how to update your converted cart when p8x8 updates

[pancelor]

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=145012#p

write some docs:

• how to convert your p64 cart to an externally editable folder
  • mkdir folder
  • cp -f my-converted-cart.p64 folder
• then manually merge everything in folder/baked/ into your cart

[pancelor]

the docs ought to emphasize: this is an odd use case! if you're working on your game long-term, then after converting it via p8x8 you should try to slowly(?) convert it over to "real" picotron code. zep's done a lot of work to make things familiar and mostly work, and I've documented some of the API differences in the polyfill files. The manual exists now too

the native picotron functions (e.g. fetch, userdata, spr) are all available on the p64env table, so you can incrementally introduce picotron code into your pico8 code like this: local filecontents = p64env.fetch("/file/path"). At the end when you're ready to make the switch entirely into picotron:

• rewrite main.lua to not load the polyfills
• use normal includes to load lua, e.g. include("p8code/1.lua")
• set p64env = _ENV (or delete all references to p64env)

[arrowonionbelly]

when I used your importer, my sfx workspace was blank and it's not calling sfx. Is this an instance where I'd use fetch or include in main.lua?

[pancelor]

I think you need to replace this file (it's been recently updated)

[arrowonionbelly]

that worked, cheers!