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I'm a bit new to Byond, and I've recently encountered the problem to where games do not load on the home screen. I can't seem to download the games from online, as the browser won't allow me to open it with Byond, although it does give the suggestion. Here's what it looks like: https://snag.gy/YU7zAa.jpg
Best response
That looks like a known problem with certain systems where your user data directory contains special characters (like Unicode). I suggest moving your user data directory from My Documents\BYOND where it probably is now, to something like C:\BYOND. (You should be able to do this in Preferences | Advanced.)
Thank you very much Lummox JR, it worked for me!

This might be caused by the reference to the user directory being hardcoded in the codebase, instead of using the Windows built-in environment variable. I have seen the same bug in other programs.
Not really; the issue is that the exact path that environment variable resolves to contains characters that some of the piece of BYOND can't handle.