Fix for beatoraja not running when there are non-ASCII characters in windows username

[wcko87]

Issue

If your username on Windows has non-ASCII characters in it (for example "asdfØØ"), beatoraja will not start when you click "Play".

Reference:

• Game is unable to launch due to unicode letters in libgdx filepath exch-bms2/beatoraja#609

Fix (without changing your Windows username)

Edit your beatoraja-config.bat config file, and add this before the first line

set USERNAME=blahblah

where blahblah can be any name that only uses ASCII characters.

So your beatoraja-config.bat file looks something like this:

REM *** Set system-wide "_JAVA_OPTIONS" environment variable to use OpenGL pipeline (improved performance of > 30% potentially. Also use anti-aliasing for non-LR2 fonts, and finally allow Swing framework to utilize AA and GTKLookAndFeel for config window. ***
set USERNAME=blahblah
set _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel' -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8"
pushd %~dp0
java -Xms1g -Xmx4g -cp beatoraja.jar;ir/* bms.player.beatoraja.MainLoader
popd

(remark: the REM *** line is a comment line, it does not affect anything)

Explanation

beatoraja uses the libgdx game library. When beatoraja is started, it creates a temp file in the AppData folder named "libgdxXXXX", where "XXXX" is your windows username. If your Windows username has non-ASCII characters, the game may not be able to read this folder.

If you apply set USERNAME=blahblah at the start of the bat file, the AppData folder will be named "libgdxblahblah" instead, which will cause no issues.

Source:

• https://steamcommunity.com/app/646570/discussions/1/2561864094351818098/