⚙・modding-general

[jovial escarp]

you must be new here

[unique escarp]

in where?

[jovial escarp]

these days it's all about generating licenses using your hardware configuration as a hash value

[jovial escarp]

piracy

ive been pirating since i was 10

[unique escarp]

Ah okay

Been doing it for the past 4 years.

[jovial escarp]

my point being
anti-malware products get funding from enterprise solutions

[unique escarp]

though mostly for media that waaay too overpriced.

[jovial escarp]

anti-malware is made primarily for companies to keep their equipment up to spec and predictable and most of all safe

you know who also gives a lot of money to anti-malware companies

[unique escarp]

I can agree to that

[jovial escarp]

publishers that don't want cracked versions of their software out there

so the cracked versions get flagged even if they are safe to use

[unique escarp]

DRMs

DRMs are annoying for both the consumer and crackers

[jovial escarp]

as far as i can tell balatro has no drm

but i bought the game because im a good egg

piracy as a hobby

[unique escarp]

Same here

but also, single developer

love the game, so why not buy the game

kinda weird that the demo got removed.

[jovial escarp]

i usually pre-pirate games im interested in

then play for a bit

decide if i like it and buy it if i do

[unique escarp]

4 hour limit for me, gives me enough time to actually think about buying the game or not.

but also I don't want to pay like $50 for something that's potentially crappy.. .-.

[jovial escarp]

real

[unique escarp]

Ethical piracy

[jovial escarp]

my typical process is going on cs.rin.ru to see what the state of the game is

whether it has drm or not

[unique escarp]

Huh, don't think i've used cs.rin.ru before

[jovial escarp]

if it's just steam drm i get the steam files and use the goldberg emu to spoof steam dlls

if no drm then it's good to go

if it's something more complicated i first look at fitgirl repacks

if theres a repack out for that game

if not i then go looking through the forum posts for a cracked version of the executable or some patch or something

run it in a sandbox

[unique escarp]

maybe should move this to dms, really out there for the topic.. heh...

[jovial escarp]

observe what it does to the sandbox

and if it's good i just keep it

i wont provide any links

[robust lily]

Not only that, but the method by which it injects mods into the game is prone to suspicion by antivirus software.

[jovial escarp]

i mean it is potentially unwanted behavior

you could technically hijack the modding api and a couple vulnerabilities to inject malware

but that's not the loader's fault, that would be the mod dev

[grand geode]

again if you are scared then look through the code and compile the loader yourself

[hardy brook]

Oh gosh, we're now gonna have Forge vs Fabric for Balatro

Balamod vs Steamodded

quick, while the loaders are still new, someone start working on a converter

[lean dune]

https://tenor.com/view/steve-carell-nooo-pleasegodno-the-office-angry-gif-12174751

[hardy brook]

Made the card back for the extended deck

Based on the original deck's back

[versed swift]

whats the general status of the balatro modding landscape right now?

is it active, getting its foot in the door, cool mods coming out?

i just wanna know how its going :>

[robust lily]

It's active and growing.

[magic sandal]

I mean considering how it went with forge and fabric I'd say its over

[hardy brook]

idk how it went

[magic sandal]

That's the thing, it never did

Theres still no way to do mods for both fabric and forge

[robust lily]

each has pros and cons and work better for one purpose or another

[rare hill]

isn't there architectury or whatever?

[hardy brook]

Alright so what's my problem?

[grand geode]

nope, no idea

[robust lily]

Is that line 968?

[rare hill]

that'd be based on the injector you're using

I recommend extracting your modded exe and taking a look at the line

[hardy brook]

That's what it's saying

[hardy brook]

Steamodded 0.6.2

[rare hill]

what's line 968 of your extracted modded exe though?

[hardy brook]

function SMODS.findModByID(modID)
    for _, mod in pairs(SMODS.MODS) do
        if mod.id == modID then
            return mod
        end
    end
    return nil  -- Return nil if no mod is found with the given ID
end

So it's something with finding the mod by id

It works for other mods so it's something on my end

oh i never initialized the deck

There we go. Deck is initialized

[zealous wave]

no?

they're still working on that stuff

there's a compat layer for forge and devs release versions for both

[hardy brook]

I just realized something in mod uploads and I'm gonna remake this deck and upload it

How come there's no "No effect" deck

[zealous wave]

https://github.com/Sinytra/Connector

[hardy brook]

I haven't even seen it in a modded sense

[vale canopy]

I just downloaded steamloader but I don't think it's working :(

[robust lily]

Windows Defender thinks it's a trojan and quarantined it.

[vale canopy]

oh... so... how do i

[hardy brook]

Alright, I'm uploading the first mod

[hardy brook]

Uploaded in #1210976027036352582

[robust lily]

There's an option to allow it in the Defender settings.

[ancient junco]

im getting this crash very often, is there a fix?

[exotic dagger]

Red/blue/yellow are as close to no effect as vanilla gets

[clever rampart]

how would i make my deck have more card on start

[jaunty lion]

i think each deck has a variable defining what cards it starts with

[jovial notch]

ok so 3 questions:
1: is modding safe
2: if i mod, and go back to normally playing, will i still be able to get achievements
3: if both of those are yes then how do i get started

[hardy brook]

Made one myself

[hardy brook]

1. Yes. The trojan is a false positive
2. I believe you should be fine as long as you copy your .exe file before hand and rename back and forth with Balatro
3. I'll leave that to someone else

[vale canopy]

I'm losing my mind, I put the thing on the exluded list but it's still being blocked

I'm trying everything, I even turned off my virus protector temporarily and it still isn't working 🙃

[robust lily]

Yeah, I'm not really sure what I did that got it working, but eventually it showed up and Windows stopped nagging about it.

[jovial notch]

theres so much stuff in the fourms i dont even know how to load mods in 😵‍💫

i am not got the smart or smthn

[vale canopy]

my brain is exploding

[jovial notch]

(im hoping tmod knowledge will help) have you tried to run as administrator?

[quiet dirge]

any time I see a Github link I know I'm about to spend like an hour tracking down dependencies I never heard of, but then it's going to be great

so I've installed Balamod but the mods don't seem to be loading (Options menu->Mods gives an empty list) Where's the mod folder supposed to be?

[vale canopy]

I'll see

nope

[vale canopy]

even with-
. Protecter off
. Modloader exluded
. Administer ran
still not working :(

I really thought it would work this time

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-dies-gif-21956120

[quiet dirge]

@vale canopy do you have any other antivirus pgms? McAfee hassled me a bit

[vale canopy]

yeah, that's the one

[quiet dirge]

you might be way ahead of me here, but mcafee wanted to move the installer to a quarantine folder as soon as I started running it. had to turn off "Real Time Scanning"

and "restore" the executable from the quarantine folder (or just redownload it)

[vale canopy]

that's exactly what I did lol

hold on, let me get a picture

wait no, I was confused on that part lol, this was from when I still had it on, but it's still funny

but yeah, the warning doesn't show up and the thing isn't deleted but it doesn't get added in game

I think it gets like 2 steps farther though, it's like half way through the command console thing it just shuts off

[quiet dirge]

I had that problem and managed to fix it, but two or three problems later I got stuck again; that's why I'm trying to switch over to Balamod for now

[vale canopy]

does bala work with steamloader mods?

I might try that one if so

[quiet dirge]

that might be my current problem.... ....

so here's my story with Steamodded fwiw. It was having an error in "steamodded_injector.py". I had to download that file separately from the repo, put it in the balatro directory and execute it with a python interpreter

but when it was said and done, I got a stack overflow error from balatro.exe, which I think is out of my league to fix

[vale canopy]

this is starting to feel sisyphean

[quiet dirge]

every time i see a github link, i'll tell you. probably has to do with being a windows user

[exotic dagger]

Doubt it’s that

[clever rampart]

does anyone know how to do this tho

[vale canopy]

I think I'm going to start posting mod ideas till I can get this working

[quiet dirge]

yeah, thanks to everybody working on this stuff. I'm sure it'll get easier soon, see you then!

[vale canopy]

I've seen suggestions in #1209506514763522108 and of course in #1155557846805643434 , which one do I post in?

[hardy brook]

if it's mod suggestions then modding

[hardy brook]

This is the EXTREME deck

it's gonna be the hardest deck I make

It's 1 discard, 1 play

[cerulean herald]

oh i forgot to mention I have a modded switch

I've added mods to games before on there that aren't officially supported, so if the file structure is similar, I'm going to try to add some mods to the switch version

[cerulean herald]

I'll report back with my results! The only issue is modifying the exe of the switch game, since it doesnt really use an exe file LOL. I imagine it uses something similar though, so I'll look for that and see what happens

[exotic dagger]

Are there any positives to the deck too?

