Making A Game Start Event

(This is for RPG Maker XP) Is there a way to make an event happen when you select New Game from the Main Menu? Like, the moment the game starts?

Put the event start condition on Auto Start. That should work for whatever you want it to do.

Where do I place the event on the map? I can't put it on the Starting Position place.

Out of the way. In other words,

One Of The Corners Of The Map

You can place it anywhere on the map where there is not already an event or the players starting position.

Auto Start works, but I personally recommend parallel process (juts dont forget to make the event cancel itself after it finishes)
The reason being that autostart seems to take an extra second to start longer than parallel processes; my game starts with a black screen and a scrolling intro and with autostart, you saw a glimpse of the map before the screen went black. PP fixed this issue

Auto Start works, but I personally recommend parallel process (juts dont forget to make the event cancel itself after it finishes)
The reason being that autostart seems to take an extra second to start longer than parallel processes; my game starts with a black screen and a scrolling intro and with autostart, you saw a glimpse of the map before the screen went black. PP fixed this issue

Not sure I get it, but I'll try that auto start thing. Thanks.

I do not suggest that you use Parallel Process since you can move the player around and trigger NPCs.
If you want to make sure the map is black immediately then I suggest that you make an event which sets the color tone to (-255,-255,-255,0) in 0 frames followed by an erase event command. Set the trigger to PP.

It should look something like this:

Spoiler for:

> Change Screen Color Tone: (-255,-255,-255,0), @0
> Erase Event
>

Then just create an autostart event with manages the intro normally.