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1.8 doesn't work for me, i installé and i want to play, i launch the game, and immediately Black screens and crash report 


1.6 work very wells 

There is some special code to handle the loading of graphics at startup and I did have to update it for 1.8 since it loads some more large graphics. If you dont ”respond” in a timely fashion when loading some graphics the playdate kills your game and it shows up as a crash just like this. 

I have tested this on my playdate (of course :) and it works fine, but they did make a change to the hardware not to long ago. When did you buy your playdate? My guess its simply a bit slower at loading graphics on the new hardware which might cause this issue. If that is the issue I think I can fix it even without the new hardware, but good to know that this is the case

Hi again :)
So I've had the 1.8 version tested out in both hardware revision A & B and it seems to startup and run fine on both.


If your still having this issue I would recommend first to try and uninstall the game from your playdate and remove it on your playdate online account and then reupload it and install it on your device again and see if that solves it. I doubt the game save data could cause it to crash on startup but you could try deleting that as well (you would lose your saved progress though). If that dose'nt help either I would probably need more info on what exactly is happening.

I paid my playdate in occasion, by seller, but this isn't not new hardware, but i had two update 2.0 and 2.1