RM2K? or RM2K3?

[Rpgmikel]

Please answer! I want to know what you think.

[Blue Barry Jam]

There should be an other option.

Anyway, I say rm2k3. It has everything that rm2k has, but more.

Edit: I like that little joke in your sig. It's pretty funny .

[Rpgmikel]

what other option?

(thanks.. my friend told it to me )

[Busterman Zero]

2k, because custom systems are easier to make, and characters aren't that hard to do. There will be less variety with 2k3 because everyone uses the basic battle system except for people doing action battle systems, and lots of people will use to menu too.

[Magi]

I prefer Sphere.

[Rpgmikel]

This may sound dumb but... what is "Sphere"? ... Can someone tell me

1) what Is it Exactly
2) Where to get it...
3) (If not free) how much
4) How compatible is it to make own charsets and release to other ppl

[Busterman Zero]

Another game maker.

[Magi]

Rpgmikel said:

This may sound dumb but... what is "Sphere"? ... Can someone tell me

1) what Is it Exactly
2) Where to get it...
3) (If not free) how much
4) How compatible is it to make own charsets and release to other ppl

A1) It's like BMZ said another Game Maker. Not the best, but infinitely better than Rm2k. They recently came out with Ver 1.1 which supports DivX.
A2) sphere.sourceforge.net/
A3) It's free
A4) It's much, much more compatible than rm2k/3, but its tilesets and character sets have a different format, since they're more flexible than rm2k's, but you can import them. It also has a much higher learning curve and is one of the most difficult of the basic game making programs to learn.

[Rpgmikel]

Huh... It LOOKS difficult! d**n... okay, someone needs to give me a tutorial or sumthin... Sphere is hard (I got v. 1.1 no games...) Should i get one w/ a game? Help would be greatly appreciated... oh. And I may stick to RM2K out of difficulty rating Thanks MagiKoopa! Now I will learn how to do this and get addicted to THIS...d**n you wasted youth, d**n YOU I SAY!

[Magi]

It's complicated. I'm still trying to learn the basics, and haven't enough time to study fully... I'm trying to teach myself to compose and hone my drawing skills aready...

[Rpgmikel]

... well, that's that. I am dedicated to RM2K. and Does anyone know how One can swap PS/PS2 Data??? There used to be a Dex Drive which kickd (I never had it but I wanted it SO bad)... I started a project for RPG Maker from Agetec... and my CD broke ... thanx for the posts! NEED VOTES!

[iishenron]

Sphere ( and Gamemaker ) are far more powerful than
Rm2k/3 but much harder to use. Sphere would be the
maker I'd use if I just HAD to have a whole bunch of
custom battle systems and stuff and needed a great
deal more power than Rm2k3 provided. ( Honestly, very
few one-man games are ever going to truly fall into
this category ). Gamemaker is the maker of choice for
platformers, shoot-em-ups, etc.

Now, between Rm2k and Rm2k3, it's a no-brainer that
Rm2k3 is the maker of choice. Why?

More pictures: Rm2k has 20 pictures, Rm2k3 has 50. In
Rm2k3, you can basically code your entire CMS or CBS
with pictures, without using the old horror of 999 forks (
or 9999 as the case may be ). It took me less than 2
weeks to code a CMS in Rm2k3.

Battle animations appear OVER pictures instead of
UNDER them: Ask anyone using Rm2k for CBSes if
they'd love this feature.

Extra keys: Say goodbye to item-based submenus
or (yuck) front end CMSes.

These are just off the top. There are a lot of other little
extras here and there (like mp3 support that WORKS ),
and if you're using the DBS, the ability to use common
events in battle is huge; built in class-change support
makes life easier, too. Although I do admit that for
a graphically challenged user such as myself, battle
characters and the like are tougher.

To sum it up, anyone saying that Rm2k is easier to
code custom stuff in is talking out of their butt. There
are only four reasons anyone should even have Rm2k
on their hard drive anymore:

1) To play good vintage Rm2k games.

2) If you started a major project in Rm2k before
Rm2k3 came out and you can't port it to 2k3.

3) If you absolutely, absolutely, detest ATB/side view
and absolutely MUST have a front-view battle system.*

4) A significant portion of your fanbase is at GGZ where
for some idiotic reason 2k3 is somehow more "illegal"
than 2k.

*-Note: I too hate ATB, but not enough to qualify for #3.

[Magi]

iishenron said:

Sphere ( and Gamemaker ) are far more powerful than
( Honestly, very
few one-man games are ever going to truly fall into
this category ).

True dat. Just to finish up on the last statement, Sphere is near impossible to use if you're just a free-lance game making type guy. You could make other types of games in Sphere, but an RPG would require the work of a team.

[NeonShadow]

If ya ask me the best Game make is well, game maker! Since you can do a lot more with it than enything else. You can also make internet games with it (pfft, like eny one would actually go to that trouble but hey, atleast you can make them).
But I don't want to take a nother year to learn the basics in it since I know how to use my RM2K

[Mageus]

i chose rm2k because its easier and on 2k3 if you don't want to use a character they already have you gotta make a new sprite which i suck at