I've learned to lower my expectations with the Anbernic RG35XX when it comes to playing PICO-8 and TIC-80 games. Lots of them are fine, but some either run super-slow, or get errors when they run.
The ones that do work definitely work well, so I just need to focus on those.
(To be fair I didn't even know about PICO-8 or TIC-80 when I got it, so those are all just bonus games.)
@ktec@a_cup_of_sugar@krystman@requiem It's a work in progress, but I started taking notes about the PICO-8 games that work or give me issues on the Anbernic RG35XX (which uses Fake-08).
@requiem@ktec@a_cup_of_sugar It's not officially supported. I do like what Fake-08 is doing though, only releasing for hardware not officially supported by PICO-8.
I assume there is some technical reason but I'm pretty new to all of this. 😉
My plan is to try those games on the Miyoo Mini Plus (running OnionOS with fake08). Hopefully that will help us to narrow down where the issues lie. Even better if it can result in some good quality bug reports to fake08.
@ktec@a_cup_of_sugar@krystman@requiem I threw this list together because it was easy for me to take notes... but long-term a shared spreadsheet might make more sense if multiple people want to make notes on different hardware, etc.
@ktec@a_cup_of_sugar@krystman@requiem I did read a note today that said Fake-08 development lags behind PICO-8 development by a bit, so any PICO-8 games using newer features will probably not work on Fake-08. (That makes sense.)
Flappy Wish: error message, 'ERROR! PRESS X TO CLOSE. [STRING "FUNCTION FANCY_TEXT(CONFIG)..."]:41: ATTEMPT TO CONCATENATE FIELD '?' (A NIL VALUE)' - similar to https://github.com/jtothebell/fake-08/issues/195
Freezing Knights: error message, 'ERROR: PRESS X TO CLOSE. NO LUA TO LOAD. ABORTING CART LOAD.' - cart may be incompatible
Just a reminder, this is from testing on a Miyoo Mini Plus, running OnionOS 4.2 beta. Apart from some audio stutter on a few games, I didn't detect any performance issues. However, I haven't compared the gameplay to other devices.
@rasterweb@a_cup_of_sugar@krystman@requiem I enjoy how over-the-top some of the effects are. I walk into a wall, the whole screen shakes, and it sounds as if the world is about to implode from the impact!
@rasterweb@a_cup_of_sugar I don't think this has to do with power. I suspect the difference is that the RG35XX runs Pico-8 carts using the Fake08 emulator while the RG353V can run the real Pico-8 natively
Similar to #GarlicOS on the #RG35XX, OnionOS uses the fake08 retroarch core for PICO-8. Whilst it is unofficial, and will not have perfect compatibility, it's my preferred way to run PICO-8 because it's Open Source.
@ktec@krystman@a_cup_of_sugar I do love open source but I also like affordable commercial software that works. I've already paid for PICO-8 and would love to use the official version in GarlicOS. (But I can get by with Fake-08 if needed.)
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