an AntiTrust case. And of lawsuits and payments, the state of Utah is suing China's TikTok over its 'TikTok LIVE' application and its use to let adult proposition minors. For Elon Musk, a bad week for lawsuits; he withdrawing his lawsuit against OpenAI while he is charged with Sexual Harassment the same week disastrous video footage of his self-driving car was revealed. Apple teaming up with AI, Russia's plan for the Russian-Chinese Base on the Moon, and more hit this week's cybernews.

For most involved in games in the forum, they would know that game design is What's Up with Remi-chan's RM work, having finished and impemented her menu and showed a video which included over 180 events.After this, weather effects and optimization of certain features are her next target.

For anyone working on an RPGMaker MV project, you will be pleased to know that Hakuen Studio has released all of their MV Plugins for Free. A massive 97 Megabytes worth of content, there are plugins for font managers, jump systems, and even custom message system addons. The plug-ins are not apandoned, so tweaks and upgrades may be in the near future.

DerVVulfman reported an arguably detailed report to kyonides regarding midi playback with the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable. It wasn't long after that kyonides performed another update, adding some fixes to playback-ending features, and renaming private audio methods for compatability-sake. And then worked upon the latent 'pop' effect that DerVVulfman heard, apparently residual from a previously played midi track. DerVVulfman noted the pop was there, though significantly shorter in size. But then supplied a couple of map-event commands that can mask the pop, though it does so with a marginal 10-frame delay. Do note dear reader, the issue is only for those using midi music playback.

For those working on an RPGMaker XP project and wanted to make their stock characters have a little touch of variety, the VARIABLE ENEMY HP & SP script by DerVVulfman may be the thing. This script allows game developers create enemies that have randomly generated HP rather than relying upon a fixed HP score from the database. Likewise, the enemy's SP score may also be randomly generated. Both a general random value and a D&D-styled dice rolled value may be generated.

If you are impatient for the next new render, venture into [Thread-8230]Remi-chan's Neato Arty Thread[/Thread] to gaze upon the draft pencilwork for her next endeavor. A lost lamb of a lost land adrift and floating amidst a technological skyscape backdrop.

After some time, magonego made his greeting, apologizing for not being English fluent. DerVVulfman greeted him and let him know to feel comfortable as many users are not that fluent, and queried about magonego's current projecte. Not long after, Remi-chan applauded magonego over his language skills, and reminded him that a discord exists.

A new article came out reporting that ADOBE'S NEW TERMS OF SERVICE AREN'T THE PROBLEM... ITS THE TRUST. Users are locked out of their software until they actively accept the new Terms. And the terms have all the appearance of granting Adobe full access and distribution rights to the works created by those using their software. As if Adobe's image didn't suffer enough after dropping their 'one-time purchase" model in favor of annual subscriptions.

Legal issued between U.S. Presidents past and present hit the News of the World, President Biden's son on trial over gun possession charges, the prosecution using content from the Laptop which the mainstream media all professed during the last election was fake but now confirmed. But legal experts are fear the jury disregard their own and vote not-guilty despite all the damning evidence provided. Meanwhile, former President Trump is still under a Gag order, lawyers requesting it be lifted before the Presidential debates. And despite claims to the contrary, Trump stated he was against the use of 'lawfare' and seeks no retribution, this even in a full interview caught on video. Immigration took a hit in the U.K., as most citizens want a five-year freeze after a one-million influx occuring and some within Parliament admitting they never intended it to be curtailed despite public promises. And of promises, the U.S.'s President Biden's recent Executive Order made normal 2 million immigrant entries yearly despite it already 2.3 Million from 2021 on up. This while the U.S. DHS makes claims the Unaccompanied Minors loophole would not be exploited. The war between Israel and Hamas continues, Pro-Hamas supporters encircling the White House and attacking a U.S. Park Police officer protecting landmarks. Meanwhile, Israel performed a raid against two Hamas buildings, rescuing four of the 100 remaining hostages from October 7th. A spokesman for Hamas, whom turned out to also be an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed during the raid. In Belgium, Prime Minester Alexander De Croo resigned after losing to re-election to Conservatives. However, French President Macron immediately dissolved France's Parliament and demanded a snap election after already losing at the EuroParl Elections. Former NIAID Director Fauci ripped in a Congress over funding Covid animal experimentation that was already classified unnecessary, France changed its position and vowed to send Mirage 2000 Jet fighters to Ukraine, and much more hit this week's news.
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The recent News of the Cyber World suggests news not be trusted, whether a former Harvard director considered an expert on misinformation spreading having released an account of her forced departure refuted by her own colleagues or the NewsBreak app publishing AI generated fake stories or stealing content. Google itself came under fire for banning content from PragerU claiming racism, despite the content depicting current events. PragerU had successfully sued Youtube, Facebook and Google years before alleging censorship and unfair businesses practices. The FTC reviewing Microsoft's AI venture, China 'renting' processor chips to get past the U.S. ban on sales, and more came out in this week's CyberNews.

