EasyRPG Player
EasyRPG Player is a game interpreter to play RPG Maker 2000, 2003 and EasyRPG games. It can be used to replace the RPG Maker executable to play those on macOS or GNU/Linux natively.
Usage
Run the easyrpg-player executable from a RPG Maker 2000 or 2003 game directory (same place as “RPG_RT.exe”).
MIDI support
EasyRPG Player support sound font files. According to this post on Github, you can rename a “sf2” file to “easyrpg.soundfont” and put it inside the game directory to use it. You can also start EasyRPG Player from the commandline with the --soundfont
option where and give it a file in SF2 format. More about the CLI usage on the official wiki.
As it supports MIDI playback, you don’t need to use a software synthesizer like Timidity++.
Compatibility
EasyRPG player isn’t a silver bullet. Check out this compatibility list to see if it can run your game.