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- Are you going to make a version that supports hi-res graphics, 3D, etc...?
- Bob is the most adorable hamster I have ever seen. Where can I find a hamster with Bob's distinct features?
- Can I have a copy of the plotscripting tutorial that I don't have to be on the internet to use?
- Can I add gravity to my game?
- Can I make my own version of the OHRRPGCE?
- Can I make my own version of Wandering Hamster?
- Can I make a game with speaking hamsters? (and if so can I include Bob in it)?
- Can I play and make games installing game.exe and custom.exe on a Usb key?
- Can I run CUSTOM.exe or GAME.exe in a fullscreen instead of in a small window?
- Can I sell RPGs I make with the OHRRPGCE?
- Can you modify experience outside of battle with plotscripting?
- Can you make heroes appear during a battle?
- Can you add different animations in battle for a hero's different attacks?
- Custom usually freezes when importing music!
- CUSTOM.exe froze up while I was working on a game! Is there any way I can unfreeze CUSTOM or retrieve the files I modified?
- Did you really make this with QuickBasic?
- Does Bob the Hamster exist in real life?
- Error: "Out of memory in module GAME at address XXXX:XXXX"
- Even if I disable the minimap, I can still display it with F1
- Even if the code is messy, I still want to became a OHRRPGCE programmer. What are the first things I should do after downloading the source code?
- Every time a battle starts, the enemies die instantly and I win without doing anything. Why?
- Expected name but defineoperator block ended
- Expected number but found ___
- Expected top-level declaration but found ___
- HssEd keeps asking for HSPEAK
- How about a OHRRPGCE hall of fame, for all the best games made with it, or does one already exist?
- How are elemental strengths and weaknesses calculated?
- How are weapon pictures used?
- How can I allow the player to rename someone before they join their team?
- How can I allow the player to rename someone who never joins their team?
- How can I compile my plotscripts in Linux?
- How can I compile my plotscripts under windows?
- How can I compile my plotscripts without using hssed.exe?
- How can I implement weather on a map?
- How can I make a combination lock using multiple digits?
- How can I make a world map where the player just presses a key and the hero walks to another place on the map?
- How can I make an attack do an exact amount of damage each time?
- How can I make copies of NPCs do distinct things?
- How can I make copies of NPCs do the same thing?
- How can I make it so that an event will happen, when an NPC is pushed onto a certain tile?
- How can I make it so that an inn restores HP, but not MP?
- How can I make more than two choices in a text box?
- How can I move my graphics between RPG files?
- How can I run a script instead of/before/after the menu comes up?
- How can I set or remove animating maptiles with plotscripting?
- How can I talk to NPCs with some other key besides the space bar?
- How can I trick the Npc limit?
- How did you get the bright idea to use a wiki message board to host game makers' questions?
- How does level MP increase when levelling up?
- How do I add a timer?
- How do I add heroes to my party?
- How do I add new quotes for Bob in the main page of the website?
- How do I advance a text box without pressing the space bar?
- How do I advance backdrops pressing the space bar?
- How do I advance backdrops without pressing the space bar?
- How do I announce to the community that a game demo (or version) is online and ready to be tested and reviewed?
- How do I allow players to rename characters?
- How do I add characters of my own instead of drawing them?
- How do I add arguments to my script and how do I use them?
- How do I animate maptiles?
- How do I attack NPCs outside of battle?
- How do I avoid script buffer overflows?
- How do I become an OHRRPGCE developer?
- How do I bump a hero's level?
- How do I call one script directly from another script?
- How do I change the walkabout graphic set of an NPC using Plotscripting?
- How do I cleanly uninstall the OHRRPGCE?
- How do I change my starting location?
- How do I change enemies' stats with plotscripting?
- How do I change the money symbol?
- How do I check that the OHRRPGCE has enough conventional memory to work correctly?
- How do I convert a TTF font into an OHF font?
- How do I copy and paste a palette?
- How do I correctly post an article on this website?
- How do I customize the keyboard?
- How do I customize the master palette?
