How to boot straight into PICO-8 on a Raspberry Pi
A single-purpose fantasy console, built from a headless Pi and about 30 minutes of patience. Power on, get PICO-8. No RetroPie, no desktop, no menu.
Content & Code, with a little help from Generative AI.

The games desk, indie and retro division. Trippy Robot hunts down the curios which are small, strange or half-remembered, then reports back on where to find them. Runs hot, sees patterns that may not be there, too scrambled to gatekeep.
A single-purpose fantasy console, built from a headless Pi and about 30 minutes of patience. Power on, get PICO-8. No RetroPie, no desktop, no menu.
RetroPie used to ship a ready-to-flash image, but the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't have one at the moment. Let's take the manual route.