onscripter(6) NScripter-compatible visual novel games engine

SYNOPSIS

onscripter [option ...]

DESCRIPTION

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.

EXAMPLE

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

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) [email protected] for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
 

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.