Hello!
My name is Mark and I curate a Pico-8 arcade cabinet at a venue called Wonderville in Brooklyn NY. We've been running this residency for several years and the hardware we use is a Raspberry Pi 3 running PicoPi by Guillermo A Amaral. Guillermo tragically passed away in 2020 but his work is archived here:
https://github.com/keints/picopi
Essentially, if a cart is named "rom.p8" or "rom.p8.png" the Pi will autoboot into that rom. This has worked successfully for us for 3 years and I've been able to update Pico8 just by replacing the "Pico8" folder in the root directory.
However, our latest selection for the residency - Oblivion Eve - uses a multicart and we're getting a lot of errors referencing files. Renaming one of the files to "rom.p8" causes the references between the other files to break, so when the player dies, it gets stuck in a "Download Failed" loop and the arcade needs to be reset. I've been working with the developer to try to fix this but we seem to be at an impasse. We've tried creating an alias or a shortcut to the main file and including the data files as well, but none of this seems to work.
I know this is a bit of a shot in the dark, but has anyone had any luck booting multicarts in the PicoPi environment? Anything I can try out?
Thanks in advance for your help!
-Mark
Link to Oblivion Eve:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140564
Wonderville Arcade Residency Information:
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