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+a set of essential lovely patches to run the desktop release of Balatro on mobile devices. these patches have no adverse effects on desktop as well.
+
+## included mods
+
+### display-mode
+
+- forces the game to run in landscape only
+- enables hidpi mode for mobile devices
+
+### touch-keyboard
+
+- enables the controller-mode keyboard for devices with touch input
+
+### fps-settings
+
+- disables vsync
+- limits the game's fps to the device's refresh rate on launch (by default)
+- adds an "FPS Limit" option to the graphics settings menu for manual adjustment
+
+### feature-flags
+
+adds feature flags for the 'Android' and 'iOS' platforms that
+
+- disable achievements and crash reports
+- enable the mobile UI and hide the quit button
+- disable window and resolution settings (they're unusable on mobile)
+
+### fix-flame-shader-precision
+
+fixes the score flame effect breaking on relatively low scores when rendered with "OpenGL ES"
+
+## extra recommendations
+
+- [Sticky Fingers](https://github.com/eramdam/sticky-fingers) - a port of the mobile release's touch controls (requires smods)
+- [DismissAlert](https://github.com/Breezebuilder/DismissAlert) - allows the discovery alert icons to be dismissed and hidden by tapping their ❗ icon
diff --git a/mods/kasimeka@mobile-essentials/meta.json b/mods/kasimeka@mobile-essentials/meta.json
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+{
+  "title": "mobile essentials",
+  "requires-steamodded": false,
+  "requires-talisman": false,
+  "categories": [
+    "Quality of Life",
+    "Miscellaneous"
+  ],
+  "author": "kasimeka",
+  "repo": "https://github.com/kasimeka/balatro-mobile-essentials-mod",
+  "downloadURL": "https://github.com/kasimeka/balatro-mobile-essentials-mod/archive/refs/heads/main.zip",
+  "automatic-version-check": true,
+  "version": "HEAD"
+}