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Create a mobile Balatro app from your Steam version of Balatro
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Unable to download required dependencies #8

Closed VBPXKSMI closed 1 month ago

VBPXKSMI commented 1 month ago

Hello, As the title says, I am unable to progress past the first step upon executing balatro-apk-maker.exe. That is, it checks that I already have Java installed, tries to download the rest of the dependencies, but not long after that it fails as for some reason it is unable to download them and then I am forced to close the prompt window.

I don't know what could be the issue really, only guess I have is that it may possibly be related to a Windows feature that I am lacking as I use Windows 8.1 and maybe either balatro-apk-maker.exe was made/compiled using a function only available for higher Windows versions, or one or more of the dependecies requires a higher Windows version to work. Other than this guess I have no clue. If the problem is related to that I would kindly ask if there is no workaround available, to compile the .exe so that it is possible to use it on previous Windows versions, or to at least point out user requirements in the Github readme page to warm future users.

I can guarantee that at least I have 7-Zip and Java 8 already installed and both work with no problems, and that I have more than enough disk space to download the dependencies.

I have provided an screenshot of the command prompt window and where the process fails, hope it helps. Thank you and cheers. Screenshot

spydersoda commented 1 month ago

is the apk maker in the Balatro steam folder?

rkyung commented 1 month ago

My few guesses would be, the tool is being restricted from download by old Windows UAC process. You might need to right-click the executable and run as administrator/elevated privledges.

You can probably work around this by manually downloading the dependencies and putting it in the same directory as Balatro maker highlighted in the source below.

https://github.com/blake502/balatro-apk-maker/blob/main/Balatro%20APK%20Maker/Program.cs#L12-L18

blake502 commented 1 month ago

Hmm, Windows 8.1 should be supported although I haven't tested it. Downloading files relies on PowerShell's Invoke-WebRequest, which was introduced in PowerShell 3.0 (Windows 8.1 should come with PowerShell 4.0)

If running as administrator does not work, can you try opening Command Prompt and running this command:

powershell -Command Invoke-WebRequest https://google.com/ -OutFile google.html

Let me know if the command generates any errors. In the mean time, I may work on re-writing the download function to use a native C# library to download files instead... The PowerShell command is leftover from when balatro-apk-maker was a batch file.

blake502 commented 1 month ago

I've updated balatro-apk-maker to use WebClient for downloads instead of powershell Invoke-WebRequest. Please try again using the latest version.

VBPXKSMI commented 1 month ago

I just tested the latest version and it worked like a charm! Thanks. Tested by running as administrator inside the steam folder.

Dunno what the problem was with the previous version, as I ran it both as administrator and inside the steam folder too, but ran into the issue I commented at the beggining. Perhaps it really was due to how the apk maker fetched the downloads before.

Also I tested the

powershell -Command Invoke-WebRequest https://google.com/ -OutFile google.html

prompt and it showed no errors (or at least didn't output any), just to let you know.

Anyway, issue solved, you can close it now. Thanks again.

blake502 commented 1 month ago

Great, I'm glad it's working now! The change should make files download faster for everybody anyway.