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For those stuck on 51/52 cards.

By Hülk27

This guide will (hopefully) show you how to get the final missing card from your collection. This guide may or may not work for you. Please read the Requirements section below. Also note this involves viewing (but NOT editing) a save file. So if you feel this is immoral or dishonest, please don't use this method.

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Walkthrough

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Requirements

Please note this guide involves viewing (but NOT editing) a save file. If you think this is against the spirit of the game, then do not read further.
This guide may not work for you. This method worked for me when I was stuck at 51/52 cards but that's anecdotal evidence and thus, may not work for everybody.
Make sure you are done with the story BEFORE using this method.

Walkthrough

Navigate to your Sexy Brutale save file. It is located at "Steam\userdata\[steam_id_number]\552590\remote\sb_save_slot_(i).dat", where (i) is the save slot number in the game. If this is your first playthrough it should be zero.
Copy this file and paste it somewhere else. Do not risk viewing, and accidentally editing, the original file.
Open the copy using any text editor of your choice. I used Vim, but the images shown in this guide use Word. Both Notepad and WordPad also work great.
From the top of the file, start searching for the word "card" (all lower case). The list of cards you've collected starts from the second result as shown in the image.
The cards have a string format of "item_card_[suit]_[facevalue], where [suit] can be [c, d, h, s] and [facevalue] can be [2, 3, ..., 10, j, q, k, a].
So from the image, you can see that the first card I collected was the Nine of Clubs.
Now create a list of 52 cards and continue your search downwards checking off the relevant card in your list when it appears in the file.
The moment your search hits a string called "item_card_[suit]_[facevalue]_InventoryItem" is when you stop. So from the image below, the last card I collected was the King of Spades.
The unchecked card in your list is the one you've missed. In my case, it was the Ten of Clubs. Use Destro Yersul's guide to find your missing card.

As I've said earlier, this may not work for you because I only have a sample size of 1 to go with. So please let me know in the comments if this method worked.

Thanks!

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LeeSpork 4 Jan @ 6:46pm

You can find all the cards you have collected with this regex:

item_card_[shcd]_([2-9jqka]|10)(?!_InventoryItem)

If you have Notepad++ installed, you can use this to quickly get a complete list of all the cards you have collected:
Open your save file in Notepad++, and press ctrl+m to open the "Mark" dialog. Paste the above regex into the Find What: box, and make sure Regular expression is selected as the search mode at the bottom of the dialog window. Click Mark All . It should say there are 51 matches if you are at 51/52 cards in the game. Then you can click Copy Marked Text , and go into another file or app and ctrl+v to paste the list of cards you have collected.
If you have pasted it into a new file in Notepad++, you can go Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lexicographically Ascending to make it easier to spot which card you are missing.

Duchess 4 Aug, 2024 @ 2:00am

You saved me! Thanks!

率先倒地激发队友潜力 27 Feb, 2024 @ 12:21am

Saved me so much time，thanks！

Maravex 29 Jan, 2024 @ 2:14pm

Absolute life saver, thank you so much for this!

Garet_S 20 Jun, 2022 @ 12:49pm

Thank you for this guide! Finally I found the last card!

Bright Ideas Dim Actions 17 Nov, 2021 @ 12:11pm

You are a boss! Saved me so much time!

Iso Koala 18 Sep, 2021 @ 12:56pm

Thanks, worked well!
Works even if you have less cards, just use text editor "Find" command to search "item_card_s" (and replace s with h, c and d later) and click it as many times as it pops up. If you get it 13 times you have all of those, if less, then check which number you are missing. Repeat for all the item_card_s/h/c/d and youll be fine at any point of the game, obviously no need to do this until the end.

The _inventoryitem ones you can have total of 4 and they are the ones which are used to check if you can read world lore which are unlocked with the cards.

mattgarforth 26 Jun, 2021 @ 9:58am

Massive time saver - thanks!

Blackwolf KRS 21 Apr, 2021 @ 10:43am

amazing tip, thanks!

Zammik 3 May, 2020 @ 9:02am

Worked for me, enormous time save

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