emulator: ONScripter
type: libretro
source: "https://github.com/iyzsong/onscripter-libretro"
cores:
  - onscripter
systems:
  - onscripter

notes: |
  ONScripter is a clone of NScripter, a Japanese visual novel engine by
  Naoki Takahashi. The libretro port by iyzsong wraps the upstream engine
  (ogapee/onscripter, tag 20230825) with an SDL-to-libretro shim layer.

  No BIOS or system files are required. The .info file declares no
  firmware entries and the core never calls
  RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_GET_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY.

  Game content is loaded directly from the archive path containing the
  script file. The core opens txt, dat, ___, or ons script files via
  ONScripter::openScript() and reads all game assets (graphics, audio,
  fonts) from the same directory.

  The engine looks for a font file named default.ttf in the game
  directory. This is a per-game asset shipped with each visual novel,
  not a system-level file managed by RetroArch.

  Dependencies (bundled at build time via Guix): freetype, libjpeg,
  libogg, libvorbis, libmad, bzip2, SDL (shimmed to libretro).

  The core is marked is_experimental = true. It does not support
  save states (retro_serialize_size returns 0).

  Supported script formats: .txt, .dat, .___, .ons
  needs_fullpath = true, block_extract = false.

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