February 2026 Recap (Patreon)

Hi all! Below you can see all of the updates Casper Gaming released in February 2026, in case you missed any of them. You can also get notifications when an update occurs in the Casper Gaming Discord or by following me on various social media.

New Releases

[CGMZ] Cooldowns - Balance out your stronger skills by adding a cooldown to them. This is a specific amount of turns before the skill is usable again. It works for both enemies and actors, and each skill can have its own cooldown. Additionally, you can even make cooldowns work on the map, where turns are counted by a certain amount of steps taken. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-cooldowns-150619554

[CGMZ] Mouse Cursor - Change the boring mouse cursor to a custom sprite with this plugin. It will track the player's mouse cursor position, although you can also manually adjust where it is by adding an x/y offset as well depending on your sprite graphic. You can swap mouse cursors during the game, in case you want a magic wand for most gameplay but a hit marker for a minigame. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-mouse-151758574

[BGM] Bitter Air - A looping BGM meant for a desert area in your game. You could use it for just about anything desert themed, including a town, a sprawling desert area, a mysterious pyramid dungeon, and more. Of course you can also use it anywhere else you think it fits. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bgm-bitter-air-149971997

[Tool] Casper Gaming's Plugin Protector - This simple tool allows you to add protection to plugins in your deployed games by removing annotations. This makes it so that someone who downloads your game will not be able to copy your plugin js files into their project, since they will not see any parameters or commands. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/casper-gamings-151125694

Alpha Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Hardcore - This plugin now locks hardcore saves to one save slot. This is because hardcore deletes the player's save file if they game over, however previously the player could have saved over multiple files and continued on with one of those. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-hardcore-149463658

[CGMZ] Patch - This plugin can now handle location changes, in case your player ends up in an invalid area on a map after an update you can now detect that and transfer them elsewhere. This should make it easy to solve one more common situation where players lose their save files after an update. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-patch-123817287

[CGMZ] Musical Battles - This plugin was updated to add success chances for music changes, and it also provides more feedback to the player about the music change result. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-musical-138780375

[CGMZ] Press Start - Your Press Start screen can now show a background video! This is drawn below any other image parameters, so you can add an overlay over your video if desired. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91190583

[CGMZ] Hidden Objects - This update added more control over what counts as finding a hidden object. Previously, clicking anywhere in the entire sprite rectangle was allowed. Now, you can make it so that the foreground can block clicks, and you can also make it so that the player must click on the actual sprite pixels instead of anywhere in the rect. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42891546

[CGMZ] Quest System - You can now reset quests, for example if you want the player to be able to repeat a quest over and over again. This plugin now tracks statistics about the player's quest completions, failures, and more. You can now award a common event which will run automatically when a quest is completed. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52804166

[CGMZ] Button Mash - Your button mash events can now display different sets of icons for Playstation and Nintendo controller users, making it easier for your controller players to press the right button if they are using a non-xbox controller. The gif shows it change between button icons, but in real gameplay it will only show the icons associated with the last used controller brand. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-button-mash-122159122

[CGMZ] Common Events Everywhere - Despite the name of the plugin, you may still have some scenes that you do not want common events to run in. You can now set up which scenes run common events on a per-scene basis, including third party plugin scenes. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-common-142215357

[CGMZ] Model Viewer - This plugin added gamepad support, so now you can use every input type to rotate, move, and zoom on the 3d models. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-model-120588570

[CGMZ] Text To Speech - This plugin can now automatically say item names in various window lists, such as enemies and actors in battle, items in shops, items and skills in the main menu, etc. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-text-to-126475124

Beta Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Light Effects - This update added a cursor light, so you can now attach a light effect to the player's mouse cursor. This light effect will follow the player's cursor around the map, allowing them to decide what to illuminate. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57452022

[CGMZ] Controls Window - This update received a small bugfix for presets when not set up and using PlayStation or Nintendo branded controller icons. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-controls-92963192

[CGMZ] Fallback - This plugin now supports all file types as video was added to the fallback options. If your video has trouble loading, you can now show a short error video instead of crashing. Since this plugin now supports all media types, it was released into beta. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-fallback-120235679

[CGMZ] Battle Weather - Your weather changing items and skills can now have a chance that the weather change is not successful. Troops can now automatically start battle with their weather playing, in case you want your Ice Golem troop to always have snow at battle start for example. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69046905

Free Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Core - The monthly Core update added some utility functions to help standardize things across various {CGMZ] plugins such as checking the current scene, logging into to console, and rolling for success. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/core/

[CGMZ] Extra Stats - This plugin had a small issue with dividers fixed where it would not always put the divider on its own line. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-extra-stats

[CGMZ] Menu Command Window - This plugin had a bug fix for subcategory not properly resetting in some cases. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-menu-command-window

[CGMZ] Fast Travel - This plugin had an advanced mode added to it where it will instead run a common event when a fast travel location is selected. This allows you to event your fast travel mechanic, including waiting, showing text, showing animations, and anything else you want to occur when a fast travel occurs. It also shows New marker text for newly discovered fast travel locations. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-fast-travel

[CGMZ] Infinite Balloons - This plugin was re-written to use sprites instead of drawing icons over the blank balloon bitmap. While you may not notice any immediate differences, this approach should make usage of the plugin much easier for new users and will also allow me to add more balloon mechanics in future updates. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-infinite-balloons

[CGMZ] Plugin Commands - New plugin commands for changing weather power and screen tint by addition or subtraction were added. Now you can make the weather get stronger or weaker without needing to know how strong it currently is, and same with screen tint changes! Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-plugin-commands

[CGMZ] Professions - The integration with [CGMZ] Toast Manager was improved and you can now have per-profession level up or discover toasts, if you want your Gardening skill to have a green window background and your Mining skill to have a reddish window background for example. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-professions

[CGMZ] Title Command Window - You can now show pictures in place of the command window on the title screen! These pictures are compatible with all input types and have both an active (selected / hovered) and inactive (not selected / not hovered) state they can display. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-title-command-window

[CGMZ] Game Over - Similar to above, this plugin can now display pictures in place of the command window. It can help get your game away from the standard RPG Maker look & feel and help your game stand out from the crowd. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-game-over

Other

Discord - Discord has started to put some features behind server boosts, and Casper Gaming could use a few more server boosts to unlock these features. An example of what we can unlock is the Server Tag [CGMZ] you can now rock next to your Discord name in all servers. However, I don't like asking for boosts for nothing in return so I have decided to offer rewards if you boost the Casper Gaming Discord Server. These are:

Server Booster rank and access to Server Boosters channel in Discord (you get this automatically when boosting the server)

Your name in the Discord Server Boosters section on my Thanks page

Your own character in the RMMZ Academy basement

Gifted access to the $1 tier on patreon (allows voting in all polls, early access to some BGMs, friend rank in Discord, name in Patreon Friends part of Thanks page). Note that if you already subscribe to a higher tier of the patreon you will not be eligible for this due to how patreon gifting works. Since this is a manual process for me, you must keep claiming this every month that you want it.

In case you did not know, if you are a Discord Nitro subscriber you have access to 2 free server boosts. If you are not already in the discord, you can join at the following link: https://discord.gg/Gbx7JXP

Thanks for being a part of the Casper Gaming community 😁 Happy RPG Making!