[cerulean herald]

If not I'll use uwudevs loader and see if that works since it doesnt need to modify the exe

[cerulean herald]

Also this looks crazy! How the heck. You'd need to combine this with one OP seed/deck XD

[tacit mountain]

It's forbidden to discuss modding for Switch

[cerulean herald]

gonna try to unpack the NSP file

oh wait what

aw why @tacit mountain ?

[tacit mountain]

Rules

https://canary.discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1212395714920054864

[cerulean herald]

aw what the! that's sad. Whats the reason though do you know?

i mean if you own the game and have a modded switch

[tacit mountain]

No idea but you can ask mods I think

[cerulean herald]

I don't see the issue! Lots of other games have mods for both switch and pc versions :(...

Okay I'll ask em, thanks for the heads up! Also big thanks to you for your hard work @tacit mountain ! The community all appreciates all you did for this game, and all the mod devs! 😄
https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1b4kraw/balatro_mods_are_out_babyyyyy/

[brazen epoch]

it's cause dealing with nintendo is more headache than it's worth

[tacit mountain]

It's a pleasure, but I took a little break last few days lol

[cerulean herald]

I get that but theyve never taken action against just modding, esp not for 3rd party games. I think the only time they did was like modding of smash with 1st party licenced ninty characters

[pastel wolf]

Well deserved

[cerulean herald]

but skyrim, dead cells, lots of others have working mods on switch

and nintendo doesnt go after em and they cant really

bc it's just modifying game files someone already owns

and nintendo doesnt own the games rights so they cant say they dont want the files modified

[brazen epoch]

I'm sure they don't care that you do it, but they can't official endorce it. Thus rules

so we should probably stop talking about it, mb for bringing it up again

[cerulean herald]

oh you mean the devs cant? Yeah perhaps

[brazen epoch]

yeah and this is their official server

[cerulean herald]

I'll try to ask em later and leave this alone for now. Convo for another place!

yeah haha

[brazen epoch]

sounds good

[pastel wolf]

I should probably get back to doing my mod

[cerulean herald]

you are appreciated lad! 🫶🏼 what mod ya making?

[cerulean herald]

Understandable haha, you put out a ton of stuff pretty fast!

[near ridge]

I wanna mod Balatro as well but I have no clue which modloader to use 😭

[cerulean herald]

I saw all those example luas!

[pastel wolf]

Putting my collection page in

[wet river]

Why did I get pinged? Did someone @ everyone?

[cerulean herald]

Not since I've been here no? was it recent?

[cerulean herald]

ohhhh interesting, collection for another mod or cards?

[cerulean herald]

or like custom textures for the collection?

[pastel wolf]

Custom jokers

[wet river]

Ah it was a Discord "highlight". Seriously, fuck discord notifications sometimes.

[pastel wolf]

I dont think this is all of them but i dont have them all on my phone :p

Its all a wip anyway so

[cerulean herald]

AYOOO! Are these all custom? These look SICK!

Sundial esp I like, and the joker suites!

[pastel wolf]

They're all mine yup :p

[cerulean herald]

thats a sick credit card!

/casino card!

[pastel wolf]

Only a few do anything atm

Library card isn't shown in those pictures but thats working, watercolour is working

Receipt is part working

[cerulean herald]

also YOOOO THE HIRAGANA ONE

[pastel wolf]

That one is working but its a bit buggy

Sundial kinda doesnt work properly but im not finished with it

[cerulean herald]

yeah ofc mods take time! you gotta start with the ideas first then work to implement em haha! WIth how fast you devs are going its crazy how much has already been added!

[pastel wolf]

Ive been making ideas n doing art since the first demo :p

[hardy brook]

Best run I've gotten unseeded

[cerulean herald]

It looks spot on for the game 👍🏼 like they look like a stock card, but they also have their own custom flair to em

they're sick! any of these cards out yet?

or in early release stage?

[hardy brook]

The plain deck is out, extreme will be out once I fix description thing

[pastel wolf]

None of mine are out yet

Would have to seperate the code out to do that

[cerulean herald]

LOLOL so true so true

[hardy brook]

for now you'll only be able to use Extreme OR Plain deck

but i plan to have an upload where you can have both in your options along with any future mods

[cerulean herald]

yeah that makes sense haha, I'll be patiently waiting for the release! Take your time, this looks like its gonna be really cool when its out 😄

[pastel wolf]

Thanks! Still a few cards of mine that dont have effects but i'll burn that bridge when i get to it

[hardy brook]

Anything Blue stake or higher is BORDERLINE IMPOSSIBLE

Because blue stake removes half of the deck functionality basically (-1 discard to 1 discard to start)

[cerulean herald]

HOLAY okay okay! so wait it would double stack them?!

[hardy brook]

Plain deck is just a standard 52 card deck with no additional rules

[cerulean herald]

that sounds like insane difficulty! AYOOOOOO max dark souls boss level Deck XD

[hardy brook]

I'll be surprised if anyone does extreme deck + Gold

[exotic dagger]

You’d need some god tier luck

[cerulean herald]

you'll probably think of em as youre working on other card ahaha, or just randomly while eating one day or watchign a cool show XD

[hardy brook]

Alright, if anyone wants to try it, #1210976027036352582

[cerulean herald]

yeah this sounds CRAZY lmao! You would need a god seed and EVEN THEN! I'm down for the challenge though 😈

I'll dl it and give it a go later today!

[hardy brook]

👍

[cerulean herald]

wait so how would plain plus extreme work/

[hardy brook]

It's just that you can choose one or the other in the deck list

[cerulean herald]

52 plain cards but with only 1 hand and 1 discard? isnt that the same as extrme deck?

[hardy brook]

That is the extreme deck

[pastel wolf]

Yeah true, some of them need idea reworks too lol

[cerulean herald]

ohh wait so how does plain + extreme work? or is that like the same thing?

[hardy brook]

^

[cerulean herald]

also whats the easiest way to dl your mod from the github link? usualy with those type of links ill right click and 'save as' the single files I need, but some of your stuff is in folders so that doesnt work

[hardy brook]

Basically, the mods will both be loaded and you can play with one or the other

[old topaz]

these look really sick, just letting you know though for the oda nobunaga joker, when you write vertical japanese text the vowel lengthening dashes (the ー symbols) should be vertical instead of horizontal

[cerulean herald]

and theres not a download button or releases page I saw

[hardy brook]

<Code>, Download Zip

[cerulean herald]

OHHHH I see!

[pastel wolf]

Yeah someone's let me know about that, i just havent gotten around to it

[cerulean herald]

ah there we go! I was looking for that! it wasnt on the linked page, didnt realize I had to go back to the main repo

[hardy brook]

Once I get the Ultimate Card Collection Upload there, i'll put it in Releases

[cerulean herald]

woops wrong thread, ty for the easy link!!! also whats the murphbanana one? XD

[hardy brook]

That's a texture mod

Turns the banana card into a card I made for MurphyObv

[cerulean herald]

thats the nice thing about making these things though I think, you start with one idea but then you might get new ideas that work out even better than what you originally had planned!

its how some of the best mods came to be!

[robust lily]

Still deciding whether or not to colour the outside edges of the cards. My main goal was to make it easier to differentiate between the cards.

[cerulean herald]

OHHH ahaha okay okay

I might have to try that just to see what it is 👀

[pastel wolf]

Still gotta do more art so we'll see how that flows

[cerulean herald]

Do you mean add another color on top of the colors already there?

they look cool as is I think but if you have an example of one with colored edges I could give my opinion!

also is Milck here?

the one who made the QOL mod?

[hardy brook]

Trying to figure out how the heck to add more than one deck in a single mod

[cerulean herald]

I wanna request a keyboard bind for the Run Info button in Milcks QOL mod!

[robust lily]

Something like this.

[cerulean herald]

Now that you gotta ask the other deck mod makers for XD

[cerulean herald]

nah I think it looked better in v1

[robust lily]

Agreed. I'll leave the Tarot cards as they are for now.

[cerulean herald]

before the outlines, at least for that card! leave em without colored edges IMO!

They look dope though!

devil looks really cool and the sun and moon

I like the extra colors and contrast given to em

vs stock tarot cards

OHHH Tower is sick too!

