PicoPico VS yocto-8

You can download the cart here (the 3dsx file). If you have homebrew launcher, give it a try! As I said before, consider this broken/alpha. Bunny, Valdi and Celeste are mostly playable

Continue implementing PICO-8 on an ESP32 platform, trying to make it into a PCB with a friend's help

https://github.com/DavidVentura/PicoPico

This is a work in progress build of Pico-8, running on an ESP-32 (with 4MB PSRAM) The code is on github. There's no music support, audio kinda works. There's an SDL backend to test the implementation on PC

A handheld, esp32-based implementation of the pico-8[0] console. Basics work already, sidetracked into writing a terrible Lua to C++ compiler to squeeze some extra performance out of some pathological-case games.

Lives at https://github.com/davidventura/picopico

This looks excellent! I'll definitely try to learn a bit of what you've done

I'm making a similar project; a handheld Pico-8 console: https://github.com/DavidVentura/PicoPico/ although currently I'm stuck in the process of writing a half-working Lua-to-C++ compiler

I saw Pico8 a while ago and really liked it! Now I'm trying to make it "real", by creating a physical console that implements the API: https://github.com/DavidVentura/PicoPico

It's heavily incomplete, but it runs "Celeste" on an ESP32. Some small games also run in the Raspberry Pico (RP2040), but it does not have enough RAM for medium-large games.

No in this case the Pico part comes from its use of the Pi Foundation's Pico microcontroller. There are projects[1] that are working on porting PICO-8 to the Picosystem. Unfortunately it will never be fully compatible with the PICO-8 standards as it isn't powerful enough but some games work.

[1]https://github.com/yocto-8/yocto-8

Some folks are working on it, but as far as they know, many Pico8 games may never run on it: https://github.com/yocto-8/yocto-8

Sure! Feel free to message me in github or via email.

I've abandoned my Pico8 on RP2040 port though, a lot of games simply need more memory than there's available. There's this crazy guy: https://github.com/yocto-8/yocto-8/blob/main/doc/extmem.md that managed to get external RAM over SPI working (RP2040 does not support memory remapping)

On ESP32 with SPIRAM (/PSRAM) Pico8 is definitely achievable, and _most_ games will run at a playable frame rate, but some won't; as an example "Rockets!", does too many calculations per frame to run smoothly, and the Lua overhead starts showing so I'm exploring ideas like an optimizing compiler that can run off-console, etc.

I don't thing TIC-80 will be doable, the constraints are significantly more relaxed. A Pico8 framebuffer is 32KB; in TIC-80 it is 64KB (and this doubles with buffering/DMA) but most importantly, code is no longer something simple like Lua

Currently no, but someone is currently working on a project to implement it (https://github.com/yocto-8/yocto-8). Personally would love to see it completed as I have a few RP2040 chipset based things now.

There’s no support for mapping external memory but you can apparently get creative: https://github.com/yocto-8/yocto-8/blob/main/doc/extmem.md