Hello again. I am working on a fan handheld for the Pico 8. Once this project is finished, I'll upload all the cad files onto Thingiverse and create a guide on how to create your own Pico 8 handheld. This is what the first prototype shell looks like.

The button spacing feels perfect, but the shell is too wide. Fortunately, it seems like I can shrink it down roughly 5mm so it will be around the same thickness of a Dmg-01 Gameboy. The rounded edges makes it feel comfortable to hold. I might reposition the battery holder location so I might be able to shrink it down another 5mm. I'll take any suggestions for this project as I want this to as good as possible. My goals for this project:

• It must be comfortable to hold and not too bulky.
• It must have a 128x128 resolution screen.
• It must have sound.
• It must take AA batteries, but you are free to modify the project to use rechargeable batteries

What I have done so far:

• Made some designs in fusion360

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Hello there. My name is Grhmhome and I've been working on a fan handheld for Pico 8, using a Pi Zero W. I've been working on this project for roughly a week now. I'm proficient with Cad, 3D printing, and I've been learning soldering. I wanted to make a handheld for the Pico 8 with the correct aspect ratio screen and I finally found the perfect screen for my project. This post is a quick tutorial on how to get the Waveshare 128x128 RGB OLED display module to work properly. This took me all of yesterday to get to work properly as I had to troubleshoot and do more troubleshooting.

Where to find this screen?
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D9NVJPZ/
Waveshare: https://www.waveshare.com/1.5inch-rgb-oled-module.htm

I used the latest version of RetroPie for this project.

Step 1. Wiring the screen. The pins I used are as follows. The connector that comes with the display should be color coded.

VCC (Power +): Any 3.3V
GND (Power -): Any GND

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tdw_pico8_full_release

by ChronoChill

Cart #tdw_pico8_full_release-1 | 2021-08-07 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Welcome to the demon's lair, his dwelling. How did you get here? How will you escape? CAN you escape? Try your best, it's easier said then done...

Enjoy this classic-styled rogue-like!

Game Content

• 34 Different Items
• 7 Item Types
• A Grim, Dark Little Story
• Many Challenging Floors
• 10 Different Enemies

Hey all, I'm back at it again! I put every critical feature I could fit into this cart.

Currently using 8192/8192 tokens.

NPC’s

There are npc's in the game. Bump into them to talk with them!

Overall Score System

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Dijkstra Map visualizer

dijkstra_visualizer

by olus2000

Cart #dijkstra_visualizer-0 | 2021-08-07 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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While trying to follow a talk on map generation on youtube I created some demos. Here is one that is most functional and most pretty so far.

Controls:

• Arrows: move the cursor
• Z: Calculate a new map starting from the cursor
• X: Generate new cave

Explanation:

Dijkstra maps contain information about distance from each point on the graph to a set starting point. In this case the graph is a generated cave-like map and the point is picked at random, but can be changed with arrow keys + Z.

After the Dijkstra map is calculated the cave map is colored like this:

• Walls are black.

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suno pi toki pona (2021) demo v2

by rnd

Cart #rnd_suno_pi_toki_pona_2021-2 | 2021-08-09 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Today is the 20th birthday of the minimalist conlang "toki pona". An event is held to celebrate that. I made a small PICO-8 cartridge to celebrate it.

Controls: UP/DOWN -- move time one hour ahead or behind

LEFT/RIGHT -- control the wind

O+X (Z+X on keyboard by default) -- activate easter egg

Changelog:

Version 2 (current) -- fixed time calculation so the cartridge doesn't crash long before or after the event.

Version 1:

suno pi toki pona (2021) demo

by rnd

Cart #rnd_suno_pi_toki_pona_2021-1 | 2021-08-07 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Copy and paste the snippet below into your HTML.

<iframe src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/widget.php?pid=rnd_suno_pi_toki_pona_2021" allowfullscreen width="621" height="513" style="border:none; overflow:hidden"></iframe>

tile_map_thing

by MinekPo1

Cart #tile_map_thing-0 | 2021-08-06 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Maze not included.

heli_practice

by coopersnout

Cart #heli_practice-0 | 2021-08-06 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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My first short, simple game attempt while learning some of the basics of PICO-8. There's a lot of collision issues and some Space Invader ripping off, but it's... a game?

Hi, I made a pause/wait function. Feel free to use.

timer=1
p=0

function _update()
 pause(5)--Wait 5/30 frames then do what is in the if loop
 if timer==1 then
 end
end

function pause(p)
 if timer>p then
  timer=0
 end
 timer+=1
end

Pause/Wait Function

by AlphaTech_

Cart #nafipoyede-0 | 2021-08-06 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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I've looked around and found out that literally no one has posted anything about attempts to implement BASIC on the PICO-8, which honestly kinda disappointed me. BASIC is, well, basic, so I would have thought someone would have at least tried to implement it... and now I want to do it.

Thoughts?

~ ~ INSTRUCTIONS ~ ~
Open the main menu (e.g. with Enter), toggle the COLORBLIND option, and then select CONTINUE to see the result.

Colorblind Mode Example

by bengamesquad

Cart #fepasozuti-0 | 2021-08-06 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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~ ~ INFO ~ ~
Hi all!

I've been messing around with PICO-8 after using it briefly a little while ago, and I've been having a lot of fun! But I was working on a game that involved a red ball on green grass, and I realized that this wouldn't be very accessible to a lot of players with colorblindness, even if the contrast was really nice for players without colorblindness. I decided, in my case, the best solution was to add a simple "colorblind mode", and that's where this code snippet comes from.

This is not perfect at all, but basically it manipulates the palette to give much better contrast in many situations for the three common types of colorblindness (red-blind, green-blind, and blue-blind), though most of all for red- and green-blindness, mainly focusing on shifting reds to orange and greens to blue (as suggested by the various accessibility manuals I looked at).

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snake_to_the_future

by NekuSoul

Cart #snake_to_the_future-0 | 2021-08-05 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Play a game of Snake!
However, all inputs are sent to the past.
The longer your snake gets the farther your inputs travel into the past.

tumama

Bubble Battle

Bubble Battle 1.0

by PeanutsFly

Cart #bubblebattle-1 | 2021-08-05 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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This second little PICO-8 game was created for the Mini Jam 84: Bubbles.

About the game:

In this game you play the heart that is kept alive in the sea by an oxygen bubble. To survive you have to collect oxygen. Watch out: dangers lurk in the water like dangerous poisons and bombs. Avoid or destroy them with the help of your oxygen, which can serve as ammunition!

During the entire duration of the game, your freedom of movement is restricted by a single accessible area in the water. Will you survive?

Unlockable achievements are integrated in the game for even longer fun in the game.

I hope you enjoy the game!

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Shakin' Man 1.0

by Barracuda

Cart #donusikofa-0 | 2021-08-05 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

This is a little something I made learning to use Pico-8 recently. I know it's messy and simple, but I always have fun toying around with Pico-8!

Hold [x] for good fun!