@zep
This problem has happened to me multiple times now where I'm doing music in the sfx editor, (and the pattern editor maybe?)
And I hit cmd+r.
Pico-8 crashes immediately and I've checked my backups folder to find this time nothing was saved...
I'm not sure if it's because I don't have any code and I just made a cart to do music in, and it doesn't happen all of the time when you run, but when it does happen it crashes and you lose everything :(

I'm not sure how to recreate it but if you could find it please squash this bug/crash, thanks.

I'm on mac, version 0.1.12c

Cover of world 4 I made from Super Mario Bros 3.
Not perfect but like how compact and the juice that buzz adds.
[sfx]

Hey I made a galaxy map thingy where you can look at a galaxy and read-up on aliens I guess.
not much to it but here

galaxymapthing

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #galaxymapthing-0 | 2020-12-18 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Hi! @zep I was wondering if we could have more ways to make the pico-8 code editor more customizable.
I think it would be really nice if the color-highlighting syntax stuff was changeable for what color it would display it as. so if I don't want numbers to be blue I could make them green etc.

this also goes for the background color which is changeable already but it would be nice to have some more options with that. (I really like the dark green background.)

Other options to change color syntax would be nice like function calls() being a different color from vars as well.. (maybe some other stuff too I'm not thinking about..)

Anyways it would be nice if you could make the code editor more customized to how you like to code, and having all of this be some numbers in the config file would be awesome!

For example if the function call stuff by default was still lightgray it would be nice to change that to be different. so even stuff that's the same by default could be changed if people didn't want it that way.

Anyways Here's a example of what I was talking about; if it isn't to much work I think this would just give more options to how people want to work in pico-8 without changing pico-8's editor by default at all.

Thanks for reading this! ^_^ (not sure if #bugs was the right place to post it but here)

(PS: If anyone reads this in the future I want to say that the idea of handing syntax highlighting colors, or really just the colors used by the IDE off to the user is incredibly stupid.. or at least over kill.
I don't want this any more... Still want that col3 bg but ya I retract this; wth was I thinking?)

so I was messing with a little tweetcart esc thing;

t=0u=0g=1pal(0,14)
cls(7)
::♪:: if(t>=256)t=1u+=1
 t+=1
 oval(t+g,t-100,t/2,t/2-1000,t/16)
 g=sin(u/100)*500
goto ♪

and when I put the "if" next to the "::♪::" it turns gray like it's part of the "::♪::".
and then when I put a ";" before with a space or without it gives me a error even if the "if" is pink..?

Is this a bug? I'm on 0.2.1B

I feel like if it doesn't like the if touching the label it should like it if there's a simicolin touching between them.. IDK..

PS: anything after a goto is gray for some reason even with spaces now that I think of it

Super Paper Mario Tunes V1

superpapermariotunes

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #superpapermariotunes-1 | 2020-09-19 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Info

Description

Hi! this is a project I thought of forever ago and finally got around to doing it. (or part of it..)
I wanted to try to make covers from one of my childhood classics; Super Paper Mario.
IDK the songs are super complex but I tried my best to translate them into pico-8. (I'm terrible at music)
I've only done LineLand Road as of Version 1. (I might do more stuff later.)
(here's the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqW1GFxRGvg)
Hope you enjoy let me know what you think I spent a long time working on this! :D

song listing

1 - LineLand Road

Version log

V1

Uploaded LineLand Road.

Ice reflection demo

Hi this is a simple cart that has a ice reflection effect in 2 functions!
I was going to use this for little ice reflection tiles maybe but I figured I could share it too.
Feel free to use this! :p

icereflectiondemo

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #icereflectiondemo-1 | 2020-09-03 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Delve Feedback help

Delve v0.17

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #delve-0 | 2020-08-09 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Thanks if you looked at this!

PS:
Asking what people think about my game with 0 ideas thrown at the player is probably not the best idea so here's some topics that I would like help with thanks again :) :

• controls
• titlescreen / options
• map generation issues
• area concepts or misc ideas about gameplay

(some problems I might already know about but please tell me anyways)

was messing around with having █ and ▒ being written to a file with printh()
But then it wasn't working when I tried to read them...
Then I looked at the chr list and █▒ (48,50) arn't on there and instead 0,2 are 48,50...?
How would I use chr() to give me █/▒? is it possible?

Flag Demo

Flagdemo

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #flagdemo-1 | 2020-08-01 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Summary

This is a tiny cart I made to learn Tline. Then I got carried away and made a scene and everthing else...
IDK if you want to look at the code to see how stuff is done feel free! I did some poke shanagains with

 -- 0x33dc (sfx7note1..3)

 rng=64+flr(rnd(32)/2)*2
 for i=0,2 do
  poke(0x33dc+i*2,rng+i*2)
 end
 sfx(7)

if your curious. : p

Hope this is relaxing or what ever!

controls

• up Down | move flag
• z | play randomized sounds

Was wondering if someone could help me figure out a poke that I wanted to do.

I was trying to figure out how to edit the first note in sfx7,
So when I hit a button it pokes that address and then plays a diffrent pitch depending on the value I poke.
could someone help point out what address(es) that would be?

Thanks in advance! (I'm newish to peek/poking!)

Squid Defense

Squid Defence V1.2

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #squiddefence-4 | 2022-06-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Summary

Hi, This is my game Squid Defense that (originally for V1.) I spent a little over 8 days working on!
I spent forever trying to make sure it was perfect, but it has some bugs and annoying things to it but I hope it's still fun still. : )

(Might update this later, IDK.)

Goal

Try to defend the Beachball by shooting various sea creatures with ink! (ink has limited use with quick recharge.)
your ball has 4hp and it heals by 1hp at the end of a wave.

