Cartridges

Arcade
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is there anyway to make cartridges
eg. using a cartridge with a micro controller in it, then that cartridge could be plugged into screen and buttons

i saw something like this, done before using the micro-bit V2

but the problem with this is that is that it is quite underpowered and doesn’t have much storage for most the games i make
my games are usually around 1.5 to 3 megabytes of storage, i guess it would be possible with the raspberry pi pico (rp2040) due to it having more storage and a lot of ram compared to a lot of other makecode-arcade compatible devices

btw it is possible to run make code arcade but there is no official support yet for
Thanks for reading :slightly_smiling_face:

tl:dr
microcontroller in case plugs into screen and hardware

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I’ve theorized about it, but it would cost money to test. I might try something like this around summertime, when I’m not in school and can get money to try it! Probably going the raspberry pi route.

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goodluck for when your testing this, could you document any progress you make?

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Of course! I’ll send updates whenever I start.

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alright

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try making it so the cartridge has the actual ROM of the game and figure out how to connect it.

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idk how to do that