ADVICE: Translating Ruby plugin to Javascript

[NovelBallon79]

I'm NOT asking anyone to do any manual translating (if I wanted to do that I would hire someone/learn either one of these languages) but rather, I would like to make a Pokémon (inspired) game using the Pokemon Essentials plugin. I don't know if I can use Opal or other translators and still have the plugin work, and I would like to hear some advice on if I should even bother or if this would bring up bugs/is unreasonable.

 

[bgillisp]

I doubt it would work. XP uses an older version of Ruby in the first place, so there would probably be many issues.

Also keep in mind Nintendo shut down that plug-in due to all the illegal art in it, so if you use the code you have to discard the art or face Nintendo's wrath.

 

[MushroomCake28]

It won't work. Even if there's a tool that converts ruby to javascript flawlessly, which I highly doubt, that doesn't take into account that the MV engine is not written exactly as the XP engine (it's closer to VX Ace, but there are differences). The framework is just different between MV and XP.

 

[TheoAllen]

Here is the advice:
> Pay someone for it.

I have translated my RGSS3 script once to RMMV by doing line-by-line conversion
You can try to look at here: The original RGSS3 script and The RMMV Counterpart.

And it wasn't an easy task.