Working with RPGMaker MV seens to be What's up among the once self titled 'Bizarre' RMer whom showed the later editors indeed allowed script calls to alter volume levels in-game. Afterwards, Remi-chan showed the level of progress made a new youtube video, and reported that some updates were made to let end players see what optional events are upcoming or missed. And after that, she showed off recent portraits for the characters hailing from her game's world of Zirkov.

Another week of development took place with the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable, kyonides beginning with work done upon the Audio system while fixing font values that were RGSS version dependent. He returned not long later with a new splash-screen option, corrections to Graphic features and a fix to the system load procedures that abruptly ended the game. After reading the approving review and an opinion over the splash screen from DerVVulfman, kyonides updated the splash screen system to scale, added even more options to the Audio system, and removed some content that was considered impractical. And at the end of the week, kyonides added new methods to sprites allowing them to be dragged across the screen and change in appearance.

Crafted to enhance an option to field maps when RPGMake games use the HiddenChest engine, kyonides crafted the BGM No Loop feature. Like RPG games as of late, the feature that he crafted lets the developer apply multiple audio tracks to play for any single map rather than just one repeated piece. And after receiving inquiries by a couple individuals, one being Melana, kyonides allowed the field map music to be played on a random basis.

A small fix was required within the KSoundFontMenu, where the soundfont wasn't clearly split from the list. Do note that it does require HiddenChest needs to be updated to version 1.1.76 or later for it to properly function.

It has been a decade since DerVVulfman touched Sarah's Configuration Screen, and now it is completely different. Now, the script is little more than a framework for compatible plug-ins. But within the new demo provided, it includes five plug-ins such as volume control, window-skin settings, and a window/fullscreen toggle feature that has some extra enhancements if the end-user is using kyonides' HiddenChest engine. There were a couple of recent bumps, one to let the Configuration engine work with some custom main menu scripts, and another adopting some advice by kyonides to allow the Fullscreen plug-in detect the HiddenChest engine with ease.

What form of game are you working upon that needs a new score? What multimedia presentation needs that extra oomph that only the right track may provide. Thanks to Eric Matyas Sharing His Original Music, you may find what you seek. It had been a month since his last visit, but his return came with two more compositions. His first entitled "Treasure Cave" contains twinkling sounds that have affinity for glimmering gems. And the strings and oboes played sporatically within his second composition would certainly make "Sneaking Around Quirkily" a very apt title indeed. Please remember that the MP3s are of course free, but he does have high-quality Ogg tracks for a modest price.

Admittedly, she forgot about posting it. But within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing, you will see a figure most alien dressed in grays against a stellar backdrop. An odd character of sorts, why does he use a gold wrist watch as an eyepatch? Unlike other works, Remi-chan did not supply a speed-draw video for viewing and listening pleasure.

More foreshadowing of her fictional universe continues within Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~ as a nighmare unfolds. It is a nightmare to the one receiving it against her will, sent unto her by an entity whose evil is absolute and fully of her own volition. What is it about evil masterminds that they have need to deliver long monologues describing their evil machinations? And is she who appears a savior or a nightmare herself?

Get your popcorn and soda ready if you feel like attending Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre. Having worked on so much, the celebratory video she made was a recap of her games, mostly of those she's worked on and released this past year. Presented as a long trailer of its own, the video ends with fan-art she had also recently received.

