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This site is in pre-opening state.
The website has been moved to a new server on August 30th 2008. We may experience difficulties during a certain period as we need to adjust the different softwares of the new server. We also changed to Mediawiki 1.13, the newest version of Mediawiki. Please report any problems you may find in the Forums. An old version of the site is still available at EmuWiki.org so go there if you have too much problems with the new site!
News
| Dedicated to Emulation | I'm very proud to ... | 23:12, 2 September 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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I'm very proud to announce that EmuWiki.com now runs on a brand new Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz/2 Gb RAM dedicated server. You may have seen the improvement in performance at the beginning of the week; yep it's pretty intense. When I started EmuWiki.com about a year ago on November 2007, I guessed that I needed approximately 1 year to bring EmuWiki.com to a publishable (opening) state. Just give me a couple of more weeks and we should reach that state. Why keep the pre-opened state while the site is presentable ? Because I don't want to lose time with news updating. It will take me a lot of time when we start updating the news every day and I want to spend this time right now to building the base of the encyclopedia. So a couple of more weeks, maybe 1 or 2 months, and we should be ready to open.
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| EmuWiki.com goes Semantic | You might not have ... | 21:11, 19 July 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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You might not have seen EmuWiki.com grow as fast as it did previsouly in the last month but altough the site has not changed a lot in appearance, the mechanisms behind the website changed a lot. Now every element on EmuWiki.com is classified, except the emulators which are still being updated manually. What that means is that Videos, Documents, Websites, Emulebrities, and news are all associated with 3 values : The emulated machine category, the emulator name category, and the host machine category. Why do that ? Well when a user submits a video for example, we want that video to appear on the Emulations Videos page. But if the video is related to, let's say the emulator Final Burn. We also want the video to be available on Final Burn's history page. Same thing with a technical document for example. And eventually it becomes possible to link all this information together : If I have a page that talks about FinalBurn.com, I may want to have links in this page that would relate to anything that's related to Final Burn. It's now possible to do that because every video, every document, every website, every news and every emulebrities has flags that says : Hey I'm related to Final Burn. Or Hey I'm related to Sega Genesis, etc... Go see the Final Burn history page to feel the power of this new mechanism. I have to say that I'm pretty deceived by the contributions I get from the community : where are you emulation fans ? It's now easier than ever to add documents, videos, and other information on EmuWiki.com so I expect you guys to start going around Youtube, google, and the others and find all you can find and contribute to EmuWiki.com. I mean look at the Top contributors, I basically made the whole encyclopedia up to now. It's up to you to use all these new features I added and contribute!Leave a Comment | |||
| FakeNES for Playstation 3 YDL | Here is a compiled ... | 08:35, 4 July 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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Here is a compiled version of FakeNES v0.5.9 beta 3 for Yellowdog Linux running on Playstation 3. Emulation, sound, and plugged-in PS3 joystick support are just perfect. Best of all, FakeNES is a great emulator with a nice GUI, and it's click & play. Download the FakeNES package. The Sources for this compilation have not been modified, they are the originals v0.5.9-beta3. Extract the package and follow the instructions in the readme : Compiled & tested on YDL 6. 1. Click on the executable to see if it works. 2. The sound may be crappy at the beginning. You need to change Audio->Output-> to OpenAL. You can do this manually or copy the config file to /YOURUSERDIRECTORY/.fakenes/. The config file also has the PS3 joystick already mapped. 3. If after choosing the option OpenAl, you don't get any audio, you may need to install openal. Enable the fedora extra repos for Fedora Core 6 and type yum search openal. Install all the openal files. Really do this only if you don't hear anything. You should have perfect emulation, perfect sound, and plugged-in joystick support. Compatibility is not 100% yet but comparable to the same emulator on other platforms and totally acceptable. Here is a video showing the results : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqrpPJcbLBo Leave a Comment | |||