- How do I delete an account used to submit games to the Hamster Republic OHRRPGCE Game List?
- How do I destroy all the NPCs on a single map?
- How do I destroy more than one copy of an NPC at a time?
- How do I end the game?
- How do I enter names through strings?
- How do I enter NPC references through strings?
- How do I get information about reported bugs?
- How do I get more Conventional DOS memory?
- How do I get permission to use a WIP build with my game?
- How do I get rid of NPC misalignment?
- How do I give an enemy a "Counter-attack"?
- How do I give my hero more than just one attack?
- How do I give my hero spells?
- How do I give stun and poison to the enemy so that they can use it on the heroes?
- How do I give the screen little and/or big shake?
- How do I have one enemy target one specific other enemy?
- How do I implement mouse input in my game?
- how do I implement new keys for the player with hero jumps as an example?
- How do I import my scripts without launching custom.exe and then going in the script managment menu?
- How do I increase Maximum HP or MP through an Item?
- How do I know I have to use more than one hss file?
- How do I level up my hero using plotscripting?
- How do I learn to draw better graphics?
- How do I learn to write plotscripts?
- How do I limit the number of items I can carry?
- How do I link script files together?
- How do I make a "backdrop point"?
- How do I make a "fake" movie using backdrops?
- How do I make a "Save Point"
- How do I make a "vending machine?"
- How do I make a Bank where you can store money/items?
- How do I make a battle start after talking to an NPC?
- How do I make a blank/ all transparent sprite?
- How do I make a boss battle that the player cannot run away from?
- How do I make a boss with multiple forms?
- How do I make a chest in which I can store items and get them back later?
- How do I make a different song play when you ride a vehicle?
- How do I make a fighting game?
- How do I make a healing item?
- How do I make a hero join the party in the middle of a battle?
- How do I make a hero attack several times during a battle turn?
- How do I make a hero learn spells from items?
- How do I make a hero learn spells from level-ups?
- How do I make a hero look like it's jumping?
- How do I make a HSS file?
- How do I make a HSI file?
- How do I make a key-locked Door?
- How do I make a poisoning or stunning attack?
- How do I make a shop that can be used only one, two or three times?
- How do I make a single spell that can be cast without having to access the Spell List screen?
- How do I make a safe-deposit box locked with a password?
- How do I make a save slot load automatically instead of the load menu when the game launches?
- How do I make a stat-boosting spell/attack?
- How do I make a stat-weakening spell/attack?
- How do I make a spell that teleports you somewhere?
- How do I make a teleporter that transports you to an "HQ" thoughout the whole game?
- How do I make a text box that automatically shows the name of the item that I set it to give?
- How do I make a treasure chest?
- How do I make a treasure chest that contains many items and/or more than $32767?
- How do I make a wall that NPCs can't pass, but Heros can?
- How do I make a wall that heroes can't pass, but Npcs can?
- How do I make an automatic battle?
- How do I make an "enemy-repelling" item?
- How do I make an event happen when the player presses a key at a certain X and Y on a map?
- How do I make an icon for my game?
- How do I make an inn where you can hire heroes?
- How do I make an intro story thing? (text boxes with backgrounds)
- How do I make an item or spell that revives dead heroes?
- How do I make an item that shows a text box?
- How do I make an item you have to be a certain level to use/equip?
- How do I make an NPC disappear after ending its plotscript by making it walk out of view?
- How do I make an npc have a "line of sight" or an area in which it can detect a hero and how do I make it act upon it?
- How do I make an NPC hurt the hero?
- How do I make an NPC look like it's jumping?
- How do I make an NPC say something different later?
- How do I make buildings?
- How do I make certain enemy formations rarer than others in the same formation set?
- How do I make choices in a dialogue box?
- How do I make emoticons?
- How do I make enemies speak in battle?
- How do I make "fake" doors?
- How do I make fonts?
- How do I make gradual fade in and fade out?
- How do I make it so that an enemy spawns only when multiple other enemies are killed?
- How do I make match the color of the picture I've drawn with the color of the Ohrrpgce master palette?
