I'm working on making a physical console for the Pico-8. Its pretty simple, works on linux booted into kiosk mode, looks for when a 3.5" floppy is inserted or removed, and loads or closes the game via a shell script.
I want it to be like a C64-style keyboard with all the guts inside it but wirelessly connect to the display/tv, so what I might do is use an ESP32 to read the game floppy and wirelessly transfer and cache the file to a dongle that plugs into an open HDMI port. Not sure yet.
Amazing! I went through the same but opting to implement the console itself on the ESP32[0]. It ended up being a bit too much and it's mostly shelved now
I want it to be like a C64-style keyboard with all the guts inside it but wirelessly connect to the display/tv, so what I might do is use an ESP32 to read the game floppy and wirelessly transfer and cache the file to a dongle that plugs into an open HDMI port. Not sure yet.