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I've been tinkering with slacko arcade for a week or so, it was a lot of fun troubleshooting all the little quirks that popped up but now i'm a bit stuck.

i'm using an older gateway machine, a 7310, almost everything worked the way i wanted (ps1, snes, nes) but i had a few small issues:

when loading snes games through the rom loader i was greeted by an empty browse menu. no directories or files, nothing. also unable to move up a level using the arrow with the two periods (is there a name for that? i've never actually said that phrase before). playstation and nes rom selection work fine.

also, i wasn't able to have more than 1 controller configured at a time in the rom loader. i had configured all 3 controllers (generic or off-brand usb nes controller, 2 port snes controller to usb adapter with official snes pad, and a 2 port ps2 to usb adapter) one after the other, and they seemed to work, but when i went from ps1 to nes in the rom loader the other controller would no longer be active. the ps1 settings seemed to stay the same, though i believe i did have to reconfigure the snes and nes settings each time. i can't say with 100% certainty because...

unfortunately, due to my divided attention and a massive miscommunication, i erased the puppy arcade install and replaced it with the newest version of slacko puppy. i'm very well versed in the installation and i have the roms backed up so it's no big hassle, but i'm wondering if i should install one of the older versions? performance-wise, everything worked fine, there were just those few little problems that may or may not be bugs that i haven't come across in the forum or the readme (trying to inch my way through, but video games).

Specs:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2c2817% ... ?tab=Specs

Intel 5 Series (Pentium 4)

Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz

RAM: 1 GB

Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 6200

Chris.

sorry, i meant 7310, not 7310S. I'm not sure what the exact differences are, i could never find anything just for the 7310, but this one didn't come with a discrete gpu, just intel igp that i can't remember the specifics of, and it's got a 80gb HDD, i changed the ram to 3.5gb, but the cpu is either the same or very similar. i edited my post with the correct model.

Where can I find a suitable devx for Arcade 11, based on Slacko 5.9.3? All links here and everywhere point to devx_slacko_5.9.2.sfs but that file is not to be found anywhere on the net. It seems to have been removed from the official mirrors and all alternative links I have been able to find with my not-to-shabby google fu are broken. I'm totally at a loss and would be grateful for any help or pointers.

http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Puppy_Arcade

Well, that was humbling. I have spent the better part of two hours googling and there it was, right where I started out a few weeks ago.

Thanks, ally!

My 11 year old neighbor asked for help finding emulators to play NES, SNES and GBA games. I
educated myself about these online and installed a few emulators to a 500 MHz Compal ITU
Techbook laptop from 2001 recently given to us with Win2K. Most of the emulators listed for
Win2K were missing dlls but I got one working NES emulator and two games. All they did was
show the starting screen and beep continously - Mother and Earthbound.

I then spent a few hours hunting for early versions of Puppy Arcade - links are all broken
or changed to Arcade 11. I installed retro-kernel 11, managed eventually to get 1024x768
VESA (hopefully using less cpu/memory than Xorg) and was told it lacked GLX. Back to Xorg,
at 1024 so it would also work with a browser. Would 640x480 work faster?

I loaded a NES emulator and Earthbound and it sat there beeping much more slowly and
eventually went from the screen with game name to one with author's name after 10 min
or so. The kid said little characters are supposed to move around the screen.

I added pfix=nocopy to menu.lst because it has 256MB RAM. Did this help or hurt?
I also made a 384MB pupswap.swp and in rc.local added swapon /mnt/home/pupswap.swp.

Suggested minimums are 800Mhz and 512MB. Is the problem on this laptop mainly memory
or cpu speed? Win2K beeped faster.

I could try DOS emulators.

The original Nintendo player had very low resolution and cpu speed far below 500Mhz but
emulators use more cpu.

Super Nintendo emulator supposedly requires 3GHz to be perfect but imperfect emulators can
work at 300MHz because they have hacks for the 20 most popular games. Are there other NES
emulators that I could try in Puppy at lower cpu speed and if so how?

bsnes needs a much faster processor than ZSNES and is more precise.

The laptop pcmcia slots only work occasionally but he can copy ROMs via flash drive or maybe
use a USB wifi card. Mine works in it. Sound works but the kid does not care.

Despite the NES emulator being impossibly slow, the SNES emulator 9X-GTK works, I think.
Earthbound and Mother3 look like demos - how does one actually play the games?

Does anyone know if Bejewled or Gweled is included in this distro right out of the download?

Question answered here. (No, it doesn't.)

Hello everybody,

I was thrilled to find a package to transform my old pc in an arcade plateform but I'm stuck with 2 problems :
1) How and where do I put the Roms ? I know I must be stupid but I don't understand how to do it and make it work. Is there an up-to-date tutorial (with screenshots if possible) ?
2) Is it possible to have all the games on one screen (like hyperspin on mame) ? To have to chose a machine to see the Roms available is not very sexy.

Thank you for your help,

Rayfou wrote:Hello everybody,

I was thrilled to find a package to transform my old pc in an arcade plateform but I'm stuck with 2 problems :
1) How and where do I put the Roms ? I know I must be stupid but I don't understand how to do it and make it work. Is there an up-to-date tutorial (with screenshots if possible) ?

put them wherever you like ...

i put them at /roms/[system] on my usb

example

/roms/
/roms/arcade/
/roms/snes/

etc

then choose a system and browse to that folder..

2) Is it possible to have all the games on one screen (like hyperspin on mame) ? To have to chose a machine to see the Roms available is not very sexy.

nope .. it's not possible ... sorry..

puppy arcade isn't THAT sexy .... although u do get a "recent" item in the main menu ... this WILL display roms from any system ... but only the ones u already played

Puppy Arcade 11 . Newbie Searching Puppy ISO on Puppy linux Facebook. One Of you Gave Akita as answer. Poor newbie, akita is for oldbie (?). Writing with seamonkey 1.1.18
When reading the forum here, akita has a newer version based on Slacko, perhaps easier to use by the poor indonesian newbie

Here is the Tahr arcade spin that i made, it is build on top of puppy tahr 6.0.6 with kernel 3.4.103 (you can easily switch kernel to newer if you want)

it has nice selection of great emulators. Retroarch libretro launcher with many wrappers is included and steam for native linux gaming experience.

Size of the iso is 470458368 bytes https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linu ... arcade.iso

md5 97948c9b6f0a7f50303447cbec5aa31f

edit: this is not official puppy arcade iso which is made by sc0ttman

mirrored here: http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Puppy_Arcade

http://scottjarvis.com/page105.htm
is also mirrored here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161218054 ... age105.htm

and here: scottjarvis.tk

Hi Scott:

Just a notification that a bunch of links on your .tk site link to your old site, which are now advertisement pages.

Best,

Slavvo67

slavvo67 wrote:Hi Scott:

Just a notification that a bunch of links on your .tk site link to your old site, which are now advertisement pages.

Best,

Slavvo67

I'll get round to fixing it at some point ...

I just did it now...

All links in the first post should be fixed..