Ever marvel how far you may go in Balatro when you get previous these first eight antes and enter infinite mode? Sure you’ve. What about when you hit ante 16 and enter the wild reaches of untracked infinite mode? Less doubtless, however you may need made it on the market a few times. Even fewer can be those that have hit an integer so excessive their sport simply bugs out and explodes in an enormous ol’ glitched-white-card-spewing crash.
Well, as confirmed and considered extensively by streamer Nandre, you may in truth hit Ante 39 and simply straight up explode the videogame to win as a result of 1.8e308, the best quantity it should observe in your machine within the sport’s code, is not excessive sufficient to win the rating requirement of that ante. Which is… additionally larger than the best quantity your machine will observe, so it simply shows as “nan”—programmer communicate for “not a quantity.”
Celebrated the Balatro win at The Game Awards by beating ante 39, the place the required rating is so excessive it crashes the sport.The true ending of Balatro has been claimed. Now I can relaxation… pic.twitter.com/P8tU7kRK4iDecember 13, 2024
Nandre reached the purpose to rejoice everybody’s favourite Roguelike successful at The Game Awards 2024.
This places Balatro within the distinguished firm of different arcade-style video games you may’t really hit the “finish” of when taking part in an infinite mode as a result of the rating simply retains happening. Tetris, maybe most famously, is a case of this sort of highest-possible-scoring through breaking the sport. The Classic Tetris World Championship retains an archive of winners for the NES model.
Could you go larger nonetheless? Yes, really you may, as a result of—identical to with Tetris ROM hacks—you could possibly mod the sport to deal with ever-absurdly-higher integers with what I can solely assume can be ever-more-absurdly-game-breaking penalties.
Gotta say, although, this makes me desire a Balatro championship alongside the identical strains with each play utilizing a set seed. Are we doing that but? Can we try this? We ought to all try this.
Anyway, in case you’re right here you in all probability love Balatro as a lot as I do and will positively see these moderately unhinged outtakes from the dwell motion Balatro trailer.
