hi!

how do i setup a permanent storage?

0.2.0i_windows, fresh install from itch.io, "install_demos" just quits PICO-8 completely. plus there is no pico-8 related stuff in "AppData/Roaming" (could it be because of the cyrillic windows username?)

thanks,
Dima

It might be choking on your cyrillic username. It's easy to check.

You can specify a new home folder with the -home command line option.

Create a new folder with an English path, and edit your shortcut to launch the program like this :

pico8 -home c:/pico

Hi @dimavesnin

It is very possibly caused by the Cyrillic username, but PICO-8 is supposed to deal with unicode paths (I use it with a home directory including Japanese characters, for example).

Could you tell me which version of Windows you're using?

Also, if you try the "pico8.exe -home c:/pico8_dat" method, it would be useful to know if it also fails when there is Cyrillic in the pico8_dat folder name -- it might be struggling only with finding the user AppData path.

// Windows 10: To open a command shell in PICO-8's application folder (C:\Program Files\PICO-8 or similar), shift+right-click on the folder, and choose "open powershell window here".

thanks for replies, manual setup of the home path helped!

that was the case for both windows 10 1909 and 2004, and I ensured that it worked fine installed on the same machine, but with english user name, so it looks like the case of cyrillic letters in appdata path

thanks for caring and for the help!