It’s been a while since I last played around with my ps3 and linux and I thought I’d try out the latest version of Yellow Dog Linux (6.2). The goal is the same as in my previous posts: emulator games (megadrive, c64, amiga). What I have learned from past experiences is that I should probably set the display straight to way to 720p, and forget about the fullscreen options found within the emulator software. Instead I should concentrate on how to use scalers specifically developed to take advantage of ps3 features (additional spu’s). Scalers are external programs that will magnify a part of the screen and they might be the way to play games in fullscreen. The trick is that they don’t use the main cpu, but the additional spe’s so the framerate shouldn’t drop. Last time I had some problems using them (they worked, but it was a pain to set them up for different emulators each time you wanted a play a game). It will be fun to see if there has been any development on that area.
I’m still going for YDL, since they have made some additional tweaks concerning ps3, that I’d have to do manually if using other distributions such as Ubuntu. There should be some VRAM swap tricks etc. I’m planning to do a clean install and I’m actually downloading the iso as I’m writing this. I hope I find the time to tinker with this soon and write about my latest experiences. So, hold on for “playing emulator games with my ps3 with linux pt. 3″ 
Well I never actually thought about installing linux on the PS3, actually this is the first time I hear about it. I will be reading forward in your blog to see if you are succesful at playing emulators.
Unfortunately SONY removed the option to install linux to ps3 starting from the new slim model and for various reasons the only ps3 I currently have is the slim version. So I’m sad to say there will be no new posts from me concerning emulators/linux with ps3, unless somebody hacks the slim verson, which I doubt will happen. Damn you Sony. But as you can read from my three part posts, I was able to play the emulators, and there is some interesting things happening around it, like the zerogameproject http://blog.thezerogameproject.com/
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