# Making an retro arcade cabinet!

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/making-an-retro-arcade-cabinet/25795>\
**Category:** Show & Tell\
**Tags:** game, make, art\
**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/making-an-retro-arcade-cabinet/25795 "2024-01-10T20:50:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/making-an-retro-arcade-cabinet/25795/10 "2024-02-15T00:13:37Z")

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Nice project, @Sonicblaston! Thanks for sharing blueprints, purchasing links for buttons and joysticks, and your progress! Looking forward to seeing the final result!

> [@Brohann](#):
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> are you going to use a web browser to run the makecode kiosk on the rpi or are you going to make a bootloader for it (the rpi 4 is not supported)

You are probably already aware of this, but instead of going for the kiosk browser mode or trying to get the bootloader to work, on the Raspberry Pis, including your chosen RPi4, you could use [McAirpos](https://vegz78.github.io/McAirpos/)\* to get it to run MCA games natively, also as part of RetroPie, Recalbox and Batocera together with other emulators and games well suited for your arcade cabinet:

> [@MakeCode Arcade on Raspberry Pi (including RetroPie, Recalbox, Batocera etc.)](https://forum.makecode.com/t/makecode-arcade-on-raspberry-pi-including-retropie-recalbox-batocera-etc/14267):
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> With reference to previous correspondence with @richard and @peli, and happy to announce that McAirpos now supports running MakeCode Arcade games natively and with controller support on [Batocera](https://batocera.org) retro-gaming distro in addition to [RetroPie](https://retropie.org.uk), [Recalbox](https://www.recalbox.com) and the [Raspberry Pi OS](https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/) [console](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console) and presumably other similar ARM hardware and Linux flavours, as well as a new working [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) playbook template that allows quickly scripted installation onto several devices in parallel in e.g. a classroom, collaborat…

(\*Given that it still works as it should on the latest releases of these retro gaming systems. I haven’t had time to test and update the repository for a while.)

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