So im currently trying get MC 1.1 Forge to work. I have all the files installed the client from here forge-1.1-1.3.4.29-client and modloader 1.1 and ModloaderMP 1.1 v4 for MCarchives website i was able to make the meta inf go away and stay way to be able to mod it like u did old school back in the day (even testing it by replacing the "char.png" with my own skin and it all stick the meta-inf doesnt comeback or anything. So i followed and old installation video. i put everything in the jar file correctly but this crash keeps coming up and i know its a long shot but i really wanna try and get it to work and would appreciate the help!! Thanks in advance! Crash Report below:

Mods Loaded: 1 ModLoader 1.1

      Minecraft has crashed!      

      ----------------------      

Minecraft has stopped running because it encountered a problem.

If you wish to report this, please copy this entire text and email it to [email protected].

Please include a description of what you did when the error occured.

--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT 9c4f49b2 --------

Generated 1/23/26 2:56 AM

Minecraft: Minecraft 1.1

OS: Windows 10 (amd64) version 10.0

Java: 1.8.0_51, Oracle Corporation

VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation

LWJGL: 2.9.0

OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 version 4.6.0 NVIDIA 581.80, NVIDIA Corporation

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI is not hierarchical

at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:418)

at ModLoader.init(ModLoader.java:817)

at ModLoader.AddAllRenderers(ModLoader.java:189)

at afq.<init>(afq.java:80)

at afq.<clinit>(afq.java:9)

at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(Minecraft.java:316)

at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:620)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

--- END ERROR REPORT e3faf6e4 ----------

and yes i do also have java 8 installed correctly as well so still not sure what else it could be