Hello,
I’m a new user today and I’m hoping someone could help please! I have downloaded the Pico8 software and transferred it to my Raspberry pi 3 handheld and it shows up in emulationstation etc so I’ve got this far but now, after adding the .p8.png cart images to the folder they do show up, but then when I launch it the screen goes black and sends me back to emulationstation! Does anyone know what I’m doing or have done wrong please? Any help is much appreciated Thankyou

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Did you install wiringpi? PICO-8 will not run without it.
You can download it at: https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/w/wiringpi/

This guide helped me a lot with installing and configuring PICO-8 on my GPi case: https://sinisterspatula.github.io/RetroflagGpiGuides/pico8/pico8.html

I did install wiringpi yes!

Other than that I’ve done what’s in the guide!?

@NicoPico Ok so after some tinkering I now have it running so thanks!
Next problem is how do I map my controls because currently none of the buttons on my handheld register and only the keyboard works?

Can you add how you solved your problem, to share the knowledge?

For your second question (please be a little patient before you open another thread with the same question), does this help: https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/Controllers

@merwok of course yes apologies, I’m new to the site and all this.
In the end I was recommended to run the following in the terminal..

chmod +x /home/pi/pico-8/pico8

And after that it finally booted!
Hope this helps someone!.. any idea how I can boot straight into Splore so I don’t need the keyboard?

According to https://neko250.github.io/pico8-api/

Running Pico8 with the "-splore" argument will boot directly into Splore.

@Sofox I still have to physically type Splore in everytime? I can’t boot straight to Splore or a cart without a keyboard?

No! The idea is that you write a launcher script (or a menu entry, or a desktop file to have a clickable icon) that contains exec /path/to/pico8 -splore

@merwok got it. Thanks

I forgot that you were using EmulationStation!
So instead of launcher script or desktop file, it’s in the EmulationStation settings that you would change the command «/home/pi/pico-8/pico8» to «/home/pi/pico-8/pico8 -splore».

There is a lot of info in this thread: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3935
But it is for the mode where you have carts on your raspberry pi and you configure EmulationStation to use pico8 to play png files. It seems that you want something else: start pico8 with splore from ES.

@merwok yes I followed that guide and now boot into Splore via that method so thanks!