Running 10 days
without a restart.

Nintendo Emulation under Linux

Wanna have some fun under LinuxPPC? The Super Nintendo emulator, SNEX, now runs on your Mac under Linux.

If feels great to play Contra again! If you have joystick support compiled into your kernel, plug in a Gravis Gamepad and fire away!

Download the file and install it with the command:

tar xvfz s9x.linux.137ca.ppc.tar.gz

This creates a folder in your home directory called /snes9x. Stick your ROM files in there in a folder cleverly called /roms.

The trickiest part is programming the keys on your gamepad or joystick. I have already done these two for you:

Gamepad/Joystick	Key assignments
Gravis Gamepad	2 1 3 0 4 5 9 8
Macally iShock	0 1 6 7 4 12 8 9

For example, if I want to play Contra with my Gamepad from the command line I enter:

snes9x -ts -joymap1 2 1 3 0 4 5 9 8 /home/root/snes/rom/Contra.smc

That's a lot of typing just to kill a few aliens, so I wrapped each command line in a shell script in order to make a double-click script:

#!/bin/bash
snes9x -ts -joymap1 2 1 3 0 4 5 9 8 /home/root/snes/rom/Contra.smc

Just change the rom name and save a bunch of these in a folder to launch your games. If anyone else decodes a joystick, send me the numbers and it's post them.