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Hi! I am new to playdate, but I was unable to sideload the the game.

hi are you getting any error messages? Unzip the folder and there is an upload option on the playdate website .. let me know any more info thanks!

Hey, new to playdate as well, had mine for a week, I'd like to recommend contacting playdate as the past 48 hours there have been issues purchasing and sideloading titles. I've sent in customer support tickets. I originally had Tochi sideloaded on mine and it was fine but I was figuring everything out and deleted the file. Now I can't sideload some of my other files. I'll try to sideload on my end and give an update. It may not be your game it may very well be issues on Playdates end.

Hello again, I am having the issue with the demo where it refuses to upload. Have you updated the game to support OS version 2 on the Playdate?

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hi! I just received my playdate and I uploaded last week games without any issues. when did os version 2 come out? I heard something about it but i think i read it wouldnt affect Pulp games...i can try tomorrow to reupload and see if there is any changes. thanks.

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I don't really know. I've only had the OS 2 version, as my Playdate only arrived a week ago. So it had to have been some time ago. If the game was working fine before then, thin I'd disregard my comment. However you should contact playdate (panic) as this is apparently affecting several games at this time. Specifically ones on itch.io


Edit: by "this" I mean, where games in pulp were working fine and then suddenly they no longer can be added via the sideload option. I'm not really sure what the issue is but it is doing this for 5 other games that I had side loaded previously on day one. The files have not changed. So there's no reason they shouldn't be "able to resideload". 

It says "Could not find a top-level .pdx file.". 

And I should have clarified that I have been able to sideload about ten other games without issue.  This is the first time I have gotten this error message so far. 

i too got error message. I recompiled the game as DOVE-&-WAR-v1.pdx.zip  i didnt change it in any way and it works now! at least for me please try and let me know thanks!

That did it.  Thank you!  Excited to try it out.  Looks neat.  

great glad its working!