October 2005
Beginner
501 pages
15h 5m
English
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Emulate Other Classic Systems in Linux
Emulate some of the most popular gaming consoles of yore.
So, the emulation bug has bitten you harder than you imagined, and you’re not satisfied with merely running the arcade machine emulator MAME [Hack #22] or the Nintendo Entertainment System [Hack #40] ? Then read on to find out about emulators for many different retro consoles that will run on your Linux box, including the Super NES, Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, and more.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
The venerable Super NES was one of the most popular console systems to ever hit the United States. But even the huge number of games that were available here pales in comparison to the number of games published in the motherland: Japan. With an emulator, and maybe a Japanese dictionary—or see “Play Japanese Games Without Speaking Japanese” in Gaming Hacks (O’Reilly), you may be able to explore a vast new sampling of SNES games! So let’s get down to it.
ZSNES (http://www.zsnes.com) is widely considered to be the best Super NES emulator available on the Linux platform. To install it, follow the steps listed next for your distribution.
Debian.
Use su or sudo to run the following command as root:
# apt-get install zsnesGentoo.
Use su or sudo to run the following command as root:
# emerge zsnesOther Unix/Linux distributions.
Visit the ZSNES home page (http://www.zsnes.com) and click on the Files link in the menu at the top of the page. Save the Linux source file for the latest version ...
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