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Wanted to play some older versions of Minecraft for compatibility with Vechs' Super Hostile maps and discovered that both versions 1.2.5 and 1.5.2 were failing to start. The game crashes immediately on startup with both versions, and oddly enough works just fine in 1.6.1 and above. Crash report as follows:

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Surprise! Haha. Well, this is awkward.

Time: 4/10/17 4:06 PM
Description: Failed to start game

java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:78)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:97)
at bp.a(SourceFile:64)
at bp.a(SourceFile:100)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:252)
at avv.a(SourceFile:56)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:507)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)


A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.5.2
Operating System: Windows 10 (amd64) version 10.0
Java Version: 1.8.0_25, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 44980416 bytes (42 MB) / 127139840 bytes (121 MB) up to 1060372480 bytes (1011 MB)
JVM Flags: 6 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx1G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Xmn128M
AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Suspicious classes: No suspicious classes found.
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
LWJGL: 2.9.0
OpenGL: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 GL version 4.0.0 - Build 10.18.10.4358, Intel
Is Modded: Very likely; Jar signature invalidated
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Texture Pack: Default
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null

Anyone have a fix?

Delete "options.txt" in the .minecraft folder.

Also, Java 8 is not supported in older version of the game, you have to use java 7