Monthly Archives: February 2024

How to get PICO-8 games to run on Retroid Pocket using Retroarch

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One of the best ways to play PICO-8 games on a Retroid Pocket is via the Retroarch core retro8.

However you may run into the problem of only PICO-8 cart images being displayed rather than Retroarch launching the actual game.

You can solve this problem by doing the following:

Retroarch Settings > User Interface > File Browser > Use Built-In Image Viewer and set it on “No”. This way the image viewer will not get in the way, misinterpreting a PICO-8 cart as just a png file.

Happy Gaming!

How to add Android as a separate platform in Daijisho

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Copy the text below and save it as Android.json

{
    "databaseVersion": 8,
    "platform": {
        "name": "Android",
        "uniqueId": "android",
        "shortname": "android",
        "description": null,
        "acceptedFilenameRegex": "^.*$",
        "scraperSourceList": [
            "RAW:Android"
        ],
        "boxArtAspectRatioId": 0,
        "useCustomBoxArtAspectRatio": false,
        "customBoxArtAspectRatio": null,
        "screenAspectRatioId": 0,
        "useCustomScreenAspectRatio": false,
        "customScreenAspectRatio": null,
        "retroAchievementsAlias": null,
        "extra": ""
    },
    "playerList": [
        {
            "name": "android - activity component player",
            "description": "Android activity component player",
            "acceptedFilenameRegex": "^$",
            "amStartArguments": "-n {android.activity}\n",
            "killPackageProcesses": false,
            "killPackageProcessesWarning": true,
            "extra": ""
        }
    ]
}

Open Daijishou > Settings > (Under All settings) Library > Import Platform > Select the Android.json file.

Now go to the Android Platform > Path > Sync

Note: It is not an official platform and you can flag whether an app is a game or not if you go to daijisho apps section and then long press on an app and mark it as a game/not a game. It will show up in this android platform after syncing. By default the emulators themselves will likely be wrongly flagged as games.