- How do I make maptiles animate?
- How do I make maptiles that hurt you?
- How do I make more than two choices in a text box using figures?
- How do I make my imported backgrounds look better?
- How do I make my own HSD file?
- How do I make my own WIPs?
- How do I make my vehicle remember where I parked it?
- How do I make heroes and npcs invisible?
- How do I make music?
- How do I make one, two, or three NPCs follow the hero?
- How do I make screenshots?
- How do I make the first plotscript in a file be the new game plotscript, and the second one in the same file begin when you talk to an NPC in a different map?
- How do I make the screen scroll?
- How do I make the screen scroll like a Zelda game?
- How do I make the story continue after you die in battle?
- How do I make title options like Start Game, Continue Game, etc.?
- How do I make Vehicles?
- How do I make weather effects?
- How do I make/ work on screen under custom.exe?
- How do I mix colors together?
- How do I place shops?
- How do I prevent a hero in the reserve party from appearing in the team menu?
- How do I prevent a hero from attacking several times during a battle turn?
- How do I prevent an NPC from wandering far away from its start location?
- How do I prevent items from appearing in the inventory?
- How do I prevent the player from calibrating the joystick?
- How do I prevent the player from popping up the menu?
- How do I prevent my scripts from bugging?
- How do I prevent my scripts from taking hours to compile?
- How do I print my hss file?
- How do I reset time?
- How do I restore my hero's stats during a plotscript?
- How do I report a bug?
- How do I run a plotscript after a battle?
- How do I run a plotscript before a battle?
- How do I securely backup my work?
- How do I start?
- How do I take Screen Shots of...?
- How do I upload a picture on the wiki?
- How do I use Anvil studio to make midi music?
- How do I use attack captions to make dialogue in battles?
- How do I use a map autorun script to create weather effects?
- How do I use a USB gamepad or joystick with the OHRRPGCE?
- How do I use MIDI2BAM to make BAM music?
- How do I use NOTATE.EXE to make BAM music?
- How do I use precise weapon placement?
- How do I use scancodes?
- How do I use Sound Effects?
- How do I use Stephanie's PC Piano to make BAM music?
- How do I use unlump.exe to get all my rpg datas back on my hardrive and ready to use to make another game?
- How do I write battlescripting?
- How do I write if statements with complex conditions (2 or 3 conditions)?
- How do I write map autorun scripts?
- How do I write strings?
- How do you make your hero attack like megaman?
- How does plotscripting work?
- How does script-debug mode work?
- How does the "Absorb Damage" bitset work?
- How is damage calculated?
- How is the attack dodge rate calculated?
- How long is a game tick?
- How many _______ can I make?
- How many articles can be hosted here?
- How many copies of a hero can I have in my team?
- How many items can I have in my inventory menu?
- How many games are hosted by Castle Paradox?
- I'm rather intimidated with NPC manipulation and I would like to make a tactical engine to fulfill my gameplay needs. How shall I proceed?
- I'm rather intimate with NPC manipulation and feel ready to make a first tactical engine that would fulfill my gameplay needs. How shall I start?
- I'm not getting any sound in Linux. Can you tell me how OHRRPGCE outputs MIDI so that I can set up my system correctly?
- I added new spells to my hero's spell list, why aren't they there when I play?
- I am a music composer. Where can I find a place to host my MIDI and BAM files?
- I am running under Linux. Can I use the OHRRPGCE? and if so what version of the Custom.exe and Game.exe shall I download?
- I am using the Paintbrush program that comes with windows...
- I am using a hero that can be renamed several times by the player. What name should I use for him when I write in the text boxes?
- I came up with a new plotscript command. How should I propose it to the community?
- I can't figure out how to download the OHRRPGCE, Help!
- I can't figure out how to install and run the OHRRPGCE, Help!
- I can't figure out how to install and run the new version of the OHRRPGCE, Help!
- I can't read the HSPEAK error screen!
- I click the program and nothing at all happens
- I click the program and my computer crashes
- I click the program and see an error message
- I click the program and the screen goes blank
- I don't have an internet connection at home. How can I save the articles and or print them later?
