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when booting. If I delete game data in settings and go back to game it starts from beginning ok until I leave game and comeback and it crashes. 

Hiya,

Thanks for responding - I appreciate it, as I don't particularly want anyone to have a bad time with this.

That said - I have to admit I'm completely baffled by this one. There's not a huge difference between the games first boot and restarting it, mostly just the first time you start it creates a header file for each of the save slots, then checks for any completed stage files so that it can total up the number of collected coins. I'm guessing it's not going to be the 10 second "I think your game is stuck in a loop" Playdate OS crash.

Does the game still crash when restarting if you exit without having created a save file?

Does the game still crash when restarting if you exit immediately after entering your name (whilst the opening sequence is still playing), or is it only if you have played a stage or two first?

I've uploaded a second version of the game labelled as Debug above - if you have time (no pressure - don't really want to put anyone out) could you give that a try a tell me if it's still crashing and reporting an error or not? I've moved some of the initialisation code in the hopes that it may report a proper error message if things aren't being done at boot time.

Here is a data dump when it crashed. Downloaded debug fix, still crashing

- watchdog reset at 2023/10/03 16:00:17---

build:1fd086bf5715-2.0.3-release.158184-buildbot

   r0:00000000    r1:00000000     r2:00030cee    r3: 00000000

  r12:006d3000    lr:080353ef     pc:080350fa   psr: 61000000

rcccsr:00000000

heap allocated: 7345024

Lua totalbytes=128164686 GCdebt=-127560163 GCestimate=589398 stacksize=84

--- watchdog reset at 2023/10/03 16:00:53---

build:1fd086bf5715-2.0.3-release.158184-buildbot

   r0:40012c00    r1:00001f40     r2:06422c15    r3: 00082800

  r12:006d3000    lr:0803c615     pc:0803c444   psr: 21000000

rcccsr:00000000

heap allocated: 3123968

Lua totalbytes=822800 GCdebt=-240416 GCestimate=411477 stacksize=80

--- crash at 2023/10/03 16:05:09---

build:1fd086bf5715-2.0.3-release.158184-buildbot

   r0:00000000    r1:0803e0d3     r2:20010220    r3: 00000000

  r12:006d3000    lr:0803e0d3     pc:08042a9e   psr: 61000000

 cfsr:00020000  hfsr:40000000  mmfar:00000000  bfar: 00000000

rcccsr:00000000

heap allocated: 0

Lua totalbytes=0 GCdebt=0 GCestimate=0 stacksize=0

Hope this helps Don't understand any of this

I'm a little stumped on this at this point, unfortunately. I appreciate you giving that a try.

I'll need to have a think about it - it seems to only be effecting some users, which is absolutely the worst kind of bug to figure out because it's possibly only going to happen on their devices. There's a few things I can maybe do to reduce the amount of garbage generated whilst initialising the title screen that I can give a try, but that's going to take a while to look at and may not fix the issue.

Sorry that's not a super-useful response, but this just has me baffled at this point.

Thanks for your help.