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If I may ask, are you European based? I've noticed an issues where if you attempt download some games from within Europe you would get a corrupted version but if you were to instead download from the US you could install fine, which I personally verified through a VPN as well as some users still being able to install the game that's supposedly corrupted. I reckon the EU server Itch are using is deteriorating and corrupting it's instances of the programs, seems plausible since this issue has really started to ramp up recently within Europe but outside is unaffected.

Current best fix is to either use Alternate Download Mode or a VPN, neither of which are exactly elegant but it is what it is until this gets fixed.

I've got it to work through using the Alternate Download Mode. For anyone else reading this, you can enable this in the 'downloads not starting?' menu. 

My only assumption, and this is coming from a CS student with no knowledge of how Itch's server clusters are set up, is that using a device with a UK based IP address is having me pull the file from an European server that's on the blink that other users are avoiding by simply being directed to alternate instances of the file in different locations, could be worth trying with a VPN to verify, but it's the only reason that comes to mind for this consistent failure and it's resolution through Alternate Download Mode.

Thanks for the responses though, I know it can be a headache and a half when Itch decides to be, well, Itch, and the game so far is proving worth the effort, even if I must admit there were points I was tempted just to walk away and hope Itch pull themselves together in a week or so.

No luck with 7Zip or a fresh drive, getting the corruption error for Lazer2.png again.

Doing a bit of digging this appears to be an error with Itch itself, with reports of this starting to pop up that are only hours old, with the 2nd and 3rd links when googling being for this same issue, with one of these being a creators forum post trying to fix this in their own games. Not strictly sure what's causing it to only affect some, I know it's not browser because I've tried a couple, including non-Chromium based, drives because I've tried a couple locations now, or decompression software because 7Zips happy for you but not me.

I'll try going through the alternate download mode, which some on these forums have said can bypass this issue but this appears to be capping out at 400KB/s so it'll likely be tomorrow before I can test it, with me being on UK time.

At this point it's looking like Itch have done goofed and it's just too soon to see what devices failing downloads have in common.

I've been trying to install the new ZIP, but winRAR is not having it, throwing the same errors every time I try reinstall or repair the ZIP file, those errors being an unexpected end of archive and then, after using the winRAR repair tool, that the archive is corrupt and there's a checksum error coming from Laser2.png being corrupted.

Anyone else seen this and, if so, how did you get around it? Tried the winRAR repair tool and that's no good.

Edit: Felt it worth adding, I've also tried with previous versions (0.5.6) and get the same error, if anyone had to deal with it in earlier versions and has any advice.