These are copied/lifted/modified from SiCrane's original YAML importer/exporter on the gamedev forums. So I gave the tool's CLI a facelift, and put it up on github.Ī tool to unpack & pack rvdata2 files into text so they can be version controlled & collaborated on I hadn't seen anything like this packaged up nicely for RPG Maker yet (I was thrilled to find it at all - I was about to write my own). I then stumbled onto SiCrane's utility on the GameDev forums ( ), which does exactly that. For those of you with experience managing teams on software projects, you will know that RPG Maker's 'binary blob' dataformat makes collaboration a real pain in the neck. I was googling around for ways to better support version control & collaboration of RPG Maker VX Ace projects (see for an example of why this is hard).
