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Apparently, Pico8 encodes the compressed app data directly in the PNG pixel data. They use 2 least significant bits of each color channel to encode a single byt
by dangerbird2 5y ago
Apparently, Pico8 encodes the compressed app data directly in the PNG pixel data. They use 2 least significant bits of each color channel to encode a single byte of data per color. The pixel count of pico8 cartridges is what creates the console's 32,800 byte size limit.
https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat