HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable

[kyonides]

HiddenChest's Second Semi-Stable Release Has Arrived!

Version 1.1.66

Available on both Windows & Linux! 

New Features:

Game.ini Parser now supports custom:

• Width
  
• Height
  
• Window gets centered automatically.
  

Even if you leave any of them empty or set a value to anything lower than 320x240, the missing values will get replaced by the engine's default ones.

Improved Features:

• Debug gets disabled if it starts searching for an encrypted game file.
  

Bug Fixes:

• Sprite#x and #ymethods will not prevent the game pictures from being placed at any given location.
  The issue was caused by the RM series weird custom of using floats instead of integers for x and y coordinates in the Game_Picture & Sprite_Picture classes. It seems likely that the RM's always had to internally convert them back to integers. (Ruby could have handle that with ease...)
  
• Renamed Graphics#snapshot_dir instance variable as #shot_dir for convenience sake.
  

Commentary on the Development of This Engine

Right now it doesn't seem feasible to make any important changes to how fast or slow it toggles between fullscreen and windowed modes. This being system dependent makes it complicated. It relies on SDL2 to handle the internal mechanisms involved in both Linux & Windows. And HC's Graphics C++ namespace doesn't show me any sign it can be simplified at this point. Thus, it seems this situation will remain the same for the time being.

I know Debug is optional but there might be people wanting to try some stuff even if they haven't opened their RM editor.

On the fullscreen feature I gotta say that I've seen several game developers including some custom fullscreen features in their Game.ini files way before I made any changes to how HiddenChest handled the parsing of such a file. So this means that this feature is staying here forever and ever.  
By the way, even mkxp's CONF file included that feature by default.

EDIT:

Today the 21st I've been able to upload updated binaries for both Windows & Linux. The GitHub repository already features a new official release.