Pico 8 Console

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Pico 8 Console

Post by virtvic » Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:57 am

I love the idea of Pico 8 as a 'fantasy' console that never was - but I went and made a 'real' one!
I used a bare metal version of Pico 8 for the Pi by the late Guillermo Amaral, so it loads in about 10 seconds.
Has a usb nes pad hack iniside for controls. Very limited by the bare metal version for control types, otherwise I'd have used GPIOnext for controls.

What's in the box!
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Side aperture for SD card
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A single power point (12v for screen which gets knocked down via a switching voltage regulator to 5v for the pi zero)
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The final result -
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Re: Pico 8 Console

Post by paddle0 » Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:25 pm

This is completely awesome. What kind of case and buttons did you use? How did you do the case graphics? Is there a way to safely shut it down?

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Re: Pico 8 Console

Post by mackemint » Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:36 am

Very cute!
What's the 12VDC for? Did you sneak in a buck converter in between the pics? ;D

Bare metal PICO-8 sounds fascinating, have to explore this concept further..

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Re: Pico 8 Console

Post by virtvic » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:07 pm

paddle0 wrote:
Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:25 pm
This is completely awesome. What kind of case and buttons did you use? How did you do the case graphics? Is there a way to safely shut it down?
Buttons are standard 24mm Sanwa. Case is an ABS enclosure from Digikey. I just turn it off and had no problems yet.

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Re: Pico 8 Console

Post by virtvic » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:08 pm

mackemint wrote:
Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:36 am
Very cute!
What's the 12VDC for? Did you sneak in a buck converter in between the pics? ;D

Bare metal PICO-8 sounds fascinating, have to explore this concept further..
The screen needs 12v - there is indeed a switching voltage regulator in there to knock that down to 5v for the pi zero.

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