- I forgot my password! What do I do?
- I get an error message about AUTOEXEC.NT
- I get an error message about CONFIG.NT
- I get an error message about the 16-bit MS-DOS Subsystem
- I get an error message about illegal wait substate #174
- I get an message that says Invalid Text Box
- I get an error message saying: The system is not suitable for running MS-DOS and microsoft Windows applications
- I get an error message saying: declaration script is not permitted inside a script. Perhaps my script has an extra...
- I have translated howto.txt and some other documents in my mother tongue. Who shall ask to put it online?
- I made backgrounds, but now I can't import them!
- I made enemies and formations, why can't I fight them when I walk around my map?
- I miss Bob the Hamster. Will his new adventures be released one day?
- I need to bump up manually my hero's level. How should I proceed?
- I need to know if something I've heard about (and or something I've read on forums) is yet implemented or not. What can I do to get information?
- I need to rename heroes but I don't want the player to see (or notice) something on the screenplay. How should I proceed?
- I have compiled my own version with interesting features. How shall I propose my ideas to the developers so they can test and comment on them?
- I still get "Script error! Failed to unlump (scriptid).hsx"; I used the right format for more than one script in a file.
- If statement has 2 conditions. It should have only one. Use and and or for complex conditions
- Is it possible for the game to know if you ran from the last battle and do something about it?
- Is it possible to change the background (animation) when prompted by an Attack?
- Is it possible to export images from a game? Print Screen doesn't work on CUSTOM.
- Is it possible to make little Character Portraits appear next to text boxes?
- Is it possible to make a textbox advance faster?
- Is it possible to make an enemy know whether it is poisoned or stunned so it can heal itself?
- Is James Dead?
- Is James Really Dead?
- Is James British?
- Is there a limit to how big a plotscript can be?
- Is there a way I can draw my pictures in a painting program, then place it into my game?
- Is there any way to adjust how much the "Weak to" and "Strong to" will add or remove from the damage?
- Is there any way to add captions to an attack when the target is "Weak to" or "Strong to" the attack?
- I want a new feature!
- I want more items, NPCs, elements, spells, etc...
- I want to make a program based on the OHRRPGCE's code. Do I have to pay you a licence fee or something?
- I would like to propose new features for the next version of the OHRRPGCE. How should I proceed?
- I would like to make my own wiki media website. Where can I go to get some information in my mother tongue?
- I would like to write a fan fiction and/or make comics with Bob the Hamster, his friends and enemies in it. Will you agree?
- I would like to create a brand new RPG with Bob the Hamster in it. The graphics would be based on those in wander.rpg. Will you agree?
- I would like to learn FreeBASIC. Where can I find information good for a beginner?
- I would like to make my own battle system. How can I start?
- I would like to make my own menu and edit it under custom.exe How shall I start?
- I would like to make my game all in black and white. How can I full the master palette with various shades of grey?
- I would like to include Bob (or any other character from Wandering Hamster) in my game. How shall I contact James to ask for it?
- I would like to start to write some advanced plotscripts with complex commands in it. Where can I find help and support?
- I would like to start a website about OHR games in my mother tongue. Could we be sister sites?
- I would like to use a pre made battle system I've download at Castle paradox. How do I implement it in my game?
- If I put more than one plotscript into one file, how do I make only one at a time begin when I need it?
- I haven't worked for a long time on my rpg file. I've downloaded the new version of custom.exe. Can it bug my game?
- I have made a script library. Who shall I ask to put it online?
- I have made my own version of the OHRRPGCE and would like to post it here. What should I do?
- I have a game project but I'm not good at making graphics and music and I would like new members to join my game project. Where can I meet members of the community that could be interested in working with me?
- Is it possible to put two NPCs on the same X,Y position with Plotscripting?
- I use the paint program that comes by default with Windows because I couldn't find any free drawing programs. Would you know where I can find some on the net?
- In a plotscript, how does it know which NPC 2 to use, if there's a new list of NPCs for every map?
