# How to install PICO-8 on GameShell **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials\ **Tags:** pico-8\ **Created:** [July 29, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-pico-8-on-gameshell/1012 "2018-07-29T16:25:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 98
**Author:** ![javelinface](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/javelinface/32/3079_2.png) [@javelinface](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/javelinface)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-pico-8-on-gameshell/1012/98 "2020-03-24T11:33:18Z")
Welcome to the forums, @Brian_Gordon @tor.sh, That would be 0.5. Hmm there seem to be a couple of necro bump posts lately from old topics from last year. Great that there’s activity, but potentially scary, bringing light things that are now considered to be the norm. Clockwork OS 0.5 saw a lot of changes, including to the Pico-8 installed. You may need to run it once without any of the pico-8 libraries in place. See this post. > [@PICO-8 crashes when started in "stable 1.25". Tried everything I've seen on here](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/pico-8-crashes-when-started-in-stable-1-25-tried-everything-ive-seen-on-here/5148/2): > > Just confirming, you’re putting the file named pico-8\_0.1.12c2\_raspi.zip in the ~/games/PICO-8 directory? Mine is a 6.1MB file. I bought it in a humble bundle once upon a time. Is yours a legit one? Also try and run the PICO-8 app without anything in the games directory. I find that the first time, it will just give a black screen, then return to the launcher; possibly initialising itself. Afterwards, run it again. It should have a screen telling you to download the pick 8 files. Transfer the … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-pico-8-on-gameshell/1012)._