Pico8 Games

[FrancoB]

LED display looks great Joe I know you put a lot of work in to get it up and running but it looks ace. I bet it looks even better IRL

[pubjoe]

Thanks. It looks MUCH better in person. The colours and brightness are glorious. It's depressing to see the resulting photographs of these.

[pubjoe]

That lovely Stick!

Thanks. It looks MUCH better in person.

[pubjoe]

It's depressing to see the resulting photographs of these.

I don't know how to represent this but if only a few LEDs are lit and I cheat up the saturation then it kind of looks close, ish.



Brilliant puzzle Game that. Trichromat.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140628



The game cries out for pure primary colours which are absent from Pico8's palette. I discovered I could force them to the LED matrix by reducing bits per colour in the driver.

[arcnl]

What screen is it and how did you hook it up? It looks pretty good for pico8 usage

[pubjoe]

I used four of these but they were cheaper at time of order:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EGdlgqQ

Also:
- A Pi4 (I've tried a Zero2W but can't quite get it up to speed)
- A 5v 15a PSU
- Some IDC cables of different lengths.
- A 'HUB75' adapter
- A week of headache



My lad made me some joints in TinkerCAD.

[geotrig]

thats pretty cool pubjoe ,love it , whats the pico8 running on the pi4 ? i didnt really process what was in the pic before as i was distracted by your stick

[cools]

My lad made me some joints in TinkerCAD.

Resin?

[pubjoe]

thats pretty cool pubjoe ,love it , whats the pico8 running on the pi4 ?

Yeah Pi4. Well, Pi400 but it's the same thing. It uses hzeller's LED library and Jenissimo's program which takes continuous screenshots of Pico8 to display on the LED matrix. I made a video to test my setup and joy_test.p8 responds after 1-2 frames of latency which I'm guessing is about the same as any normal screen used with Pico8.

These panels have a lot of potential for retrogaming. A 256x256 matrix would be great for classic arcade games. There's currently a program for Game Boy on LEDs. My 128x128 matrix set would use downscaling, but I kinda feel GB with its inverted greyscale / light backgrounds is one system that wouldn't fit so well. Maybe I'm wrong. Pico 8 is perfect anyway.

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Lava Joe goes mental at 2500ft

[pubjoe]

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=54986



Very simple but fun. I took back the house record with this score:



I'm getting better at photographing this thing, with editing.