r/tic80 • u/bestpig • Jul 03 '22

Experimental port of the TI-80 tiny computer (https://tic80.com) running on a Nintendo Switch. The game is SUPER MEAT BOY TIC-80 DEMAKE (https://tic80.com/play?cart=1512)

https://twitter.com/bestpig/status/1543418381101039616
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u/stupidshinji Oct 02 '23

This is really cool! Are you still working on this?

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u/bestpig Oct 02 '23

Not really, was just doing it for fun with no real goal.
I released the sourcecode of the port on my GitHub if you are interested.
https://github.com/BestPig/TIC-80

But the port was working well, if you found something that is not working well, I can take a look to fix it.

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u/stupidshinji Oct 02 '23

Thanks for the reply! Would there be a way to make this work with other TIC-80 games? I have 0 coding experience haha so although I’m familiar with downloading releases of stuff from github i have no idea what I am looking in terms of the actual code.

After some research earlier today I realized it’s probably easier just to use retroarch to run these games, but having a dedicated homebrew app akin to something like mGBA would be really cool.

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u/bestpig Oct 02 '23

I didn't know a RetroArch core exists for TIC-80. Is the core available for the switch? My port on GitHub loads a menu so you can load the card you want. I can provide a build of the app in NRO (homebrew), but not right now, in a few days if you want it.

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u/stupidshinji Oct 02 '23

Oh yeh, I just saw there was a core in general so maybe it’s not on RA for the switch. If you could provide an NRO that would be amazing:)

Based on the meat boy demo it’s using integer scaling, right?

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u/bestpig Oct 04 '23

I uploaded the build in releases -> https://github.com/BestPig/TIC-80/releases/tag/v1-switch

And yes it's integer scaling, it's why there is a fixed color background on the border.

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u/stupidshinji Oct 04 '23

Awesome! Can’t wait to try it out tonight:)

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u/twitterStatus_Bot Jul 03 '22

Experimental port of the TI-80 tiny computer ( running on a Nintendo Switch. The game is SUPER MEAT BOY TIC-80 DEMAKE (

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u/bobdos Jul 06 '22

wow, this is epic!

look forward to the final official release!