Bad Apple!! - but it's on Pico-8

These are my attempts to squeeze Bad Apple into a Pico-8 cartridge.

Click the image to watch the results on YouTube:

Discuss it on the Pico-8 forum.

How to run

Download the carts and unpack them into a subdirectory in your carts folder. You can find this folder by executing a FOLDER command in Pico-8. Assuming you named the subdirectory badapple, your carts directory should look something like this:

┬─ carts
└┬─ badapple
 ├─ data_0.p8
 ├─ data_1.p8
 ...
 └─ play.p8

To then run the carts, change into this subdirectory in Pico-8 (CD BADAPPLE), and then load and run the "play" cart (LOAD PLAY.P8, RUN).

How to build

You'll need these dependencies:

• GNU Make (other flavors of make might work too)
• aria2 - for downloading the Bad Apple source video
• ImageMagick
• Node.js (tested on v22, might work on several older ones)
• pico8 in $PATH (optional; for automatic .p8.png generation)

Then, to build the carts.zip, just run make.