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Or, how do I not spend money on RPG Maker on steam??
It's no secret that RPG Maker plays an important role in my childhood, and I think it's important that tools to bring people together and make people happy are available. This is why I'm making this post, to make you aware of the current FOSS options for RPG Maker games.
For the bad news: There is no established FOSS alternative to the real thing.
The good news: There's something...?
Uh, forget this one for now, you can find some incomplete builds for Linux/MacOS, Windows doesn't even build.
One day tho!
If your focus if purely datamining, you could consider it, along the (more recommended) "Tools" repo which has tons of neat converters from RM2K proprietary formats to stuff like PNG.
Now this is an interesting one, it was probably made to datamine OneShot (total blind shot, I have no clue). It says it can actually make RPG Maker games from scratch, thought the UI is a bit hostile. Nevertheless, inspecting RPG Maker projects without the actual editor is.. doable! Doesn't work if the game has RTP dependencies it does not bundle, which sucks a lot, but many commercial and indie titles don't dare touch those so it's probably fine???
And if you use unbundled RTP you're in many people's naughty list anyway.
Requires JRE (it's a .jar file)