Hey,guys! I recently discovered Pico with a friend and we've started toward building games together.
I noticed VSCode had no support for Pico-8, so built an extension I'd like to share.

PICO-8 Enhanced for VS Code

> 🎮 Complete PICO-8 development support for Visual Studio Code

Turn VS Code into a powerful PICO-8 IDE with comprehensive API documentation, intelligent code completion, beautiful syntax highlighting, and more!

Perfect for fantasy console game development with PICO-8.

🌟 Why This Extension?

• 📚 850+ lines of comprehensive PICO-8 API documentation
• 💡 Smart IntelliSense for all PICO-8 functions
• 🎨 Beautiful syntax highlighting tailored for .p8 files

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Hi everyone.
I've searched the BBS and the documentation, but I can't find a way to tell which key was pressed in Picotron, something similar to pico8's stat(31) that returns the last character read from the keyboard. I know you can query each key with key() and keyp(), but I wanted to know if there's a method that directly returns the character or key that was read.
Thank you!
Best regards,

hello i am trying to create a jumpking demake after coming back to pico after a little break and i seem to have trouble with the pico 8 collision detection can somebody help me with this problem?

jumpkingde

by tclegg211

Cart #jumpkingde-0 | 2025-10-18 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

2. Cryptomancer - A fun puzzle game about solving ice block puzzles tring to put out flames. [7.5/10]
3. Pico-Ball - The best Pico-8 game I've ever played, surpassing my love for Just One Boss! (Which is saying a lot.) [9.5/10]

I'll review these both more in-depth in the future..

This is a reminder to edit my profile

After lots of looking for a decent portable Pico-8 console that I could code on I settled on a used Pocket C.H.I.P. for a pretty good price. So far I had trouble updating it to take advantage of certain things but I eventually figured out how to update Pico-8. Now I just have to learn how to make use of the big scary terminal and get better at coding Lua!
UPDATE: About a week after I got it, it turned on in my bag and killed itself somehow. It is now just a brick of plastic with a screen. :( The error is with pocket home not launching because some files are gone and since Nextthing.co went bankrupt I don't know where to find replacements. If you have any advice that isn't just reflashing it that would be appreciated because I still am scared of the terminal and don't have a linux computer (other than a steam deck). Also sorry I have been silent for so long I just had a lot going on otherwise and haven't had much time to do this and my other interests. I have been working on a short funny game off and on for all of this time though so hopefully I will post that sometime.

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hey so basically, on the P8SCII chart, the first row of characters (1-15) seems to be inaccessable when using chr() and there seems to be no keyboard shortcuts to type them out. anyone know anything about this?

Hey all!

I came across this website today for the first time and was playing a few carts on the main page. I was playing this EXCELLENT game from one of the selections on the right, not realizing that these carts re-load when leaving the page. I have literally been browsing for an hour and a half trying to find it, here and on itch.io. I was hoping you may be able to help.

• Was a very polished/high quality game
• Color scheme was nearly all black and white

• Character design was high quality

• Game started with you choosing 1 available character with others that were locked
• You were shown 6 sides of your die that contained a sword, spear, shield, and sling
• Once game starts you are on a 5x12 ish grid split into 5x6 + 5x6
• Character could move freely on his grid, while an enemy or multiple enemies could move on their grid
• Character rolls a die for an item (sword, spear, shield, or sling)
• Game pauses momentarily showing you the "range" of the weapon

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bisectors

by NonPienary

Cart #bisectors-6 | 2025-10-24 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Hi there, Mx. Casey here!

Here's a little toy I made to show my class the concurrency of the special segments in a triangle. It highlights points of concurrency, so you can see where the points lie for different triangles.

CONTROLS:

< and > change which vertex of the triangle is selected
Arrows + holding X drags the selected vertex
O switches between medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors being drawn.

Satana

by Treveron

Cart #bobezosofi-0 | 2025-10-01 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Save poor Roberto's soul by concentrating on your prayers before the devil themselve takes over in this 1kb microgame!

Game made for the Pico-1K Jam 2025!

Original Idea and text: JaviS

Prigramming and art: Tréveron (@trevvieaamb on bluesky)

Hey Pico-Peeps.

Database spirit here, broadcasting a signal into no the no where of the internet- kind of like a satellite sending radio waves... or maybe turning into space junk?

After playing around with Spacecat and PixelPete tutorials I've finally made my first game- which of course is a rip-off of another game, but hopefully with an enjoyable little twist.

It's... drum roll... Fruit Drop by nerdy teacher- but this time fruits down vanish when they hit the ground- they splat!

In the future I'll learn about sounds in pico-8 and make a nice splat sound to go in the game.

World of Pixeltron (WOP)

After much trouble and debugging I have gotten this to connect to a local Express API and successfully:

• signup
• login / logout
• check users
• ping the API

I have not written any state logic for the game part yet. I’m also not the best pixel artist in the world — but the network backbone is working.

Why I’m Posting This

My hope is to find like-minded individuals who want to help create something really neat for folks with Picotron cyberdecks everywhere.

I named the cart WOP for World of Pixeltron.

A Little Background

As of recent months I got pulled into WoW Classic and the whole Turtle WoW “Classic+” hype.
I’ve run my own private WoW server for years, building backend and database systems.

At first, I didn’t think parts of the client were editable… then projects started popping up.
That’s also when Blizzard’s ban hammers started falling.

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Now how do I do this?

Hi!

I'm Ch0p5h0p, but I'm known here as Blooper7.

I mainly specialize in firmware writing in C/x86 and making other projects in Python, but I like to make some games every now and then. I'm into platformers, story games, shmups, and bullet hells.

okay so basically this trick almost gives you infinite savedata

first, choose a memory address above 0x7fff to represent a progress counter, a memory address above 0x7fff to represent if the game has already set the progress counter to 0, a memory address above 0x7fff to represent the progress before updating, a memory address to declare if the game has started, a variable declaring if the game is calibrating the save values, and a variable inside the game declaring how many extra groups of 64 savedata values are required.

second, in the _init function, set the initial progress counter to the actual progress counter. make an if statement which checks if the progress counter is equal or over the limit. inside that statement, run cartdata with an id concatenated with the progress, set a group of memory addresses to the cartdata values, change the progress counter by one by using the initial progress counter, and then finally load the cartridge again.

third, in the _update function, add an if statement which checks if the game has started. move all of the previous code inside of the _update function into that statement.

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this method exists which almost no information is spread about on the internet

all you have to do is print "\A" concatenated with the note, and then the octave e.g:print("\AD#3"). this plays the D# note on the third octave you can also print a message as it plays if you concatenate the string with a space, and then the message e.g:print("\AD#2 Hello World!"). one thing i find really cool about this feature is that you can harmonize notes by concatenating multiple notes by a space e.g:print("\AD#3 \AD2 \AD1 \AC#1 \AD0").