[SOFT] MakeCode Arcade games in Recalbox

[Vegz78]

Hi,

Just finished a work-around for running MakeCode Arcade games natively in RetroPie and from the Raspberry Pi OS text console, with keyboard and controller support for up to 2 players:
https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos

Not sure if this could be of interest here, meaning if it could work with/be integrated in a similar way into Recalbox?

Br,
Vegard

[Vegz78]

Managed today to run MakeCode Arcade games on Recalbox with McAirpos, with menus in EmulationStation and everything.

Still working on the the last few details:
-How to keep the game .elf files executable inside the default /recalbox/share/roms/makecode folder
-Automated installation script for McAirpos on Recalbox
-Implement and compile a few small changes required for launCharc to detect and work on Recalbox in addition to RetroPie.

Hopefully back again with good news here soon!

[acris]

Hello @Vegz78
i think you need to go discord channel to ask bkg2k to help you on recalbox because, recalbox use different things to manage gamepads (configgen)
https://discord.gg/pNjzEt4R

[Vegz78]

Thanks for the tip, @acris!

But since the MakeCode Arcade games use raw GPIO inputs or EV_KEY scan codes for controls, the game launcher handles gamepad detection and setup itself, via uinput-mapper and independently of Recalbox/EmulationStation.

I was positively surprised that almost everything, even the Python parts, worked out of the box on the buildroot system underlying Recalbox. Only had to remove 4 sudo commands from the source code.

However, there are, as mentioned, still some small details remaining before I can announce a viable solution for MakeCode Arcade on Recalbox, like automated installation and some work-arounds for the overlay mounted file system.

[Vegz78]

Happy to announce a working solution now!:
https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos#quick-automatic-installation-for-recalbox

Only for Recalbox 7.1.1-Reloaded! on Raspberry Pi and maybe still experimental, but working on my RPi4 4GB.

Feedbacks on GitHub are very welcome!

[Vegz78]

Theme for working McAirpos solution:

[DacK]

Wow, impressive !

[Vegz78]

Happy to announce Recalbox 8-Electron support for MakeCode Arcade games, with McAirpos!:
https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos#development-news

Here are the first installation scripts:
https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos#quick-automatic-installation-for-recalbox