There was plenty of News of the World, Former President Trump found Guilty in the New York's criminal case with many Americans calling foul and the GOP Donations Website temporarily overwhelmed. The war against Hamas continues as Israeli forces raid the city of Rafah and began destroying underground tunnels used by the terror group. There were many Palestinian losses during an attack that killed Senior Hamas commanders in the city. Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers also lost their lives when encountering boobytraps in tunnels under a school run by the UNRWA itself. Also during this week, tempers flared as Congresswoman Tlaib attended an Anti-Israel conference that had direct connections to U.S. declared terror organizations. And of terrorists, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised pro-Hamas College Students, his narrative completely distorting historical events and reversing roles betwen victims and abusers. And China, whom has repeatedly sent their military threateningly close to Taiwan airspace, now lends its support to the Pro-Hamas branch of the United Nations, the same UNRWA. But despite such revelations, the U.N. casts blame nations drifing away from globalist ideologies for their lack of influence. A sex trafficking ring linked to Venezuela's largest criminal cartel, North Korea against China's call for De-nuclearization, Eastern Europe NATO nations prepared against Russian attacks, the murder of ‘General Hospital’ Actor Johnny Wactor in Los Angeles, and more hit this week's news.

Earlier this week, difficulties with gaming projects were What's up with RMers? Early this week, Steel Beast 6Beets had a power loss which was the likely culprit that corrupted his project while he was working. It was fortunate that he had a backup of his work. But when DerVVulfman uploaded a project that combined two scripts that he Steel Beast 6Beets said were not working together, confusion appeared. And with that, Remi-chan showed up to announce she completed all of her menu system's content apart from character dossiers, well over 400 pages of material. And to celebrate it and the receipt of more character portraits from her artist, she posted some more youtube videos from her game. But in response to Remi-chan's quip over using scripts for custom menus, DerVVulfman made comment regarding game volume.

New art and a new status screen is available for Rave Heart. A small patch is now available for the game by Starmage, the latest version now available at both Steam and Itch.

Almost every day this week, the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable had made serious advances. First, kyonides updated the built-in splash screen system while improving his INI parser. He added native Zlib functions right after, and then more updates to Mouse input system including wheel support. After that, he added the resizable/fixed size game window feature for those that may want to permit their games windows to be flexible. And after that, he migrated both the game icon and game title values from Game.Ini so they may be called and set in-game.

For those using the HiddenChest engine, ClickableWindows by kyonides permits one to use the mouse to interact with menus created with the default menus from RPGMaker XP and VXAce. Then towards the end of the week, he adapted it to work with the default menus for RPGMaker VX users.

If you wish for a change of pace when using HiddenChest, the PrintScene HC script by kyonides allows one to emulate the system's innate pop-up window, replete with its own red 'close' box and OK button.

The KSoundFontMenu by kyonides needed some updating. And after releasing the recent Linux and Windows editions of HiddenChest, gave him the excuse to do so, now allowing for methods that can access the Game contents more readily.

While on the hunt for a scripter to solve a problem with the scripter's coder, goblinhoney joined our forum. An artist and game developer, goblinhoney's search could be difficult according to DerVVulfman as there had been a 10 year difference.