For World I think adding a bit more green or brown to the card could POTENTIALLY look pretty cool? MAYBE, not sure how itd turn out vs how it is now.

Just a suggestion! 😉

Maybe adding some extra color to some of the more OP or cool looking tarot cards would be cool 🙂

[robust lily]

Currently, I've only modified the appearance of the Hanged Man. I turned his hair into a crown.

For the most part I like the look of the artwork

[cerulean herald]

Also this seems pretty easy to add, only requires 1 line to be added to the lua I think but I dont know what the code for "run info" is. Anyone think they can help?

Like I just need the code for "run info" then I can bind it to a key in this file

is there documentation for that in the modloader?

[cerulean herald]

Yeah i feel that! I agree! I was thinking like, perhaps just filling in the color for one or two parts? Like where the wood branches are going across her body maybe. Then again, idk if that would change the art too much

Do whatever you feel is best ofc, just a little suggestion, if it doesn't fit then fuggedaboutidddd ;]

[hardy brook]

alright, no clue what the problem is

How do I add more than one deck?

[pastel wolf]

Dunno sorry

I havent done any decks

[robust lily]

oh wow can't say the c word

[hardy brook]

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-again-rly-really-gif-24837012

[robust lily]

so cucked is okay

[hardy brook]

I'm not even using it in the way the word is

It's literally an acronym

Just happened to be a poor acronym, but it's a reference to another mod I did on another game with the same acronym

Anyways, no clue what's wrong with the code

I'll post the code here in case someone can help check what's wrong

[robust lily]

I haven't played with Lua since the early PSP days, so I'm completely lost

I think CUCC would be better though

[hardy brook]

Yeah but then it ain't a reference

Because it's a reference to another mod I made: "Crimson's Ultimate Color Kaboodle" from FighterZ

[robust lily]

I think people will still get it

[hardy brook]

I mean if you're THAT concerned about the acronym then the mod ID can be Kollection

[robust lily]

I don't care, it's your choice what you call it

[hardy brook]

Though it's literally ONE person complaining about something that will NEVER be seen by the average person

lol

I'll take a look more

[clever rampart]

how can i make a deck that gives no discards and 7 hands

[hardy brook]

When you put the effect in, you put {hands = +3, discards = -3}

when initializing the deck

[pastel wolf]

Burgler deck

[cerulean herald]

can someone tell me where I went wrong?! I think I was so close to adding this button to the mod!

This is what I added to add a "run info" button

I found this stuff from the luas in the games exe

[hardy brook]

I DID IT

[cerulean herald]

and this is the error I got

[cerulean herald]

nah keep this in I love this XD

very based and pogchamp indeed IMO

[hardy brook]

Oh I'm keeping it lol

[cerulean herald]

then after tell me what I did wrong since you got ur thing working pls 🙏🏼 😆

WHERED IT ALL GO WRONG

NVM I THINK I GOT IT

[hardy brook]

I never worked with buttons

So i have no clue

oh cool

[cerulean herald]

I was using run_info instead of run_info_buttons

in one part

lmao yeah me either, I dont mod really lmao

I'm just a techie kinda lmao

been modding my consoles since I was a kid and whatnot for the free game backups kekek

but okay think I got it lemme try to run it

also u got both decks working now @hardy brook ?

AYOOO DAS HUGE

POG

[hardy brook]

Yup, I had to make different functions for each but load the sprites in on one

[lean dune]

ayo my suits api thingy actually kinda works

[hardy brook]

Suits API?

[lean dune]

I'm adding adding suits into steamodded

also ranks if I can figure that part out

[hardy brook]

oh cool, that'll be helpful for me making Hanafuda, Uno, and K6T

[modern zodiac]

Does anyone know how to add loc_vars to custom jokers, using the 0.7 loader?

[jovial escarp]

to all the texture pack makers: please use LCh for picking your colors

it's so much easier to match up the perceived brightness and saturation of a color using something like this and helps you avoid ugly color combinations

[hardy brook]

what?

that's a bunch of pink

[jovial escarp]

those are the colors that cannot be displayed on the screen

since the color space is based on how human eyes work

and not how screens work

[clever rampart]

can i add this to my other effect of having only 2s

[hardy brook]

You put it in when initializing the deck

I think you could use your other effect

local ExtremeDeck = SMODS.Deck:new("Extreme Deck", "ch_Extreme", {ExtremeEffect = true, hands = -3, discards = -2}, {x = 1, y = 5}, loc_def)

That's how I made the extreme deck

[jovial escarp]

if you're generating a pallete, like for different suits, and you want to maintain a similar perceived brightness of color and space in the hue space, this makes it a lot easier to make the colors you pick look nice

like how hearts and diamonds have a brighter perceived color than spades or clubs in both the standard deck textures and the high contrast ones

[clever rampart]

I am lost on how to do this

[cerulean herald]

dammit im so close to this button combo

but it keeps giving me this error goddamn it

ELP PLS SUM1 ELP ME IM DROWNIN

[jovial escarp]

objectively the best rainbow

[cerulean herald]

heres the lua code:

it keeps saying its failing to index that damn 'run_info_button' but in UI_definition.lua its clearly there as the ID for run_info!

WHY IS MILCK NOT HERE ON THIS DISCORD 😭

[clever rampart]

how tho

[hardy brook]

look at this

see where it says hands = -3 and discards = -2

put +3 for each

[cerulean herald]

also where do I enable crash reports? couldn't find it in game setting and I tried to enable it in main.lua and then repack the exe but it didnt seem to enable them

oh shit maybe I can ask an AI what im doing wrong

[clever rampart]

i understand that, do i need to add anyhing else to code

[quiet dirge]

milck improved his qol too much, now he can't turn balatro off until he dies

[cerulean herald]

XD I'm trying to add a small "run info" button to his mod! I think I did like almost all of the work already, but there's like 1 part thats missing or not working! If you know how to contact him please show him my last messages! 🙏🏼

[cerulean herald]

I just wanted to have a run info button on my kb too 😭 I was gonna request it but he isnt here on the server!

So I implemented it but keep getting this 1 friggin error message about "local run_info_button not found"!

[pale pivot]

Hi, I’m running Balatro through proton on my steam deck. Should I run the steammodded or balamod Balatro mod loaders? The balamod one seems more specific but not sure if I’ll be limited to which mods I can run based off my loader.

[cerulean herald]

Cant u use both? I think steammodded is more widely in use at the moment though

That might change in the future or they might both combine, but at least for now if you can only choose one steammodded is probably the one to go with

go with both if ya can!

Looking at both of them they both modify the exe of the game, so it's possible you could use both and have them not interfere. I think they add differernt files to the games exe

but you'd have to test to confirm, it's possible they might conflict if they modify they same files. I just took a quick glance at the balamod exe and compared it to what steammodded did to my games exe

GTFO

lmfao

to anyone who didnt see what I'm replying to that was a spam message XD

it was gone in like 5 seconds tho lmao

@tacit mountain What do you think tho steamo? Can they both be run together?

I just added balamod to an exe with steammodder on it

gonna see how it runs now or how it affected the executable

hmm all the luas seem the same

at least in name

contents were likely modified though

[tacit mountain]

The injector of Steamodded is really basic, as long as the LUA files from the core/loader/debug are loaded and that the init function is added to the game init function it game.lua it will work

The injector don't do anything oustide of that

[cerulean herald]

its mainly in main.lua right?

[tacit mountain]

main.lua mainly yeah, and one line in game.lua

[jovial notch]

can someone teach me how to mod please idk how :(

[cerulean herald]

yeah it didn't seem like too much was modified so as long as Balamod doesn't modify any of the same lines in main.lua or that one in game.lua, i assume both should work? @stable crag if you can confirm thatd be dope too!

this seems to be the main difference when using both balamod and steammodded together so far LOL

[quiet dirge]

I don't know github etiquette but you could probably try submitting an issue or pull request? The readme says "pull requests are welcome"

[cerulean herald]

I'll need to try a balamod mod as well, which mods are made for that loader?

[cerulean herald]

Yeah I figured I could submit an issue but thought maybe I could do it myself with the documentation, which I Was able to find in the games exe. Never made a pull request before tho, not a bad idea! Then they could modify my almost working code I'm assuming yeah?

Or at least see what I did?

