I may may not (totally need) help with making Java work with this

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i literally broke my computer’s java beyond use and no matter how many times i reinstall java 8, i get this when trying to open the game, wich leads to a loop of trying to select an app to run the game
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Anybody could help me fix this wonderland-sized mess?

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Try Jarfix Jarfix

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It still seems to be associated with Java 17. You can always run the jar from console.

  • Add environment variable JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-8 (replace with directory where you installed Java 8)
  • Add %JAVA_HOME%\bin to environment variable PATH at the very top of the list
  • Open cmd, type java -version, it should show Java 8
  • In cmd go to the directory where your jar is, using cd.
  • Run with: java -jar XYZ.jar (XYZ = your jar file name)
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I’m not quite sure about this, but there are two “types” of java: jdk and jre
jdk (java development kit) is for programming
jre (java runtime environment) is for executing stuff
could be i mixed those two up, so dont take my word for that.

anyway, you could try reinstalling the jre. It looks like a file is called the wrong way, not like there is a file missing, so maybe the issue isn’t in the jdk

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idk managing different java versions and path variables are enough of a pain i just opened it as an intellij project and set the version in the run profile thing and ran it from that

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Sorry for the delay in answering. The simplest fix is to edit the included start.bat, uncomment (ie. remove the REM) these two lines:

REM set JAVA_HOME=C:\Dev\jdk1.8.0_25
REM set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%

and edit the first one to provide the location of your Java8 install. Then use start.bat to launch it.