NAME

       onscripter — 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) grandpaul@gmail.com 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-2.

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