PS3 Linux - 2.2 Installing FCEU

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0. Main page / Linux home
1. Installing Yellow Dog Linux 5.0

1.1 Setting up the network
1.2 Installing KDE (K desktop enviroment)
2. Installing (other) applications

2.1 Installing SCUMMvm (and SDL)
2.2 Installing FCEU (nes emu)

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What is FCEU

FCEU is a NES emulator for Linux (/Unix). Thankfully it also works on the powerPC architecture.

Before installing FCEU; install a graphical interface

Normally I would write about this, and I might soon, but at this time I have yet to find a good frontend (that doesn't crash on me :)). So for now I'll just cover the install of FCEU which makes NES games playable, but only a little bit less easy.

Installing FCEU

We're going to install FCEU from source, just like before with scummvm. You can download it from my local mirror here. Download it for example to your desktop and open it (click on it once). You will be greeted by "File Roller" the default application for handeling .tar.gz files in Yellow Dog (images from scummvm, but you get the point ;)).

Now extract the source-code by selecting the "Extract" button and extract it to (in this case) your Desktop. Once done you can close the window and open Terminal (a console). Terminal can be opened via "Task-bar --> System --> Terminal" (task-bar is the bar at the bottom, see image). Now (provided you have extracted the source to your Desktop) type the following commands;
• cd ./Desktop
• ls
  ls is just so you see the contents of the Desktop folder. This does not add anything special, it is similar to the "dir" command in Windows/DOS.
• cd ./fceu_0.98.12/
  Here is where ls is useful. If you have downloaded a different version of fceu (other then the one I provided) the folder name will be different then the command above. If so change the folder name in the command above to match your own.
• ./configure
The machine should now start to process a lot of things which may take some time. If everything goes well you should not see any warnings in the output. You will be asked questions, answer them logically. Once the PS3 is done you should get your command promt back ([root@localhost ***]#). Only if all was good and no errors were returned (or bare the consequences) type "make && make install". This will take a lot of time, just leave your PS3 processing.

After a while you will be once again shown your command promt. You should now be able to type "fceu" and FCEU should produce an 'error' on your screen. Congrats, you have fceu installed. You can now remove the directory you have installed/compiled.

As for using it, you should have seen by the output that the fceu command is composed as fceu (-option) rom_file. So to start for example smb3.nes from my SD card with volume name GC (mounted of course) it would be fceu /media/GC/nesroms/smb3.nes.

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