| Atari 2600 on Playstation 3 | Hi. ... | 04:09, 3 July 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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Hi. Stella, the great Atari 2600 emulator, can be compiled for Playstation 3 (YellowDog Linux) ! Why play those new games like Grand Theft Auto 4 when you can actually play California Games on your new console ! Here is the procedure for those who don't know how to compile programs. I will also provide you with a special configuration file that includes mapping for the PS3 joystick (plugged-in, no wifi yet, unless you know something I don't know) and correction of a small display problem. You need to have YDL 6 installed (maybe previous versions will work). You also need to have the basic development kits installed (if you're not sure, yum install gcc). Here are the steps : 1. Download the Stella v2.6.1 sources. 2. Open up a terminal, go to the directory where you downloaded the Stella sources and type : tar zxvf stella-2.6.1-src.tar.gz 3. Go to the directory where it extracted. Type these lines one after another : ./configure make make install 4. Download the EmuWikiAdmin's Configuration File for Stella. 2 changes were made to the default configuration : the menu size was reduced (the problem was that all the options of the Stella menu could not be clicked because they were hidden when Stella was ran in Gnome on PS3 in 1080p). I have also mapped the PS3 joystick. Start = Reset, Triangle = Pause, Select = Level, X = Red button. Take this file and copy it to /YOURUSERNAME/.stella/ and erase the default configuration file. That's it, you're ready to play Atari 2600 games on your Playstation 3 ! You can run Stella by going into Applications->Games or by typing stella in the terminal. There's probably more to come, I'll go around the good Linux emulators like those for Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Atari, Playstation, Genesis etc... and try to see if they can compile so come back for some more guides on EmuWiki.com. Here's how nice atari 2600 can get in 1080p :    Leave a Comment | |||
| New Wayback Machine invented | Have a look ... | 05:38, 26 June 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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Have a look here. The page contains a new extension I just designed. The Wayback Machine extension allows you to browse through archived versions of a given website. In this case, you can browse through the history of FinalBurn.com. How did the site look like in 2001, 2003, 2007 ? The extension is based on the archives at http://www.archive.org. Eventually, it will be possible to browse through the history of any emulation-related website directly from EmuWiki.com. Have fun! Leave a Comment | |||
| Collective video editing | I was recently ... | 05:19, 18 June 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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I was recently contacted by a guy named Ido Setter. He was telling me that they made a wiki extension that allowed collective video editing by all users and then displaying of the video to the community. I installed it and it's pretty funny. You can see my first test here. It's pretty nice you can actually cut and paste bouts of Youtube videos or your own videos and make a complete sequence, and every user can contribute. It's really nice, I don't know if it's going to serve a lot for emulation fans who are not necessarily bent toward web 2.0 (they actually prefer playing atari 2600 games), but if you have ideas of videos you want to make just go ahead and use the extension!
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| Brand new News and Comments system | I finally decided ... | 06:32, 16 June 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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I finally decided to put myself on the task of developing this linkage between the blog program Wordpress and Mediawiki that was already started but that was unfortunately one-way (Wordpress comments could be printed in Mediawiki, but Mediawiki news could not be automatically imported to Wordpress). What this means for you is that every user that submits news on the wiki using the News submission system will automatically see his news text in a new entry in our collective EmuWiki Blog and it will be possible for users to comment the news. The coordination between MediaWiki and Wordpress is now 2-way : if you comment in Wordpress, you will see the comments in the mediawiki news page and if you comment in the mediawiki news page you will see your comments in the Wordpress version. We're not talking only about comments here; every user can actually post a news, so this is really a collective blog, I hope to see you guys use it (for the beginning, I would recommend using it only for emuwiki-related things, but eventually this will be the system to use to publish news about new emulator releases).
