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RATools

About RAToolslink

RATools is a standalone executable designed to assist developers of the retroachievements.org community. It's primary purpose is to provide a scripting language for achievement development.

RAScriptlink

  • RAScript is a domain-specific language (DSL) that allows achievement developers for retroachievements.org the ability to design achievements using many of the modern conveniences provided by programming languages - such as variables, loops, and comments.

Tutorialslink

The user Etron writes an ongoing series of RATools tutorials, which appear in RANews each month.

  • Getting Started: Introduction to using RATools
  • Memory: Examples of variables and functions - Example Game: Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Add Hits: Examples of counting with tally - Example Game: Streets of Rage 2
  • Bitflags: Examples of counting bit flags with For Loops - Example Game: Pokémon Red | Blue
  • Arithmetic Operations: Examples of using arithmetic functions to convert values from Binary-Coded Decimal (BCD) - Example Game: Pitfall!
  • Pointers: Examples of pointer use and data structures - Example Game: Spider-Man
  • If/else: Examples of using logic conditions to build an achievement - Example Game: Tetris DX
  • Challenges Part 1: Examples of damageless, deathless, and weapon limited challenges - Example Game: Mega man
  • Challenges Part 2: Examples of speedruns and other time challenges - Example Game: Super Mario World
  • Triggers and Measure: Examples of using these flags together - Example Game: Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
  • Strings: Examples of utilizing specific arrays - Example Game: Rez
  • Rich Presence: Examples of writing dynamic Rich Presence scripts
  • Leaderboards: Examples of various types of in-game leaderboards - Example Game: Doom

RAScript Repositorieslink

Many achievement developers' RAScripts are publicly available and are a great resource in becoming more familiar with it: - AlmightyXor - AuburnRDM - Bartis1989 - BenGhazi - Bilalscape12 - Bryan1150 - Etron - FRAN269 - gde - Guinea - Jamiras - lordpsycho - meleu - pinguupinguu - Searo - Sines - SlashTangent - Snow - soopercool101 - suXin - televandalist - theanxietybuster - tomojin - WCopeland - wolfman2000 - zxmega

Changeloglink

Last 10 changes on this page:

  • [2023-06-09 07:03] televandalist: Updated RATools (markdown)
  • [2023-06-05 22:55] televandalist: Created RATools (markdown)