What would Duke Nukem have to say about this?!?

I went out to the mailbox yesterday — something I don’t do very often because that means I have to put on pants — and found the March 2008 issue of GameInformer* waiting for me.

I was just flipping through, reading about the upcoming PS3/Xbox360/PC game Aliens: Colonial Marines, when I turned to page 52 and was presented with one of the scariest and most disturbing game screenshots I have ever seen in my entire life! Is that an alien hoo-ha I see there? An extraterrestrial va-jay-jay? Let’s zoom in for a closer look. Wow. I can’t wait to see what the game rating will be for this one! I’m guessing it will look something like this:

aliens rating

* I have now hidden the March 2008 issue of GameInformer safely under my mattress.

I need a little help with setting the video-mode for a ps3 on fedora 9. When I’m in root and put in video-mode I can only choose 480p. And when you mention “video=ps3fb:mode:3 rhgb
(this section may look different depending on how you installed Fedora 9)” in your post on fedoraforum.org, Mine is different and that does not appear on the editor screen. Can you help??

Just wanted to say thanks for all the tutorials. I did this Opera one, and it worked great. I think I have a new favorite browser!
Thanks…..Mark

Hey Billb…Whats going on with the Yellow Dog Forum? Its been down for a few days now. Do you know whenit will be back up?

I installed port audio prior to snes9x-gtk as instructed, but I sitll get no sound. Help?

@dan, in snes9x-gtk, look in Options -> Preferences -> Sound and make sure your playback rate is 44100 or 48000 — I think it defaults to 32000 and that doesn’t work on the PS3.

hey bill. First time here and all of your tutorials and helpful links are the reason I can do all this from my couch. Thanks in advance. Anyway, I was tryin to get GTK 1.51 and Port audio. I tried installing the RPM for port audio and I keep getting an error at the end. I was hoping you could help me out. I get:

Error Resolving Dependencies

Unable to resolve dependencies for some packages selected for installation.
In the details Tab:

Missing Dependency: libjack.so.0 is needed by the package portaudio

thanks again for all your help.

@danb, I see — that is provided in the fedora-extras repo (fc6), so if you haven’t added the additional third-party repos as described here:

http://blogs.ydl.net/billb/2008/03/02/third-party-repos-for-ydl-6/

Then the installer won’t pick up the dependency. There may be other RPM packages I have made that require the third party repos as well. There’s a post on the YDL community board that describes them in more detail here, plus how to install software on YDL in general:

http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=3017

Once you have them set up properly, the installer should pick up the dependency and add it automatically.

jack-audio-connection-kit.ppc 0.103.0-1.fc6 fedora-extras
Matched from:
libjack.so.0

Also, I have a new version of the portaudio rpm that I haven’t posted yet — here’s a direct link:

http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/ps3linux/ps3bodega/portaudio-19-5.ppc.rpm

(still need to add the 3rd party repos first, at least fedora-extras anyway)

And when you have snes9x-gtk installed, look in Options -> Preferences -> Sound and make sure your playback rate is 44100 or 48000 — I think it defaults to 32000 and that doesn’t work on the PS3.

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