Compatibility tracking about fake-08

[Nine-H]

updates

• 27 september 2023: 100+ carts tested, including first three pages of featured carts
• 22 october 2023: caught up with new featured carts, happy larry, whiplash taxi, and air delivery

[michaelachrisco]

Super Poulet Poulet works really well.

[JCR64]

Outbreak is a recent game that is broken, a fantastic Vampire Survivors like game.

[jtothebell]

Thank you for putting this together, this is a very nice reference for things to improve. If I may make a suggestion, it would be good to track if a game is multicart. For example, Mots Grand Prix, Poom and UnDune II all worked last I checked, but require multiple carts, and will crash if those carts aren't present

[Kistaro]

My total remake of Pico Tetris, Extreme Tetrom, runs but does not render correctly:

• relies on spr fill patterns for "hold unavailable"; known feature gap
• "well outline" is very, very wrong -- I would assume the unspecified-purpose RAM is not working the same as the real Pico-8

This was tested in RetroArch on a Miyoo Mini Plus.

[Nine-H]

At the moment I'm focusing on testing the entire featured carts collection. I think that limiting testing to featured gives a representative sample of software that should be complete and final.

@jtothebell are there any docs on how to identify, download, and run multicart games?

[jtothebell]

Per the Pico-8 Manual (https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html#Exporting_Multiple_Cartridges), any cartridges that call reload with a cart argument, or load need that cart to be present. If you are playing games on the BBS, you'll see a spinning cart in the corner while it is loading. Generally creators of multi cart games will distribute a zip containing all the carts needed, but it really is on a case by case basis. Once all the needed carts are in the same directory, they should load and function fine.

FAKE-08 doesn't support any network operations, so if the only way to get the extra carts is from the BBS, then there is not a straightforward or supported way for that game to work with FAKE-08.