# EasyRPG Player: an RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 game interpreter

> EasyRPG Player recreates runtime support for RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 games through an independent game interpreter. It reads project data with liblcf and runs from the game's project folder alongside RPG_RT.exe; the implementation also supports EasyRPG games.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player/blob/497a87ba895905addd0bc6005b47daecf61c863c/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/easyrpg-player-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/easyrpg-player-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/easyrpg-player-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An RPG Maker 2000 or 2003 game project folder is required to run the player.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires liblcf, SDL3 or SDL2 2.0.14 or newer, Pixman, libpng, zlib and fmtlib 6 or newer.
- **Limits:** SDL 1.2 support is deprecated.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player/blob/497a87ba895905addd0bc6005b47daecf61c863c/README.md>

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