Hi,

This is my first post and I don't know if it's a good thing to write a question here, so let's see.

First of all I LOVE Pico-8 since years, a friend of mine introduce me to this awesome project in a game jam and I immediately felt good with it. But I am bad at drawing, composing music and coding innovative games so after that event I stopped lua coding and just continued reading news and playing cartridge made by other. You guys really make my eyes shine.

Well today I decided to contribute by making a cart reader, browser, assets extractor and a sound/music player and editor (to begin). Things are progressing well and I will soon be ready for public release. But... questions :

• Is it legally authorized to distribute such tool ?
• Do anybody (other than me) need/want it ?
• Can someone help solve a pxa compression problem (maybe unicode related...) ? /!\ SOLVED

Screenshot of the actual cart browser (all WIP) :

Screenshot of the actual sound editor :

am i off topic ?

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A little update with two side projects, the first is intended to produce custom cartridge picture. Create or load custom picture or use pre-loaded templates, change color and text. You can also change existing cartridge picture without altering ROM data.

The second is intended to let you produce custom font file (.TTF) from a small pixel editor and use it anywhere for your game or any other document.

Tell me what you think.

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| EDIT 2021-03-26
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I just released the Pixel Font Editor (still in early dev stage, Windows only) with a TTF sample.
Use it at your own risk ^^. The editor is safe but installing custom font on your OS can put you in trouble !
Download it here : My Website

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| EDIT 2021-03-29
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Solved the PXA problem, I will be able to continue the dev.
Thanks to zeto8.

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| EDIT 2021-03-31
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Released another small tool that allows you to extract information (label, spritesheet, tilemap, lua code, P8 data) from a cartridge see picture below.
Download it here : My Website
If you have any problem or suggestion just let me know

Enjoy

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\> Is it legally authorized...

It would be best to ask zep for permission beforehand.

A particular concern is that you've used the Pico-8 logo e.g. as the app icon for your cart browser. As per the FAQ the icon can be used for complementary material for a PICO-8 cart such as box art, but if you are making a separate software product etc you will need to ask zep, especially since it may compete with or could be confused for an official Lexaloffle product.

\> Does anybody need/want it ?

Looks like there's potential to develop this further into useful dev tools -- unlike Pico-8's built-in editor it won't be constrained by display limitations.

Hi,
download link of the "pixel font editor" in original post.
if you have any problem using it please let me know

Hi,
download link of the "cartridge inspector" in original post.
if you have any problem using it please let me know

@EBArtSoft I love the custom cartridge maker! Is there anywhere i can download it?

It's interesting what you did here with the Font Editor, @EBArtSoft. Could you please allow import of any TTF to it ?

Also your grid is 7x7, please allow option for 8x8 which is standard Pico-8 sprite size.