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hi! i bought a MIYOO MINI V4  to play pico 8 games

i've followed these instructions:
Drag the app folder from the releases page into /mnt/SDCARD/App/ (so it becomes /mnt/SDCARD/App/pico). Warning: If you use FTP and Filezilla, you must set your transfer type to binary or it will corrupt binaries on transfer.

Drag your RASPBERRY PI pico8_dyn and pico8.dat into /mnt/SDCARD/App/pico/bin (If the directory doesn't exist, you can create it). You can purchase Pico-8 here.

and i cannot manage to see pico 8 in the apps menu as the tutorials say.
also instead of all the apps they show i only see 4. instead of multiple apps as in the tutorial i followed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnkJmobkc6o&t=12s
i dont understand.. please help!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

did you set it to binary before or after the transfer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

thanks for the reply! no...what would i need to set to binary?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

since i'm not sure if i can see if you reply from another instance of lemmy. you can also send me a message. much appriciated!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Got any screenshots of the file tree on the SD card you can upload too?

Also, what OS is preinstalled on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i've posted a comment with a few screenshots. it has onion os by default. putting in the sd card gives you retroarch. basically: in the app foleder i' ve put pico / bin / pico8.dat and , pico8_dyn in the emu folder there 's no pico 8 in the roms folder there's a pico folder with .p8 files in it (it was already in the sd card, i didnt download them) in the imgs there's a pico folder with .png files in it (this also was already in the sd card, i just tried to rename breakout_hero.png to breakout_hero.p8 b)

when i try to execute it says exec format error

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pico should be usable by default on onionos just needs to be enabled.what version of onionOS are you running?

If you navigate to Apps>Package Manager>Expert there should be something in there to enable pico8

Does package manager even show?

Edit: here's the steps for onionOS provided you have the most up-to-date firmware

Turn on your Miyoo OnionOS device and navigate to Apps>Package Manager>Expert.

Scroll down in the system options until you see Pico-8 Standalone. Enable it.

Take the pico8_dyn and pico8.dat files from the licensed download package and place them into the /Rapp/PICO-8/bin directory on your OnionOS SD card.

Reinsert the SD card into the device and select Run Pico-8 w/ Splore under the apps settings section.