i cant open balatro | Balatro | Page 1

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 2:32 AM

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i dont know what happened

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 2:20 PM

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i cant open balatro

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 4:51 PM

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thick kite i dont know what happened

This happened because of mods. You used Talisman/Amulet, and now some of the modded date got into your save data. When vanilla balatro tries to read that, it crashes.

You basically have 3 options:

Try to reinstall the Amulet mod, and hope that that fixes your save file (I'm not sure it will)
Delete your profile.jkr savefile and lose data in the progress
Manually try to fix your profile.jkr file

Which one would you like to try?

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 4:54 PM

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the second one

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 4:57 PM

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thick kite the second one

Alrighty

Go to the path https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Balatro#Save_game_data_location gives
Please MAKE A BACKUP of the profile.jkr file (rename it, move it somewhere else, whatever)
Try deleting the original profile.jkr file

Steam cloud save might get in the way, but try it like this first

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:00 PM

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after i delete it, i open the game?

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what thing i have to do now?

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:05 PM

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Yea after deleting it just try opening the game again

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:07 PM

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its normal to hvae 2 folders with the profile .jkr?

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:07 PM

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Yes, that'll happen if you have 2 different profiles

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(most people don't so I usually don't bring it up)

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:08 PM

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it crash the game

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again

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:08 PM

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same crash?

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:08 PM

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yes

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:08 PM

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Alright, can you upload the profile.jkr file here?

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:09 PM

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should i also delete in configuration the things of the mods?

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:09 PM

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No I'd recommend keeping those

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They'll be useful if you ever decide to reinstall any mods

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:09 PM

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📎 profile.jkr

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:09 PM

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And they don't do anything if you're playing vanilla except take up a very very small amount of space on your drive

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:10 PM

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strange karma Yes, that'll happen if you have 2 different profiles

i should delete the second one too?

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:10 PM

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Depends, which profile are you currently using? The first or second?

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:10 PM

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i think the second one

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:13 PM

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Then make a backup of it and delete it from the 2 folder

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:13 PM

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it have the m1 and 1 folder

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i delete it from the 1, not from m1

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:14 PM

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Ohhhh right

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:14 PM

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and still crash

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🙁

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:14 PM

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stupid cryptid stuff

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:14 PM

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thick kite i delete it from the 1, not from m1

Yeah, you did fine in that case

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Give me one second

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:16 PM

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thick kite

Alright, try replacing the profile.jkr file in the 1 folder with this one

📎 profile.jkr

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:17 PM

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done

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:18 PM

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Try launching the game?

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:19 PM

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THANKS YOU SO MUCH

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and, how can install mods without crashing the game? i dont want to face this problem again

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ty

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:20 PM

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👍

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Uhh I'm not familiar enough with Cryptid/Talisman/Amulet's saving systems

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But what I would recommend doing is:
Use Amulet instead of Talisman
Don't use Amulet on its own, but always with Cryptid installed
Make a backup of your current .jkr files, so you can always restore it later

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Also, you can delete the profile.jkr backup I told you to make earlier, no use for it anymore

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:23 PM

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ty

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have a good week

strange karma Apr 1, 2026, 5:24 PM

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strange karma Uhh I'm not familiar enough with Cryptid/Talisman/Amulet's saving systems

No other mod does the stupid thing of inserting unreadable data into your savefiles, so for any other mod you should be fine

thick kite Apr 1, 2026, 5:25 PM

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so no crypitd for a while

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