PICO-8 on RB7.2

[kalgon]

Hello,

How come the PICO-8 console seems to be available on RB7.2 although a paid license is required to download it?

Are multi-cartridges games like poom and ufo supported?

Thanks,
Kalgon

[lmerckx]

Most of the PICO8 games are free-to-play.

You can download them at this address: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7#sub=2&mode=carts&orderby=featured

by clicking on the "cart" logo (bottom left) of the game window.
The cart format is a PNG image containing the code of the game. So, simply copy it in Recalbox as a standard ROM.

Note that it seems that all games are not supported by the emulator.

[kalgon]

@lmerckx Thank you for the answer but that was not the point of my first question: although PICO-8 cartridges are free, the PICO-8 runtime requires a paid license if you want to run it on linux/windows/rpi (the browser version is free). The PICO-8 machine is not open-source and if you need a binary/executable for a RPi, you can't build it yourself, you need to buy it first before you can download it. So my question is: how can the PICO-8 runtime be redistributed with Recalbox without paying for it? Is that legal? I was thinking that Recalbox could be made to work with PICO-8 as long as the PICO-8 machine was downloaded/installed by the user... but seeing that it's not required to provide the PICO-8 executable, I am questioning the legality of its inclusion in RB.

Concerning games, I was specifically asking about the ones which do not fit on a single cartridge (and often use external lua scripts) like poom and ufo.

[Pitch64]

PICO-8 core is an integration of a Github repository.

https://github.com/Jakz/retro8

[lmerckx]

Yes, it is not the official fantasy console but an open-source clone.
It explains why some games are not perfectly supported, I suppose.

[kalgon]

OK... it all makes sense now! Thank you @lmerckx and @Pitch64.

[AgedLove]

@kalgon said in PICO-8 on RB7.2:

Concerning games, I was specifically asking about the ones which do not fit on a single cartridge (and often use external lua scripts) like poom and ufo.

I might be mistaken, but I think these multicarts don't 'use' external lua scripts no ?
It's just that they are exported in .p8 format (and not .p8.png real cart format) and that the p8 format is not entirely self containing, so it's usually a zip with p8, lua files and some other things

I also saw while opening some carts on the BBS some kind of loading indicator on the top left corner, maybe the first cart of a multi cart is able to load the other carts of the multicart (with internet connection off course) but not sure

UFO Swamp Odyssey is on the BBS at least so you could try it : https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=38153
Not sure it's a multicart though ?