MHForever 0.6.0: hunt together online

New

• Online play (experimental). Hunt together over the internet on the PSP ad hoc servers that PPSSPP uses. In the launcher, open Settings > Online and pick a server: you meet other MHForever players and PPSSPP players in the game's own Gathering Hall, take a quest together and hunt. Both the European and the North American release include it.
• Choose your server. The Online section lists five community servers (Socom in France, Madness Gaming Network and Psi-Hate in the United States, Games Nexus in Italy, Neko PSP in Japan) with the time it takes to reach each of them, or lets you type any other server, for example one of your own. Offline is the default, and then nothing is contacted.
• The Escape menu no longer pauses the game. The game keeps running behind the menu, so opening it during an online quest does not drop you from it.

Notes

• Windows: MHForever-0.6.0-windows-x64.zip (73 MB). Keep the .dll files next to mhfu.exe and mhfu-us.exe, the games need them. Your settings and saves live outside the program folder, as before.
• Linux: MHForever-0.6.0-linux-x64.tar.gz. Built on Ubuntu 24.04, so it needs glibc 2.38 or newer. The launcher needs WebKitGTK 4.1 and GTK 3, and the game needs a graphics driver with OpenGL 3.3.
• Tested online on Windows 11: two copies of MHForever taking a quest together, and MHForever with PPSSPP on socom.cc, with either side leading the quest. Not tested yet: three or four players, online play with the North American release, the European release together with the North American one, players on very different networks, and online play on Linux. Reports are welcome.
• Privacy: the server you choose sees your name and your game and shows them on its public status page. In their usual mode, servers do not show your address to other players.
• The servers are run by volunteers of the PPSSPP community. Please be kind to them and to the players you meet there.
• Friends, private rooms with a code and invitations are planned for next updates.
• Early software, expect rough edges.

Download

Windows: MHForever-0.6.0-windows-x64.zip. Unzip it anywhere you can write to and run MHForever.exe. MHForever.exe, mhfu.exe and mhfu-us.exe are not digitally signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC": choose "More info" and then "Run anyway".

Linux: MHForever-0.6.0-linux-x64.tar.gz. Extract it and run ./MHForever (if your file manager removed the execute permission: chmod +x MHForever mhfu mhfu-us).

You need your own copy of the game; the launcher prepares what it needs from your disc image on your PC. The archives contain no game data.

The code is on GitHub under GPL-3.0-or-later. Online play uses Kethen's aemu_postoffice client (GPL-3.0) with ENet (MIT). MHForever includes FFmpeg (LGPL); the licences and source notes are inside the archives.