[quiet dirge]

Honestly not sure but I think so

[cerulean herald]

Okay steammodded mods all still work with balamod installed

so yeah just inject both! they should both work @pale pivot

[finite zealot]

when I try and run the cmd file with Balamod I get this error

[cerulean herald]

I got that too

I had to open a command prompt in that folder

as admin

[finite zealot]

ah

[cerulean herald]

and run balamod.exe -a -b <path to the game here>

then it injected perfectly

[grand geode]

definitely unsupported but hell yeah

[finite zealot]

how do I open cmd in that folder again?

[cerulean herald]

Thanks for the idea! I'll give that a shot later today. If I'm lucky maybe theyll stumble upon my post!

[cerulean herald]

so I have a tool that adds a context menu entry so anytime I right click in a folder, I can access both command prompt elevated and powershell elevated directly from that folder

but typically if you hold shift and right click on an empty space in a folder you can bring up powershell in the context menu

I think theres a way to change that to command prompt

in windows settings

[finite zealot]

does powershell work as well? or does it need to command prompt specfically?

[cerulean herald]

yeah just type in "replace command prompt" when you press the windows button

[grand geode]

(you'd also need to tinker with registries but yeah)

[cerulean herald]

itll show up in control panel

[jovial escarp]

when i use windows i use windows terminal

[grand geode]

at least, i had to

[jovial escarp]

either for 10 or for 11

you can set the default shell there to be powershell

[grand geode]

command prompt

[cerulean herald]

oh yeah this is different

[jovial escarp]

or you can set it to bash if you have wsl (don't, wsl sucks)

[cerulean herald]

there used to be a way to change it without registry but i think it got changed in win10 huh

[finite zealot]

ah, well. What's the tool you use called?

[cerulean herald]

powershell might work

but command prompt def does

uhh let me find out hold up

I installed it a long time ago

the other option is also to open command prompot

[finite zealot]

👍🏻

[cerulean herald]

make sure it has admin

[jovial escarp]

unless it's like insanely specific to the ms dos shell powershell should work fine

[cerulean herald]

and then type cd:/ and paste the directory here

[finite zealot]

I can wait

[stable crag]

wtf is that 😭

[cerulean herald]

so CD C:\Steam (or wherever your balatro exe is)

for example

[finite zealot]

ok, got admin cmd in the folder

[cerulean herald]

then just balamod.exe -a -b <path to game here again>

[stable crag]

idk how the inject functions will handle that case

no need to -b

[cerulean herald]

I wasnt sure either XD whats a balamod mod I can test?

[cerulean herald]

it wasnt working for both of us without -b

kept giving error saying it couldnt find balatro.exe

maybe bc it's not in my main c drive

[stable crag]

it's fixen on 0.1.9 i can give you an exe if you want

[cerulean herald]

lemme give it a shot!

[cerulean herald]

also yes please! thatd make things easier for @finite zealot

[finite zealot]

yes please, thank you

[stable crag]

PLEASE NOTE IT'S A TEST VERSION (very unstable)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1213838204491399218/1213922738734108732/balamod.exe?ex=65f73ca6&is=65e4c7a6&hm=408c5183d72edf165da798745a6de9e83afb7cf1acc623be181fade9998502b7&

you'll need this med because i dint cleaned my mess https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1196594105527046284/1210718773573849088/Dev_tools.zip?ex=65f4cf39&is=65e25a39&hm=f12eeba95c1f2c9df142d267d043ab0ecce6e748c56a46272a42dbd85f759388&

[finite zealot]

Where does this go?

[stable crag]

it's a preview version of 0.1.9 so it could be unstable

[stable crag]

%appdata%/Balatro for the zip

and anf folder for the regular .exe

[cerulean herald]

where does the counter show up btw?

[stable crag]

start a game

in the top right corner

[cerulean herald]

hmm

[stable crag]

a new game*

[cerulean herald]

dont see it in a continued game

ahh

[finite zealot]

anf folder?

[stable crag]

any*

[finite zealot]

so just anywhere, or anywhere in balatro's folders? i.e it's steamcommon folder or somewhere similar

[cerulean herald]

for the zip? which zip?

[stable crag]

you can start the exe anywhere

[cerulean herald]

I thought it was just balamod.exe and oneclick.cmd

[finite zealot]

this one

[stable crag]

should works event in another drive

[cerulean herald]

ohh got it

[finite zealot]

done.

ty for the tech support

[stable crag]

game will crash if you don't have dev tools for this exe

[unborn egret]

the injector window just closes almost instantly is there any other way to do it?

[cerulean herald]

ahhh. didnt crash for me for some reason, but the mod wasnt working either

[stable crag]

np, it will be 100$ sir

[cerulean herald]

IT WOKRS

I SEE DEV TOOLS

i also see FPS

[finite zealot]

Perish.

[cerulean herald]

but no speedrun counter

hmmm

[stable crag]

you need to start it from command line balamod.exe -a

[finite zealot]

I will not pay you a single cent

[stable crag]

it appears in your mod list ?

[cerulean herald]

no speedrun counter but I see FPS counter and dev tools

nope not showing up there either! it just goes in mods folder in appdata/balatro yeah?

maybe another mod would work?

[stable crag]

/mods

[cerulean herald]

cause everything else does

[cerulean herald]

yeah thats the one

[stable crag]

my bad

[cerulean herald]

AppData\Roaming\Balatro\Mods

[stable crag]

im really confused

[cerulean herald]

AppData\Roaming\Balatro\Mods\speerun_counter.lua

[stable crag]

you have stemodded and balamod at the same time ?

[cerulean herald]

its in there and the dev tools works but the speedrun counter not showing up yeah

and yeah both of em installed/injected

[unborn egret]

what do you mean by this, this is for the "Drag and Drop your "Balatro.exe" to the executable" step right?

[grand geode]

steamodded is capital Mods

[cerulean herald]

thats for steammodded

[grand geode]

balamod is lowercase

[stable crag]

maybe devtools works because of the apis folder

[cerulean herald]

for balamod you use different steps to install

[cerulean herald]

hmmm... any other example mods I can test?

[stable crag]

you can use whatevercase you want it should works

[grand geode]

thonk

[stable crag]

if it doesn't work it's because the injector don't like what happens

[cerulean herald]

okay lemme see what happs

whats it supposed to do? say gay? XD

[stable crag]

replace straight with gay xd

not my idea

[cerulean herald]

i love it

thats the big brain mods IM HERE FOR

aw sadge

nah didnt work

must be some sort of conflict

[stable crag]

gay mod is the most used mod for balamod i'm not even joking 😭

[finite zealot]

do we have any dedicated mods for balamod yet?

[cerulean herald]

just to make sure the path is \AppData\Roaming\Balatro\Mods\mod.lua yeah?

[cerulean herald]

UNDERSTANDABLY SO

I'll be adding it asap

and using it in all my runs

[stable crag]

some on the balamod server, but i'll remove all of them from the discord and use the "marketplace" on the next version

[cerulean herald]

balamod is newer too so it makes sense, i'm excited to see lots of mods be made for it

[finite zealot]

is there a way i can get an invite to the server?...Wait, checking github.

[stable crag]

i created balamod on balatro demo 0.9.0 ;-;

it was just hidden in the depths of github

[cerulean herald]

also do you still need help with installing balamod? you dont drag and drop thats for the steammodded loader

[cerulean herald]

AHHHHH! Yeah I think both modloaders just got officially dropped on github like very recently yeah?

[stable crag]

@unborn egret open an explorer where you downloaded balamod.exe, then click en the path at the top ef the explorer and type cmd, then once the cmd opens type balamod.exe -a

[cerulean herald]

I wouldve loved to have it way back then and i'm sure lots of others wouldve too! But prolly took time to get it polished and working right I'm assuming

[stable crag]

nope balamod always been public i just kwen today that modding was accepted in this server

[cerulean herald]

OHHHH ahaha

I tried looking on google for mods for balatro like last week!

[unborn egret]

i did that but this was the response "'balamod.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file." not really sure if it worked then

[cerulean herald]

couldnt find anything until just like 2 days ago!

Maybe bc thats when modding became widely discussed on here so the search result was being pushed up higher?

[stable crag]

dowload this one https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1213838204491399218/1213922738734108732/balamod.exe?ex=65f73ca6&is=65e4c7a6&hm=408c5183d72edf165da798745a6de9e83afb7cf1acc623be181fade9998502b7&

[cerulean herald]

I told people on reddit about the mods and people on Steam and only the people from the Discord seemed to know mods were available already in early stages!