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| What history pages should look like | Hi guys. Well I had ... | 19:50, 15 June 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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Hi guys. Well I had been off the site for about a month but now I'm back and stronger than ever. Some of you may be interested in helping but may not know where to start so I started what I consider to be a complete historical page just so you see what I would like to have for every emulator. I decided to make the history page of Final Burn and Final Burn Alpha. Have a look at it, and you'll see what I mean by a complete history page. It's not over yet I still need to find some more versions but it's a good model if you want to do the same thing for other emulators that would be really cool. As you can see, we're trying to get all the versions we can find to see the evolution of the emulator. For some versions, we can find information about the release itself (what's new, etc...) but we can't find a downloadable version. In these case we just put the description and no download link. I've made all the required templates so that it's now easier to do the same thing for any other emulator, but just to give you an idea, I've spent about 10 hours making this history page, including the templates and everything, so it's a huge job, but I think the result is great so don't hesitate to mail me if you're interested in helping but don't know where to start.
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| New Document Archive Section | I just added a ... | 06:00, 30 April 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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I just added a Document Archive section. This section will be an archive of all texts published about emulation. I hope to see you guys contribute to this section by going around the Internet and finding all of them! No Comments feature for this post. | |||
| New Emulebrities Section! | A new section has ... | 22:58, 19 April 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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A new section has been added to EmuWiki.com : the Emulebrities section. It will contain all information about important names of the emulation world. No Comments feature for this post. | |||
| New Websites Section! | We now have a ... | 03:08, 5 April 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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We now have a special section on the website to put links on other emulation-related websites. It is the Emulation Websites section. Come and add your favorite websites! We want them all! No Comments feature for this post. | |||
| 2 New Super-Features | It is now possible ... | 06:52, 3 April 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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It is now possible for all registered users to Submit News and Submit Videos. It is now also your responsability as a user of EmuWiki.com to bring nice content to the site. I'll be working on content and feature improvement in the next months too, and together we might build something very strong. Talk about EmuWiki.com to all your friends! No Comments feature for this post. | |||
| New Feature : EmuWiki.com chat room. | I'm currently ... | 03:30, 2 April 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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I'm currently playing with all wiki extensions I can find and I just installed the IRC client and made an IRC channel where people that want to work on the site can come and talk with me! Do not hesitate to come and see, it's EmuWiki Chatroom under 'Community'. No Comments feature for this post. | |||
| EmuWiki.com goes pre-opening. | The site goes from ... | 22:01, 1 April 2008 | By EmuWikiAdmin |
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The site goes from beta to pre-opening. We are looking for volunteers who would like to participate in EmuWiki.com. We need : PHP scripters, Wiki Extension specialists, reporters, helpers, and anybody who wants to be section director of one of the section that is currently active, or any other section that you would like to build. We're looking for creative ideas. If you don't know anything about PHP or even MediaWiki but want to be involved, I have a couple of easy job I need to be done, like managing the video section (basically, finding all Youtube and other sites videos and including them on the page). Communicate with me at admin@emuwiki.com. No Comments feature for this post. | |||
Jul 06 2008 3:37 pm
Is there a way to get the SixAxis working through Bluetooth?
Jul 06 2008 7:41 pm
Some people pretend the Bluez driver are enough to make the Sixaxis work under Linux, I did succeed to detect the Sixaxis with these drivers but the emulators seem to refuse to consider it as a joystick unfortunately... EmuWikiAdmin
Jul 12 2008 9:11 pm
BlueZ just seems to be a Bluetooth driver.
From what I can tell, it won't actually allow you to use the SixAxis in games and emulators any more than a USB driver would allow you to use a USB mouse in the operating system without an actual driver for the mouse device itself.
Regards.Jul 13 2008 9:06 am
Yep, but considering that when I detect my SixAxis with the blues driver, a device appears in /dev/input/js0, I would have thought that would have been enough to make linux understand it's a joystick and maybe it would have worked on the emulator directly, but it does not.
Aug 01 2008 7:02 pm
Will the Logitech Bluetooth Keyboard for PS3 work with this?
Aug 02 2008 6:15 am
I have a logitech bluetooth keyboard and it works fine. Anything that can be detected as a device under linux should work.