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thank you for your suggestion! i do have bugfixes/QoL patches planned for the series - i am also in the process of merging both the Steam and non-Steam codebases for easier work. i will make a note of this for the bugfix!

(i apologise to the streamer in question for the annoying run mechanic, honestly it was not a great idea)

Linux isn't and will probably never be officially supported, but I can confirm that Forever runs flawlessly under WINE on most popular Linux distros (as of writing, Forever is confirmed to run WINE 11.11, on Linux kernel 7.0.13)

This thread contains some known issues and ways to fix them. Please read this before submitting an issue!

Cannot register an account on the Forever Network

If you have issues registering an account on the Forever Network, please make sure that:

• You're not using a VPN to register on the Forever Network, or you're not behind another proxy service that changes your IP address. You must be registering from your home IP address (this address does not get shared, it only gets logged for safety/abuse purposes)
• You're not behind CGNAT. Some ISPs may apply this to your Internet connection due to IPv4 shortages, if they didn't give you an IPv6 address. This means that your IP is placed behind another network that can't be publicly reached - this may cause issues with the Forever Network's firewall, which unfortunately cannot be fixed on my end. Hopefully this doesn't cause issues with your registration - it is rare, but it is possible.

You can check the status of your IP address at https://ipinfo.io/what-is-my-ip, and compare it with the above issues. If you're in the clear, and you still can't register, please raise an issue in this community page and provide the time and date of when you attempted to register, so I can try to unblock your IP address (please don't actually share the address in your post - although not much harm comes from doing so, it's best to stay on the safe side.)

In the case that you're screwed cannot register on the network, an account is actually not strictly required to play, as you can still play offline with a local save file. The only downside to this is that you won't be on the public leaderboard, and you won't be able to log in as easily from another computer. You can however transfer your save files between devices, as long as you don't modify them by hand.

Having issues with a mod

If a mod doesn't load or appear on the Extras screen, you can check if any errors occurred while loading it in two ways:

• Opening the notifications sidebar (with the backslash key "\")
• Checking the game's folder for any error logs

These logs usually provide more detail on what went wrong during the loading process. It's best to bring up mod issues with the original author on their mod's GameBanana page, not in this community page, but if no mods are loading for you at all, please raise an issue here (a video recording or similar would be very helpful!)

I have another issue with the game

If you have another issue or bug you need to report, please provide the following:

• A screenrecording if possible that reproduces the issue, or at the very minimum, a screenshot
• A copy of the crash log, if one exists
• A detailed explanation of the issue

This detail helps me a lot when sifting through the spaghetti code diagnosing the problem and fixing it, and it is greatly appreciated! I usually try to fix bugs within a few days, but I aim to fix them within one day when I have time (alongside Life™ and working on Catto Boi INFiNiTY.)

the first issue can be fixed in the next patch - the second, though, is a known bug in the Tower of Heaven mod. I will let wrongwarp know about this issue!

I have a lineup of bugfixes for the collection which should be done sometime in the next month or so, so the sound issue has been noted. ty for the reports!

this has been fixed in the latest update!

A hotfix has been applied which adds game_SetCountingUp(bool value)  to the API. Please redownload this patch if you have already downloaded it. Thank you!

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)