[cerulean herald]

yeah that balamod.exe should fix that, it did for @finite zealot

[stable crag]

balamod exist for more than 2 monts now

[cerulean herald]

share the link! its on google if you search "balatro discord"!

[cerulean herald]

DAS CRAZY

Well im glad it's now out of the github depths and making the rounds!

Some really cool mods are coming out of all this 😄

[stable crag]

and only 3 people used in it balatro demo

[cerulean herald]

ahaha well to be fair there were way less users back then and the reddit/discord was still new!

now the game has gotten way more publicity and way more players!

so everyone wants mods >:D

[stable crag]

someone on the balamod discord is making this mod
i clearly have the best modders community

[cerulean herald]

MY MAYNE

I was really hoping someone would make that one!

Glad you saw the post too 😄

[stable crag]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1185706706752245760/1213890238590750830/LNqAvPy.mp4?ex=65f71e61&is=65e4a961&hm=399fbdedee3085e94f8064e76ca54b4ceb70f2281f5b3470999f4b8ac8cc640a&

[cerulean herald]

lots of people over there are super stoked about mods being added to the game! Nobody knew these loaders were around except yall over here 😭

[stable crag]

🤌

[cerulean herald]

AW HELLL YEAHHH BRUDDDER!!!!!

ITS TIMEEEEE!

IF THERES ONLY ONE MOD I CAN RUN ITS GONNA BE SLUTTY JOKER BABY

and I NEED THAT 18+ PATCH TOO

XD

[robust lily]

Jokers Gone Wild

[pale pivot]

Can someone help me install Balamod? On steam deck running balatro with proton. I downloaded the latest release, opened the downloads folder, opened Konsole, typed balamod.exe -a and hit Enter, but I get this message: bash: balamod.exe: command not found

[cerulean herald]

THIS SHOULD BE THE NAME 💯

[stable crag]

someone made an api for creating custom consumable card and someone is making an api to load card assets externally instade of replacing the whole card atlos png

so it sounds good for making good mods on balamod

[cerulean herald]

you have to open it from that directory that balamod.exe is in

[robust lily]

If you're on Linux, just use the linux version

[cerulean herald]

also you need the updated balamod.exe v0.19 or youll get an error about not having balatro.exe in the directory

[pale pivot]

Gotcha unfortunately I prefer the proton version since I can run reshade on games that way.

[cerulean herald]

here, just click this ^ @pale pivot

[robust lily]

Balamod doesn't replace the game executable

[cerulean herald]

look up how to change directory in Konsole/Bash for the steam deck, should be pretty easy

[stable crag]

For linux users (giga chads)

PLEASE NOTE IT'S A TEST VERSION (very unstable)

chmod +x ./balatro
./balatro -a

[cerulean herald]

also I think reshade supports linux too yeah?

if you can run it natively you might as well!

[pale pivot]

Sadly the decky plugin only lets you do one reshade effect (and not even most of them) at a time.

[cerulean herald]

what about without the decky plugin? isnt there a way to install it just to like the linux file? 🧐

[exotic dagger]

nice

[cerulean herald]

thats dope!

I saw some of the balamod features, it seems really cool

[pale pivot]

Hmm not to my knowledge. Reshade is a windows program unless you use this particular proton enabled script on the windows version of a game on steam deck

[cerulean herald]

awww YEAHHH CUSTOM SLUTTY SPECTRAL SOUL CARD!!!

[pale pivot]

Super appreciate everyone's help but honestly this is all a little confusing. Might wait for an easier mods solution down the road and just play vanilla till then :/

[cerulean herald]

I need a whole slutty pack now XD

[stable crag]

ingame injection is the main feature for modders tbh, you can change the game as you what, in a safe way and revert changes without changing the original game code

[cerulean herald]

I can help if you'd like, just pm me to avoid the clutter

shouldnt be too hard, it's just 1 step thats a bit tricky thats it lol

once you move directories its pretty easy @pale pivot

[stable crag]

have you tried the file i sent ?

because im on linux and run the game with proton and it works

[cerulean herald]

Think they just got tired and gave up XD oh welp

its not that hard esp when you have help but some people don't wanna do more than 1 step sadly 😢

like thats how you learn! by figuring out what went wrong and how to fix it!

😭

[stable crag]

people who contributed on balamod would make a graphical installer so it won't be a problem anymore

also the UI versoin for my repo system is finished soon ™️ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1185706706752245760/1213775017968672778/bandicam_2024-03-03_17-07-49-408.mp4?ex=65f6b313&is=65e43e13&hm=3a8bf2b833c922bf70cb6b40bee9d566c361562edb338e48a247fcc2054b4370&

[cerulean herald]

There ya go 🙂 That'll be the most accessible and easy way forsure, or even just sharing a copy of the games exe (if thats allowed? Not sure though if thats cool with the devs rules). Steam workshop should make things a LOT easier for tons of people as well when thats implemented

But I still hate to see people give up 😭 Like it's small problems like that that you google how to fix, that's how you build up your tech knowledge and learn how to do all this stuff super easy in the future (and more)!

[cosmic shell]

the game is contained in the exe in it's entirety so distributing it isn't an option

[cerulean herald]

But I get a lot of people just aint into that either

[stable crag]

i don't think i could publish mods on the workshop sadly :/

[cerulean herald]

OHHH yeah fair point ahaha

[pale pivot]

I'll give it another go! Just PMd you @cerulean herald ty folks for helping

[cerulean herald]

well you still need the dlls to run it though yknow? but yeah its too much to share if most of everything is in the exe XD

[cerulean herald]

YOOO THEYRE BACK!!!

alright I gotcha @pale pivot 😄

Lets getter dun

[cerulean herald]

how come? 🥹

[cerulean herald]

cant everyone publish stuff on workshop to subscribe too or nah?

[stable crag]

i don't think but everyone can publish on my repo system so it's oki

[clever rampart]

i need like a better tutorial on how to make a deck

[stable crag]

for what loader ?

[clever rampart]

steamodded

[stable crag]

i don't really know steamodded api, you should search for mods as an example on github

[clever rampart]

i try and i get dumb trying to understnad them

[strong swift]

yeah you kinda need some coding knowledge

[ancient junco]

how could you change the sprite of a custom deck?

[cerulean herald]

I think @hardy brook Is making one, though they're working on their own deck rn too so no guarantees as to whether they'll have time for a tutorial haha!

[hardy brook]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1209596139922259968

[cerulean herald]

decompile the exe and check out the luas for examples too of the deck stuff

[cerulean herald]

^

[hardy brook]

"Decompile"

[cerulean herald]

extract lmfao

you know what I meant crimson

[hardy brook]

it's just opening it in 7zip and extract

[cerulean herald]

let me sound smart here okay

🤣

[lapis jay]

has anyone made of or thought of a mod where the remaining card count is just on screen on the side above the deck instead of needing to mouse over the deck ?

[cerulean herald]

well in linux it literally is called decompile I think

the command in terminal is "decompile" to be fair ahaha

[pastel wolf]

Pretty sure there already is a remaining card count isnt there?

[cerulean herald]

aww I see. whats the requirements to post mods on workshop? But yeah as long as you have a repo system thats pretty sweet and easy 😉

[pastel wolf]

Theres a x/52

[lapis jay]

u need to mouse over the deck for what i asked for being the exact cards remaining like how many kings or 10s n such

and of what suits

[pastel wolf]

Oh you mean like that

[lapis jay]

yeh i find it just annoying to have to mouse over the deck all the time to calculate the probability of drawing certain stuff

and theres like space on the right side of the screen that to my knowledge during play never gets used really

[cerulean herald]

I thought they meant just the card count too like 40/52 haha

[winter kayak]

secret hand idea - Spectrum for playing a 5-card hand where all cards have different enhancements

how would i go about implementing this

[lapis jay]

yeh nah thats right under the deck

[cerulean herald]

Milck made a mod that adds keyboard shortcuts to the game, maybe there could be a keyboard shortcut for previewing whats left in the deck (like when you hover over it)?

if not I think an overlay shortcut would have to be made

that shows it all the time (maybe with a button to toggle on and off)

[lapis jay]

What I'm talking about is this ( sorry for camera pic balatro for some reason didn't wanna let me use win - shift - s to screen shot it)

being here and smaller

like arranged upward instead of across

[cerulean herald]

No worries, I suggest Lightshot btw for screenshots, works in everything and has more features; its super easy, just makes prtscn button on your keyboard take a screenshot

you can make it a screenshot of the whole screen, one window, or select the area you wanna screenshot with ur mouse after pressing prtscn

then u can copy it to the clipboard so you can paste it, share it directly on twitter, imgur or wherever else, or save it to a folder instantly (or u can choose where it gets saved to if u want)

[cerulean herald]

yeah I see what you mean now. I think either of the solutions I mentioned above should work, a mod dev would just have to make it

Idk if theres a request feature yet, but I THINK if you go here https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1210670452716994600 you can request/suggest a mod to be made

[lapis jay]

yeh i wasnt sure which chat to ask in

[cerulean herald]

actually here: https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1210670452716994600

[little wharf]

And if you don't want to download external programs, you can simply press PrtSc on any Windows machine and it will take a screenshot. The only difference is that you have to open mspaint (or any photo editing software) and physically paste and save the screenshot. Alt-PrtSc will do just the active window.

