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PICO-8 is a virtual machine and game engine created by Lexaloffle Games. It is a fantasy video game console that mimics the limited graphical and sound capabilities of 8-bit systems of the 1980s.
PICO-8 application can run games and it can convert them to a standalone executable, whose Linux version works well in libTAS. Some developers release executable files for each platform, and some games you have to convert yourself.
How to generate the executable file
- Open the PICO-8 client
- Type
FOLDER - Drop the
gamename.p8.pngfile for the game on this folder (replacegamenamewith what your game is actually called) and close the dialog - Type
LOAD gamename.p8.png - Type
EXPORT gamename.binto generate the standalone executables - Launch
gamename.bin/linux/gamenamefrom libTAS
Config path, in case you need it, is
~/.lexaloffle/pico-8/config.txt.
Movie submissions
We allow submissions using PICO-8 with libTAS. Please follow these guidelines to ensure your movie is acceptable and can be synced:
- Follow all rules already in place for submitting libTAS movies.
- Try to use the latest version of PICO-8! Although older versions are accessible after registering in the author's page with an activation key, please use the latest one.
- Make sure your movie starts with no save data! Having your own save data present may cause desyncs when other people try to run your movie. To delete your save data, clear the
~/.lexaloffle/pico-8/cdata/directory.
- When making a libTAS movie that you plan to submit to TASVideos or upload it to userfiles, put
Platform: PICO8(no hyphen) at the very start of the movie annotations, that way the site will recognize your platform properly.
- In your description or movie annotations, please provide the following:
- libTAS version
- PICO-8 version
- Filename and MD5 hash of your
.png(usemd5sum yourgame.pngin a terminal) - Config variable
foreground_sleep_mscan cause desyncs if the value doesn't match on different machines, so provide it as a part of sync info to be safe.