The News of the World began with the unexpected death of Iran's President in a Helicopter crash. And despite being known as the Butcher of Tehran, members states of Europe sent condolenses while Iranian officials made numerous calls to 'encourage' mourners to attend the funeral. And the week ended with China staging mock missile attacks and bombing runs against Taiwan while their planes carried live ammo, missiles and bombs. The ICC (International Criminal Court) called for the arrest of Israel's President Netanyahu, Israel's former Prime Minister calling for the ICC to be dismantled in response as it ignores evidence that Gaza aid is constantly stolen by Hamas whom still refuses to release the 100+ hostages taken on October 7th. And when footage of Hamas' brutal October 7th attack was shown to counter Pro-Palestine activists in UCLA, Congress's Ilhan Omar attempted to cast the Pro-Palestine activists as victims despite their antisemitic rhetoric as they and illegally barred Jewish students and journalists from entering. For the U.S. Presidential Race, it looks bleak for President Biden whom attended a commencement speech that black voters thought race bating, and continues to fumble public statements. This while third-party candidates found a plot by Democrats to remove them from the ballot. And after the prosecution's star witness admits he stole $60,00 from Trump and the Trump Defense team rested their NY case, Former President Trump held a massive rally in New York's Bronx, a size not seen since the era of Ronald Reagan. But it appears that Trump had been targeted in the past and recent; documents revealing the FBI had clearance to use Deadly Force when raiding Trump's Florida Residence, and vials of blood addressed to Trump now received at the RNC headquarters. Insofar as the war between Russia and Ukraine, a recent bombardment in Kharkiv left over a dozen Ukrainians dead. Meanwhile Intel lawmakers, NATO and Congress's Speaker of the house all urge President Biden to allow strikes against Russia with U.S. made weapons. Immigration hits hard worldwide, a UK think-tank warning that Britain may become fractured fom the massive influx arriving. And in the U.S., Democrats shoot down a law to block child trafficking requiring blood tests of those illegally crossing with children in tow. All this while U.S.'s DHS Mayorkas continues to state laws at the US/Mexico border have been enforced since day one despite the 10 million illegal entries, a Turkish migrant at the southern border admits on video there is no security or law present, and the numerous infiltration attempts at military bases according to a Navy Admiral from U.S. Fleet Forces Command. The W.H.O. (World Health Organization) failed to have a Global Pandemic Treaty signed, those nations objecting over decisions that could be made by health bureaucrats that were neither elected nor accountable. Recall that during the outbreak of Covid, the World Health Organization repeated China's talking points. The Chinese ethnic cleansing of Tibetans, over 1/3rd of Oregon state wishing to secede over the state's liberal policies, Portland fed up with its soft-on-crime policies electing a new D.A., the death of Film Maker Roger Corman, Saudi Arabia wanting U.S. nukes as part of a defense strategy, Moscow launching a satellite weapon into space, climate activists glueing themselves within Munich Airport to protest pollution called by air travel, and much more hit this week's news.
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This week's News of the Cyber World wa looking very bad for Elon Musk, be it issues with Tesla Shareholders or a lawsuit over his car's self-driving capabilities. While Google is seeking to take advantage of Microsoft's recent security issues, they attempt to dodge their anti-trust court case. Microsoft unveils an unsettling AI powered version of Windows, China unveils militarized robots similar to "Boston Dynamics" robot dogs from 2018, OpenAI trains its algorythm with Reddit pages, and much more hit this week's cybernews.

It was a very busy week for the development of the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable, kyonides first correcting issues with the innate Weather class and transitioning values with the Sprite class, and adding more values into the Game.Ini such Debug, Fullscreen and both Width and Height. Later updates made were on the expansion of the Mouse with standard Input class commands as trigger and repeat. And with that, kyonides introduced even double-click as an option, this while working on a script to showcase ease of use with the default menu. And lastly, one can include the path and name of their game's Icon within the Game.Ini, said graphic clearly visible when the game is executing.

A HiddenChest first, kyonides put together the KSoundFontMenu for the HiddenChest engine. The first rubyscript written specifically for his engine, it lets you select the midi synthesizer's sound font for your midi playback.

If you wish to let your players change the appearance of their game's menu and message system, DerVVulfman released the Windowskin Selection Menu for RPGMaker. It is a custom menu addition that lets the player choose which windowskin they wish to use, their choice easily recorded within the saved games.

A couple months after its release, Melana found a couple issues with the RPGMaker XP port DerVVulfman release of Fomar0153's Copy Events script. Both issue were related to the IDs of the events, the first was related to the ID of the last normal event on the map and the second related to internal ID values in the duplicated events.