[lapis jay]

thanks

i always just used windows key shift s

balatros the first time ive encountered it not working

no clue why but

thanks for the alternative

[undone wraith]

Hi is there a how to install somewhere? I just tried searching and couldn't find it.

[little wharf]

No worries, Lightshot and similar programs are effectively just a manager that will handle the paste and save for you.

[little wharf]

I think it has something to do with the way the Love engine handles its resolution. It doesn't properly detect my screen resolution (4K) and it also doesn't seem to properly run in Borderless Window mode.

[cerulean herald]

No problem! I used to use the same shortcut you do, but Lightshot really is very nice and has a lot of little features that are super useful. Very lightweight program too, super unintensive and I think open source

[cerulean herald]

Yeah there ya go, hopefully someone makes it soon! 😄

[cerulean herald]

I can help, on windows yeah? Steammodded?

[undone wraith]

Yup thats the one.

[cerulean herald]

A lot of games have issues with native windows screenshots in fullscreen mode too, I think its due to the Window Manager and having Fullscreeen Optimizations Enabled

[undone wraith]

Probably a stupid question but does this effect unlocks and things also?

[cerulean herald]

It keeps latency low, but it can cause weird issues with stuff like that. Some games also fully take control of the KB for shortcuts, so stuff like win shift S doesnt work as well in fullscreen mode, but does in Windowed or Borderless mode

[little wharf]

I've never experienced this behavior that I can remember, but I'll take your word for it as something I have simply not remembered.

I might always use borderless window when available, and not exclusive fullscreen.

[undone wraith]

I just noticed the install guide in steammodded but its telling me it has a trojan, is that just the file type?

[clever rampart]

okay now i want my deck to make each suit be specific ranks

[pastel wolf]

Yes

Its cuz it injects i think so windows has a hissy fit

[undone wraith]

Thanks I think it installed, it just closed the window like right away? Not too sure if I'm doing it right

[pastel wolf]

It should do a few things and then say press any key to continue

[undone wraith]

hmm yeah that didn't show up for me

[pastel wolf]

I had to add an exclusion for it, or just turn off my real time protection for a bit to install it

[undone wraith]

Yeah I did that, I will add an exclusion and give that a go

[pastel wolf]

Then you just drag the balatro exe ontop of it

[undone wraith]

I've added it to the exclusions list but still can't get it to work

and I turned off real time protection

[clever rampart]

alright what did i do wrong here

[tired mirage]

not an expert but i dont think there should be a comma at the end of this line

idk if thats enough to break it

[grand geode]

nah that's normal

[tired mirage]

so sorry so sorry

[hardy brook]

Could i do something like {C:HexNumber} for example?

[clever rampart]

well, can someone tell me what i did wrong, i followed the guide

[carmine flare]

what guide

[carmine flare]

what guide, what version of the modloader

[strong swift]

plain deck kinda seems a bit flashy

[hardy brook]

Because I used a different card back

[strong swift]

ah

[hardy brook]

ironically, one of my own from a product I had

[clever rampart]

the guide thats in steamodded

[hardy brook]

I don't think i sell it anymore, nor would i give the link here per rules

[carmine flare]

pretty sure some of the examples don't work anymore. id look for a deck someone is actively working on for reference

[clever rampart]

give an example?

[carmine flare]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1209506514763522108

many in here

[hexed surge]

too much vouchers

[turbid aspen]

How did you achieve this?

[magic sandal]

Either alot of double tags into voucher tags or going far into endless

[clever rampart]

how do i fix this

bruhhhh

i fixed it

[alpine elk]

[Question] I wrote some codes and it worked when I put them in Game:start _run, but how to make them work when I put my code in a MOD file? Since the MOD will be injected when Balatro starts, but this time the params related to Game:start _run is all nil…

[alpine elk]

Do I need to rewrite Game:start_run in Mod file to make it be modified? Can this operation could override the origin Game:start_run?

[cerulean herald]

Still need help adding the modloader to the exe?

[undone wraith]

Yeah if possible. I couldn't work it out.

[clever rampart]

so i want to add an additional effect that makes card ranks above 5 become 5s (if possible)

[cerulean herald]

Yeah np, send me a PM so we can avoid clutter. We've already helped out a few people today

[undone wraith]

Awesome, just sent you a message

[wanton rapids]

you'd probably want to modify the deck's starting contents

[clever rampart]

how'd i do that

[wanton rapids]

that is a good question

[clever rampart]

trying to look at other peoples ones, im hoping that i can have both things

[wanton rapids]

oh you could probably just modify JamesEffect

[clever rampart]

in what way tho

[little wharf]

check out the source code for the deck that has no face cards, it does a 'for' loop thru the whole deck and modifies cards based on specific conditions, you should be able to use/learn from this general idea to change a card based on conditions

similarly if you want to learn how to change a card after you've met said conditions, check any other function in the game that changes a card's rank

[clever rampart]

which game file has the source code for it

[little wharf]

use 7z to extract the .exe file

[clever rampart]

yes i know that

[little wharf]

find a text editor that lets you open folders and search in all files

sublime text is a good one for instance

[clever rampart]

idek what im like, looking for

[wanton rapids]

searching for "Abandoned Deck" would probably be a good place to start

another question, what's the way to start a run with a specific set of jokers / tarots

i could probably create a challenge but i'm wondering if there's an easier way

[little wharf]

Have you checked the way that Zodiac deck adds Voucher? I imagine you could do the same with Joker / Tarot?

[clever rampart]

change of plan, i want ranks above 5 to become a random rank equal to or below 5

[silk viper]

does anyone know where in the game files I can modify the number of levels Black Hole upgrades?

[clever rampart]

what colors are able to be used in the C:color thing

[cerulean herald]

also I forgot to mention the game should be working fine in 4k even in borderless. I'm on 1440p and I could test 4k and shouldnt be an issue. What does the window look like for u? Maybe try borderless gaming https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming to fix ur issue too, that often fixes issues with borderless games esp in ultrawide resolutions

even in non ultrawide it usually fixes any weird problems or drawbacks

like having vsync always enabled in borderless so u get more input latency

[little wharf]

It just doesn't recognize 3840x2160 as being the resolution, it insists that it is 4096x2160, but it isn't.

[cerulean herald]

download the newest versions here https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases

[little wharf]

I'm not going to download a third-party software, but thanks for the suggestion.

[cerulean herald]

the one on the releases tab is outdated for some reason on the main link

[cerulean herald]

sure np. Its very well known in the gaming community, just a suggestion

[cerulean herald]

are you using a custom resolution?

[little wharf]

This is the only game I've ever had that experience with, I was more pointing it out than looking for a solution.

[cerulean herald]

also windows 10 or 11 and amd or nvidia?

[little wharf]

I have 350 games in my Steam library and have been PC gaming for 30+ years and it's just not a standard behavior.

I am using Nvidia, 4070 super, running regular 4K resolution.

[cerulean herald]

I mean I've seen a lot of games have issues with borderless tbh, even with standard resolutions that should be supported. I agree it shouldnt be a problem but I have seen similar stuff pop up before in other games which is why i suggested it

OH

you have a 4096x2160 resolution there too

[little wharf]

because my monitor supports that resolution, yes

[cerulean herald]

Is that ur max resolution? and is it not a custom res?

THATS WHY

game should be listing 3840 i agree

but some games only detect some resolutions

[little wharf]

when u go to video options tho

you have only option for 4096

[cerulean herald]

if you add it as a custom resolution in nvidia control panel it might show up

there's probably a way to add ur resolution in the game settings file too

or edit the hex in the exe. Again, u might not wanna do that

[little wharf]

Why would you need to add standard 4K to the game settings file though?

