My game crashs and I don't know what to do.

Usually, when the game crashes it shows a Window with few information about the crash and it ultimately generate a Error.log file.

Error window of PSDK — Error window shown when Pokémon SDK encounter a crash

This Error.log file is located in the root folder of your project. And contain a lot of information.

Root folder of the project — Error.log file in the root of a project called PSDK Clean

What to do with Error.log?

The goal of this file is to help everyone to know what the problem was.

If you take a bit of time to read the error log, you might understand what the issue is (especially when it's caused by events you made).

In the Error.log file above you can see that the crash was caused by an event trying to use a constant named VAR which is defined nowhere. In that case fixing the event to use the proper things should be sufficient.

Some errors are harder to understand, especially when it's not due to your own mistakes. In such case, you can use our Discord channel to report your issue.

How to report an issue on Discord

In the 🔧・support channel, you can ask a question and provide all the information needed.

There's few rules to follow in order to report an issue:

The title should always be explicit "My game crashed" is a bad title
The body of the question should always contain all the information about what you did in order to encounter your issue
If the game crashed. Paste the content of the Error.log file
If the game crash without leaving any new log, follow the next chapter
Always answer to people trying to help you and provide what you're being asked to provide

What to do when Error.log was not created

It might happen that sometimes a new Error.log file is not created or even worse the game immediately closes. In such case there's a solution to check what the problem.

Open your project folder and write cmd in the address bar:

Address bar with cmd written on it — cmd written in the address bar of the project folder

This will open a new prompt command where you can write the following command: psdk debug

This command will start the game in debug mode and will keep all the log in the console. This way you can copy everything to your report!

Logs preserved in the console — Example of game that crashed but preserved the logs since we started it in cmd

With this console, you can just press CTRL+A and right click to copy the whole content of the console. This might help us to debug your problem because the console contains a lot of information.

Gota go fast!

As you have seen previously, you can start the game from cmd, this has another advantage compared to RPG Maker XP. You can skip the whole screen title section and directly go to choose your save by starting the game with the following command: psdk debug skip_title

This might save you ton of time!