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remapping controls currently isn't implemented in Forever, due to difficulties with getting such a system to work with Input. however, you can use a third-party program to remap controls for the game. here's one such program: https://sundaylab.itch.io/keymapper

sometimes this happens usually when you hit the start button too quickly. i might attempt to fix it sometime, but it's not a high priority bug

no, this isn't intentional. this is an easy issue to fix, though! I'll patch it out soon.

thank you for the report! i will look into this issue today - i think i might know what's causing these bugs.

EDIT: should now be patched in 1.1.2.4.

if you lose the password to your account, you will not be able to recover it, and I cannot recover it for you either as all passwords are hashed. but, I could transfer the previous account's progress over to your new one, so if you can, reply with the name of the new account and I might try to transfer the old progress over.

EDIT: I found your new account, I've just updated its progress with the old account's progress. I hope this helps!

for the future, remember to write your password down somewhere, like in a password manager, or a notebook!

there are currently no plans to port this game or the other Catto Boi games to Linux due to several DLL dependencies that are built only for Windows.
there might be a third-party program out there that could fix your RPC problem, though. just found this one in a search which could help: https://github.com/EnderIce2/rpc-bridge

thank you for the reports! most of these bugs should now be fixed in version 1.1.2.1.

the only one i couldn't fix was the background clearing issue. it already has conditions which should check if the background sprite isn't the one set in the room editor's background layers, but it doesn't seem to work. i will need to investigate it sometime later though.

• have you selected "Load mods" in the Extras menu?
• have you set "loadModsOnStartup?" to "yes" in conf.txt? can you make sure that "loadModFolders?" is also not set?
• what are the exact contents of the mods folder? this might not make a difference but maybe try removing the "PLACE MOD ZIPS HERE.txt" file and see if that changes anything

I think I might have found it. I've unblocked its ASN, let me know if it works again.

alright, I managed to unblock your purchase IP's ASN, let me know if you can register!

your IP may have been blocked by cloudflare. give me a moment while I find it and unblock it's ASN

EDIT: i can't see logs any older than the 25th... can you try registering again so i can see which rule is blocking your IP?

if you downloaded this update within two hours of its release, please redownload it to fix the following issues:

• game no longer accepts input
• resizing the window is broken in the settings menu

that should usually just cancel the prompt and let you continue using the editor, or in the other case let you continue using the editor after loading the song. the music loading routine hasn't been changed, either, and it worked fine on my end. can you show a video reproducing the bug if possible?

DAMN IT I really liked the version number!!

I will fix these shortly. thank you again for the report!

EDIT: the fixes are now live as version 1.1.1.2.

thank you for the report! I have fixed nearly every issue you've found in patch v1.1.1.1, which should now be live.

I was unable to reproduce the i-frames issue, though. maybe it varies from player to player?

a bandcamp release is planned in the near future. i only need time to properly prepare each track in lossless format, as nearly all tracks have one loop in-game, etc,

finally a bug! i will fix this soon.

interesting! thank you for your findings and videos (and your fanart! absolute cinema. peak, even.)

JuJuAdams' Input library would be the cause of the input spam issue. hopefully just updating it will fix it, but if not, I'll raise an issue in the developer's community Discord.

I will also look into the other issues and hopefully fix them soon. your post is greatly appreciated, and I'm glad you enjoyed the game! (hopefully big boi is okay,,)

the game has now been updated to support loop points!

blep!

thank you for your thoughts and your speedrun strats! regarding the control setting, I had trouble getting input reading from the save file to work with the Input library, so I unfortunately had to scrap it, which from an accessibility point of view is very frustrating. as you found out though, you can use external programs to rebind controls, so it's not all too bad

some other notes:

the levels on GameBanana were made with an older version of Forever, and won't load correctly unless you patch their mod.json as outlined here. I agree with how annoying it is that there isn't a lot of user content for the game - that was one of my main goals for it's longevity past beating the main campaign, alongside multiplayer, which doesn't seem to get a lot of use at the moment either. but time will tell!

the game should be saving chat logs on your end in the game's folder. the game does this both ways for both the client and the server. the crash you mentioned when joining your own server seems to be a simple oversight and should be patched soon. (given that barely anybody hosts on the master server it's no wonder we became aware of this bug just now) EDIT: patch 1.1.0.2 has fixed this issue!

unfortunately the chat window is unscrollable. creating scrollable UI components in GameMaker by code (which is still essentially how you do it) is pain and I'd rather use Godot.

thank you again for your review!

the first crash with Big Boi is a weird GameMaker variable unset bug that happens with some players which has been present since launch, which I still haven't figured out the cause of. the game was subsequently patched to save your progress by the time you reach that second half of ACT 1 in case the crash occurred, which is why you could relaunch and proceed normally

the minimizing issue could just be a WINE quirk, but I haven't tested it myself. when I tested the games again on Windows 10 though during the Cat.dll patch, this didn't happen to me

the second "restore.asm" issue may be as simple as checking if an additional space or return character is present in the file (in fact in your second screenshot I can see an extra return on line 20, maybe try removing that!). saving the file with UTF-8 encoding may also help if you haven't done so already

custom loop points are currently not supported. you can try to truncate the music to match the loop as closely as possible for now

i might add entries for loop points for music tracks eventually in a future update

delete forever.sav in the game's folder inside Local AppData, that should fix the issue. this is due to the new manual time of day setting that was added.

should be updated now!

maybe...,,

never underestimate big boi...

so looking up your account on the Forever Network I can see that your country flag is HK (Hong Kong). that error message is essentially saying it couldn't find the flag for HK. after checking the available flag sprites, there is no flag for HK either

I would patch this straight away, but annoyingly I'm also working on a netcode rework at the moment which will take some time, so this among a few other things won't be fixed until that's finished. I could however change the country code on your account temporarily to "XX" until this is fixed?

that's weird. what's your forever account name?

if you still have the password to it, i also suggest going into C:/Users/username/AppData/Local/Catto_Boi_Forever and clearing out both .sav files to reset the game's local settings and local account data (not your online account data)

how about The Bug as a playable char in forever 👀

bad news - i'm unable to load the source project for the save utility...

i might write a guide on how to manage saves manually until i can figure something out.

I will update the tool today to account for this change (since I forgot to), but for now, go into "C:/Users/username/AppData/Local/Catto_Boi" and your save file should be there to copy and restore.

your ASN happened to be in the blocklist. i've just unblocked it, so you should be able to make an account now!

i forgot to add a win condition... but you can still press ESC to return to the extras menu!

no.. this doesn't happen on my end

what does your save file look like? (you should be able to see it's contents after 2.0.0.16)

i did and i forgot to push it!!! aaaaa

i think i found the issue; where the popup was supposed to appear, i misread and set an integer for the title instead of a string, causing the silent crash. will fix this soon!

EDIT: patch should now be live.

was any kind of crash log dropped?

yes it would; there's no guarantee that uploaded saves would be tampered with beforehand, disallowing this just ensures online account progress integrity

it was a darn typo in the room parsing code. should be fixed today (hopefully)!

if you get stuck on the joining screen, you can try escaping and rejoining again, but you shouldn't always get stuck

could you elaborate on the repeating backgrounds issue?

unfortunately this won't be made possible in the future for save integrity reasons (eg. someone hacking their save with Cheat Engine could upload that to the account server)