It works swimmingly and the best part of course is that it's free! Enigma VB seems to do a much better jobs than Molebox ever did, and there's a ton more options and flexibility, basically allowing you to pick and choose which resources to pack, and how to pack them with no unexpected side effects or crashes. I'd go so far as to call it the gold standard these days for that sort of thing, but I haven't tested 2k games (can't see why they wouldn't work). Since I use DynRPG in 2k3 and realized Molebox would no longer work, I did some digging (a LOT) last year or the year before and found Engima Virtual Box. Oh, and it has an ugly popup after you quit the game. Another simpler option is EXEfusion by Houxtech (if you can find it), although all it does is extract all of the resources into a hidden directory while the game is open, and then gets rid of it all again when the game closes. although it starts to get hairy with patches and things and sort of becomes unusable. I found v2.2981 works the best, at least with 2k3. The tool you're probably thinking of is Molebox Pro. 1)Hex editing,which I managed to bypass by editing files.Supposedly you edit the RPG_RT.exe with a hexeditor so that it can only recognize file extensions other than lmu lmt and ldb.Thus,you can only play the game and not open it (rm2k can't read other extensions) 2)Header editing.This I can't get past.I've ran on some games that after comparing them to unencrypted lmt files,have some strange string sequence in the beginning of the file eg EDUBRTIOM instead of the default LcfMapTree.After messing with some string sequences,I can get past the "Map Tree Data Break"but the RM2k editor crashes,presumably because of bad stream reading? If anyone can share any knowledge on this,i'd be forever grateful. After many hours of fiddling with hex and text editing,I figured out there are 2 kinds of rm2k encryption. Fast forward to today where I'm a CS student,and I'm trying to beat this challenge.I've no intention to use this to steal any resource or cheat,but just for a mere look at some interesting events and map designing.I find it incredibly annoying that many good games are encrypted in an engine which doesn't allow you to sell anything. So supposedly there was a tool many years ago with which you could encrypt rm2k files to become unopenable in the editor.I had no experience with that when I was little(started messing with the editor and games only when I was 8!). I'm not sure if I'm allowed to ask for any info about this,or if I'm in the correct section,but since you can't go commercial with RPG Maker 2000 I suppose I could give it a try.if I'm breaking any rules then I request a mod to close/delete this thread.
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