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MHForever 0.8.0: private rooms and friends

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@Mango77x Mango77x released this 30 Oct 14:30
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New

  • Private rooms. On the Home screen, "Create room" gives you a code (like K7QF-29XM) to send to your friends, and "Join with code" takes theirs. Only players with the same code on the same server meet in the Gathering Hall, with all 24 halls to yourselves; "Back to public halls" brings you back to everyone, PPSSPP and PSP players included. Rooms work on the PPSSPP servers you already use.
  • Friends. The launcher's Friends button shows your friend code. Your friend presses "Let friends add me", you type their code, they accept. Then you see who is online and where ("Playing · Private room · Socom"), and invite them or join their room in one click. There is no account and no server of ours: friends meet through public Nostr relays, everything between two friends is encrypted, and your friends never see your address.
  • Rooms and friends in the game too. Escape > Online switches between public halls and a private room while you play, shows your room (Copy, New code, or Leave someone else's room for one of your own) and the players in your hall, lets you type, paste or (with a controller) pick a friend's code, and changes the server. Your friends are there as well, with Join and Invite. A change never cuts anyone off: in a hall or a quest it applies once you leave it.
  • A new in-game menu. The Escape menu is made for the mouse first, with every option on screen, and still works entirely with the keyboard or a controller. Its text is sharp at any window size.

Notes

  • Rooms and friends are new: please tell us how they work for you on Discord, https://discord.gg/6xrxY2buDf
  • Windows: MHForever-0.8.0-windows-x64.zip. Keep the .dll files next to mhfu.exe, mhfu-us.exe and mhfu-jp.exe. Your settings and saves live outside the program folder, so unzipping a new version never touches them.
  • Linux: MHForever-0.8.0-linux-x64.tar.gz. Built on Ubuntu 24.04 (glibc 2.38 or newer); the launcher needs WebKitGTK 4.1 and GTK 3, the game OpenGL 3.3.
  • Updating from 0.7.0: the launcher offers it ("Update now"), checks the download and restarts.
  • Your friend code is not the one 0.7.0 showed (that one was not used for anything yet).
  • If something looks wrong or crashes, please send your game.log (next to MHForever.exe).

Download

Windows: MHForever-0.8.0-windows-x64.zip. Unzip it anywhere you can write to and run MHForever.exe. The programs are not digitally signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC": choose "More info" and then "Run anyway".

Linux: MHForever-0.8.0-linux-x64.tar.gz. Extract it and run ./MHForever (if your file manager removed the execute permission: chmod +x MHForever mhfu mhfu-us mhfu-jp).

You need your own copy of the game; the archives contain no game data. The code is on GitHub under GPL-3.0-or-later.

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