Tools

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SPE Scaler Tool∞
This will allow to zoom the screen with out using the PPU where the scaling is being handle by the SPUs, improving performance.

Emulators

Emulating other consoles is why many people even bother installing linux on their console, Often however, people format their drives shortly after they realize they won't be able to play their playstation 2 games... The hardware is what limits us there. Luckily there are still plenty other consoles left to emulate!

dosbox

Want to relive the dos days of gaming before 3fx , dosbox is your friend :)

dosbox wiki∞
dosbox games ∞
dosbox arrowkey issues∞
at dosprompt , exit will escape dos
check your ~/dos/dosbox.conf that
Add the following to ~/dos/dosbox.conf

DosBox Keyboard shortcuts:

ALT-ENTER Switch to full-screen (and back).
CTRL-F1 Show the keymapper configuration screen,
CTRL-F4 Update cached information about mounted drives. Useful if you changed something on a mounted drive outside of DOSBox. Also cycles through disk images mounted using IMGMOUNT.
CTRL-F5 Save a screenshot (goes to capture folder).
CTRL-ALT-F5 Start/Stop recording of AVI video. NOTE: You may well have some problems with this, please see Recording Video for more information.
CTRL-F6 Start/Stop recording sound output to a wave file (goes to capture folder).
CTRL-ALT-F7 Start/Stop recording of OPL commands.
CTRL-ALT-F8 Start/Stop the recording of raw MIDI commands.
CTRL-F7 Decreases frameskip.
CTRL-F8 Increases frameskip.
CTRL-F9 Kill (close) DOSBox.
CTRL-F10 Capture/Release the mouse (if you need to use the mouse within DOSBox).
CTRL-F11 Decrease DOSBox cycles (slows down the emulation).
CTRL-F12 Increase DOSBox cycles (speeds up the emulation).

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MAME

mame∞ Old school classic arcade emulators , keep in mind as the ps3 ubuntu 9.05 has no hardware 3dfx as the RSX is locked down gl via mesa is slow so some games will not work. Maybe with Ubuntu 9.10 as the new version of mesa will have a spu optimised video driver. Also some of the mame front loader will die on the xml file for all the mame roms even with the rsx memory as swap.

NES

The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short, was a console released by Nintendo in 1983. As the best selling console of it's time it set many things that still determine our gameplay, from the controller layout to the look of the console itself. That, plus the epicness of classic games makes many people want to emulate this system.

GFCE Ultra

GFCEU is one of the easiest NES emulators to use, it features a nice GUI and easy controller configuration (a guide to set up your sixaxis can be found here)
To install GFCE Ultra open a terminal and use the following command to download and install:
Open GFCE Ultra by going to [Games > GFCE Ultra Nes Emulator] The gui is pretty straight forward, don't forget to setup your controller before you hit "execute" to load the rom.
Roms can be found all over the world wide web, however keep in mind that you must own the original cardridge to legally play it!

SNES

The snes, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, is, you guessed it, the successor of the NES, it features better graphic and functionality. The better graphics also make it harder for us to run it on PSUbuntu because of the hardware limits...

Snes9x-gtk

Snes9x is probably the emulator you want to use for your SNES emulating, It runs great on PSUbuntu. It also supports fullscreen!
Depfy's installer∞ is what you will want to use to install this.

bsnes

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12746∞

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Games

Doom

Doom is one of the few games in Ubuntu Universe/Multiverse that plays perfectly out of the box on ps3.
A guide to installing DOOM can be found here∞, credits go to Ninjarob187
Sadly you'll be stuck playing the game with keyboard and mouse, or old-style joystick, unless you know of a Doom mod that lets you use a 2-stick pad.

Quake 2

Runs beautifully on ps3 in software rendering mode. You will need a copy of the full game to be able to properly use other people's missions and maps.
Easiest way is to download Quake 2 from Synaptic. There is a data installer utility in Multiverse which is supposed to either download the demo from ID software, or from a quake 2 game disc. I have never been able to find this file after downloading it; if you get it to work, great, otherwise go here∞.

you may need to use a pc to unpack the file since Wine won't work on ps3, though Archive Manager may be able to extract the important files.

Try starting quake 2 from terminal and watch it fail. This is to make it create your data directory. Navigate to /home/you/.quake2/baseq2. There should be a file called "pak0.pak" and maybe some other .pak files in the demo or your quake 2 disc. Copy them into /baseq2. Check /usr/share/games/quake2 for the file "gameppc.so" and copy it over too. I'm not sure it's necessary but it won't hurt.
Copy the "maps" folder on your quake 2 disc, and all the mission pack folders, into /baseq2 as well. There won't be maps or missions if you're using the demo.

Give quake 2 a test run by starting from menu or terminal. If it starts successfully, it should create a config.cfg in /.quake2, check this file and make sure the line "set vid_ref" has "'soft_sdl'" as its argument. If you accidentally set the screen resolution above 920x720, just trash config.cfg and it will start over with default values.

If you want to use the ps3 controller, create an autoexec.cfg file in /.quake2 with the hosting∞ console commands binding the joystick axes. There's an excellent config in this thread in the forums of another popular distro∞. Also for if you can't get quake working; it is the thread that got me up and running.

Wolf3d

http://wolf3dredux.sourceforge.net/ Wolfenstein 3D redux ∞
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