McAirpos and elf files

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Hello all,

I am making a gaming cabinet for school. I have successfully got a Pi4 running RetroPi and I have followed the instructions and installed McAirpos, apart from the last step.
The last bit tells me that I need to put a game with .elf in the folder for the installation to complete.
For the life of me I can’t find any way of getting a .elf out of MakeCode. The instructions that I have seen here, simply say ‘download as an elf’. It must be obvious and I must be missing a step, can anyone give me very simple instructions to get a game made in MakeCode (I am using the falling duck exemplar) and download as an elf file. Thanks.

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I don’t know anything about .elf files but I found this Topic. Hopefully it helps you.

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This web page used to work:

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It’s kinda goofy, but you have to use a special link or append the end of your URL with a bit of code. Once you do that, then when you download your games, they will download as .elf instead of .uf2.

Here’s a link you can use: https://arcade.makecode.com/?nolocalhost=1&compile=rawELF&hw=rpi#

It’ll take you to the dashboard and look like normal, but you’ll see that ‘compile=rawELF’ part in there that lets you know your downloads will come through as .elf files now.

Hope that helps!

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