Wonderville is a bar and arcade located in Brooklyn NY. We host a rotating Pico-8 residency on a custom 2P arcade cabinet!
Hey everyone! My name is Mark and I'm co-owner of a bar in Brooklyn called Wonderville. We have a custom 2P Pico-8 cabinet in our space and every three months we select a new game to install for a rotating residency. Applications are now open for our Fall 2025 residency, beginning on September 1st and ending December 1st.
If you'd like to submit a game, you can apply at the following link:
https://tinyurl.com/Pico8CabinetSubmission
We've been hosting this residency for 4 years and you can view some of the past games we've shown here:
https://wondervilleprojects.org/programs/residencies
The deadline to submit for this fall is August 24th at midnight - but don't worry because the form accepts rolling submissions so you can submit after that point for the Winter residency.
Thanks to everyone who has submitted! I wish we could pick more than one game! If you visit NYC please drop by and visit us!
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Hello!
My name is Mark and I curate a Pico-8 arcade cabinet at a venue called Wonderville in Brooklyn NY. We've been running this residency for several years and the hardware we use is a Raspberry Pi 3 running PicoPi by Guillermo A Amaral. Guillermo tragically passed away in 2020 but his work is archived here:
https://github.com/keints/picopi
Essentially, if a cart is named "rom.p8" or "rom.p8.png" the Pi will autoboot into that rom. This has worked successfully for us for 3 years and I've been able to update Pico8 just by replacing the "Pico8" folder in the root directory.
However, our latest selection for the residency - Oblivion Eve - uses a multicart and we're getting a lot of errors referencing files. Renaming one of the files to "rom.p8" causes the references between the other files to break, so when the player dies, it gets stuck in a "Download Failed" loop and the arcade needs to be reset. I've been working with the developer to try to fix this but we seem to be at an impasse. We've tried creating an alias or a shortcut to the main file and including the data files as well, but none of this seems to work.
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