Changelog

Note: This document is for historical purposes only. Older versions of RPGMaker Trans are not normally available for download, although a number of them may have Bookmarks in the Mercurial Source tree

v4.41
Released Wednesday 31 May 2017
  • FIX
    Display an error message when there is a problem with the patch rather than crashing
  • FIX
    Error messages in command line mode now print correctly
v4.4
Released Tuesday 28 February 2017
  • FIX
    Hopefully fix the longstanding issue where RPGMaker Trans could delete portions of patches
v4.35
Released Thursday 07 January 2016
  • FIX
    Fix crash-on-exit bug in v4.3
  • FIX
    Fix progress bar sticking at 99%
v4.3
Released Wednesday 06 January 2016
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Make more things translatable
  • FIX
    Fix issue which caused indefinite hang on games with duplicated script names
v4.21
Released Tuesday 04 August 2015
  • FIX
    Fixed a bug that caused dialogues not to appear in translated VX/VX Ace games
v4.2
Released Monday 03 August 2015
  • FIX
    Support global predefined variables in Ruby parser - fixes variables such as $' breaking game
  • FIX
    Fix dialogue format for XP games - first line of dialogue should no longer be stripped
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Improved Ruby architecture for page patching - precursor to customisation of page patching for tricky games.
v4.1
Released Saturday 11 July 2015
  • NEW
    First non beta release to have good VX support and any XP/VX Ace support
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Patch banners now set to have a minimum 300x400 display area
v4.005 Beta
Released Saturday 04 July 2015
  • NEW
    Patch Banners - A patch can now contain the special files banner.txt and banner.html to display a message to the user. The CLI uses banner.txt; the GUI will try banner.html and then fall back to banner.txt.
  • NEW
    CLI mode changed so that patch and output directories are optional and guessed by default
  • NEW
    Dump labels+patch rebuild functionality exposed
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Reworked GUI
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Removed Ruby scripts which are unnecessary since Unmarshall
  • ENHANCEMENT
    GUI mode tries multiple ports (including 2 random) before failing
  • FIX
    Regex's now translateable again
  • FIX
    Unnamed scripts are no longer filtered out
v4.004 Beta
Released Sunday 21 June 2015
  • NEW
    Validate RegEx's in scripts to prevent errors only being found at end of script and therefore scripts taking far, far too long to parse.
v4.003 Beta
Released Saturday 09 May 2015
  • NEW
    Unmarshall script - should fix all compatibility issues
  • NEW
    GUI/CLI modes separated into separate packages - Windows version now works
  • NEW
    Release channels to enable update checking on Beta versions
  • NEW
    Hidden functionality (patch rebuild and dump labels) not yet exposed
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Major tidy up of source code
v4.002 Beta
Released Monday 09 March 2015
  • FIX
    Crash when launching a Ruby process from GUI mode
v4.001 Beta
Released Sunday 08 March 2015
  • FIX
    Crash when choosing a game in file picker
v4.00 Beta
Released Saturday 07 March 2015
  • NEW
    Support for XP and VX Ace games
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Translated scripts now have some validation applied
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Improved support for heavily customised games (previously only relatively vanilla games would work)
  • NEW
    v3.2 Patch Format with simpler contexts
  • FIX
    Games residing in a non-ASCII folder should now work
v3.07
Released Thursday 26 February 2015
  • FIX
    Multiline inline scripts would not parse
  • FIX
    Include the README and LICENSE files in the distributed binaries
v3.05
Released Wednesday 18 February 2015
  • FIX
    Supplied Ruby binary wasn't working
v3.04
Released Monday 16 February 2015
  • FIX
    Potential (although obscure) confusion with Patch/Asset files/folders in v3 patches
  • FIX
    Patched inline comments crashing the game
  • FIX
    (Temporary) Crash on exit
v3.03
Released Friday 13 February 2015
  • FIX
    Comments in v3 patches modifying the inserted string
  • FIX
    Crashes with version controlled games/patches
v3.02
Released Saturday 31 January 2015
  • FIX
    Problems in Windows case-insensitive file system that prevented VX games from being patched
v3.01
Released Friday 30 January 2015
  • FIX
    Pruby was in wrong location, crashing RPGMaker Trans
v3.0
Released Wednesday 28 January 2015
  • NEW
    VX support
  • NEW
    3.1 Patch format for VX Games
  • NEW
    Command line mode
  • FIX
    Race condition that could randomly delete bits of patches
v2.06
Released Sunday 29 June 2014
  • NEW
    First Open Source release
  • FIX
    Various Bug Fixes
v2.05
Released Thursday 08 May 2014
  • FIX
    ZIP patches no longer crash RPGMaker Trans if patch not contained in a subdirectory
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Crash reporter has a handy 'copy error to clipboard and open bug report page' button
v2.04
Released Saturday 29 March 2014
  • NEW
    Support the UTF-8 BOM in the GUI
v2.03
Released Sunday 23 March 2014
  • FIX
    Use different version of cx_freeze to avoid myterious bug
v2.02
Released Saturday 22 March 2014
  • FIX
    Version checker
  • FIX
    Error windows popping up on program exit
  • NEW
    Nonfatal errors - allow error messages without killing RPGMaker Trans
  • NEW
    Readme
v2.01
Released Monday 03 March 2014
  • FIX
    Error affecting high core count PCs
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Lower memory usage
  • FIX
    Read only files no longer crash copier
  • FIX
    Progress bar no longer gets stuck at 99%
v2.00
Released Sunday 09 February 2014
  • NEW
    CLI mode - probably not functional on Windows
  • NEW
    New GUI based on PySide
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Now using Python 3
  • FIX
    The myriad of problems caused by Python 2's Unicode string handling being sub par.
v1.991
Released Tuesday 25 December 2012
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Unused strings now in fixed order
v1.99
Released Saturday 10 November 2012
  • FIX
    Problem with translating names/classes set by scripts
  • FIX
    Bugs in error logging code
v1.98
Released Saturday 30 June 2012
  • NEW
    Speedy patching engine to massively improve speed of translating 2k games
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Copy files to translated directory whilst patching
  • FIX
    Game folders with Unicode file names
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Improved UI
v1.97
Released Monday 16 April 2012
  • NEW
    Speedy patching engine (which was broken in this release and reverted until 1.98)
  • FIX
    Can translate "Set Hero Class" commands
v1.95
Released Sunday 14 August 2011
  • NEW
    GUI - No more text box
  • ENHANCEMENT
    ZIP Patches should not work with less required structure
  • FIX
    Always get log files
v1.91
Released Saturday 04 June 2011
  • FIX
    Undocumented event code was crashing the patcher
  • FIX
    Converting old 1.0 patch format to 2.0 should not work
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Don't dump null strings
v1.9
Released Saturday 16 April 2011
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Advice field - gives assistance on text line limits etc
  • FIX
    Improve security against malicious patches
  • FIX
    Fix escaping issues
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Remove Terrain Data from translateables
v1.81
Released Saturday 05 March 2011
  • FIX
    Assets crashing patcher
  • NEW
    BOM support
v1.8
Released Friday 04 March 2011
  • NEW
    Multiprocessing - big speedup
  • NEW
    Patch File Format 2.0
  • NEW
    Update checker
  • NEW
    Security enhancement - malicious patches could overwrite arbitrary data
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Confirmation that patch is applied correctly - stops error messages from just disappearing.
  • ENHANCEMENT
    Logging mode - to capture problems

Previous versions of RPGMaker Trans did exist. However information on these has been lost to history...