MacOS modding currently broken

[IlyaTaidi]

The code seems to be written to only accept exe files. The resources directory in the .App format is different than what the code accepts

/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Balatro/Balatro.app/Contents/Resources

Balatro.love GameIcon.icns libsteam_api.dylib license.txt luasteam.so OS X AppIcon.icns

I assume the .love file is what the code needs to be adjusted to accept, but I'm no lua dev, so if this could be fixed that would be incredible.

[Steamopollys]

Hello, the previous MacOS implementation was made to work with some kind of Wine wrapper. I will add a method for the official release in the next days.

[Steamopollys]

I will start taking a look to MacOS official release.

[ManveerBhullar]

Any workaround or fix for this?

[sbordeyne]

Use balamod, it comes with macos support already. You're more limited in your mod selection, but it's currently the only option for mac modding

[Woedenaz]

I managed to get it to work by getting the 7zip mac beta from here: https://7-zip.org/a/7z2402-mac.tar.xz Moving the 7zz file from there to usr/local/bin and making sure to restart the terminal afterwards.

I then went into Balatro.app and navigated to Balatro.app/Contents/Resources In the terminal I navigated to git cloned steamodded folder and put python3 steammodded_injector.py and dragged the Balatro.love file into the terminal.

After hitting enter, the process appeared to work just fine with no errors. I had to make mac accept using the 7zz executable in the security preferences but what else is new with having to force Macs to not treat the user like a baby.

After that, you place the .lua mod files and any other required files in the /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Balatro/Mods folder!

[MyNameIsJiji]

I managed to get it to work by getting the 7zip mac beta from here: https://7-zip.org/a/7z2402-mac.tar.xz Moving the 7zz file from there to usr/local/bin and making sure to restart the terminal afterwards.

I then went into Balatro.app and navigated to Balatro.app/Contents/Resources In the terminal I navigated to git cloned steamodded folder and put python3 steammodded_injector.py and dragged the Balatro.love file into the terminal.

After hitting enter, the process appeared to work just fine with no errors. I had to make mac accept using the 7zz executable in the security preferences but what else is new with having to force Macs to not treat the user like a baby.

After that, you place the .lua mod files and any other required files in the /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Balatro/Mods folder!

This actually helped! Thank you so much!

[gsmoraes]

I've cobbled together 2 injectors for macOS, based on steammodded_injector.py.

@Steamopollys Would you be interested in a PR?

Caveat emptor

I haven't written Python in 15 years, and the shell script doesn't have error handling.

You can restore the original files through Steam:

• Open Steam
• Go to Library
• Right-click Balatro then click Properties...
• Click Installed Files
• Click Verify integrity of game files

Files

injector_mac.py.txt injector_mac.sh.txt

Download the file you want and place it in the Steamodded cloned repo directory. Remove the .txt extension after downloading if you'd like.

Running

ALWAYS EXIT THE GAME FIRST

Open a terminal and cd into the Steamodded cloned repo and run:

python3 injector_mac.py.txt

or

bash injector_mac.sh.txt

[Steamopollys]

Ofc, feel free to do one and we will review it!

Btw, Lovely should be made compatible with MacOS in the next few days, it will help a lot to get Mac users to same injector standards than Windows ones.

[Billstar14]

I managed to get it to work by getting the 7zip mac beta from here: https://7-zip.org/a/7z2402-mac.tar.xz Moving the 7zz file from there to usr/local/bin and making sure to restart the terminal afterwards.

I then went into Balatro.app and navigated to Balatro.app/Contents/Resources In the terminal I navigated to git cloned steamodded folder and put python3 steammodded_injector.py and dragged the Balatro.love file into the terminal.

After hitting enter, the process appeared to work just fine with no errors. I had to make mac accept using the 7zz executable in the security preferences but what else is new with having to force Macs to not treat the user like a baby.

After that, you place the .lua mod files and any other required files in the /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Balatro/Mods folder!

Hey. I've done what you said about downloading the 7zip beta and putting it into the usr/local/bin but when I try to run it on terminal I keep getting no such file or directory: '7zz'. Is there something specific that I missed or did I just followed the steps wrong like am I suppose to take only the 7zz.exe into usr/local/bin and not the whole file? Or is this a different issue?

[gsmoraes]

@Billstar14

Try one of the injectors I wrote:

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/issues/23#issuecomment-2033283714

[Billstar14]

@Billstar14

Try one of the injectors I wrote:

#23 (comment)

Absolute Legend. It worked. Thanks so much