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[Super Alone Boy]

Hi! I've bought SMB with HIB4 and I'm very happy to play this awesome game.

But I experience some problems. I tried to read the FAQ and google some solutions for these problems, but didn't have any luck. I'm running SMB from super-meat-boy_20111213_all.deb on Debian Squeeze, CPU is Core 2 Quad and videocard is GeForce 9800GT. I have these problems:
• I cannot unlock any character but bit.trip.runner guy and SMB itself. I have a lot of bandages, but when I select a hidden character, nothing happens.
• Solution of the boss with blood pool was VERY hard due to the fact that blood level started to get up immediately when I touch the key. I had to wait until boss starts jumping in the center — in that I had some time to run away. (I looked up internets and found that people have the reverse bug — the level stands still.)
• I cannot get to the warpzone with The Kid. When I came to the warp (I can see it), it disappears. I get near VERY fast, in 8 seconds or less, but it doesn't help. When I google vids with walkthroughs, I can see that people gets to that warp in 10 or more seconds, so it's not me so slow, but the warp is too quick.
• I cannot see my results and online leaderboards. And I get no text on buttons when I open Super Meat World. If i get mad and click everywhere like a nut, I get segfault, lol.
• Something else. I forgot, but if i remember, I'll write later.

I tried to use -ultralowdetail to avoid the «inability to complete some levels and bosses due to timed objects», but it does not help me.

I'm looking forward for your answer, thanks in advance! Excuse me if I did mistakes, my native language is russian. (I wonder these bugs can be fixed, because all I have to do now is to play SMB, because neither my girlfriend nor other faggots didn't came to celebrate NY with me, and moreover I'm sick. )

[dees]

I have several problems with Linux version too.

• I cannot unlock any character but bit.trip.runner guy  and SMB  itself. I have a lot of bandages, but when I select a hidden character, nothing happens.

I've unlocked several additional characters: Jill, Commander Video, 8Bit SMB but all this characters where unlocked after finishing warp zones. I'm unable to unlock any additional characters for collected bandages (42 at the moment). When I select locked character and press spacebar nothing happens.

Second bug is that SMB didn't restore game settings after restart. I had to switch game to fullscreen mode every time when I starts the game. This bug is already reported here: http://supermeatboy.com/forum/index.php/topic,2286.0.html

Most annoying bug for me now is that I can not get through the boss in 'The End' chapter. I can successfully finish first part of level (got Dr Fetus to fell to the pit), then I see movie showing Dr Fetus attempt to blow up his base, and just after the movie game crashes.

[snauts]

Most annoying bug for me now is that I can not get through the boss in 'The End' chapter. I can successfully finish first part of level (got Dr Fetus to fell to the pit), then I see movie showing Dr Fetus attempt to blow up his base, and just after the movie game crashes.

I've got this same problem. It was great source of sadness for me, because I was trying to beat that level whole day before it happened.

[thecod]

I have also experienced the character unlock problem, the leaderboards problem and the quite annoying crash after the dr fetus level (it occurs every time!). In addition, the lazers from the hell area tend to dissapear, making certain levels quite easier than intended (though I'm not really complaining about that one...).

[moskewcz]

same problems, same version from HiB 4: (20111213), under ubuntu 10.04 64-bit:

dr. fetus level crash, no leaderboards, no bandage char. unlocks, random laser vanishing, no saving of game settings (fullscreen in particular).

does anyone know if there's somewhere else HiB/linux specific we should look for support?

mwm

I have also experienced the character unlock problem, the leaderboards problem and the quite annoying crash after the dr fetus level (it occurs every time!). In addition, the lazers from the hell area tend to dissapear, making certain levels quite easier than intended (though I'm not really complaining about that one...).

[thecod]

Actually it seems that some of these bugs have been reported and assigned:

https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5350

https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5316

https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5348

I guess we just have to be patient.

[Jintek]

Good to know about these bugs beforehand, I'll be trying out the Linux version soon (Ubuntu Maverick). 

On another note, I suppose the Linux version doesn't support leaderboards or achievements since it's a standalone, correct?

[singupnow]

For me, no leaderboard is working...

And I have a problem for 5-15X level which I cannot complete due to a misplaced ennemy (as in http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1727913.html, but for me this ennemy is always at the wrong place).

And The Dark Fetus for chapter "The End" is unplayable for me due to bugs (my character seems epileptic[See Meat Boy "spazzes" out on wiki http://smb.thecybershadow.net/Main_Page])...

(I play with the Humble Bundle Version)

PS: I'm on Arch

[rkjdid]

Reporting the same problems as above on CrunchBang 10 64bit (debian-based). No band-aid -characters, settings not saved.

(Humble bundle #4 .deb version)

[singupnow]

Last comment:

When unlocking hidden characters, just the first letter shows up:

Example for the Guy:

You have unlocked T
From I

Only the first letter for the character & the game is present.

When you finish some WarpZones, the characters who talks to you is a Big Blue Square & A Red Square instead of the normal characters.

[Buzzsaw]

Hi there,

I'm disappointed to see no replies here at all.
I'm using Arch Linux 64bit. Executing the 32bit binary makes no difference. I'm having at least these bugs:

• Random segfaults (when entering/leaving worlds, selecting characters, etc.) with no error message.
• Can't unlock characters with bandages.
• Random sound glitches (mostly one track going silent until the next change)
• No Super Meat World. Just a blank, glitchy scoreboard.
• Full screen and resolution are not saved.
• "First letter of name and game" bug mentioned above.
• Using a gamepad, sometimes the game acts as if I'm autofiring some button. This has never happened me in any other game.

                           
I haven't played it to the end yet, so I don't know if I'm going to get the final boss bug.
This is all very disappointing, though. Contrary to what I suppose would be a stereotype of complaining Linux users, people are being very polite about this. But these aren't little niggles, these are serious bugs. Is this a beta we've been given? The package is called supermeatboy-linux-12132011b. "b", I hasten to point out.

Please, Team Meat, help us with these. I love this game so much. But bad customer service doesn't pay.

Buzz

[miarf]

Just tried out the most recent Linux version (updated in early June 2012) on Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit.

I have SMB from Humble Bundle 4, and the only Linux key available is for a generic .bin, which I installed. Everything went nicely.

However, when running the game, everything runs really slowly, it looks and feels like 20-30fps, which renders the game pretty much unplayable.

I'm using the latest proprietary Nvidia driver, and haven't done much tweaking after installing Ubuntu 12.

System: Nvidia GTX470, Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.4GHz, 8GM ram.

Also tried it on my laptop, which has Core i7 and Intel GMA and Xubuntu 11. Same choppiness for no apparent reason.

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks!