All-Guide: Installing YDL/VLC/MPlayer/SNES9x on PS3!

[cmpkllyrslf96]

I followed the steps to install snes9x very closely. I got the gnome terminal to create an executable (found in the snes9x folder under the name snes9x). It is 1.1mb in size. I moved it to the desktop, however when I click it nothing happens. There is also nothing that indicates Snes under the gaming applications. Anyone have any idea what went wrong or how to fix it?

[End Dream]

thx for the help.. i hope i can get this to work.. i havent been able to run the installer for snes9x in ydl 5 only snes9express.

[enjoy]

Originally Posted by satbuster Also, the PS3-Linux combination is completely unsatisfactory as a mplayer/vlc-based media platform. It, currently, does not offer enough horsepower to decode and display MPEG4 streams in 720p or higher resolutions. Definitely no 1080p playback under Linux using mplayer/vlc. Maybe the Linux kernel team will improve the hardware utilization of the PS3 over time.

is it already possible to playback mpeg4 720p/1080p files??

[laranjas]

wicked walkthrough, thanks.

[deathw]

can somebody help me please, i installed YDL 5.0.2 newest version and everything went smooth, i was able to get YUM running ok with the therepos.zip file and got Snes9x running! but the problem seems that when I try and configure my ps3 controllers it doesnt fine /dev/js0 and /dev/js1 and when i try and search for them in filesystem it doesnt find any js0 or js1 file on my YDL, if i were to reinstall but with

yellowdog-5.0.1-phoenix-20070511-PS3.iso

would the js1 and js0 files be there for the ps3?

also i used this version to install on PS3

yellowdog-5.0.2-20070711.iso

[Emuel]

Thx Nice Guide

[doctorme]

Originally Posted by SolidBoss hello, can anyone please help me with a problem? i just did every step of this tutorial an everthing works great but i dont understand how can i enter with the user GNOME (not as root). Im new to linux so could anybody please explain what GNOME really is? and if GNOME is a user login how do i know the password? i have fedora core 5 and when i enter if i put GNOME as user then it asks me the password an i dont know. is this only for yellow dog?

GNOME is a graphical user interface (actually it's more than just that, but you can just think of it this way). GNOME is a desktop. You see, Linux is capable of having more than just one desktop. There's also a GUI called KDE, and xfce for Linux. GNOME is not a username or login (unless you set that up yourself, which I doubt). As for how to login under GNOME you need to configure your system to login with a graphical screen. Then you set your session manager to GNOME instead of KDE or whatever it is set to currently. Anyway, you don't absolutely have to login under GNOME to carry out the steps of the tutorial, the guy who wrote it just specified GNOME so that people could log in under GNOME and easily find the things he was talking about because they are under different menus in KDE etc.

Also, for you guys having issues compiling your snes9x code you might want to check out this tutorial from IBM. IBM's tutorial is written with YDL in mind, but their instructions for how to configure your gcc compiler are relevant to Fedora Core as well since YDL and FC both use RPMs and YUM.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-linuxps3-1/

[doctorme]

Originally Posted by cmpkllyrslf96 I followed the steps to install snes9x very closely. I got the gnome terminal to create an executable (found in the snes9x folder under the name snes9x). It is 1.1mb in size. I moved it to the desktop, however when I click it nothing happens. There is also nothing that indicates Snes under the gaming applications. Anyone have any idea what went wrong or how to fix it?

You skipped a step. I had the same problem you're having until I did this: The step before what you just did is to type "yum instal snes9express" at the command line. So do that then redo the "./configure && make" step.

[utrx999]

Originally Posted by deathw can somebody help me please, i installed YDL 5.0.2 newest version and everything went smooth, i was able to get YUM running ok with the therepos.zip file and got Snes9x running! but the problem seems that when I try and configure my ps3 controllers it doesnt fine /dev/js0 and /dev/js1 and when i try and search for them in filesystem it doesnt find any js0 or js1 file on my YDL, if i were to reinstall but with yellowdog-5.0.1-phoenix-20070511-PS3.iso would the js1 and js0 files be there for the ps3? also i used this version to install on PS3 yellowdog-5.0.2-20070711.iso

Yup, I'm still alive.

Joysticks do not work with 5.0.2. Only 5.0 and 5.0.1. I tried to find a way to get the driver files from one version to another, but I couldn't.

[reeper187]

i make it to step c in installing snes 9x but when i try to put my code in it says no such directory there and when i try to put the dir for prefferences it says can't find roms and make sure you pointed to right location? i am new at this but i got the folders that were downloaded the snes9x folder but it keeps tellin me in the terminal to try and find and make etc it says no such dir? if you could help me trouble shoot that would be great. oh yeah i'm not really sure what u mean by snes9x exacutable?