MHForever 0.4.0: your saves, anywhere

New

• Saves now use the same format as the PSP and PPSSPP. Bring your hunter over from a PSP memory stick or from PPSSPP, and take it back: copy MHForever's save folder into PPSSPP and it loads there.
• Import your saves from Settings > Saves. Choose the folder that holds them (the PSP/SAVEDATA folder, or PPSSPP's memory stick folder) and import. If you already have a save, it is not deleted: it is moved to a backup folder (Documents\MHForever\saves\ULES01213\backups).
• Safer saving. Every save is checked before it is written, and the previous version is kept next to it (.previous), so a bad save can be put back by hand.

Notes

• Only saves of your own version of the game can be imported: each version of Freedom Unite encrypts its saves with a different key. This release is for the European version (ULES01213), so American and Japanese saves can't be used yet.
• Older MHForever saves still load; the next time you save in the game they are converted to the new format.
• Saves made by MHForever load in PPSSPP. A real PSP is not guaranteed to accept them.
• Back up Documents\MHForever\saves before updating, as with any release that changes how saves are stored.
• Windows 64-bit only. Only Freedom Unite (European release) is playable.
• Early software, expect rough edges. Online multiplayer is not available yet.

Download

MHForever-0.4.0-windows-x64.zip: unzip it anywhere you can write to and run MHForever.exe. You need your own copy of the game; the launcher prepares what it needs from your disc image on your PC. The zip contains no game data.

MHForever.exe and mhfu.exe are not digitally signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC": choose "More info" and then "Run anyway".

The code is on GitHub under GPL-3.0-or-later.

Thanks to theguyser for the save-data cryptography and his help.