[PBS Question] Mega Evolution pokemonforms.txt causes my game to crash, help!

[Allomaniac]

I'm trying to make mega evolutions work. I watched Thundaga's video and followed all the steps. Once I had the mega ring and stone ready. It didn't work. So I did more research and found that the Pokemonforms.txt file needed to be updated, but when I updated it correctly. I got this error:

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Pokemon Essentials
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[Pokémon Essentials version 17]

Exception: RuntimeError

Message: Expected a section at the beginning of the file. This error may also occur if the file was not saved in UTF-8.

File PBS/pokemonforms.txt, line 1

#-------------------------------





Compiler:178:in `pbEachFileSectionEx'

Compiler:165:in `each_line'

Compiler:165:in `pbEachFileSectionEx'

Compiler:203:in `pbEachFileRGSS2Compatibility'

Compiler:2005:in `pbCompilePokemonForms'

Compiler:2003:in `open'

Compiler:2003:in `pbCompilePokemonForms'

Compiler:4398:in `pbCompileAllData'

Compiler:4515
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What do I do?

 

[mgriffin]

What does the first line of your pokemonforms.txt look like? I think the compiler is expecting something different to what you have (best guesses: you've made a typo, you've saved as UTF-8 with a BOM, or you've not saved as UTF-8 at all).

 

[Allomaniac]

I don't know what UTF-8 means, so that probably is the problem. The first line is

#-------------------------------

 

[mgriffin]

UTF-8 is a way of storing the text on your computer. If you're editing your file in Notepad or something, I think you'll be able to choose to use UTF-8 (not UTF-8 with BOM) in the "Save As" dialog.

 

[#Not Important]

Could you give us the file pokemonforms.txt in the PBS folder?
That would make it easier for us to figure the error out...

 

[Allomaniac]

It worked! Changing it to UTF-8 instead of UTF- 8 with BOM made it run. Now I'm running into a different problem. It lets me mega evolve, and as I do, it plays the animation: After the glowy ball segment, the screen flashes white and I get a pop-up saying
"Image located at 'Graphics/Pictures/impact' was not found!"
I'll probably be able to figure this one out on my own as it's a graphical thing, but just wanted to put it out there in case it's a well known issue that's hard to solve.

Thanks for the help!