# \[Announcement\] MakeCode Arcade 2026 release is live!
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136
**Category:** Arcade
**Created:** [February 13, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136 "2026-02-13T22:12:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@RoboVacDev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/RoboVacDev)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/81 "2026-02-27T11:38:43Z")
Everything is working perfectly fine on my end.
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### Author:  [@MeatballDev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/MeatballDev)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/82 "2026-02-27T18:22:22Z")
@richard the music editors don’t load, its just (…)
Link: [https://makecode.com/\_cLU8piiKoVEL](https://makecode.com/_cLU8piiKoVEL)
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/83 "2026-02-27T18:23:02Z")
huh, i don’t think this is related to the update… we didn’t change anything related to the song parsing. i’ll try to take a look when i have a sec
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### Author:  [@not\_a\_lemon](https://forum.makecode.com/u/not_a_lemon)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/84 "2026-02-27T18:23:30Z")
Hey @richard I have a few questions that could make makecode easier to use in the future:
1. Would it be possible for sound effects to be assets? we can have music, tilemaps, animations, and images all stored in assets but not sound effects.
2. Having a “copy asset” button on each asset and the ability to copy paste entire animations into other projects rather than going one frame at a time would be really helpful; it would allow things like @Relic making animations and sound effects in one project and then I could copy-paste the assets into the new project.
3. We should have a text code animation editor. We have a tilemap, image, sound effect, and music editor for all makecode languages but animation editors only show up in blocks and directly through assets. Adding an editor for this in JavaScript would definitely be useful.
uhhh I think that’s all I was thinking of but maybe I forgot smth, idk. Anyway, if possible any of these would be useful. Again, I don’t know how makecode was built so I’m not sure if you could put it together like this…
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### Author:  [@AgentBoom](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AgentBoom)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/85 "2026-02-27T18:58:56Z")
Is there any way to disable the AI “explain how to fix” thing? It just suddenly covers half my screen when there’s an error and I’m never gonna use it so it’s really annoying.
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### Author:  [@Peau12](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Peau12)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/86 "2026-02-27T19:02:22Z")
I know right!
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### Author:  [@CopySprite](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CopySprite)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/87 "2026-02-27T19:05:27Z")
It’s supposed to stay hidden when you dismiss it.
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/88 "2026-02-27T19:06:32Z")
yeah, it will remember the state if you hit the minimize button.
well, not if you reload the page. i might tweak it so that it remembers even if you do reload the page though
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### Author:  [@RoboVacDev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/RoboVacDev)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/89 "2026-02-27T21:42:24Z")
@richard what is this?
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### Author:  [@Allegory\_Cheese](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Allegory_Cheese)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/91 "2026-03-02T17:39:05Z")
really weird thing where blocks just get tattooed into the editor
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### Author:  [@Peau12](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Peau12)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/92 "2026-03-02T17:49:57Z")
That’s a lot of bugs! My oh my!
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/93 "2026-03-02T18:24:24Z")
@RoboVacDev please always share the project when you think you’ve found a bug. unfortunately, i can’t investigate from a screenshot alone
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### Author:  [@MeatballDev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/MeatballDev)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/94 "2026-03-02T19:01:03Z")
same bug I had
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/95 "2026-03-02T19:02:05Z")
@MeatballDev @RoboVacDev i took a look and have a fix that i’ll hotfix this week:
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> fixes the issue reported \[here\](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makeco…de-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/82?u=richard) and \[here\](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/89?u=richard)
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> the issue here is that somehow some newlines are getting inserted into the hex literals we generate for songs. i don't know if the users did this, or maybe we have some logic in our formatter that tries to format images, but in any case the easiest fix is to just handle it in the regex here.
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> not sure why people are reporting this now, because AFAIK nothing related to this was changed by the recent release at all. still, should probably hotfix this.
AFAIK this isn’t related to the release at all, this bug has been there for years. still thanks for reporting!
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### Author:  [@not\_a\_lemon](https://forum.makecode.com/u/not_a_lemon)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/96 "2026-03-02T19:02:57Z")
I caught a pigeon
I’ve also had this bug before with images, animations and songs but it doesn’t seem to have a problem with tilemaps or sound effects.
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/97 "2026-03-02T19:03:21Z")
@not_a_lemon if you have it again, please share the link and send it to me.
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### Author:  [@king\_bob](https://forum.makecode.com/u/king_bob)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/98 "2026-03-20T16:58:22Z")
for some reason if my Chromebook shuts down while I’m in a makecode project it wont let me open the game ever. I’ve lost like 5 good games this way and idk if its a bug with makecode or with my chromebook
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### Author:  [@Bilangus](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Bilangus)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/99 "2026-04-03T17:21:26Z")
Bug report: whenever you duplicate an asset you have to reload the whole page to duplicate another one. This is happening to me on both mobile and PC.
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### Author:  [@TheEarth](https://forum.makecode.com/u/TheEarth)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/announcement-makecode-arcade-2026-release-is-live/42136/100 "2026-09-17T21:34:19Z")
This still happens to this day bro MakeCode dev team can we can we get an update to patch this out
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