Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Makoto · Posted: Sun 27 Sep 2009, 04:46 Post subject:

Hmm... wonder where that line would be drawn, exactly, in terms of years. Smile

That means the more recent systems are out - GameCube/Wii, Dreamcast, and maybe the PS2... their emulators tend to require fairly powerful systems. I don't think there's anything out for the X-Box/360 that actually plays games (but that'd probably still have high requirements, anyway).

But, the emulators themselves, for all the older game systems and computers, don't really take up too much space, do they? Unless the dependencies rack up...
I'd rather see most of the older systems covered, than someone deciding the games available for it are too lousy for it to be included. Razz

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

I plan to release a new (and totally final) version within in the next month or so.. So for the next release, I want to make Puppy Arcade as easy as possible for the average user, and as small as possible too. I may remove SCSI drivers and a few others things (if possible), to save even more space. And so far, I have these emulators working, and will include these in the next version: Hugo (PCE), Frodo 4.1b (C64), NeoCD, Hatari 1.0.1 (Atari), UAE (Amiga).

I have decided to replace FakeNES with iNES as it works well, is much smaller, and much faster - in my tests at least.

Also I think I will use UAE (gkt1), not E-UAE (suggested by Dingo) - the big difference seems to be the filesize - both emulated well for me, but UAE is a little faster and smaller. But thanks anyway Dingo, as I wouldn't have found UAE without your help. NOTE: If UAE is much worse than E-UAE (for some reason) let me know - space allowing I will include E-UAE instead.

pLauncher cannot be added as it needs PERL, PERL Gtk and a few other libs!! Too big! If you know a good launcher let me know.

I also still need to find a small, efficient ROM manager - so that users can fix any ROMs that are not working by downloading the files missing in their romsets... anyone know a good one???

All emulators will have a frontend (of sorts) - thanks to dejan555 who created the iNes .pet file. Using his script a ROM can be passed to each emulator without the need for the terminal, or the need to drag-and-drop ROMs.. Below is an example for VBA - the GBA emulator used in Puppy Arcade:

TomRhymer · Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 95

Is there a .pet for the Hugo emulator? I can't really use this Puplet due to a problem with my hardware, but I'd like to try that emulator in another Puppy.

The problem with 4.2 on my netbook doesn't seem to be a driver issue, but a problem with the kernal. I have no problems with 4.3 or with the upup alpha, but the same issues with the dpup alphas.

Makoto · Posted: Mon 28 Sep 2009, 06:57 Post subject:

Heh. A couple of the rare systems that I had (actually still have, but I'm not trying to brag... more like (carbon) dating myself. Shocked

) include the Atari 5200 and the TI-99/4A computer. Not that I intend to ask for either of those. Razz

To be honest, I probably wouldn't vote in favor of iNES - it's a bit dated, if I remember correctly, and probably doesn't support all of the NES games out there (=mapper support), as well as the Famicom Disk System games (*.fds).

I've been trying to get RockNES to work, but haven't had any success so far. Maybe someone else might be able to get it to work...

How did the VICE Commodore emulators look, to you? Just curious.

I haven't tried any of the Linux managers, unfortunately.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

tikbalang · Joined: 07 Aug 2008 Posts: 47

may i request that the final puppy arcade be a .pet or a .sfs? this will keep it from being outdated when new releases of puppy come out.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

Makoto · Posted: Mon 28 Sep 2009, 22:01 Post subject:

Hmm... Marat must have made a number of updates I hadn't heard about, or the emu-news sites I check didn't post. FDS support is definitely good. I'll have to check it out, then, especially since I haven't been able to get RockNES to work. (I know FakeNES and one other NES emulator I tried do work; I'm just testing the various emulators.)

Can't remember if Frodo supported the Commodore 128, but that's not an issue. Are you including the Sega Master System/Game Gear? (tries to remember if Marat's 'MasterGear' emu did both...)

Thanks again, for the VBA package. And for HuGo as well... I ought to test it and see if it recognizes my SuperCDs. Smile

hypnobluez · Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Sydney, AUSTRALIA

hey guys, could you please post a list of websites with the top ROMs.

special THANKS!!! to sc0ttman for creating this unique puplet.

Makoto · Posted: Mon 28 Sep 2009, 23:17 Post subject:

Interestingly enough, a new version of Kega Fusion (a multiple was just released, this evening.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

Anyone get .exe files working in Puppy WITHOUT WINE?? This is Kega Fusion, already compiled for linux, but it's still in .exe format!! I've attached the emulator, so if anyone can get this working, then please let me know how.. I've been unable to do anything with it... I just get a segmentation fault, saying:

Makoto · Posted: Tue 29 Sep 2009, 13:55 Post subject:

I noticed that the binary in the archive had an .exe extension after I posted. Shocked

Not sure why it does, yet, unless it was accidentally named with the .exe extension.

A couple of things I've noted:
1) It's not an actual Windows executable. It doesn't have the Windows executable header... in fact, it has what appears to be a UPX-compressed ELF header. It's also ~700KB as opposed to the ~2MB of the Windows version's EXE.

2) I tried renaming the file without the extension and seeing if it would run (and also with the .elf extension), but I didn't have any luck (and running either in the terminal only generated 'command not found' bash errors, for some reason...)

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