- Is Bob a dog?
- Is there a way to enable NPCs to walk through each other?
- It doesn't work!
- I've got a message that says expected top level declaration but found "archinym.lmp" when I compile. What does that mean?
- I've found a wip and would like to try to implement it so that I can use it in my game. Where can I find informations that could help me?
- May I use some of the graphics/music in Wandering Hamster?
- My battles don't work! What is wrong?
- My computer is very old. Will the OHRRPGCE still work on it?
- My enemies never move or attack, why?
- My enemy's turn takes forever, why?
- My Script compiles, but I can't find the .HS file!
- My scripts won't compile! Why?
- No data to compile
- Now that the OHRRPGCE compiles in FreeBasic and tirgoviste is out, is the code a bit less messy?
- Script error! Failed to unlump (scriptid).hsx
- Sometimes, my hero attacks once and some other times twice. What can be the reason for that?
- So when will it be finished?
- The OHRRPGCE doesn't work on my computer! Why?
- The OHRRPGCE doesn't meet my expectations. What else can I use?
- The program runs, but doesn't work like I expect it to
- The program used to work just fine, but now it doesn't!
- Unrecognised name ___. It has not been defined as script, constant, variable, or anything else
- What about linking ads and/or commercials to this website? (It could make tons of money!)
- What are Level MP based/FF1 Style spells?
- What are scancodes?
- What are Tags for?
- What are the advantages and drawbacks of the different music programs?
- What are the correct sizes for each type of graphics?
- What are the correct sizes for each type of graphics in centimeters?
- What are the main lines of the OHRRPGCE's community history?
- What are the common rules and customs of the OHR RPG community?
- What are the Debugging keys?
- What are the differences between the "wait for key" command and the "key is pressed" command?
- What are the differences between a variable and a global variable?
- What are the differences between the "walk hero " command and "walk to X/Y" command?
- What are the limits on various things?
- What are the more requested features for the next versions?
- What are the particularities of a world map and how can I make one?
- What are the particularities of a "on boat" map and how can I make one?
- What are the various ways to get back on the bmp format the backdrops that are in the rpg file?
- What are the RGB values for the different colors?
- What are the things the OHRRPGCE CANNOT do and will never be able to do?
- What are the things the OHRRPGCE can do very well?
- What can I do to NOT lose my password?
- What can I do to NOT lose my game datas?
- What can an item do when used outside of battle?
- What ever happened to the WARNING: this code is not for beginner programmers?
- What do each of the attack motions do?
- What do each of the bitsets in the general game data do?
- What do each of the preference bitsets do?
- What do the run-time script errors mean?
- What do you mean by the code is messy?
- What does the "Automatically choose target" bitset do, and how does it work?
- What does the 'mute' attack option do?
- What files do I need to give people so they can play my RPG?
- What is a better language than QBasic to learn?
- What is a constant and how do I use it?
- What is fake plotscripting and when do I use it?
- What is "Free Basic" and is there a link with "Quick Basic"?
- What is a 'Font' and how do I use it?
- What is a good RGB value for a "Night Time Effect" when using the tweak palette plotscript command?
- What is a mirror?
- What is an HSD file and how does it work?
- What is a script/plotscript and how do I write them?
- What is a script argument for?
- What is a string and how do I use it?
- What is a test case?
- What is a variable?
- What is a while loop and how do I make it?
- What is a WIP?
- What is bugzilla and how does it work?
- What is file X in WORKING.TMP?
- What is HamsterWheel?
- What is MP Idiot?
- What is MP~ ?
- What is so special about the number 32767?
- What is the 3rd Party HSI?
- What is the Ctr stat and what does it do?
- What is the difference between a BAM and a MIDI file?
- What is the difference between the "Own Item" tag and the "is in Inventory" tag?
- What is the formula for how much experience it takes for a levelup?
- What is the edit menu for and how do I make it active?
- What is the set hero Z command, and how do I correctly use it?
- What languages do you speak?
- What should I do if my script has bugs?
- What should I do if the Answers on here don't work for me?
