How to enter the player level mode correctly?

[Morty]

Is there any way to enter the player level normally rather than game crashing when I click the "player level "?
I will be very grateful if you can tell me.

[FIQ]

This is an old, now fixed bug. Update VVVVVV. If the issue persists, remove levelstats.vvv.in Documents/VVVVVV/Saves. Keep in mind that this will remove completion stars for levels.

[Morty]

Originally posted by FIQ:

This is an old, now fixed bug. Update VVVVVV. If the issue persists, remove levelstats.vvv.in Documents/VVVVVV/Saves. Keep in mind that this will remove completion stars for levels.

I think your reply makes lots of sense.But the issue still remains when I delete all the files and downland it again.Seemingly the issue has not been repaired absolutely,I will try the second way you give.This way seems workable.
At last,please allow me to say thanks to you!

[Morty]

.....There is nothing in my Documents/VVVVVV/Saves except unlock.vvv.....

[FIQ]

Just to clarify - does your game crash when you click "player levels" from the main menu, or when you click "play level" in the "play level/level editor/back to menu" menu?

[Morty]

it is the first situation:When I click "player levels",the game crash....

[FIQ]

Interesting. What OS are you using? XP?

[Morty]

Win7 64bit,isn't it the cause?

[Morty]

Sorry,It's time for sleeping in my country.Let's discuss it tomorrow.
Have a good night,although I don't know what time it is in your country.
O(∩_∩)O晚安

[FIQ]

Oh, I think I get it!
Do your username contain non-Latin letters? That would crash the game, because VVVVVV will explain where to put new .vvvvvv files from other people in C:\Users\<username>\Documents\VVVVVV\levels. The problem is, VVVVVV doesn't play well with international characters. There is a few available (å is one of them), but far from every character is. This causes the game to crash if you try to insert it in the level editor, or if your username contains such characters and you press "player levels".

As a temporary work-around until this is fixed, you can force the game to run in compatibility mode for Windows 95/98/Me, which will make the game use the "Public" user instead. This will however not make saves read correctly since it's looking in the wrong place, and I only recommend you doing it if you really want to try player levels now - otherwise, just wait until it's fixed.

[flibitijibibo]

Ah, yes, this would make sense! I'm using UTF-8 in the engine's filesystem, so I probably just need to add wider unicode support here. In this case I'm going to post beta patches first, as this may get ugly... but it's definitely necessary to fix.

[SomeGuy712x]

Hmm... Is there any chance of fixing the issues involving the "Open Level Folder" option that was present in v2.1, so that that option could be brought back, and then you wouldn't have to display the level folder's directory on the screen there?

[flibitijibibo]

I just pushed a debug binary to the `beta` branch on Steam. 李健健, can you try this out? I think we're doing the actual I/O without troubles, but as others are saying, it seems to be the printer failing to find the right character in the bitmap font. I added a check to just throw a '?' when that happens.

[FIQ]

Originally posted by flibitijibibo:

I just pushed a debug binary to the `beta` branch on Steam. 李健健, can you try this out? I think we're doing the actual I/O without troubles, but as others are saying, it seems to be the printer failing to find the right character in the bitmap font. I added a check to just throw a '?' when that happens.

There seems to not be a beta branch, only the special 2.0 branch and the "normal" one (2.0 branch is build 18024, the normal one is 300659, i.e. the release from yesterday), or is there just a matter of a restriction?

[flibitijibibo]

Right, forgot that VVVVVV's beta branch is passworded. Added a `unicode` branch with the test build.

[FIQ]

I deliberately triggered the bug myself (not the exact context, but it's caused by the same thing - character is out of bounds @ the font bitmap).

http://imgur.com/SrpxsXc

when hovering over "experiment" (as seen in the provided part of a .vvvvvv file)

Bypassing the error gives another line at the immediate line below. This is followed by a crash.

This is for build ID 301801.