Nintendo Switch Port of ONScripter

A port of onscripter-20060724-insani-sdl2 to the Switch.

I specifically made this to support running older NScripter-based games that would break on ONScripter-EN.

Features

• 4:3 aspect ratio simulation
• Touchscreen support
• RomFS integration
• Optimized flush implementation

Tested games

• Tsukihime
• Kagetsu Tohya

I'm planning on testing other visual novels too.

Any game that uses legacy ONScripter should run just fine though. If not, please open an issue! :)

How to Play

• Put onscripter-nx.nro in an empty folder
• Copy the game files in the new folder:
  • arc*.nsa / arc*.sar
  • nscript.dat
  • Soundtracks (CD folder, ...)
  • default.ttf font
• Launch ONScripter-NX from hbmenu
  • Note: Launching from the album applet seems to work, but it is strongly advised to launch it by holding R on an installed game to avoid potential memory problems since that's the normal environment where Switch homebrews are designed to run.
• Enjoy!

Controls

• A : Enter (or proceed in text mode)
• B : Back (or proceed in text mode)
• X : Right-click Menu
• Y : Draw full page at once
• Joystick UP / Joystick LEFT : Previous element
• Joystick DOWN / Joystick RIGHT : Next element
• D-Pad UP / L : Scroll up text history
• D-Pad DOWN / R : Scroll down text history
• ZL / ZR (held) : Skip mode
• Plus : Exit to homebrew menu

Building instructions

• You need devkitPro in order to build ONScripter-NX and its external libraries.
• Open the shell (devkitPro MSYS if on Windows)
• Install the dependencies packages
  • SDL2: pacman -S switch-sdl2 switch-sdl2_image switch-sdl2_mixer switch-sdl2_ttf
  • SMPEG2: pacman -S switch-smpeg2
• IMPORTANT! At the time of writing this, the switch-sdl2_ttf package available through devkitPro pacman is broken and causes the app to not display text properly. If it happens to you, please see the following section for building the external libraries, where I've provided a patch for switch-sdl2_ttf.
• If you want to integrate all your game files in one executable, put them in the romfs folder
• In your open shell, cd to the folder of this repository
• Run make

Building external libraries

• Open the shell (devkitPro MSYS if on Windows)
• Install the dependencies packages
  • pkg-config: pacman -S switch-pkg-config
  • devkitPro helper scripts: pacman -S dkp-toolchain-vars
• In your open shell, cd to the folder of this repository
• Run make -f Makefile.extlibs

Credits

• SDL2 Port by clamintus
• Switch Port by clamintus
• Studio O.G.A. Ogapee - original ONScripter
• insani - modified version of ONScripter
• Tomi - SDL2_ttf patch

And a huge thanks to SciresM for helping me out, and for his awesome work on Atmosphére's GDB stub <3

License

See COPYING