here's a dumb question:
If I wanted to re-pack, and/or re-encrypt files, do I need to have the according rpgmaker program (suite?), resp. the original encrypter (eg. enigma) ?
Or are there community-made tool alternatives?
Tmu. for local use I could just go with the unpacked and/or de-crypted game, but to share with others or sth. ...
Depends. If you want to re-encrypt files, you need something capeable of re-encryption.
That can be done via the specific RPG Maker or a
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Re-packing is somewhat different and depends on what changes you made.
There aren't to my knowledge any direct repack tools, because people can find a "free" RPG Maker easily enough to just use the commercial ones for it.
You can, of course, use the RPG Maker, but it's really just a toolkit to create and manage the asset files.
So you can just overwrite the old files of the packaged game with new files.
The caveat is that it doesn't handle file deletion of no longer necessary files - so if you, for instance, took out a bunch of maps, those will still be present unless you manually remove them (although they won't be used ingame since nothing steers to them)
So if you have a RPG Maker Game with say, decrypted files, all unpacked and you want to reencrypt and package it, you could use the above tool to encrypt the files (with the original encryption code of the system file) and then throw the audio/data/fonts/img/js folders into the original RPG Game's www/ folder, overwriting the existing ones.
So you can actually just take the modified files, pack them into a rar with a folder structure like they would be in the original game, and give that to your friends to unpack in the original game to "patch" the game to your version.