[Rare: Infinite Download Loop on Dependencies. Historically affects users with Desktop on OneDrive, but Exact Cause Unknown]

[stellarFelicity]

Been trying to work this thing out for a while, and haven't really found a lot of answers online so here I am.

There aren't any errors or crashes or anything, and installation (manually & automatically, tried both options) is successful for the most part. The problem starts when the Downloading Dependencies pop-up shows up trying to download "Reloaded II Shared Lib: Reloaded.Hooks".

Turns out downloads don't work for some reason and it keeps trying to download the same thing over and over to no avail. One of my attempts for some reason was successful and let me access the loader, but downloads from then on were still not working, whether they were installations through searching for mods or auto-installations for downloading dependencies.

I'm a bit new to this whole modding business so I might be missing something obvious, but it would be nice if someone could point out what the problem is.

[Sewer56]

It's something I need to look into; this behaviour is extremely, extremely rare but there are edge cases where people's downloads infinitely loop during dependency resolution process, or the built in downloader doesn't extract at all. Not sure if it's Antivirus interference, FileSystem issue, Cloud Storage/OneDrive or whatever else it could be; but it is pretty rare.

In the meantime, feel free to post this link into your browser address bar: r2:https://github.com/Sewer56/Reloaded.SharedLib.Hooks.ReloadedII/releases/download/1.16.0/Reloaded.Hooks.ReloadedII1.16.0.7z

Should fix the issue for you. Usually the plain link downloader inside R2 still works fine.

[stellarFelicity]

Right, that's unfortunate.

I tried the link you posted, and it does open the app to download it and even shows the download completed pop-up, but the download itself didn't actually happen. Opening the app afterwards still puts me into the infinite loop of downloading.

Manually downloading through the link from my browser instead of through the app and putting that inside the Mods folder does fix the issue, but the downloader inside R2 still won't work; the pop-up for the download shows up with the progress bar and all, but nothing seems to be actually downloaded when the pop-up disappears.

Tried downloading some mods manually (for P5R), but trying to launch puts me in a similar infinite download loop for dependencies.

[Alwin-Lin]

If you have the reload folder located somewhere in your Windows desktop, try copy and pasting the whole folder it into somewhere that is not under C:\Users<USERNAME>\OneDrive
Moving it out of OneDrive folder solved my issue

[Sewer56]

Yeah, that's a fairly common trend, moving it outside of OneDrive generally helps most people fix it.

By all accounts, this is a OneDrive related issue given historical reports (except the rare case someone packages/uploads a mod incorrectly and it gets stuck), but given that OneDrive is proprietary, and I can't really debug it. I'm not sure what to do about it.

I may just have to change the default install path at this point. I added a 1 second delay between checks if the user's Desktop is in OneDrive as a hack, however given the fact there's at least still 1 report now, maybe that really didn't have any effect.

In the original Reloaded, I used AppData to store users' mods, as is the standard, however I had a lot of complaints from users that didn't know where to find their files. So the direction from here is unclear; unfortunately. There aren't very many choices for a reliable install location; for instance a user may not have write access to C:\ (root of drive) under some configurations, and the idiomatic place of AppData will get complaints.

[VoldyMoldy]

Not a huge deal for me but I figured I would report this, came up after failing to download the mod in the image.

[Sewer56]

Not a huge deal for me but I figured I would report this, came up after failing to download the mod in the image.

Paste this into browser
r2:https://gamebanana.com/mmdl/1139477

In case you need it

[VoldyMoldy]

I got the exact same error trying to download the mod manually, think the issue might just be with the mod itself.

P5R still opens just fine with mods though.

[Sewer56]

Strange...

[Zityuu]

I recently encountered these issues and despite using the links posted in the thread nothing really changed for me. It keeps telling me that dependencies are missing. Also, here's an image with all the mods I have enabled. Could this issue also be BIOS related? I have some troubles with my BIOS, however everything else on my PC works just fine.

[Sewer56]

I think all of these are @T-PoseRatkechi 's mods.

They're only hosted on GameBanana AFAIK.

It's likely you're currently unable to download from GameBanana at the moment, from R2 be it due to something on your end or a server outage in GB's end.

I recently encountered these issues and despite using the links posted in the thread nothing really changed for me. It keeps telling me that dependencies are missing. Also, here's an image with all the mods I have enabled. Could this issue also be BIOS related? I have some troubles with my BIOS, however everything else on my PC works just fine.

[Zityuu]

Ironically after you posted your comment, I was able to start all mods just fine. However, I ran into a new problem (image). I tried disabling all mods with "framework" in their name for P3R. It didn't really make a difference to when every mod is enabled. I also set the P3R essentials mod to the top, yet same issue. I am kind of confused tbh

[Sewer56]

I think you may be running some mod intended for Persona 3 Portable with Persona 3 Reload.

The error you're getting is from BGME Framework intended for Portable, not Reload. I'm guessing that's probably being loaded in as a dependency.

[Zityuu]

Update: I got some help from the femc project discord server and reinstalled reloaded. I also made sure that the bgme framework mod is gone, which is now the case. It was probably there in the first place because I used to add mods to Persona 4 Golden.

As for the Infinite download loop error, it did still appear after the reinstallation of reloaded, however it fixed itself by automatically downloading the required dependencies. (I wanted to mention it since it's the original topic of the thread)

To sum things up, my mods work just fine now, and I'm thankful for your help. Thanks for your hard work with reloaded! :)

[NotNite]

This also seems to happen when a mod specifies a dependency with the wrong casing. In my case, I accidentally specified reloaded.memory.sigscan.reloadedii instead of Reloaded.Memory.SigScan.ReloadedII, and Reloaded downloaded the library without issue but then exploded right after.