The Weekly Gazette 09-07-2025

[DerVVulfman]

(September 1 to September 7, 2025)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette!  Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area

  Announcements and Updates

The work on The new HBGames Archive Board as Remi-chan revealed that DerVVulfman was hit with one of the infamous Malware ransom screens.  While he had taken it to a technician for its relatively brisk removal, he let it stay with the tech

Given that he discovered that a number of games had vanished from other forums which he had archived, DerVVulfman decided to go through Save-Point's own boards and made a thread revealing the creation of The Lost Completed Games subforum. He has since gone through the forum's own games, confirmed a great many, repaired links to a few, and found a number that have content that no longer exists.

  Occasions

This week, 5Brainplay joined the community, working upon a Nintendo-esque but legally distinct parody game while using the First Person Labyrinth System by MGC. As he is not a scripter, he notes he is using AI to help him craft script add-ons to give new options for the RPGMaker Raytracing system he is using.  DerVVulfman wished him luck and revealed that there was source code for MGC's DLLs, but 5Brainplay is not a coder himself and is using AI to assist.  Remi-chan has her qualms over AI usage, but added that presenting the work with a notification that some code may be AI generated would be fine.

  General Chat

For DerVVulfman, it appears blood tests and pain was on his mind as he had to take a trip to the hospital. Hit with an agonizing pain, he was in the hospital for five hours after suffering the initial agony of his first kidney stone's appearance.

The war of Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to be in the News of the World as Putin invites Ukraine's President Zelenskyy to meet him in Moscow. In rebuttal, Zelenskyy suggested Russia's President Putin to meet him in Kyiv. Following that, Putin intentified attacks and began enforcing the Russian border. And as EU President's plane was hit by Russian Jammers, Trump called out Europe for funding Russia by purchasing their oil. China held a military parade to reveal three new weapons to both Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, however there was an unexpected hot-mic moment when President Xi and President Putin were discussing immortality by way of organ transplants. In the US, CBS got hit with another count of deceptive editing, cutting her interview to ‘whitewash’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia's MS-13 background and more. While Chicago Democrats roil against Trump's intent to use the National Guard to quell crime, DC's Mayor Bowser openly endorces federal policing after its massive success. Over 600 newly released documents reveal that the CDC under the Biden administration downplayed risks of the Covid Vaccine and the benefits of natural immunity. And roughly 600 military lawyers are set to serve as temporary immigration judges to resolve the millions of backlogged cases. Venezuela's President Maduro rails against the US, just as a Drug Boat from Venezuela was sunk by US forces. Following this, Venezuelan jets provocatively buzzed a US navy ship. A driver in Australia crashing his car into the the Russian Consolate in Sydney, Trump's latest prisoner exchange offer again ignored by Hamas, Finland finally removing the swastika from its Air Force flags, 300 illegal aliens from South Korea busted in an ICE raid, six candidates from Germany's AFD party die just before local elections with authorities claiming no foul play, and much more hit this week's news.

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  Tech Talk

Within this week's News of the Cyber World, there were data breaches a plenty, be they 24Million AT&T customers,  252 Million targets mostly in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates due to misconfigured servers in Brazil and the UAE, the Drift AI system shut down after discovery its use in hacking Google and Cloudflare, and the recent update of Spotify that can DOX its own users. Censorship of social media also hit the news as Google was down in Turkey by apparent accident, Nepal shuts down Facebook, X, Youtube and dozens more under protest, and  Russia blocks Zuckerberg's content,  On an odd note, a lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg is suing Meta over repeated closures of his account for incorrect claims of identity thef. Disney's settlement for stealing children's data, Character.AI busted for sending disturbing material to minors while impersonatiing celebrities, and much more hit this week's cybernews.

Games Development

  Development Discussion

If you are wondering about What's up in RM making, Remi-chan has been going through her rewritten battles and replacing leftover code with the new. And meanwhile, Rune (or Xiie) finished working on one more of Remi's character sprites.

Despite the darkened and gloomy backdrop, the Maps and screenshots thread now reveals new sprited characters in Remi-chan's current work.

  Code Support

There was some back and forth discussion within Ace_V's request for help in his Lead Actor Swapper script error. As the discussion continued, DerVVulfman suggested narrowing down what scripts could be interfering with the system, and also noticed that Ace_V was using an older and untranslated edition of his caterpillar script. But after a few days, DerVVulfman discovered the final issue Ace_V encountered was based on an issue with the Lead Actor script itself, not altering the order of the party itself but instead faking it.  Both he and kyonides released replacement scripts.  Ace_V opted to use kyonides's script since kyonides and Ace_V were sending messages quite rapidly, while encountering an odd bug with DerVVulfman's system.  But DerVVulfman updated a video and a later demo for Ace_V to test, DerVVulfman suggesting there is yet one more error lying somewhere within.

Material Development

  Scripts Database

  RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

Kyoniides found he had to update the demo for KLastWords XP, while simultaneously updating ths script itself to  prevent stack errors resulting from the F12 Resset key's use.

Within the demo for KLastDefeat XP, a problem appeared one was loading events from another map. And it was the result of a single line of code that kyonides repaired immediately upon discovery.

If you had need for a tutorial menu in an RPGMaker XP project, then KInfoMenu XP by kyonides would allow you to do so with many GUI options.  However, it is not a plug-and-play script as there are many configuration values within the KInfoMenu module to adjust.

Sometimes, you may come across a battle so malevolent, that the party is left with naught but to sacrifice one of their own to continue another day. For this, kyondes created  KursedVictory XP, a script that will force the player to decide who lives and who dies at the end of any specified villain's battle.

There was an unexpeced error within KMustDie XP, one that kyonides had to repair. The issue was that the script did not differentiate between normal battles and those that did not require every enemy in the troop to be slain.

Sometimes a skill that an actor may learn is too powerful and could make the game completely unbalanced.  For this, kyonides created Super Skill Nerf XP for RPGMaker XP.  With it, you can now limit those incredibly powerful attacks to be available but once in battle.

With inspiration by Ace_V, kyonides designed Kuick Leader Swap XP to allow the cycling of the party members or even swappng the team leader with anyone else in the party.

  RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines

There was an unexpeced error within KMustDie VX + ACE, one that kyonides had to repair. The issue was that the scripts did not differentiate between normal battles and those that did not require every enemy in the troop to be slain.

Sometimes a skill that an actor may learn is too powerful and could make the game completely unbalanced.  For this, kyonides created [Thread=12790]Super Skill Nerf VX for both RPGMaker VX and RPGMaker VX.  With it, you can now limit those incredibly powerful attacks to be available but once in battle.

Sometimes, you may come across a battle so malevolent, that the party is left with naught but to sacrifice one of their own to continue another day. For this, kyondes created KursedVictory VX + ACE, a script that will force the player to decide who lives and who dies at the end of any specified villain's battle.

  Resources Database

  2D Resources

With all the aquatic resouces recently crafted, one final work entered the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V.  Here, you can find a fisherman wearing a modern yellow raincoat. And if you're wondering about a name, Ace_V gave a nod to a novel by Herman Melville.

Creativity Section

  Music and Audio

This week, three new compositions became available within DoubleX's Music Room.  The twenty-eighth piece he crated was entitled "Soulless Life", with oboes and piano repeating a narrative of a life with nothing to show for it as the calm of oblivion echoes. His work "Detached Outsider" uses flutes and cellows followed by a bridge with light guitar picks, wood blocks and chimes for his twenty-ninth piece to suggest being the odd-one-out may not be a bad thing. And with a deep bass and piano concerto as its beginning, "Waste of Space" is his thirtieth work that asks what's it all for?

  Art and Design

Early this week, we found two sketches among Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!, two maidens who are both powerful in their own right. But by the end of the week, one was fully crafted in glorious and malevolent indigo against a blackened sky. And standing atop the body of her victim, the Evil God is tearing away his essence. For an illustration that took fifteen hours, she does have a twenty-two minute speed draw.  And following this up, a pencilling of yet another powerful maiden appears.

Gaze in wonder within the new museum halls of Amy's Artwork.  Amysaurus just released a new thread to showcase some o f her works, be it pixelwork, illustrations and game assets. Some of the content is even animated, be they a variety of sideview maidens or happy sideview dinosaurs.  Remi-chan gave a very encouraging opinion of her work, which was followed up by one more illustration, Karen and her Pokémon Team  that was also added into the main page's post.

  Literature

Within the recent page among Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, we are presented with the notion that the two who exist outside of reality in Remi-chan's recent game do not themselves exist.  Instead, we are presented with the true creator of all things, and that existence as we know it as a whole is naught but her test program.

Well, that's it for this week.

(Not realizing they were two different countries) "We are here in Botswana, South Africa! Wow what a long flight!" - Kim Kardashian

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[Ace_V]

I hope you are feeling better now, DerVVulfman!!  (Drink plenty of water!) 

[kyonides]

I hope you are feeling better now, DerVVulfman!!  (Drink plenty of water!) 

And get ready for the final stage: the stone's exit!

[Ace_V]

[DerVVulfman]

ow....

I told the doc who filled out the prescription "Oxycodone is on this? I'll probably pass on that." Then, last night... The pain hit at midnight and Tylonol didn't do JACK!