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FILE_STRUCTURE
You can find your PICO-8 files and folders here:
OSX: /Users/Yourname/Library/Application Support/pico-8
Linux: ~/.lexaloffle/pico-8
You can browse your PICO-8 files on your operating system whenever you need to. You may want to when changing configuration settings, copying, renaming, or deleting files. This is the main "/pico-8" folder in Windows.
Note: You may not have all of these folders and files, they are not all necessary. For example, if you haven't used Splore yet to favorite a game, then you won't have a favourites.txt file, but it will be created and saved here once you do so.
Main Folder
As seen above, these are the folders and files you are likely to have in this folder:
| Folder: .../pico-8 | |
|---|---|
| /backup | stores autosaved backup files of games you have edited. |
| /bbs | stores data about carts that you browse and play via "splore" (the lexaloffle game library browser) |
| /carts | stores the carts and other files you create, edit, and save locally. (the root folder when using the command line) |
| /cdata | stores the "cart data" for games that use this persistent memory storage. |
| /cstore | stores the carts saved by the cstore() function. |
| /plates | stores your custom html templates that you can apply to an html export. |
| activity_log.txt | the record of your PICO-8 activity (time spent in editors/games) |
| config.txt | the configuration settings that you can customize |
| favourites.txt | the record of carts that you clicked to save in your favorites collection in splore. |
| log.txt | records details about running PICO-8, carts, and any errors |
| sdl_controllers.txt | a file for customizing controller support and button mappings |
carts folder
This is your "/carts" folder, it is the home folder of the files you can browse from the PICO-8 command line. This can be opened quickly with a file explorer in your operating system by using the folder command in PICO-8. There are file navigation commands that you can use in PICO-8 to explore child folders and files within your carts folder.
/bbs folder
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