HOW TO SHARE GAMES WITHOUT INCLUDING THE RTP
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A FAQ by Condarion

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OK guys, you all know how annoying it is if you want to share your games
with friends and then you must realize your game doens't run on your friend's
computer because he doens't have installed the RTP. Annoying because you know
that the RTP is not needed, all needed files are included in the zip (or what
ever) you shared. This makes your game's size increase by 12 MB, too much, I
think (maybe you agree). So here are two ways to share your games WITHOUT the
need of the RTP.



1. IF YOU WANT TO USE THE GAME DISK MAKER INCLUDED IN RPGMAKER 2000

Usually, you include all RTP files inside of the setup files to make your
game run on other's computers. Here it goes: Simply remove the files inside
of the subdirectories to whereever you want, but DON'T remove the directories
themselves. Then, when making the game disk, let the Game Disk Maker include
the RTP files (though they aren't really included because you removed them, but
RM2k luckily doens't care).
(See Note to 2 also for explanation)




2. IF YOU WANT TO USE A CUSTOM INSTALLER OR SIMPLY ZIP THE GAME

First of all, you'll have to copy the Harmony.dll into your game directory. Then open
the RPG_RT.ini and add the following lines:

FullPackageFlag=1

This lets your game think the RTP is installed on the computer. Then you can zip your
game files or do whatever you want.




NOTE to 2:

This doens't work with way 1 because the Game Disk Maker removes the line "FullPackageFlag=1"
from the RPG_RT.ini for some reason. This line is only added if you really activate the
option "Include all RTP files in the Game Disk".


Now you don't need to include the RTP in your games. This makes your games' sizes alot
smaller and prevents you from carrying about unnecessary files.

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Sent any questions or comments to:

Condarion@t-online.de
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