User blog:Yu Narukaze/I made an auto-advancing app

Hi.

So... if anyone's interested, I made a little program to help deal with one of the annoying parts of this game. Namely, that if you Game Over, you have to rewatch every cutscene in-between to get back where you were. And you can't skip them until you unlock King Crimson after finishing the game, meaning you have to mash the Z key like crazy and it's so annoying and urgh.

So, I wrote an AutoHotkey app that makes it so if you press Ctrl+Z while running the game, it starts "pressing" the Z key every half a second without you doing anything. It instantly stops when you press Z or X. It's basically a poor man's King Crimson, since you still have to watch the cutscene, but now you don't have to mash Z to advance the dialogue; it does that automatically.

It also launches the game when you run the app, and closes itself when you close the game.

To use it, just download it from Google Drive and put the EXE inside in the 7thjojo folder (i.e. where RPG_RT.exe is). Then just double-click the skipper application to run it, and it'll launch the game for you with the added functionality. To be clear, the skipper program has to be in the same place as the game executable, otherwise it will not work.

(I'm willing to help troubleshoot, but read the post carefully before asking for help.)

Also, while I used AutoHotkey to write it, you don't need AutoHotkey to run it. It's completely standalone now.

A warning, though: the script is completely outside the game itself, so it has no way of knowing when a choice menu pops up. If it's mashing the Z key when one of those occurs, it'll select the first option automatically. So generally speaking, if you don't know what's in a cutscene, go through it normally, and if you know there's a choice to be made, be careful.

Also, your antivirus might complain. Mine doesn't, but it does run a check every time.

Hope you enjoy!