UFO crashes

[Elysia]

Okay, so I was watching a scorerun replay of UFO Lunatic, when the game suddenly crashed as soon as the player reached Stage 5 Nazrin.

I go back to watch the replay again...and it crashes again. Same place.

I figure, screw it, I'll just start it at stage 6 then...and it crashes before the replay can even start playing.

Tried it again, it happened again.

And yes, I have vpatch, and tried that too.

So, um, what's the deal with this? Is this a known problem with a known fix or does UFO just hate me even more than I thought it did?

[Nekomata-chan]

Maybe it's something to do with the coding...

Have you tried turning it off and on again deleting the UFO game and re-installing it all over again? It may be the files you're using.

[Agent of the BSoD]

It might be your install, yes. Also, re-download the replay to make sure that your original download didn't get corrupted on the way. That's really all I can offer, as I've never seen a replay to actually crash the game. (though I did find a PCB replay tha desyncs on the Prismrivers, but that's a different story..  :V)

[Tengukami]

When I saw the thread title, I had to be sure this wasn't a news story.

Having the game crash at this point is pretty unusual. I would, as others recommended, advise that you re-install the game. I did this as a solution to a similar problem I had with SA initially.

[Drake]

Okay, so I was watching a scorerun replay of UFO Lunatic, when the game suddenly crashed as soon as the player reached Stage 5 Nazrin.

I go back to watch the replay again...and it crashes again. Same place.

I figure, screw it, I'll just start it at stage 6 then...and it crashes before the replay can even start playing.

Tried it again, it happened again.

I've gotten a similar problem when replacing images and text in the game. I'm sill not sure what the trigger is, but given that you probably haven't been modifying the game, your th12[e].dat file might be reacting oddly. Try downloading a different .dat file or reinstalling the game outright.

[Ranko Hoshino]

What version of UFO are you running?

[Elysia]

Reinstall the game.

Well, I reinstalled the game. All new files except the replays folder. Downloaded the replay three times just to be sure. Even the score.dat is new. It's UFO, all that means is losing a couple of Normal 1CCs that I don't particularly care about.

STILL THE SAME PROBLEM.

And just to be sure, I checked an old 1CC replay I had lying around; that one didn't crash at Nazrin and Stage 6 worked fine. Though obviously that was Normal, not Lunatic.

What version of UFO are you running?

1.00a, fresh off the disc.

[Drake]

Try updating to 1.00b then? I dunno. Have you checked a bunch of replays or could it just be that particular one?

[ARF]

The patch fixes the crash, which happens when the player reaches 1 billion points.

[Ranko Hoshino]

Yes, I'd also recommend patching up to 1.00b. 1.00a does crash upon reaching 1,000,000,000 points as mentioned.

[Agent of the BSoD]

Also, just to see, do you have the link for the replay? I just want to test it out on my end, though it should be the same once you update.