(04-15-2016, 04:12 PM)remainder Wrote: Most of the talk so far has been on running emulators using Android or RemixOS, but has anyone else attempted it under Linux?Side note:
[Higan was the only SNES emulator in the software center. It didn't work. End of story. (And it says super famicon, so I dunno if super nintendo roms will even work with it.) Higan actually ran. I had to tell it which video driver to use. It was on opengl. I thought that shoulda worked but I put it on... SDL? It wouldn't load the game. The program just hanged after I hit the open button. I didn't give it very much time to load though. Probably could get it working with more experimentation. No time to do that.
MAME: Theres a version of the mame emulator in the soft.cent. Installed, didn't try it. Ninja Baseball Batmen would be fun though.]
Yea, I tried... And failed: (Note: I'm probably a linux noob, but have some exp. VPS, etc.)
"Ubuntu Linux Image base on Longsleep 20160421 image, Pine64" (Pine 64+ 2GB)
Attempted zsnes as well as snes9x. Focused on zsnes but didn't get either of them running. Zsnes refused to compile, or install. "Can't find build type, please specify one" and all dependencies were installed. No idea how to specify a build type... If thats even possible. Maybe the config files need to be updated by the zsnes dev's.
snes9x gave me an error when I went to run the executable. Sounded like it wouldn't run because apparently 64 bit ARM is not the same thing as 64 bit AMD. Wouldn't run due to different architectures. That was a real "wtf?" moment for me. I bought Pine because I thought it would easily run any 64 bit apps due to similar architecture. Without waiting for dev's to update their work, and why would they?
I wasted my dam time. Took me hours before I figured out I needed to change the repo to 'multiverse' (When you use apt-get it only searches for trusted apps) Only to find out all that junk was taken off the repo anyway? (I think?) Cause zsnes and snes9x still weren't showing up. (Only shows compatible versions probably)I even found a mirror download right from the packages.ubuntu.tld website. That one gave me the architecture error for snes9x. I tried older versions etc. No go.
My next try will be NES. And if that fails, maybe I'll try DOS. I'm frustrated! The Pine is cool but I think there's a newer ubuntu image or something that I should have downloaded. Even then, the emulators probably wouldn't have worked.
Remix OS: I don't wanna run android. I want a super simple emulation machine, without all the restrictions of what android can and can't do. Although, IF all of the android apps run fine. It would be quicker to get emulators working if you can simply download apps from the play store.
Debian: Maybe I should try debian?
