# The Arcade Sprite Pack tool is back in business!
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392
**Category:** Arcade
**Created:** [December 17, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392 "2021-12-17T20:49:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/1 "2021-12-17T20:49:02Z")
Hey folks!
Some of you may remember that @shakao and I made a tool for making sprite packs a while back. Well, that tool has been broken for a few months now and I just wanted to post a quick note saying that it’s back up and running again! Not only that, but it now supports animations, tiles, tilemaps, and has a much cleaner interface! Give it a shot here:
> **[Arcade Sprite Pack Generator](https://shakao.github.io/arcade-sprite-pack/)**
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> Create and export sprite packs for MakeCode Arcade
We have plans for a few other cool features, so stay tuned!
@danger_kitty @UnsignedArduino
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### Author:  [@danger\_kitty](https://forum.makecode.com/u/danger_kitty)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/2 "2023-05-10T17:16:35Z")
It’s broken again
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/3 "2023-05-10T17:28:41Z")
in what way is it broken?
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### Author:  [@Sarge](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Sarge)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/4 "2023-05-10T17:42:55Z")
It seems the page is not loading… 😕
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/5 "2023-05-10T17:43:23Z")
it loads for me… is there anything printing to the browser console?
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/6 "2023-05-10T17:44:45Z")
ah, looks like github is having an outage: [https://www.githubstatus.com/](https://www.githubstatus.com/)
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### Author:  [@Sarge](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Sarge)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/7 "2023-05-10T17:45:07Z")
Well… that doesn’t look the greatest
I’m on a Windows 10 device, on the latest version of Chrome BTW
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### Author:  [@danger\_kitty](https://forum.makecode.com/u/danger_kitty)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/8 "2023-05-11T20:50:32Z")
Page isn’t loading
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### Author:  [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/9 "2023-05-11T23:34:25Z")
It’s loading fine for me.
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### Author:  [@ChimbroDaPro](https://forum.makecode.com/u/ChimbroDaPro)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/10 "2023-05-12T17:24:34Z")
Same here…
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### Author:  [@bbence84](https://forum.makecode.com/u/bbence84)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/11 "2023-08-16T16:31:38Z")
@richard Hi! This is a really awesome tool! My only issue is that if I import a image, no matter on which tab I am, it always loads the PNG to the Images tab. E.g. I have an external sprite that animates, I would like to put into Arcade, but it’s not possible to do it since there’s no way that I can import this PNG to the Animations tab. ☹ Any ideas? Thanks a lot! 🙂
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/12 "2023-08-16T16:35:11Z")
@bbence84 you should be able to copy+paste it into the animations tab, but yeah there’s no way to load it in there at first
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### Author:  [@bbence84](https://forum.makecode.com/u/bbence84)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/13 "2023-08-17T16:11:38Z")
Thanks a lot! I did not know that it was possible to copy and paste. Copy / paste even works in the standard Makecode Arcade editor, which is also cool since then I don’t need to resort to the hacky code based image upload. 🙂
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### Author:  [@VictorGamer](https://forum.makecode.com/u/VictorGamer)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/14 "2024-01-25T22:01:15Z")
How to use it
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### Author:  [@folderiser](https://forum.makecode.com/u/folderiser)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2026, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/15 "2026-01-05T18:28:03Z")
@richard thanks for this tool! When I try to export images or animations it only seems to export 10 to png/gif. Am I doing something wrong here or is it a limitation of the tool?
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-arcade-sprite-pack-tool-is-back-in-business/11392/16 "2026-01-05T19:15:06Z")
ah, i think some browsers are not fans of downloading a bunch of files at once. maybe i’ll rewrite this feature so that it sticks everything in a single zip file…