PICO-8 and TIC-80

[Gary_Oak]

I was wondering if there would be any interest in preserving these "systems" given that both the PICO-8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICO-8) and TIC-80 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIC-80) are fantasy consoles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_v ... me_console). Nonetheless, they both have their own set of games (with the PICO-8 in particular, funnily enough, the "carts" are presented as PNG files with all data stored within them) and active communities still developing games for them (with PICO-8 being the most popular).

PICO-8 Website: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
PICO-8 Games on itch.io: https://itch.io/games/tag-pico-8

TIC-80 Website: https://tic80.com/
TIC-80 Games on itch.io: https://itch.io/games/tag-tic-80

[rarenight]

I actually conducted research into cataloguing PICO-8 on No-intro when I added Arduboy.

There is a complete archive which scraped the Lexaloffle BBS in its entirety from February 2023 that could be datted as-is, but a theoretical PICO-8 DAT would have a whopping 23,382 entries and would require a lot of manual fixes for wonky filenames. For example:



And it still needs to be updated for all games released since then. It's ultimately quite a massive project to take on if we're aiming for comprehensiveness. I unfortunately do not have the time to take on more datting projects, I have enough on my plate as-is. But there is certainly potential!

[lordelan]

I highly agree that we should preserve those catalogues.
I also started a reddit post about a fitting naming convention some time ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pico8/comments ... co8_games/

[hitm4n]

I've been putting a collection together using the lexalofflewaffle scrape and the collections put out by Voljega. He's done a newer release recently (PICOwesome v1.5 (apr-12-2024)). At one point i had well over 100,000 files, now its around 45,000. I've been VERY slowly renaming them based on the png information/screenshot, original filename and trying to unify somewhat, but i've also been going down the 1g1r route too and deleting clones and revisions. Not in the spirit of No-Intro i guess.

Like rarenight says, its a HUGE job, i'm unlikely to complete it.