PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script
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PICO-8 has been merged too ;-)
@dmmarti can you add this information in your first post ?
Lowres-nx should be the next one.
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I'll try to get to this soon!
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Some quick notes: I got in touch with the LowRes NX guy via email to get his vector artwork and also have discovered that TIC-80 uses this font.
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Cool !
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I'm doing TIC-80 before LowRes NX because it's going to be easier.
Like with Pico8, I'm using the default color palette for TIC-80 carts on the logo and I'm changing it to add a border so that it will have sufficient contrast to be readable against any background. But I'm conflicted on how thick the border on the TIC-80 should be.
Do you prefer system.svg
or system2.svg?
The TIC-80 controller.svg was pretty easy:
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Looking nice ;-)
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@benmclean Curious how the outline would look with the dark blue (#29366f) instead of the black.
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@benmclean I vote the second
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@ln_rc said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@benmclean Curious how the outline would look with the dark blue (#29366f) instead of the black.
Yeah, dark blue is probably better.
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Is also very nice.
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For TIC-80, my controller.svg looks right but my system.svg is getting part of its right edge cut off in emulationstation. What. https://github.com/BenMcLean/es-theme-carbon/tree/tic-80/tic80/art
Also, on that Pico8 request, my SVG is correct, but the SVG rendering in emulationstation seems to be crappy as it is showing white borders (like 1 pixel) around the edges of the rectangles -- probably the background showing through due to rounding errors in the code that displays the SVG. Not noticed before because I can't see it from far away, plus other SVG logos aren't just rectangles like this. I say merge it anyway because changing the SVG won't fix that.
(later edit) And another thing. Why does the roms folder for sg-1000 get a dash but the roms folder for tic-80 is called "tic80"? The name of the system is "tic-80" not "tic80"
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@benmclean I think maybe it comes from the name of the libretro emulator, the emulator for Tic-80 is lr-tic80 and the emulator for SG-1000 is lr-genesis-plus-gx
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On a different note, have people been able to get games to run successfully on lr-retro8? Most of my games load with graphics missing, music missing, glitches, or it gets close to crashing my machine. This isn't a Retropie problem - the same thing happens when I use Retroarch on PC. What games work well with this emulator in particular? I think the emulator must be based off of an older version of Pico-8.
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@ln_rc It's an open source reimplementation so compatibility isn't perfect.
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@ln_rc said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
On a different note, have people been able to get games to run successfully on lr-retro8? Most of my games load with graphics missing, music missing, glitches, or it gets close to crashing my machine. This isn't a Retropie problem - the same thing happens when I use Retroarch on PC. What games work well with this emulator in particular? I think the emulator must be based off of an older version of Pico-8.
To make lr-retro8, they re-implemented all of pico8 from scratch based on the Lua API. But it is still super glitchy. Really the only games you should expect to work with lr-retro8 is ones that specifically say they're lr-retro8 ready.
The Raspberry PI build you get with commercial pico8 runs everything though AFAIK. Its only drawback is that you can't exit the program from the joypad: you need a keyboard to exit.
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@benmclean Another thing is that the Pico-8 program costs $15. I've paid for it and I think it's worthwhile, but I know that's not an easy option for everyone.
Where can I find games that say the are lr-retro8 ready?
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@ln_rc said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@benmclean Another thing is that the Pico-8 program costs $15. I've paid for it and I think it's worthwhile, but I know that's not an easy option for everyone.
Where can I find games that say the are lr-retro8 ready?
I guess that isn't even a thing. You just have to look at what retro8 says is and is not implemented and find games that don't use features that aren't implemented. Yuck.
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@benmclean Given the limitations of lr-retro8, I'm wondering if it's possible to create an install script for Pico-8 that sets up the basic infrastructure but DOESN'T include the game files (since you need to purchase the system for $15 and we want to support the creators!). I've followed instructions for a basic Pico-8 install on Retropie but there are a lot of steps to do it. Also, the newest Pico-8 version lets you escape the program from joypad. There is now a shutdown option in the basic menu. I think this is really new!
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@ln_rc said in PICO-8: Retroarch lr-retro8 core installation script:
@benmclean Given the limitations of lr-retro8, I'm wondering if it's possible to create an install script for Pico-8 that sets up the basic infrastructure but DOESN'T include the game files (since you need to purchase the system for $15 and we want to support the creators!). I've followed instructions for a basic Pico-8 install on Retropie but there are a lot of steps to do it. Also, the newest Pico-8 version lets you escape the program from joypad. There is now a shutdown option in the basic menu. I think this is really new!
That was my initial thought to do when I first started looking at this. Something which does everything for you except you have to provide it with the executable first.
I can't promise when I'll have something but I can give it a try sometime.
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