PONScripter

PONScripter (aka "Proportional-OnScripter") is a special fork of ONScripter, an open source clone of NScripter engine for the creation of visual novels. Like ONScripter, it is based on the SDL library, and can thus be used to play NScripter games on a number of other platforms, from Mac OS X and Linux, although its game compatibility has been decreased.

Originally maintained by Peter "Haeleth" Jolly. Since September of 2009th, the official PONScripter is maintained by Mion of Sonozaki Futago-tachi, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Visual Novel translation group^[1].

Unlike ONScripter, PONScripter successfully support native UTF-8 encoded script files, and there are no requirements to the nature of the fonts used (they need not be TrueType, Japanese, monospaced, etc.), which makes it possible to translate most of NScripter-based visual novels into any language other than English (for example, Cyrillic text in "normal" ONScripter looks broken and may crash the game when calling Backlog).

Also, PONScripter introduces text style tags, including "bold", "italic", "underline", "struck out", string color changing, size, kerning, etc.

WinKiller Studio, an Russian visual novel translation group released Tokoyo no Hoshizora and Natsu no Hi no Resonance translations powered by PONScripter, and unofficial Saya no Uta port from it's original Nitro+ Engine.

Known English-translated visual novels that use PONScripter are:

References

^ Mion releases first alpha build. Checked 2009/09/26
^ A mini-demo powered by PONScripter is available at Haeleth's Narcissu Side 2nd page.

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[1] Mion releases first alpha build. Checked 2009/09/26

[2] A mini-demo powered by PONScripter is available at Haeleth's Narcissu Side 2nd page.

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