This is a feature request, and I hope not a lightly dismissed one.

Having tried out some games that keep track of your personal high-score, would it be possible to have a future PICO save not just a unique file but a SHARED online file. Perhaps no bigger than 256-bytes per cart ?

In this, people could play a game, post their high score. And afterwards - see EVERYONE else's high score for who played the same video game written by the same author so they have something to compete over.

This would open up all kinds of interesting new things including MORPG, MUDS, and 2- or more simultaneous player games.

cartdata("rockets_romance")
sharedno=wget(0)

So let's say two people are playing the game at the same time.

The moment wget() or wset() is activated, it retrieves that value from Online.

To prevent a bottleneck, if the system is 'busy' with someone else reading or writing an Online value, it waits until it can have a turn to read or post a value.

And it also uses a method of timeout for everyone else so few to zero bottlenecks would ever be reached. Possibly a 1-second delay to read the same Online value more than once by the same person (which should only occur if you reboot the game).

does wget or other way to pull content in from internet exist?

WGET is just a command I made up. I don't think it exists yet. But as that famous movie said, "If you build it, he will come ..."

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3c_pJ_CLJQ]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3c_pJ_CLJQ])

=HE= hoping to be the person who makes the update in PICO so we can all have the ability of shared Online data.

yeah that would be interesting. are there any work-arounds to consider?

I doubt it. I suspect PICO (aside from SPLORE) is currently just as dumb, deaf, and blind as a SNES cart.

And - in many ways, that does make it safe to use.

yep, security is def something to think about with dynamic features.

i'm going to think on this.