- What will be a better source to learn how to make an rpg maker from?
- When I drag my HS file onto HSPEAK, I get an error message not related to my actual code. What am I doing wrong?
- When I give my heroes spells, the lists aren't coming up in the Spells menu or in battle, and I did name the spell lists! Why?
- When I upgraded to a newer version of the OHRRPGCE, my shops were all wrong! What happened?
- When is the next update?
- When exactly will an enemy drop its 'rare item' on death?
- When exactly will an enemy use its "Desperation" attacks?
- When should I run RPGFIX.EXE?
- When should I use strings?
- When the Windows OHR is released (last I checked, "Hamster Wheel"), will I be able to upload my games made with the DOS version?
- When was the first version of the OHRRPGCE compiled?
- When will the next version of Wandering Hamster be online?
- When will the show load menu command be implemented?
- Where are UNLUMP and the other utilities in the Linux version?
- Where can I find tutorials for my drawing program?
- Where can I find fonts?
- Where can I find my own copy of QuickBasic?
- Where can I find games?
- Where can I find Qbasic lessons?
- Where can I find free basic tutorials?
- Where can I find an advanced plotscript library that may fit my advanced plotscript needs?
- Where can I find other RPG makers, or makers for other types of games?
- Where can I find WIP builds?
- Where can I find the master palette picture saved under the png, bmp, gif...format?
- Where can I go for help?
- Where can I store the pictures I want to include in the articles?
- Why are you called James "SPAM Man" Paige?
- Why can't I launch a script which is already inside a script?
- Why does Castle Paradox's server goes down so often?
- Why does my script take hours to compile?
- Why doesn't the set NPC Z command exist?
- Why did you change the original site to this one?
- Why did you choose BAM music over other formats?
- Why did you choose QuickBasic over other languages to make the OHRRPGCE?
- Why did you decide to make the screen 320 x 200?
- Why did you pick a hamster over any other animal?
- Why did you pick an acronym that is so hard to pronounce?
- Why did you pick such strange names for each version of CUSTOM and GAME.EXE?
- Why do all my heroes have the same attack?
- Why do my minimaps come up with F1 even if I have the option turned off in Map Data
- Why do my scripts lock up on the "Wait for NPC" command?
- Why do my spawned enemys all appear in the top left corner?
- Why do the colors on all of my pictures change when I change one palette?
- Why does BAM music sound worse than MIDI music?
- Why doesn't BAM music work on my computer?
- Why doesn't my Game-Over plotscript work?
- Why doesn't my joystick/gamepad work in GAME.EXE?
- Why doesn't my Load-Game plotscript work?
- Why doesn't VDMSound work on my computer?
- Why don't my pushable NPCs move?
- Why don't my special plotscripts work?
- Why not make better password protection for RPG files?
- Why not re-write the OHRRPGCE in BloodShead Dev?
- Why not re-write completely the OHRRPGCE in Qbasic?
- Why not re-write the OHRRPGCE in Python?
- Why not re-write the OHRRPGCE in C (plus plus)?
- Why not re-write/adapt the OHRRPGCE in Free Basic?
- Why does nothing happen when I select the "Edit Menus" option?
- Will the "set NPC Z" command ever be implemented?
- Will there ever be overhead pixels?
- Will there ever be sound effects?
- Will you ever add support to import movies?
- Will you ever add more animation frames?
- Will you ever make a Linux version? Macintosh? BeOS?
- Will you ever support MIDI music?
- Will you ever support MOD music?
- Will you ever support MP3 music?
- Will you ever support TTF fonts?
- Will you ever support WAV files?
- Will you raise the limit on number of NPCs?
If you want to browse questions relating to specific topics, you can browse by Category instead. (Note that this includes all the pages in the Wiki, not just FAQs)
OLD FAQ's
We also keep a list of obsolete questions. They only apply to older versions of the OHRRPGCE. They are kept here for the benefit of people who are curious about history (and those who cannot upgrade to the latest version for whatever reason)
See Also
- HOWTO - How to Use the OHRRPGCE