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Android Libretro Instructions
Jon Bell edited this page Mar 11, 2023
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Modified from this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/comments/y4uq8q/pico8_emulation_on_retroid_pocket_2_using_fake08/ with help about turning off the built in image viewer from this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/comments/y4uq8q/comment/j4rhevk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Instructions for installing the core on retroarch:
- Download the "Android-Libretro.zip" from the release page
- You need to copy the contents of the "libs" folder to your Retroid Pocket, just remember the path where you put it because we'll use it later.
- Head to your RetroArch and click on "Load Core". Click on "Install or Restore a Core" and choose the core matching your device’s architecture/retro arch install. Most newer devices should use libfake08-arm64.
- Optional but encouraged: turn off the built in image viewer to prevent png carts from being opened in the image viewer: ''Retroarch > Configurations > File Browser > Use Built-In Image Viewer''
Instructions to add carts in retroarch
- Do a manual scan (you may be able to do a regular scan if you can install the info file)
- Go to import Content on the top level menu, then select “Manual Scan”
- Select the folder where you have your cart files stored for “Content Directory”, and if the name isn’t what you want to show up, add “PICO-8” in for the “System Name”. If it isn’t available in the list, manually set it in the “Custom System Name” property
- For the default core, select “Pico-8 (FAKE-08)”
- enter “p8 png” into the “File Extensions”
- if you have any zipped files, you can select “scan inside archives”, but I wouldn’t recommend it
- ignore the rest of the options and select “scan now”
Instructions for anyone that wants to do this with Daijishō front-end:
- Follow retroarch instructions above
- You can download the platform "PICO-8" in Platforms -> Download. The default RetroArch player for PICO-8 does not really work at least for me so you can change it to fake-08. To do this, go to Settings -> Players and platforms -> More settings -> Inspect players -> pico8
- Then in "Player am start arguments" you need to rename the LIBRETRO path to the path where you copy the libfake08-arm64.so
- For example, for me this is the path: -e LIBRETRO /data/data/com.retroarch.aarch64/cores/libfake08-arm64.so
- You now can run the PICO-8 games from this front-end launcher.