---
name: "onscripter"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "onscripter"
version: "20220816-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/onscripter"
---

# onscripter(6)

NScripter-compatible visual novel games engine

## NAME

onscripter — NScripter-compatible visual novel games engine

## SYNOPSIS

**onscripter** \[**option** ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **onscripter** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

**onscripter** is a program that implements  the visual novel games engine NScripter. It is able to run Japanese  (Shift-JIS encoding) games.  **onscripter-1byte** is built in order to play   English games by forcing 1-byte mode.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax,  with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of  options is included below.

- **--cdaudio**

  Use CD audio if available.

- **--cdnumber** *no*

  Choose the CD-ROM drive number.

- **-f** *file* **--font** *file*

  Set a TTF font file.

- **--registry** *file*

  Set a registry file.

- **--dll** *file*

  Set a dll file.

- **-r** *path* **--root** *path*

  Set the root path to the archives.

- **--fullscreen**

  Start in fullscreen mode.

- **--window**

  Start in window mode.

- **--force-button-shortcut**

  Ignore useescspc and getenter command.

- **--enable-wheeldown-advance**

  Advance the text on mouse wheeldown event.

- **--disable-rescale**

  Do not rescale the images in the archives when compiled with -DPDA.

- **--edit**

  Enable editing the volumes and the variables when 'z' is pressed.

- **--key-exe** *file*

  Set a file (\*.EXE) that includes a key table.

- **-h** **--help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v** **--version**

  Show version of program.

## EXAMPLE

After decompressing the game data directory, we call it /path/foo for convient, please use the follow command to perform the game:

**onscripter -r /path/foo**

If the game is not containing default.ttf, we can use -f to assign one as following:

**onscripter -r /path/foo -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/vlgothic/VL-Gothic-Regular.ttf**

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) grandpaul@gmail.com for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.