[Mod] BALATRO '95 (UPDATED: 06/01/2024)

Cloak Balatro in the skin of its forebearer: the Windows 95 solitaire game.
A quick mod guide on how to replace upgrade your decks.

Download & Features

DOWNLOAD BALATRO '95![github.com]

Direct link to the Github page[github.com]

Balatro '95 started out as a simple mod replacing the card backs and faces (with slight tweaks to the seals to accommodate the change), but Sparks has taken it to another level entirely.

Pick and choose the effects you'd like to update from the Images section and add them using the Simple Install guide, or see Advanced Features to add dithering and other effects for the full chunky-monitor experience.

BALATRO '95 ORIGINAL CHANGES

• All card fronts have been replaced with their Windows '95 equivalent.
  
• 12 deck backs have been replaced (there aren't quite enough to cover everything but most bases are covered).
  
• The seals have moved a little bit so they're not covering the faces on the face cards.

NEW ADDITIONS

• Green background
  
• All Cards, Blind Chips, and Enhancers retrofied
  
• Custom Retro Font
  
• ReShade Preset with Retro effects

Advanced features

• Bundled with ReShade and retro shaders
  
• Recompiled to be compatible with Steammodded 0.9.8
  
  

  IMPORTANT: THE STEAMMODDED VERSION OF THIS MOD WILL ONLY WORK WITH 0.9.8.

Simple Install

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO BACK UP YOUR BALATRO.EXE FILE BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO IT VIA 7ZIP.

1. Download the PNGs in the "Images" section of this guide.
   
2. Install 7zip.
   
3. Right-click Balatro in your Steam library, and go to Manage > Browse Local Files
   
4. Right-click Balatro.exe and open archive in the 7zip contextual menu.
   
5. Navigate to the folder listed below and copy in the relevant PNGs.

Balatro Assets

Path:

• resources\textures\2x\

Files to copy:

• Enhancers.png (Deck backs)
  
• 8BitDeck.png (Card Fronts)
  
• 8BitDeck_opt2.png (High-Contrast Card Fronts)
  
• Jokers.png (The Joker cards, surprisingly)
  
• BlindChips.png (Blind Chip icons)
  
• Boosters.png (Booster Packs)
  
• Chips.png (Stake Chips)
  
• Stickers.png (Stake Seals for Card Decks)
  
• Tags.png (Blind Tags)
  
• Vouchers.png (Blind Vouchers)

Steammodded Installation

• Firstly, you need to make sure you have the latest stable release (0.9.8) of the Steammodded mod loader for Balatro, created by Steamopollys. That can be found, along with instructions on how to install it, here.[github.com]
  
  
• Once all relevant files are installed, extract the 'Balatro95' and 'CustomFont' folders into the Mods folder you created during the Steammodded install (...AppData/Roaming/Balatro/Mods). Then, extract the 'ReShade Files' into the main Balatro installation folder.
  
  NOTE: If you are a Linux or Steam Deck user, you will need to add the following line to your Launch Options:
  
  WINEDLLOVERRIDES="version=n,b" %command%

OPTIONAL FILES

As far as the 'Optional files' are concerned, hear are the steps for each one.

• 'Solid Background' is a mini-mod created by Goblin that removes the swirling background seen during normal gameplay. In order to install it, open Balatro.exe with 7zip, Go to the following path: .../resources/shaders. Once in that folder, drag and drop the both the 'background.fs' and 'splash.fs' files that are found in the Solid Backgrounds folder into the shaders folder and overwrite the files that already reside within.
  
  
• 'Alternate Card Backs' are the original Balatro card backs but edited to match the dithered look the rest of the modded cards have. For the Steammodded install, simply drag the 'Enhancers95.png' from the 'Alternate Card Backs' folder into the Balatro95 mod folder (...AppData/Roaming/Balatro/Mods/Balatro95/assets/2x) and overwrite the existing file. For the non-Steammodded install, once again open Balatro.exe with 7zip, navigate to resources/2x, and drag and drop the .png into that path, overwriting the existing file.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO BACK UP YOUR BALATRO.EXE FILE BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO IT VIA 7ZIP.

How to get the Green Background

In order to achieve the green background reminiscent of the one from Windows Solitaire, here's what you will need to do.

• Open Balatro.exe with 7zip.
  
  
• Open the 'globals.lua' file with any text editor of your choosing.
  
  
• Find the following strings:
  BLIND = {
  Small = HEX("50846e"),
  Big = HEX("50846e"),
  Boss = HEX("b44430"),
  won = HEX("4f6367")
  
  And replace it with these strings:
  BLIND = {
  Small = HEX("0e8900"),
  Big = HEX("0e8900"),
  Boss = HEX("b44430"),
  won = HEX("4f6367")
  
  
• Save the file and overwrite the original 'globals.lua' file.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO BACK UP YOUR BALATRO.EXE FILE BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO IT VIA 7ZIP.

Additional Notes & Credits

I plan on creating a '1x' version of this mod at some point, but I need to make sure everything works the way it should for everyone else for now.

I'm also aware that while most of this mod utilized Steammodded, certain parts of it require editing the .exe file directly. While I'd rather it all be done through the Steammodded loader, I don't know enough about the nitty gritty of how lua files work enough to make that possible. The mod loader itself is also currently in the alpha stage of its 1.0.0 version, which might require me to relearn the methods of mod injection. If anyone feels like helping me (Sparks) out here with getting all of that set up, it would be greatly appreciated.

Credits:

Original concept inspired and made possible by SuddenDe4th's modding guide here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3207472768

Card fronts and backs use assets from DanielRicci's Solitaire rebuild here:
https://github.com/danielricci/solitaire

Duncan Molloy for creating the orignial mod

MathIsFun_ from the Balatro Discord for allowing me to bundle their CustomFont mod, which can be found standalone in the Balatro Discord

Goblin on the Steam Community forums for letting me include his Solid Background mini-mod

Steamopollys for creating the Steammodded Mod Loader for Balatro


Thank you all so much!

Images

Here are all of the changed .pngs and what filename the correspond to, if you just want the images themselves and nothing else.

This file should be named 8BitDeck.png:



This file should be named 8BitDeck_opt2.png:




This file should be named Enhancers.png:



This file should be named Jokers.png:



This file should be named Vouchers.png:



This file should be named Boosters.png:



This file should be named BlindChips.png:



This file should be named Chips.png:



This file should be named Tags.png:



This file should be named Stickers.png:



This file should be named UI_assets.png:



This file should be named UI_assetsopt2.png:

Files can also be found here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBmHCU

Thank you to everyone who have helped out wtih this project! Have fun!

[mindnomad]

you should probably fix this

[Coffee]

The diamonds doesn't show neither the other textures anymore.

[DaSniper2]

Are there arcana cards, planet cards, and spectral cards?

[IrregularHunterDashaan]

anyway to do this on a steam deck

[calderracrusade]

If your browser will only open PNG in a new tab, do so. In the new tab, surprise, you should be able to download the PNG. (Programmer, long story, sometimes websites confuse your browser).

[max]

Am I really dumb? how tf do you download the pngs? right click just gives me "copy link address" or "open link in new tab"

[Sasquatch Poopypants]

Now we just need the cards to bounce around the screen like crazy when you win a game

[Tribulation_666]

This is amazing! Classic style <3

[工人]

good

[Mr. Steal Your Gun]

I do hope official support for custom decks comes at some point. The Workshop page would POP OFF.