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While its easy enough to get emulators with most distros like Ubuntu or Red Hat, we have to work a little bit to get them working on the XO. dgen is a old, but decent Genesis/MD emu and you can find an RPM of it here

You will need SDL and a compatability library installed first:

$su

# yum install SDL compat-libstdc++-296

then create a link to that library that dgen will like

# cd /usr/lib

#ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

you will have to override dependencies to actually install dgen

# cd <path when the dgen-sdl-1.23-1.i386.rpm file was downloaded>

# rpm -Uvh --nodeps dgen-sdl-1.23-1.i386.rpm

# exit

try dgens scaler which does not require OpenGL

$ dgen -S3 <rom file>

if it doesn’t work then you should remove dgen and try to install it without the –nodeps option. You will then have to install whatever packages it needs (excluding the non-existant libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 )

# yum remove dgen-sdl-1.23-1

install the dependencies, then reinstall using the –nodeps  option again…