🏷️ About: The First Pico-8 Emulator on the App Store! PicPic brings the charming world of Pico-8 games to your iPhone, letting you play thousands of tiny, handcrafted games natively on iOS. What is Pico-8? Pico-8 is a fantasy console, a creative platform with deliberate constraints that inspire developers to build small, expressive games in 128x128 pixels with a 16-color palette.
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Needs a little polish in a few aspects but not much to complain about. Only issues are that itch.io Pico-8 downloads don’t seem to work, and the touch screen controls only respond to long press and double tap input.
I tried pico arcade and that game didn’t play I pressed x to start a game and it glitched so please fix
I wish there was picotron support
I’ve been waiting for a Pico-8 this app for iOS and here it is! It’s simple to download .p8 files (carts) from lexaloffle.com to a folder on my iPhone and launch the games in Picpic. The controls need some work—I tried both the touchscreen and the Gamesir Pocket Taco and both were buggy—as I’m sure the devs are aware.
I really hope Emulator gets lots of support because there is so much potential here!
Need an option to move the game screen vertically. Just got my GameSir Pocket Taco, and when connected, the Pico-8 viewport is centered, placing it slightly under my controller. If I had a slider to move the screen vertically, that would be stupendous.
Edit: I found an option to lock the screen to the top when a controller is connected. Perfect!
Some games like Slipways use mouse input (meant to be run on a computer). Thanks for that!
You should have mentioned this in your 2.0 release notes instead of just “updates”. I found your post on r/SBCGaming to find out more!
pretty good!! but it would be cool to have splore or a full editor :)
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PicPic brings the charming world of Pico-8 games to your iPhone, letting you play thousands of tiny, handcrafted games natively on iOS.
• Mouse & Touch Games – Play cartridges that use Pico-8's mouse/pointer input natively.
Pico-8 is a fantasy console, a creative platform with deliberate constraints that inspire developers to build small, expressive games in 128x128 pixels with a 16-color palette.
• Import Cartridges – Load games from Files, Safari, or import entire folders at once.
• Starter Games – A few great games included so you can play right away.
