lou silver Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 (edited) Spotted this fantasy console In JaysArcade's post awhile back and decided to import and share with everyone (his videos are included btw). From the creators website FAQ: What is a Fantasy Console? A fantasy console is like a regular console, but without the inconvenience of actual hardware. PICO-8 has everything else that makes a console a console: machine specifications and display format, development tools, design culture, distribution platform, community and playership. It is similar to a retro game emulator, but for a machine that never existed. PICO-8's specifications and ecosystem are instead designed from scratch to produce something that has it's own identity and feels real. Instead of physical cartridges, programs made for PICO-8 are distributed on .png images that look like cartridges, complete with labels and a fixed 32k data capacity. -------- The good: 4391 titles all in one place, renamed, complete with artwork Pico-8 Voxatron The not so good: The emulators are $19.99 on the creators site you can still play the games online however. For you creative types in the crowd you can make games with pico-8 also. Expect future updates, artwork fixes and emulator info (still haven't bought mine) a little later. Pico-8.mp4 Voxatron.mp4 Voxatron.mp4 Voxatron.mp4 Voxatron.mp4 Voxatron.mp4 Voxatron.mp4 Voxatron.mp4 Edited June 11, 2021 by lou silver 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou silver Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 So I plunked down $20 for both emulators installed them and gave both platforms a go. Turns out when you run the emulator it just runs it's own frontend and you select games from there. Can anyone recommend a command line that will make the games run immediately? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joyrider3774 Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 On 6/23/2021 at 1:50 AM, lou silver said: So I plunked down $20 for both emulators installed them and gave both platforms a go. Turns out when you run the emulator it just runs it's own frontend and you select games from there. Can anyone recommend a command line that will make the games run immediately? Thanks in advance! it simple i use them also (in another frontend) the carts / roms themselves are the png files so to run it fullscreen you run the following where [romfilename] is to be replaced with path + filename of such png. Another great thing is that you can just use the roms itself as preview image pico8.exe -windowed 0 -run "[romfilename]" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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