Game Crashing everytme I press play

[chichi]

I have reinstalled and cleared every file from my computer, verified, and done more trying to figure out what could be causing this crash.
Oops! Something went wrong:
functions\button_callbacks.lua:205: attempt to index field 'SAVED_GAME' (a nil value)

[butterhurt]

Same here. Where did you get that error message? Mine crashes without a word.
Ironically, I played demo last year, but can't play the full version now lol.

[chichi]

Originally posted by butterhurt:

Same here. Where did you get that error message? Mine crashes without a word.
Ironically, I played demo last year, but can't play the full version now lol.

It just showed up after pressing play.

[EL MERV GRIFFIN]

Had this same issue, just fixed it by deleting the save.jkr file in C:\Users\*yourusername*\AppData\Roaming\Balatro\1
and hitting play again.

Cleared out the bad save, and lost that run but kept my collection unlocks and game is playable again

[chichi]

Originally posted by EL MERV GRIFFIN:

Had this same issue, just fixed it by deleting the save.jkr file in C:\Users\*yourusername*\AppData\Roaming\Balatro\1
and hitting play again.

Cleared out the bad save, and lost that run but kept my collection unlocks and game is playable again

Tried this, and this would've already happened if I deleted the game and reinstalled over and over.

[chichi]

I have solved my problem, it was something wrong with steam cloud, I was able to fix it by forcing steam cloud to save an older save from another computer, which then let it work on my main.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by neurodivergent nate:

Originally posted by EL MERV GRIFFIN:

Had this same issue, just fixed it by deleting the save.jkr file in C:\Users\*yourusername*\AppData\Roaming\Balatro\1
and hitting play again.

Cleared out the bad save, and lost that run but kept my collection unlocks and game is playable again

Tried this, and this would've already happened if I deleted the game and reinstalled over and over.

Not quite. Deleting your save would have also worked, but you had steam cloud on so it redownloaded it every time you deleted it and started the game. Same whenever you uninstalled.
You also could have uploaded your save to https://balatro.shorty.systems/ and checked for errors in the raw data, or I might have been able to salvage it if you uploaded it or shared the raw through something like pastebin.

Originally posted by butterhurt:

Same here. Where did you get that error message? Mine crashes without a word.
Ironically, I played demo last year, but can't play the full version now lol.

If it crashes without a word, it's probably a different issue entirely. You could try deleting your save too, but updating your graphics drivers may also help.

[butterhurt]

Thanks, I've deleted the save file and then also nuked the whole folder. Unfortunatelly no dice either way.

[{F.A.K.E} Lamp]

Hey I'm having the same problem and when i delete the save.jkr I can press play but all the progress I made on each deck is reset, same for the stats, only the collection is as it was before, I tried uploading the file to : https://balatro.shorty.systems/ but i get the following error message : "Error loading file: data is undefined". Does anyone has a solution ?

[Goblin]

Originally posted by {F.A.K.E} Lamp:

Hey I'm having the same problem and when i delete the save.jkr I can press play but all the progress I made on each deck is reset, same for the stats, only the collection is as it was before, I tried uploading the file to : https://balatro.shorty.systems/ but i get the following error message : "Error loading file: data is undefined". Does anyone has a solution ?

Hmm, I expected something like wrong values in the JSON after decryption causing the game to get weird values, but seems (at least in your case) either the compression or saving of compressed data messed up. In that case, there may not be much I can do to help. I'd still like to give it a quick look if you're willing to upload the .jkr file somewhere, but it may just be irreversibly messed up.
Also you sure you deleted only save.jkr? I'm pretty sure stake completions are tracked in profile.jkr, which is in the same folder. Data in save.jkr is about the last run, to use when you hit continue.

A last case resort if you remember your stake completions is to upload your profile.jkr file to that same website, click raw, search for deck_usage, and manually edit the wins array for each deck in there. For example having beaten purple stake would look like:

"wins": [
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1
],

(using 1 because I doubt you tracked how often you won certain stake runs on a particular deck). Decks you haven't played aren't listed, so you might have to play a round with one first to get something to copy, and then copy/paste it a few times while changing the names to the ones you've played on yourself. They all follow the same naming scheme, b_red for red deck, b_blue for blue, etc. with no capitalisation.
Not the easiest process, but it should work.

[grinchher (Taylor's Version)]

Originally posted by EL MERV GRIFFIN:

Had this same issue, just fixed it by deleting the save.jkr file in C:\Users\*yourusername*\AppData\Roaming\Balatro\1
and hitting play again.

Cleared out the bad save, and lost that run but kept my collection unlocks and game is playable again

worked thanks

[BioActive]

So I've tried uninstalling the game and deleting the file but I think my crash is different the game will load up just fine and I can even select a deck to play with but the second I select a deck and press play it's crashes with the [somthing went wrong card.lva:4669: attempt to index field 'center' (a nil valve) ]? Has anyone else had this problem

[💗Zeak the Rock🌸]

i have the same problem :/ someone have solution?

[[Nelly]]

Have none of you decided to join the discord server to see if the issues all of you seem to be experiencing could be answered quicker there? I'm not in the balatro discord but maybe others there shared the same issues and have a solution.

Unfortunately us gamers don't get bug/crash reports as a "feature" in our titles as much as we used to anymore, so we gotta go to Reddit/Discord, etc which imo shouldn't be a thing.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by BioActive:

So I've tried uninstalling the game and deleting the file but I think my crash is different the game will load up just fine and I can even select a deck to play with but the second I select a deck and press play it's crashes with the [somthing went wrong card.lva:4669: attempt to index field 'center' (a nil valve) ]? Has anyone else had this problem

This seems odd to me, since that line is in the Card:load() function, which I personally wouldn't expect to be used when creating a new run. So unless you're using one of the modloaders I have no idea why this particular line would get called, nor why it would crash the game.
So I'll concur with Nelly, please join the discord and try to contact the dev there, so he can help debug the issue on your end.

[Loux]

This solution deletes ALL your progress but should work
Go into app data and all other balatro files delete them then turn off cloud save then reinstall with cloud save off then launch the game to make sure it works then you can turn on cloud save back on and select your LOCAL save and you should be all good to go now.