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If anyone wants a quick way to play Arcade and Playstation games on their Raspberry Pi, I'm maintaining a distro that does just that: http://pimame.org

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Looks like just what i needed. However, i couldn't find much information about it on your site. What kind of systems does it support apart from PS1 and arcade machines? SNES? NES? Megadrive? What kind of controllers? Xbox 360? How are ROMS loaded? USB?

Answers to these questions should be easily accessible to any prospective user (i don't have my Pi available to test the distro), but then again, i suspect this project only started very recently and you're already planning on updating the website.

Yep. I recently launched PiMAME.org - Most of the info is on http://blog.sheasilverman.com, but this weekend I plan on updating the main site.

Right now includes AdvanceMAME, GNGeo (NeoGeo), and PCSX_ReARMed (Playstation).

The installer is available on github: http://github.com/ssilverm/pimame_installer

I'm planning on adding AdvanceMESS, SNES9x, and MAME4All this weekend.

Great! There're also videos on your blog which is helpful. I'll be keeping an eye on this project, and once i get my Pi back from, i'll be sure to check your distro out.

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