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So you want to print a star ★ on screen without drawing it? Just do:
print("\146", x, y, col) \146 is the Picotron character value of the star symbol

Here's the list of all codes we found working in Picotron:

Buttons

\code - symbol - name

  • \131 - ⬇️ - Down Key
  • \139 - ⬅️ - Left Key
  • \145 - ➡️ - Right Key
  • \148 - ⬆️ - Up Key
  • \142 - 🅾️ - O Key
  • \151 - ❎ - X Key

Symbols

\code - symbol - name

  • \16 - ▮ - Vertical rectangle
  • \17 - ▬ - Horizontal rectangle
  • \18 - Horizontal half filled rectangle?
  • \22 - ◀ - Back
  • \23 - ▶ - Forward
  • \24 -「 - Japanese starting quote
  • \25 - 」- Japanese ending quote
  • \28 - 、- Japanese comma
  • \29 - ▪ - Small square (bigger than a pixel)
  • \31 - ⁘ - Four dots
  • \128 - ■ - Square
  • \129 - ▒ - Checkerboard
  • \132 - ░ - Dot pattern
  • \134 - ● - Ball
  • \143 - ◆ - Diamond
  • \144 - .... - Ellipsis
  • \152 - ▤ - Horizontal lines
  • \153 - ▥ - Vertical lines

Emojis

\code - symbol - name

  • \130 - 🐱 - Cat
  • \133 - ✽ - Throwing star
  • \135 - ♥ - Heart
  • \136 - ☉ - Eye (kinda)
  • \137 - 웃 - Man
  • \138 - ⌂ - House
  • \140 - 😐 - Face
  • \141 - ♪ - Musical note
  • \146 - ★ - Star
  • \147 - ⧗ - Hourglass
  • \149 - ˇˇ - Birds
  • \150 - ∧∧ - Sawtooth

  • Printable characters 32-127 match the ASCII standard, meaning they represent all normal characters and symbols you can type in with your keyboard
  • Characters 154-253 should be Japanese letters, but they don't show correctly on my pc, could it be the region or language I setup in settings?
  • 254 & 255 don't show left ◜ or right ◝ arc like in Pico8

HEX

You can also use HEX code instead of these numbers, e.g. the the star ★ is \146 but also 0x92 etc. Here' a handy table of all HEX values made by @richardjam13:

If you find any other code working let me know down here and I'll update the list!

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Nice post :-)
Hoping compatibility with PICO-8 and in general (copy&paste, etc.) continues to improve.



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Oh, this is cool. I figured out the pico8 special characters were represented as U+0080 to U+009A. I didn't know about the escape codes for them though.

\128 to \154 correspond to the capital letters in Pico8.

Edit: Oh, I just realized. 128 is 0x80 in hex. So that's why \128 is the same as U+0080
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I printed all the chars from 16 to 255 and took a screenshot
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@richardjam13 great! thank you, I added your table in the post

@arnaught I didn't know too! just found out and shared it here

@aced yeah true, it will get better for sure

2x90 is not a hex code :) 146 is 0x92

@merwok oops my bad, corrected it



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