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I'll look into it, coocoo. I'm fine with putting Jimmy on as many distribution platforms as possible. Are there any other ones I should look into while I'm at it?

I'm a bit late on this, but here are my suggestions:

Game Jolt is another option you might want to take a look at. They're more heavily focused on freeware than itch, but they might still be worth trying out if you want as many options as possible.

There's also the Humble Store to consider. It's probably easier to get on than GOG, especially since your game already has a confirmed Steam release, but could take a bit more work than Game Jolt and itch.

itch is almost certainly the best one of the lot aside from Steam itself though. Also, if you upload Jimmy there you might want to gradually release your freeware games as well (make sure to upload the versions with RTP included) to gain some added exposure before this game's release day. itch and, to a slightly lesser degree, Game Jolt make it very easy for users to follow developers they like in order to get updates whenever new patches/games are released.

I definitely agree that you should see if anything can be salvaged from the hard drive. Even if it's a long shot, the chance to recover your stuff is always worth some time and frustration.

Also, if you haven't done so already, you might want to copy the contents of that flash drive to another computer or a cloud service; it would be awful to have saved at least some stuff to a backup only to have it lost if the backup in turn stops working.

It's coming in a bit late, but I'd personally prefer having the option to simply choose to start at the midpoint if I want to from the stage select screen for any cleared stage. I'm not sure if that would interfere with the Mega Man Killers if you implemented the MMX2-style stage movement for them, so it might be beneficial to disable the midpoint warp on a stage if a Killer is currently on it.

I would be happy to test this game out. I'm a bit busy this month, but I can still definitely find a few hours each week to look out for glitches and difficulty imbalances while trying my best to break the game.

I'm in the process of playing through this game and I plan to write up a review when I finish, but there are several things you may want to be aware of.

In the teleport maze section of the dungeon in the hidden village there is a miniature puzzle which requires pushing boxes around while standing on crumbling tiles. Although the puzzle is possible to solve, attempting to push a box onto any of these crumbling tiles completely locks up the game, trying to push the first box right (or up into the wall) after pushing it left just makes Mykroft walk left without moving the box, trying to push the second box down twice or down and left also leads to a lockup (in both instances a wall would have prevented the box's movement), and trying to push the third box left twice (into where the second box is) again leads to a lockup.

There is also a lockup issue with the second guard on the first bridge you cross. If you talk to him once, he tells you that you can pass and walks upward. However, talking to him a second time will lead to a lockup as he again attempts to walk upward.

I have also encountered several other bugs, such as being able to exit the first kingdom via the sewers even though a certain event only triggers upon using the normal exit, going into a church and appearing inside of the town's inn, finding several containers which give an infinite supply of potions, and entering one particular castle and appearing on the world map outside of a different one.

The optional quest to give a fairy flower to the merchant for an elixir can also be repeatedly infinitely, which leads to being able to resell the elixirs he gives you for quite a bit of money for very little effort, but I'm not sure if this is a bug or by design. I'd also like to suggest giving a bit more indication in one way or another (different ground tiles, etc) as to just where the three boulders can be moved in the forest after the fairy agrees to help you as I would have been completely stuck on that segment and under the impression that it was simply unsolvable had it not been for the comment made by Dennis concerning the same issue.

Basically, there isn't anything which makes the game outright unplayable so far, but there are quite a few bugs, some of which can cost a lot of progress for anyone who doesn't save often. For future games (or future patches of this one), I'd suggest following three simple bug-testing methods which, though a bit tedious, will really help to cut back on bugs. First, interact with everything at least twice and preferably from every side which it can be interacted with even if it's just a simply copy/paste of something you believe is 'working as intended', especially if it is an NPC which moves after talking to it; this will greatly cut down on issues like the game locking up and containers infinitely giving an item. Secondly, go through every door/ladder/staircase/warp/etc you ever make which transitions the player and do this from both sides to make sure it definitely leads to where it is supposed to. Finally, do stupid stuff like walking into walls, pushing blocks into walls and each other, taking a long route even when a shortcut presents itself, etc; there isn't a set guideline for this, but never assume players won't accidentally do things which make no sense or that they'll always take a shortcut when you present them with one.

EDIT:
Just ran into another oddity in the warp maze. After the colored orb bridge puzzle there is a minecart you can take which lets you choose between three warp points. Choosing the wrong warp point of course leads back to before the minecart, but the minecart is still at the end of the track blocking the way so you have to walk all the way to the end of the tracks, get into the minecart, and let it take you back to where it started just so you can get into it again. It doesn't stop progress, but it is awkward and it would make much more sense for the minecart to simply reset itself upon taking the wrong warp.