Balatro (PPSA21402)

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Balatro (PPSA21402)

Status: playable on Windows with the patches below. It boots, reaches the menu, and plays with music and sound effects at a steady 60 FPS, with no flicker or crashes in my testing.

Setup

• Version: EU, EP3495-PPSA21402, game build 1.0.1o-FULL
• Windows 11 Pro, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Built with MinGW-w64 GCC 15.2.0 (WinLibs UCRT r7)
• Converted with relinker --windows (no --to-intel needed on AMD)

What it needs on top of main

Area	Change
Sound effects	#1020, sceNgs2ParseWaveformFile and 16-bit PCM parsing (all 80 sound files are 48 kHz 16-bit PCM)
Music	#1038, streaming 16-bit PCM through appended waveform blocks (flag 0x2)
Stability / flicker	Local patch: limit GPU flips to 2 pending (below, see #1034)

The flip-depth change

This one isn't a PR. It's a two-line local patch to libSceVideoOut:

--- a/core/libs/prx/libSceVideoOut/include/VideoOutDriver.hpp
+++ b/core/libs/prx/libSceVideoOut/include/VideoOutDriver.hpp
 static constexpr std::size_t VIDEO_OUT_FLIP_QUEUE_CAPACITY = 16;
+static constexpr std::size_t VIDEO_OUT_GPU_FLIP_DEPTH = 2;

--- a/core/libs/prx/libSceVideoOut/src/VideoOutDriver.cpp
+++ b/core/libs/prx/libSceVideoOut/src/VideoOutDriver.cpp
 void WaitForFlipRoom() override {
     ...
-        ... || queue->reservations.load() < VIDEO_OUT_FLIP_QUEUE_CAPACITY;
+        ... || queue->reservations.load() < VIDEO_OUT_GPU_FLIP_DEPTH;

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