how to get antibirth to work?

[Icedfate]

I dunno if this is the right place to ask this. . .

I wanted to try out Antibirth.

by that, I mean Antibirth, the fanmade mod.

I don't know how to install it.

the developer gives no instructions.

I tried watching a couple of videos but they look way different.
one video showed the person opening up the command lines or something, it looked like something from DOS and they typed some crap in and they did it so fast and then they launched antibirth and it worked...

I saw other info seems to suggest it says to remove Afterbirth and afterbirth+

another spot said to completely uninstall isaac and do a clean rebirth install.

so right now,I have a clean install of rebirth, with afterbirth and AB+ DLCs clicked off.

I downloaded the .exe file from the developer's page and when I click on it, it just opens up a box that says has an empty space to put the path to the folder and it says "Browse".

I gues it wants me to find the folder where my isaac game is installed.

I went to steamapps/common/binding of isaac rebirth and then clicked install and it put a shortcut icon on my desktop called "antibirth"

if I launch isaac game through steam, it just launches as isaac rebirth, but when I click the antibirth icon from my desktob, the game crashes and says "isaac.ng has stopped working"




I don't understand, can someone give me advice?

[Icedfate]

welp, nvmind, i figured it out.


the problem was thus, the installer says to locate the isaac:rebirth folder and then when I did that, nothing seemed to happen and I saw the prompt again to locate the folder again, so I located the isaac:rebirth folder a second time.

because the instructions in the installer are NOT CLEAR AT ALL!

my mistake was that I installed antibirth into the same folder as rebirth.

the second prompt was wanting me to tell it where I wanted the antibirth folder to go and I was supposed to put it someplace different.

so I then had to delete everything from the rebirth folder because the antibirth folder was in there and then do a brand new clean install of rebirth and then when the antibirth installer did the second prompt, I just told it to install it to the desktop, so it put the antibirth folder on my desktop and now it works.




what I find saddening is the toxicitiy of the reddit community and the youtubers, all making fun of the few people who made this mistake, like as if it was the stupidest most moronic thing they ever heard of someone doing and I think this mistake could easily be made by anyone because of the limited instructions that the installer gives.

I hate how modding communities just assume everyone has a computer science degeee and can communicate in binary code. . .