This week's News of the World focused upon China and trade, with the CCP scoffing U.S. President Biden's proposed tariffs and analysis they would skirt such fees by using Mexico as a middleman. But as Mexico became the U.S's largest source of imports, it too may find tariffs looming. The report given to the U.S. Congress that slave labour in China would be near impossible to track may have been in error as new findings show 75 hour slave labour weeks, this a follow-up to a similar study filed three years earlier. And insofar as Latin America, Brazil appears to be offering China access to the Amazon Rain forests much to the fright of global environmentalists. And the largest drug cartel, originating in Brazil, had now gained a foothold in Sydney, Australia. Under the implementation of President Javier Milei, Argentina's inflation rate had now dropped to 8.8%, the first time since replacing Alberto Fernández. Meanwhile, it was revealed that leaders of Left-leaning piqueteros (“picketers”) that began threatening and extorting citizens to protest against President Milei on their behalf, well over 13,000 complaints against the piqueteros have been made. India daring U.S. sanctions after striking a deal with Iran, fact-checking President Biden's claims, the brawl in Taiwan's Parliament, Colorado tax dollars to fund illigal immigration, yet "another" barge collision with a bridge, and more hit this week's news.
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Script and codework certainly took prescedent this week if you wondered What's up among the forums RMers, DerVVulfman posting a script showing analysis of RPGMaker XP's actual map code, Later, Steel Beast returned after performing tests recommended by DerVVulfman and kyonides, eventually finding that the problem with kyonides's KEquipSkills was caused by a menu script by Blizzard, the news that it was a script by Blizzard making the wolf administrator headdesk. Meanwhile, kyonides replied that he had replaced some code within his HiddenChest Executable system which would allow simultaneous cross-platform development between Linux and Windows versions.

Starmage has a reason to be happy. Stellar Bewitching now has its own TV Tropes page. Feel free to enjoy the descriptive prose relaying the issues a young girl whom now has to find a young man to play the part of her long-distance before her friends find out that he was totally made up.

There is quite a bit of development occuring with kyonides' HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable, returning the parsing of the Game.Ini back to innate Ruby rather than C++ and converted his Game.INI Data Extractor for such work, the initial work becoming available for Ubuntu Linux and Windows, the first time for Windows users in two years. Not long after, kyonides updated the Executables so they can read the RTP paths from the same Game.Ini, this an upgrade from Ancurio's MKXP project which the paths in a separate file. And lastly, kyonides unveiled even newer Executables for both Ubuntu and Windows, fixing issues with his ini parser, and adding the path to the default soundfont to the Game.Ini itself. There was concern that saving the game with the editor would rewrite the Game.ini file, thus erasing the soundfont contents, but DerVVulfman took a look and had no issues. DerVVulfman also relayed that the test project he ran did not rely upon the HiddenChest.Conf file, most content being default and some of the more recent commands within HiddenChest make some options in the .Conf file unnecessary. After some reports made, kyonides performed a couple more bug fixes, repairing typos within the Weather class and taking care of issues related to Picture sprites while adding more functionality within the Game.lni. But it is unfortunate for schM0ggi that HiddenChest only has an Ubuntu Linux edition and not Fedora, this because naming conventions differ between the two.

Early this week, parawixlia asked for help with her RPGMaker XP game. She needed information upn how one would Remove the attack, defend and escape options, this requiring alterations to the actor's battle command window and disabling the Fight/Escape window that appears at the start of each turn. DerVVulfman took a look at her inquiry and chose to write a script for her. While she had an issue copying the script as it was posted, there was no problem after DerVVulfman uploaded the demo.

