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Installing pico-8

mkdir RetroPie/roms/pico8
cp catmario.p8.png abel_001.p8 RetroPie/roms/pico8/
sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
<system>
  <name>pico8</name>
  <fullname>PICO-8</fullname>
  <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8</path>
  <extension>.p8 .p8.png .sh .png</extension>
  <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 "/home/pi/pico-8/pico8_dyn %ROM%"</command>
  <platform>pico8</platform>
  <theme>pico8</theme>
</system>

Rerun setup:

sudo ./RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
pi@retropie:~ $ ls -lah ~/pico-8/
total 29M
drwxrwxr-x  2 pi pi 4.0K Jan 26 16:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 pi pi 4.0K Apr 12 00:19 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi pi  442 Jan 26 16:39 lexaloffle-pico8.png
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi pi 4.8K Jan 26 16:39 license.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi pi 7.6M Jan 26 16:39 pico8
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi pi 1.6M Jan 26 16:39 pico8_64
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi  11M Jan 26 16:39 pico8.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi pi 1.4M Jan 26 16:39 pico8_dyn
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi pi 7.6M Jan 26 16:39 pico8_gpio
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 205K Jan 26 16:39 pico-8_manual.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi  939 Jan 26 16:39 readme_raspi.txt

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