Voxatron

• Emulator: None
• Core: Lexaloffle vox binary
• Folder: /userdata/roms/voxatron
• Accepted ROM formats: .png

No BIOS is required, but you need to add the Voxatron binary in the /bios/ folder (see below).

Place your Pico-8 ROMs in /userdata/roms/voxatron/. Create an empty file with the name splore.vx (or use any PNG as splore.png) to explore the Splore universe and download carts from there.

Like Pico-8, Voxatron games are distributed as PNG images with the actual code, sprites and sounds embedded in them. Those are actual, real image files, that stands as the cartridge art too. You have to “load” the PNG to run the game. You can download carts from the official page, the community is pretty active. Once you select a game, make sure you click on the “cart” link that downloads a .vx.png file.

Starting with Batocera v40, you can add the official commercial Lexaloffle Voxatron engine to run all games and explore the Splore universe! In order to do so, you need to do a few manual steps:

1. Buy it from the official Lexaloffle website.
2. Download the corresponding binary (it's the ZIP file) appropriate to your platform:
   • For PC/any x86_64 board: The Linux (x86_64/64 bits) ZIP file.
   • Unfortunately, at this date, there's no support for ARM SBCs/
3. Extract the files from the zip into the /userdata/bios/voxatron/ directory on your Batocera machine.
   • The files in the archive are:

     lexaloffle-vox.png
     license.txt
     vox (make sure this one is executable via "chmod +x", the filesystem itself must support the executable bit)
     vox.dat
     vox_dyn
     vox.txt

4. Copy the following ES system addition into /userdata/system/configs/emulationstation/es_systems_voxatron.cfg:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <systemList>
     <system>
           <fullname>Voxatron</fullname>
           <name>voxatron</name>
           <manufacturer>Fantasy</manufacturer>
           <release>2015</release>
           <hardware>console</hardware>
           <path>/userdata/roms/voxatron</path>
           <extension>.vx .png</extension>
           <command>emulatorlauncher %CONTROLLERSCONFIG% -system %SYSTEM% -rom %ROM% -gameinfoxml %GAMEINFOXML% -systemname %SYSTEMNAME%</command>
           <platform>voxatron</platform>
           <theme>voxatron</theme>
   	<emulators>
               <emulator name="lexaloffle">
                   <cores>
                       <core default="true">vox_official</core>
                   </cores>
               </emulator>
           </emulators>
     </system>
   </systemList>

5. Restart ES (or reboot).

Keys inside the emulator: [START] or [HOTKEY] + opens the Voxatron menu.

[LEFT SHOULDER] and [RIGHT SHOULDER] can be used to move the camera up and down.

For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.