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