The intensity of the Israel/Hamas war continues to appear within the News of the World, Hamas now begging for a cease fire as Israel's war cabinet unanimously voted that the attack in Rafah will commence. As some play politics, Israel discovers another Hamas Command and Control center within a United Nations Building in Gaza. And as Biden halts ammunition shipments authorized by the U.S. Congress to Israel, it was discovered that Biden's own financial donors are also funding the Pro-Hamas Protests and Riots in the U.S. Russia continues to rage against its neighbors, issuing arrest warrants and launching drone strikes on Easter Sunday. On top of that, it had now detained an American Soldier in what appears to have been a rehearsed kidnapping. And on top of that, Russia's President Putin once again vowed to use nuclear weapons and organized nuclear weapon drills on what Russia claims is provocation. However, such provocation to Russia was the increase of NATO troops protecting Baltic states along Russia's border. Illegal migration continues to plague the world, Panama's newly elected President vowing to shut down immigration routes while record setting activity hit the Canadian border with the U.S. And making claim of a technical paperwork error, a judge in Texas dismissed all 200+ illegal aliens rioting and attacking National Guard members as they stormed through the U.S. southern border. Google vacating California while San Francisco uses Taxpayer money to buy beer for the homeless, climate activists now get arrested for vandalizing France’s Palace of Versailles, police clearing MIT and Penn State of Pro-Hamas rioters and one Pro-Hamas's ties to Cuba, the FBI busted for manipulating evidence at the Trump Mar-a-Lago raid, China busted for painting dogs to look like pandas for their zoo, and more hit this week's news.
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Online censorship and free speech hit this week's News of the Cyber World as the Speech Platform Rumble pulled its service from Brazil as the nation made demands to ban content its government disagreed. However, Rumble's CEO noted that many countries are now making identical demands of online platforms. China likewise is now filing a lawsuit against the U.S. for its legistation to either force TikTok to be sold or banned in the U.S., this despite China's own laws that actively weaponize the platform against the U.S. and other nations. And Meta is under the microscope for actively shadowbanning the "Who is Bobby Kennedy?" film narrated by Woody Harrelson (Zombieland, Cheers) which RFK Jr and his supporters have reported as election interference. For Google, it has been a losing week, the DOJ's anti-trust lawsuit accusing the internet giant of destroying incriminating records. And while its lawyers defend the company in its closing arguments, documents showing that its $20 Million payout to Apple,inc. highlights its intent to violate anti-trust laws. The NASA unmanned module by Lockheed Martin having a heat shield mishap in a test flight, Germany's recalling of its ambassador due to Russian hacking, Mercedez-Benz' decision to cancel its electric vehicle mandate, Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip flaw, and much more hit this week's cybernews.
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The threat of Chinese Hackers continues, as an estimated 270,000 within the U.K.'s military had their private detaile compromised in an attack upon the Ministry of Defence’s payroll system. While not officially accused of the attack, Communist China is considered the prime suspect and the MoD is scouring the Dark Web for any traces of the data being released or sold. And in the U.S., Representative J.D. Vance requesting from CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) as to their response to Volt Typhoon, the Chinese sponsored computer infiltration group now reported to have compromised thousands of devices as reported by Microsoft. Vance inquired as to how Volt Typhoon became embedded in the U.S.'s infrastructure, what prompted CISA to go public, what CISA plans to do to mitigate the threat, and more.

If you are curious as to What's up in RMer development, you would see that DerVVulfman had scoured through the now defunct RPG Maker Central forum and downloaded pages for all still-existing scripts. However, he noted that his folder is well over 4 GB in size, and his next step is to convert the content into a more compact BBCode format. A size like that, AVGB knows too well, his collection at 8GB. But at the same time, DerVVulfman discovered some interesting content within the now-dead board, including a 3D-esque engine for RPGMaker MV/MZ users. For Remi-chan, it was a stellar week. She received more character illustrations from her portrait artist, furthered the rework of her in-game brochure system, and added a few plugins, including some by Moghunter, to enhance her game's environment and a battlesystem. But along with that, Remi-chan provided new videos, the first a debut of her new vocal artist cast as one of her game's arch villainesses, Along with that, a rework of a scene where the heroes encounter the warden of all. And then she provided for listening pleasure, a new track to one of her pet projects, Junked.

A couple of updates were made within the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable topic, primarily to the soundfont system. One can now change the midi soundfont in-game and can store your soundfont index within your game saves. This and a bug fix was added to allow the settings module to properly retrieve content from the game's graphic functions. At the same time, DerVVulfman examined the capabilities of an older Windows binary/executable of HiddenChest, finding much he approved, full keyboard capabilities, the ability to resize the game window with only need to adjust the menus and player centering within the scripts. What DerVVulfman did note was that a number of links for binary executables were out of date or dead. Indeed, the Mega download link is itself dead. However, new Linux binaries were compiled for Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat. No new Windows binaries available as yet.

For those that use the javascript RPGMaker engines, DerVVulfman discovered and posted MV3D: The3D Rendering for RPGMaker MV/MZ. A plugin that is still in development, your wall tiles may now be interpreted in 3D and it has map rotation capabilities. Not only screenshots, but a pair of videos that DerVVulfman discovered can illustrate some of its capabilities.

A short piece of Remi-chan's writing snippets appeared this week, one of her game's most evil playing with the three heroic sisters, and berating all life as she plans to being everlasting torment.

For those who wished to know what dives her artistic style, Remi-chan's cinematic theater now delves into the media that influenced her and the crafts she experienced when she was young.