onscripter6

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the onscripter command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

onscripter is a program that implements the visual novel games engine NScripter. It is able to run Japanese (Shift-JIS encoding) games. onscripter-1byte is built in order to play English games by forcing 1-byte mode.

Options

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

--cdaudio

Use CD audio if available.

--cdnumber no

Choose the CD-ROM drive number.

-f file --font file

Set a TTF font file.

--registry file

Set a registry file.

--dll file

Set a dll file.

-r path --root path

Set the root path to the archives.

--fullscreen

Start in fullscreen mode.

--window

Start in window mode.

--force-button-shortcut

Ignore useescspc and getenter command.

--enable-wheeldown-advance

Advance the text on mouse wheeldown event.

--disable-rescale

Do not rescale the images in the archives when compiled with -DPDA.

--edit

Enable editing the volumes and the variables when 'z' is pressed.

--key-exe file

Set a file (*.EXE) that includes a key table.

-h --help

Show summary of options.

-v --version

Show version of program.

Examples

After decompressing the game data directory, we call it /path/foo for convient, please use the follow command to perform the game:

onscripter -r /path/foo

If the game is not containing default.ttf, we can use -f to assign one as following:

onscripter -r /path/foo -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/vlgothic/VL-Gothic-Regular.ttf