SNES

Introduction

Various methods of running SNES related software on the XO.

ZNES (via source)

(per http://sartak-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/12/zsnes-on-xo.html and http://www.freelikegnu.org/?p=14 )

In Terminal, do the following:

1. Download ZSNES

$ wget 'http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=zsnes&filename=zsnes151src.tar.bz2&use_mirror=easynews'

2. Extract it.

$ tar jxvf zsnes151src.tar.bz2

3. Go into the source directory.

$ cd zsnes_1_51/src/

4. Open up a root shell to install dependencies (click on the 'become root' icon):

5. Install dependencies:

$ yum install gcc gcc-g++ make nasm zlib SDL-devel

6. Leave the root shell:

$ exit

7. Build ZSNES. These are two separate lines:

$ ./configure --disable-debugger --disable-opengl
$ make

8. Run it!

$ ./zsnes

Notes:

• Not able to increase the screen resolution. (640x480 and larger resolutions depend on having OpenGL)
• You can center the display by going to Config -> Video and selecting "640x480 DR F".

Network play

Install zsnes1.36 the same way as freelikegnu's instructions (http://www.freelikegnu.org/?p=14), with a few substitutions:

download zsnes1.36 source instead of zsnes1.51:

$ wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zsnes/zsnes136src.tar.gz

extract by:

$ tar -xvzf zsnes136src.tar.gz

and the extracted files are different now so:

$ cd zsnes-1.36/src

the rest should be the same. once you get zsnes installed, you need to find the server xo's mesh ip address to give to whoever wants to join. i have wifi-radar installed in xfce, i'm not sure, but you may need it

for this to work in xfce. 

In the termial:

$ /sbin/ifconfig

the second line under the heading "msh0" shows your ip, right after "inet addr:"

Now you've got all the pieces, here's some more instructions and info on how to set up netplay:

 http://www.nerologic.com/FAQ/zsnesfaq/netplay.htm

Zsnes 1.36 , has the most stable netplay, but possible a later version with enabled netplay, might work better (maybe 1.42?).

ZNES (via binaries)

Some pre-compiled binaries..

$ wget http://eclecti.cc/files/zsnes.bz2
$ bzip2 -d zsnes.bz2

You're probably going to need to install some other dependcies for it to work.

$ yum install nasm zlib