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Hello!
I saw your game featured on Kim's RetroFunTech hangout video with Russ from RetroGameCorps. So I came here and purchased the demo.

the game looks great and I'm very excited to try it out on my CubeXX linux handheld.

Forgive me if this is inappropriate to ask, but your download section includes the "Demo HandHeld Cart Files.zip" file. in the Read me, I infer that this is for handhelds to play as you would place all of the .p8 files together and just load the "Umbra.p8" file to start it, but when I did this, it couldn't load the game.

Is there something that I'm doing wrong?

thanks again for your work!

Rh0gii

Keys9 days ago

Firstly, apologies for taking so long to respond. Secondly, thanks a billion for buying the demo, I hope it lives up to expectations!

In regards to the loading issues, is your pico8 updated to the latest version? Theres a few functions Umbra uses that dont work with older versions of pico8.

If you're updated, how are you loading the carts into pico8?

Again, thank you for buying the demo, lmk if you have any other issues.

rh0gii8 days ago(+1)

Thanks so much for the reply.

Let me look into updating pico-8 on my handheld and get back to you. at first, I was just placing all of the p8 files into a folder under my "roms/pico-8/" directory

let me poke at it and reply back. Thanks again

rh0gii8 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Okay, so I'm running Pico-8_0.2.6b.

Is there a specific directory that I should place the .p8 files in? Also, my RG CubeXX is running Knulli OS if that helps.

Keys8 days ago

No prob! And Oh shoot, yeah I should specify you need to place them in the carts directory and load them through splore. They should appear in the section with the folder icon when you open it, you may need to refresh though. Lmk if you run into any more issues! Sorry for the inconvenience!

rh0gii8 days ago(+1)

thanks for the reply.

So when I used splore, and went to the carts directory, and pressed on "Umbra", I got "Could not load" u_u,

Keys7 days ago

OH! I misread your pico8 version, you need pico8 0.2.7 at least to run the game. hopefully that's all the issue is. lmk if that help!

rh0gii7 days ago(+1)

looks like I'll need to update my Knulli OS to get the latest Pico-8 on it. The Rabbit Holes we run into for the love of Pico-8! ^_^

Thank you for your help. I earnestly appreciate it!

I will update when I get my device's OS updated.

Keys7 days ago

Sounds good! Best of luck!

rh0gii7 days ago(+1)

So.... it seems that trying to update pico-8 to a handheld was a fool's errand. after attempting to update pico-8 from 0.2.6b to 0.2.7 caused pico-8 to no longer work at all. and updating to Gladiator II was no good either. Pico-8 just does not want to run on Knulli. luckily, I have a 35xxSP that runs MUOS (Pixie) and I was able to easily update Pico-8 to 0.2.7. and... I can now run the demo. Also, with the windows version, I'm also able to run it on my PC and Android handhelds running Gamehub lite. so it's all good. thank you for walking this extra mile with me. I look forward to what you have for us in the future...

rh0gii7 days ago(+1)

quick (silly) update. I was able to get pico-8 upgraded on my CubeXX running Knulli (Gladiator II) after all. I was dumb, I forgot that Knulli has an awesome feature of just copying the raspberry pi .zip file for pico-8 and do a system install of it. and then "Robert's your mother's brother", it all works. Umbra is running on it. I hope that this hopes some other poor soul in the future!

PS, AI is not your friend in this case, but Discord is! :)

Keys7 days ago

Thank you for sticking with it lol, I'm sorry there's been so many issues, I hope you enjoy the game! I'm sorry if I messed up your handheld, hopefully you're able to get it back to normal!

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