diff --git a/source/vm.cpp b/source/vm.cpp
index 1ba417a..fc0e90b 100644
--- a/source/vm.cpp
+++ b/source/vm.cpp
@@ -299,11 +299,6 @@ Vm::~Vm(){
     CloseCart();
 
     if (_luaState != nullptr) {
-        Logger_Write("printing stack before close\n");
-        printLuaStack(_luaState);
-
-        printLuaStack(_luaState);
-
         Logger_Write("closing lua state\n");
     
         lua_close(_luaState);
@@ -558,6 +553,7 @@ void Vm::deserializeCartDataToMemory(std::string cartDataStr) {
 }
 
 bool Vm::Step(){
+    _picoFrameCount++;
     bool ret = false;
     lua_getglobal(_luaState, "__z8_tick");
     int status = lua_pcall(_luaState, 0, 1, 0);
diff --git a/test/endtoendtests.cpp b/test/endtoendtests.cpp
index a4ec9d4..834e200 100644
--- a/test/endtoendtests.cpp
+++ b/test/endtoendtests.cpp
@@ -131,8 +131,10 @@ TEST_CASE("Loading and running carts") {
     }
     */
 
+
     SUBCASE("Load simple cart"){
         vm->LoadCart("cartparsetest.p8", false);
+        vm->vm_run();
 
         SUBCASE("No error reported"){
             CHECK(vm->GetBiosError() == "");
@@ -145,6 +147,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Loading and running carts") {
             CHECK(vm->GetFrameCount() == 3);
         }
         SUBCASE("check lua state"){
+            //need to pass this func to the sandbox, not the global state
             bool globalVarLoaded = vm->ExecuteLua(
                 "function globalVarTest()\n"
                 " return a == 1\n"