[cerulean herald]

but it is a fix until the dev patches that

[little wharf]

it recognizes the resolution no problem

[cerulean herald]

borderless mode I think its trying to go max resolution max aspect ratio

[little wharf]

so what I'm saying is I haven't run into a game in all my time of playing games, where the borderless window resolution defaults to your max monitor resolution and not your current resolution

[cerulean herald]

fullscreen for game coding reasons has all aspect ratios unlocked, including both 16:9 and 16:10

3840 and 4096

[cerulean herald]

I understand

[little wharf]

and what's even more funny is when you select 4k and apply it, it just switches to 1920x1080 anyway

[cerulean herald]

I personally have, and I agree it shouldnt happen and should be patched

but yeah some games have these issues

which is why tools like borderless gaming were made for

sometimes the devs fix it sometimes they dont

or its an old game

this dev likely will

[cerulean herald]

now thats strange LOL

[little wharf]

It doesn't affect the gameplay other than a slight flicker when you focus on another window and back to the game, the engine seems to scale.

[cerulean herald]

oh wait ur running dual monitor too

some games act funky with dual monitor

[little wharf]

So even at 1920x1080, it still is 4k resolution.

It -says- 1920x1080 but it's displaying in 3840x2160.

[cerulean herald]

try using only one monitor too, that likely would fix the issue as well until dev patches it (if ur interested in that or anyone else is who has the same issue stumbles upon this convo)

[cerulean herald]

very weird. maybe its supersampling

using DSR perhaps? but I dont think you have that enabled

or maybe its just reporting the wrong res in the settings menu

[little wharf]

I have turned off scaling in nvidia options, tried different scaling options, tried compatbility settings, tried overriding, scaling by window, scaling by application, etc.

[cerulean herald]

but is outputting native 4k

[little wharf]

It actually might be a display bug in the resolution itself

[cerulean herald]

try single monitor perhaps if you feel inclined, I think that could be a cause for this issue

not a perma fix ofc but at least u can diagnose the cause

[cerulean herald]

In the hex code?

Yeah it could be tbh

[little wharf]

I could try real quick just to see

IF the engine is using some type of scaling, it's not out of the question though maybe unlikely, that when it scales to 4K, it's just integer scaling 1920x1080, so it shows to me what the source resolution is and not what the actual display resolution is

[cerulean herald]

yeah that would make sense 💯

just 2x scaling

1.5x in my case at 1440p. I'm gonna poke around game settings/exe for resolotions, think i saw them earlier when I Was working on something else

maybe the hex is wrong or the settings file is associating that res with another res too. but the dual monitor could also be the thing so its worth a shot too I think

[little wharf]

I disabled the second monitor just for testing, maybe a Windows restart is required to conduct a full proper test, but it doesn't seem to affect the resolution choices

Or the behavior for that matter

[cerulean herald]

so its only displaying on monitor 1 yeah the 4k?

Yeah that might not be it then, which at least can be ruled out. Might wanna set nvidia scaling stuff back to default tho too just to make sure that changing that isnt blocking the res showing up there now, but ehhh I doubt thats it too

it'd just be ruling one thing out if anything which it very likely isnt

[little wharf]

yea I tried setting to no scaling at all, integer scaling, full screen scaling, also compatbility options in Win10 for high dpi settings, tried all options in both categories

the only thing I managed to get it to do was run in borderless 4K, while it said it was in 4096

so eventually I got it to run borderless 3840x2160, actually... but while it still shows 4096x2160 in the game's resolution, making it even more confusing

Now if you look in globals.lua and look under GRAPHICS you have the texture_scaling option in the game

[cerulean herald]

oh this would kinda make sense at least! if the games max aspect ratio is 16:9 (like lots of games are), then even when you select 4096x2160, itll just use 3840 instead

for 16:9 aspect ratio. Does it show any black bars at all?

and is ur monitor running at 3840 currently or 4096 in windows?

[little wharf]

yes but to make this even more confusing, I can get it to actually run 4096x2160 borderless too

[cerulean herald]

LOLOL WUT

[little wharf]

Yes

[cerulean herald]

so maybe it was the monitor? XD

diagnosing what causes these things in a game can be a pain ahaha. but sounds like ur much closer forsure

[little wharf]

look at misc_functions.lua under function GET_DISPLAYINFO

[cerulean herald]

okay lemme see

`function GET_DISPLAYINFO(screenmode, display)
--default the display to the current display, otherwise we need to return all available modes for the selected display
display = display or G.SETTINGS.WINDOW.selcted_display or 1

--default to current mode/'windowed', otherwise return all available options for specified mode
screenmode = screenmode or G.SETTINGS.WINDOW.screenmode or 'Windowed'

--Get a count of the connected displays and iterate through them to update our window setting options accordingly
local display_count = love.window.getDisplayCount()
local res_option = 1 --This is the mode that the fullscreen option will default to for resolution, if we can find it in the list for the current monitor
local realw, realh = love.window.getMode() --the actual render resolution the window is currently using
local current_res_values = {w = realw, h = realh}`

hmmm lemme read

This is the mode that the fullscreen option will default to for resolution, if we can find it in the list for the current monitor

THIS

this makes sense

so monitors have multiple resolution lists

only 1 list shows up in nvidia really or 2

if you use CRU

Custom resolution utility

you can see your monitors resolutions in all the different lists and even add new ones

3840 is likely on ONE list

but not the list Balatro is reading from

which is why it isnt showing up. Try adding it as a custom res in Nvidia Control panel (even though you already have one identical to it)

it likely would show up in Balatro after that

[little wharf]

well, I'm always one for science

well, Nvidia doesn't let you use duplicate resolutions

[cerulean herald]

Usually games will detect custom resolutions from NVCP, its not a guarantee but its pretty reliable

[cerulean herald]

you could make a custom res with 59.94hz refresh rate

so its not a duplicate for example

or even 59hz; esp if you have gsync or freesync you wouldnt notice it since its going to sync the monitors refresh rate to the freesync/gsync range anyways, esp in a game like Balatro, and the range is usually pretty big like 48hz-144hz or the highest refresh rate ur monitor can refresh at

doubt Balatro will ever go below 48hz and cause any tearing XD

esp with borderless mode since vsync is enabled all the time anyways without a tool like borderless gaming or being on windows 11

[little wharf]

tried a few different custom resolution additions/settings, still just the one option

feels like it just wants to pull the highest res possible based on what I was looking at

i think you said something to that effect earlier

When I change my monitor resolution to 1920x1080, it still suggests only 4096x2160 for borderless window.

[cerulean herald]

🥹 well hey at least we ruled that out as a possible fix. and yeah it very well might be doing that esp in borderless windowed mode. its weird, some games in windowed/borderless only want to run in 16:9 resolutions by default, some only want to run in the monitors max resolution. My guess is this game is the latter. Theres very likely a setting/hex code that can be modified in the games exe to replace the 4096x2160 hex code with the 3840x2160 hex code. Thats how a lot of games gain support for weird resolutions, people add those in. Borderless gaming essentially just does that for you on the fly without having to manually edit the hex code in the exe yourself

[cerulean herald]

also yeah thats really weird

so ur monitor is running 1080p in the system but the res in Balatro that it offers still only suggests 4096 x 2160?

[little wharf]

right

[cerulean herald]

heres an example of what I mean with cuphead: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/112kgso/reminder_you_can_force_1610_this_is_how_i_did_it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/widescreengamingforum/comments/166crgx/whats_the_hex_code_for_199/

another example for a weird 19:9 hex code XD people add all sorts of stuff because lots of games only have 16:9 by default. Balatro SHOULD be offering you the 16:9 res if anything and NOT showing the 16:10 ratio!

But hex edits work both ways so you can get it to work with your 16:9 3840aspect ratio even if the game keeps trying to force 4096 in borderless

lemme look through the games exe with hexedit and see if I can find the hex for it

https://www.wsgf.org/article/common-hex-values heres a list of hexes for common resolutions too

39 8E E3 3F should be the hex for 3840x2160

oh wait thats off lmao

lemme fix that

[cerulean herald]

jeez that took me a whi

whille* never been a fan of doing all that hex calculating stuff so I usually just use tools lmfao

39 8E E3 3F

so this is what we want to add in

CD CC CC 3F

this is what we need to replace in the exe

okay found it

and done!

