foobit / pico8tool

PICO-8 art importer/exporter

PICO8Tool

PICO8Tool is a Windows application that can import/export graphic data from PICO-8 .p8 carts.

HOWTO

Export

Drag and Drop a .p8 file to preview graphic data. Then click on the Extract button to save as an 8bit png

Import

1. Drag and Drop the .p8 file you wish to to embed a new image
2. Next Drag and Drop a valid image file to replace the current image in the view
3. Click the Embed button to import the current image and update the .p8 file

Viewer

You can pan and zoom the loaded image with the left button and mouse wheel. Click on the magnify glass to reset the view.

Click on the checker button to toggle the background from dark to light.

FEEDBACK

Use GitHub Issues for upcoming features, issues or suggestions.

pico8tool's Issues

Enable app settings

Currently the application settings is hidden. The following will be configurable across sessions:

• Enable auto embed option when dragging images
• PNG8/32 export
• Remember window layout/position
• Disable embed completed popup

Embed image region

For larger images allow embedding a specified 128x128 region

Better app icon

Its lame

Import image palette conversion

Convert 24/32 bit images and non-matching 8 bit palettes to PICO-8 palette

Better about box

Its lame.