Android Libretro Instructions

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.