crashing every time i hit play button in main menu

[stark wadi]

ive played the game for a bit but suddenly today i open it, hit the play button and it crashes, giving me this message

im no tech wizard, but it makes it sound like the number its using to store my save file as is negative or something and in doing so, completely breaks the game.

does anyone with more knowledge have any idea what this is or how to fix it?

crashing every time i hit play button in main menu

its also not modded at all if thats helps

[marble orchid]

either your save or your game got corripted. I normally use python but Lua is similar and it says that SAVE_GAME is None (or nothing). Can you open your collection? And does it crash when you press „continue“ „new run“ or both?

[stark wadi]

I can't even get to where it says continue or new run

I can look around in the main menu but if I try to play the game past that I crash

[carmine leaf]

I am having the same issue here, my pc crashed mid run and I when I restared the game It would crash every time I press play

[marble orchid]

It seems like the line of the crash in the code (when looking at the source) shows that it couldn't parse/find the version of a save game file. Imma quickly read some more. You could try finding a save game editor and look if you can edit your savegame

And if you really want you could try sending me your save file and i can try loading it.

i am almost 99% sure it has to do with that

[carmine leaf]

I forgot to come back to this but I actually found the solve for it

[marble orchid]

lol 😭

what did you do

i am thinking i've overcomplicated it

[carmine leaf]

you go to your windows search bar and type %appdata% go to roaming then Balatro then the save file thats broken then there should be a savegame.jkr file and I just deleted it and it fixed my game right away

[marble orchid]

ii figured that your savegame was corrupted. but didn't it hurt (because you deleted your progress)?

[carmine leaf]

it only deleted my current run that was corrupted it didn't delete any of my unlocks or any other progress

the savegame.jkr file is only there if you have a run that you are in the middle of

you could actually check this out yourself by going in game and leaving the run mid-game you will see that you have a .jkr file but if you were to leave the game after completing a run there will not be a .jkr file

[stark wadi]

did you still wanna see it?

maybe theres a bugged line of code somewhere

[marble orchid]

ye

[stark wadi]

ok

i cant send it in discord