Explaining me.
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I am pianotm. I have been been working with RPG Maker since I discovered the Don Miguel bootleg in 2013. It was a year later that I finally bought VX Ace. Wasn't too thrilled by it, but eventually became proficient with it. While I have made a bunch of games in VX Ace, and will probably make a bunch more, most of what I make is in 2003. I bought XP from one of the Steam sales where it was, like, 4 dollars. Never really gave it a proper try. I bought MV, have made a few games in it. I hated it, but I recently made a shmup in it that has kind of changed my mind. You're not completely useless after all, MV. I have only ever tried the trial version of MZ. I like it much better than MV, but simply cannot afford it.
So, why do I only write 2K/3 tutorials?
Everything I know about working in VX Ace, I've found in tutorials that other people have already written, and what I can't find in tutorials, I can find in plug-ins. No point writing what is already written and easily found in a brief search of RMN. It would be rejected anyway because admin feels the same way.
On the other hand, the bootleg editions of RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 have even more tutorials (and there's still plenty to write about). The legal Steam versions are different. While you can usually pretty easily move a bootleg project into the legal engine, compatibility is not one-to-one, and there are problems to be solved before your project will work right. This warranted the legal versions to be treated as their own, separate engines on the RMN forum, and they had no tutorials. So, whenever I write a tutorial, it's for the legal version of RM2k/3.
My first tutorial was for the bootleg 2k3, and it was just a simple explanation of how to make exclusive clubs in your games, something you can probably figure out on your own, but I'll eventually post it anyway.