Okay well I can either tell you what to replace in the hex editor

or if you want I can send u the version I just edited myself for u to test and see if it fixes it. I believe what you'll do is the game will select 4096x2160 still, BUT itll actually load up 3840x2160 instead in borderless mode 😉 @little wharf

apparently borderless gaming is on steam too as well btw

https://store.steampowered.com/app/388080/Borderless_Gaming/

Steam

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It's now a paid app on steam but still available for free on github too

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should u ever feel like this might be useful for you (or anyone else here) 😄

[lethal nexus]

I really enjoyed the nostalgia hit from the green/red flashing lines. Anyone able to put that back in with a mod, or is there a way for me to roll back to a version containing it?

[lean dune]

lol

[stable crag]

The game owner needs to create the workshop system and it should configure where the workshop files are installed

[foggy crag]

I feel like a Green Suit would be a great way to create an extra level of difficulty after the gold stake.

Let's say in Diamond stake (new highest difficulty) you start a game with an extra suit of cards (+13 cards, total 65) which creates unnecessary bloat in your deck + has no synergy with existing Jokers.

Also it was always weird to me that we have red, blue, gold and black decks (similar to 4 basic suits) but we have no 5th green suit to fit Green deck.

Also, iirc LocalThunk said it would be cool to have a new super rare Poker hand that contains 5oak with 5 different suits

Personally, I don't know how to appropriately add a new suit to the game without breaking game balance and flow.

[foggy crag]

who's mod is this?

[exotic dagger]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1210728178201526373

not sure what's up with that fake ace tho, didn't even notice that at first

[grand geode]

i love how the developers of both mod loaders are french

[stable crag]

Steamo is french too ?

[white scarab]

I believe so

[stable crag]

🥖

[dapper nacelle]

[late ledge]

the french uprising

[exotic dagger]

better arm myself with croissants

[lean dune]

this is me trying to make a playing card API for the loader - stuff is still hella unstable and I appreciate any testing/feedback/crash reports

[robust lily]

little fun fact, you can just open the Balatro executable as an archive in 7zip

[round ore]

Yup, it's a Love2D app, that's how those work.

[stable crag]

Funfact you can decompile everything with balamod.exe -d

[robust lily]

It's in game finally

Gotta go to school now though, so I'll wrap it up and post it when I get home

[lean dune]

wdym decompile, it's no longer even compiled

like the lua files are just there if you extract the executable

[round ore]

^

[stable crag]

It was luajit before now it's basically decompress

[robust lily]

[lean dune]

can't really call that decompilation

[robust lily]

decompressed

[stable crag]

-d decompress

[lean dune]

Anyway I'd rather just use 7-zip

[round ore]

There's some funny code in globals.lua...

[lean dune]

lol

uhh

Channel rules and such

[round ore]

Oh there's an actual rule of no discussion of porting, damn.

[dusk estuary]

yeah. dev is working on a mobile version as well

[silk viper]

where in the code can you change the multiplier and chip amount for planet cards?

[stable crag]

I know where you can change the number of planet cards bought at once if you want

[lapis jay]

Mobile would be great can't wait till the dev does it

[pale pivot]

Anyone use reshade on Balatro? Was curious what effects/presets folks might use.

[white scarab]

Pretty sure game.lua has all of the parameters for things like planet cards - you can also adjust base hand scores there

[silk viper]

yeah looked all over there, the config for planet cards doesnt tell anything about mults like for jokers

[silk viper]

is this for the base hand scores?

[hushed furnace]

yes, it also has the scaling

[silk viper]

thanks

oh shit, i guess l_chips and l_mult are the cards then

[hushed furnace]

yep

[lapis jay]

How would one create a custom background inplace of the regular one for the game "board"

[robust lily]

The background is generated on the fly, so you would need to edit one of the Lua files.

[lean dune]

why the hell did I break card sorting

[exotic dagger]

i'm more curious how you'd manage to do such a thing

[molten lily]

Hey! I'm a dev at Thunderstore and would like to ask if there was any interest in adding Balatro to Thunderstore? I and a co-worker are looking into it anyways, because I and Mythic at Thunderstore have been playing the game for the past few days non-stop

[vernal urchin]

havent seen mythic in a while damn time flies:3

[vernal urchin]

also while ya here, can ya remove wildfrost from thunderstore, it now got a official steam workshop so i doubt we need a page anymore ^^

[molten lily]

Hmm, I'll ask Mythic to handle this (I'm not managing the website, just a developer )

[molten lily]

Well we have been playing Balatro a lot for the past week, so you might run into him if/when we add it.

[molten lily]

(About looking into it, I'm not familiar with the mod loader being used, but one of our dudes is a wizard with mod loading stuff; so I'll let him handle it )

[wanton rapids]

there's two modloaders currently

[lean dune]

fuck what have i done

i made fake aces that are in between of 5s and aces

[cerulean herald]

There was originally a mod for something similar to this (5 of a kind with all the same suit I believe, called 5 of a flush). It'll be cool if someone adds it back in again and the hand u mentioned as well, 5oak with 5 diff suits

[lean dune]

#1210728178201526373 actually has this, though it's really less rare than flush five when you have six suits

[cerulean herald]

Yes a full mobile port will be super cool. There are ways to play on a decent android device already if you own the game, but it's not the same as a native port ofc in terms of efficiency and whatnot

[lean dune]

like, it's just waiting to be made in a base deck

[cerulean herald]

Ohhh I see what you mean, you meant the dev has to add workshop support first for the game! After that's setup I think you should be able to add workshop mods yourself tho right?

[lapis jay]

Workshop would be amazing for this game ngl

[cerulean herald]

This would be cool and possibly r2modman support too! I think steam workshop might be easiest, but oftentimes thunderstore or r2modman are easier to implement and have more features, like with lethal company for example (throwback game LOL)

[cerulean herald]

Hopefully it'll be coming soon! I think someone said dev mentioned it? Don't quote me though, I might be mistemembering!

[cerulean herald]

Ayo that's dope! And true, you'd have to disable the other 2 new suits in the lua probably while leaving the new hands there for it to be the same rarity. Wonder what's the score for that in this mod, I'll have to check

[tacit mountain]

It's planned by LocalThunk, he already informed me during the Demo. But I don't know when.

It was a plan to have it shortly after 1.0.0 but it might have been delayed a little, the Modloader is there to be temporary and "Kickstart" the modding community. It's already planned to move to an "Official" one made to work with the Workshop.

[spice spear]

oh hell yeah

[tacit mountain]

But like I said, my informations are coming from DM I had with LocalThunk during the Demo, there is a possibility that he changed the plan for this and I wouldn't know.

He read #💻・dev-talk quite a lot so you may ask him there.

[round ore]

This game is FOOKING amazing

and makes me want to learn how to code for games

[lean dune]

playing card api isn't looking bad... I'm just having a weird issue where face cards of new suits are out of order... I guess I'll have to look into how they're actually ordered

[tacit mountain]

If I remember there is a dedicated part for it

Maybe it had some kind of informations that you are not refreshing on your side

[lean dune]

weirdly this isn't a thing on #1210728178201526373 release version

[tacit mountain]

Are you using it when testing card API ?

Maybe it's an issue with the ref conflicting with each other

[lean dune]

no I'm using an adapted version that removes any code I added to the loader in some form

I guess I should concern myself with this getting too big if there are too many ranks involved?

[hexed surge]

this is all vouchers you can get

i think

[lean dune]

32, checks out

[hexed surge]

yep i got all vouchers

lol

im just getting blank voucher

[tacit mountain]

gl with that to find a suitable way to do it

[wispy kestrel]

Had an idea for a joker, but I'm not a modder. Thought I'd drop it in here if someone needs ideas

Man With The Axe:

Aces, jacks, and king of diamonds count as Wild

[cerulean herald]

This makes sense. I figured the modloader wouldn't be around in its current form for long as the game already seemingly has code for mod support I think yeah? It's just not enabled by default? Plus injecting game executables can cause issues for various people with different AV systems, lack of system admin priveldges, etc etc and has its share of security risks depending on if a re-uploader shares a maliciously modified version of the injector on some other website

It's the perfect way to kickstart things but it makes sense that future versions will have easier support for mod installation and loading

[cerulean herald]

😍 is this default vouchers? Or modded ones?

[hexed surge]

this is all vouchers normal not modded

[cerulean herald]

They look default I think, but I haven't seen all the vouchers yet so idk

[cerulean herald]

Damn they look so sharp