Also watch out for the ever changing tide, it might make you rethink how you need to play!

The # of stars after a map's name show the difficulty of that map, every map has 20 waves see if you can beat them!

(Feel free to share your scores and let me know! : P)

Have fun!

Thanks for checking this out and have fun!

Details

Controls

Images

Cast

Version log

Old game versions

Here you can play old versions of the game if you want. : p

V1

Squid Defence

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #squiddefence-1 | 2020-07-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Copy and paste the snippet below into your HTML.

Note: This cartridge's settings do not allow embedded playback. A [Play at lexaloffle] link will be included instead.

<iframe src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/widget.php?pid=squiddefence" allowfullscreen width="621" height="513" style="border:none; overflow:hidden"></iframe>

V1.1

Squid Defence V1.1

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #squiddefence-2 | 2020-08-08 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Copy and paste the snippet below into your HTML.

Note: This cartridge's settings do not allow embedded playback. A [Play at lexaloffle] link will be included instead.

<iframe src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/widget.php?pid=squiddefence" allowfullscreen width="621" height="513" style="border:none; overflow:hidden"></iframe>

Hi! I was working on a game and I was trying to make it so that for ex:
[
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 ... would be translated into
01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12 ...
]

and I was wondering how do you "apend" stuff to a string? I might be doing a doofus play but I forget some stuff about PICO-8 since I took a break from it : o

here's the code snipit I'm trying to figure out so far

 wavenum+=1

 wavestring=tostr(wavenum)
 if (#wavestring==1) add(wavestring,"0")

(was wondering if you can use add() to add to a string maybe..

I was wondering what colors were useable for the background and when I went to go look I was sad because darkgreen wasn't useable :| I was wondering if more colors that aren't used for text colors could be background colors! IDK it's not really important but I would love a darkgreen background option.

[EDIT: forgot that the mouse has dark blue when pal swapped img. : o]

Wip Dogo game

WIP Dogo

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #pobopduwu-0 | 2020-06-02 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

This cart is just a demo to show a game I didn't finish.

I was making a game (I don't want to spoil it) but I'm sspring a 16x16 sprite on to the screen;

But when it's drawn to the screen it shows up as:

It has weird brown and blue pixels in it's gobbler...

But if I replace one of the pixels;

It dosen't anymore...?

I'm on ver 0.2.0 so maybe that's it? If anyone knows why this is happening please tell me, thanks!

Oh yea; here's the code as well

-- talking

iftalk=false
smoothslidein=0
function coversation()
 taint(0)
 uitoggle=false
 if (smoothslidein<18) smoothslidein+=.5
 nicebox(camx,camy,128+camx,128+camy,▥,1,0)

 --sspr(0,96,16,16, camx,96+camy, 32,32 )
 sspr(talkinfo.id*16,96,16,16, 96+camx,96+camy, 32,32 )
 --taint(1)
end

sprite flag problems

I've been brute-forcing sprite flag numbers for a while and I gave up after like 2000..

What's the number for flag 6+7?

I know that 6 alone is 64 and 7 alone is 128, but combined I have no idea..

Please send help, thanks

(WIP) Medikaren

(WIP) Medikaren

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #pastehaste-0 | 2020-04-06 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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This was a game I was making and then covid19 struck and I haven't worked on it to much, I might come back to this and finish it but here it is if you want to look at it. (the game dosen't auto-reset so you will have to your self.)

Hope you enjoy it anyways.

Coin Dash V1.5.1

CoinDash V1.5.1

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #tunafishbucket-11 | 2020-06-11 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Summary

Controls

Coins

Coin

These shiny collectables are worth 1.

Red Coin

Red Coins are a bit rarer and they are worth 8.

Power-Ups

General Info

Power-ups can be bought between levels. But you might not want to
always buy them because then you will have less lives for later..
Once you buy a power-up you can find it in the next level.

Health

This Power-Up is 8 coins and instead of dying when you get hit,
You will tank it like a boss and keep on going!

Beam

For 16 coins you gain the ability when you press z to shoot
energy blasts! use this to snipe enemy's out of your way!

Flash

Lastly for 16 coins you can ignore damage for a while!
(Comes with free bopping jam.)

Player & Enemies

Marsho

The main protagonist of the game!
Can jump, Climb, Run, and most importantly:
Be cute. Go get them!

Sprout

This is the most basic creature in the game,
So basic that they don't even look both ways before
jumping off a ledge. just look at those eyes..

Bandera Sprout

These sprouts seem a little bit smarter than their more basic form.
Before they jump off a ledge they turn around like the true warrior they are!

Mushy

These grotesque creatures are what happens when a sprout lives in a cave
for too long.. (Best not to think about it.) They are more aggressive than sprouts,
So aggressive that they will chase you down!

Gunner

I don't even know how this creature was made..
They have a blaster on their face and they seem to be part machine...
Watch out!

Golden Sprout

Kill these suckers for some coins!
Instead of trying to kill you they seem to want to run away..

Flap

These random birds will fly out of nowhere, Just to relive them selfs on your
corpse.. ooooof.

Scoring

Images

Version Log

Thank you!

This is my first game and thanks for playing it!
Im well aware that it's very wonky but hopefully it's still fun.
Feel free to remix it, Just make sure it's cool! :D

PS: This game has come quite along ways from one of the oldest builds I have of it. (right here:)

Ancient Coin Dash

by SmellyFishstiks

Cart #tunafishbucket-10 | 2020-03-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Copy and paste the snippet below into your HTML.

<iframe src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/widget.php?pid=tunafishbucket" allowfullscreen width="621" height="513" style="border:none; overflow:hidden"></iframe>

And Once again thanks for playing this and i'll see you in the
next dumb project I tackle.