Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest – A game I’m looking forward to playing (http://ocremix.org/game/48/donkey-kong-country-2-diddys-kong-quest-snes)

Hi guys,

Some of you might know I’m working on getting an “emulation station” up and running, but if you haven’t read about it yet, I’ll give a short explanation below. :)

It so happens that I’ve resurrected an old laptop (Toshiba, over 10 years old!) and I want to hook this up to a TV downstairs. My choice, after getting information from my fellow blogger The Heretic (check out his blog here), fell on the Linux distribution Puppy Arcade. The beauty of this system is that it is tailored to emulation purposes and hence comes bundled with a ton of emulators, a ROM-Loader front-end and much more. It takes time setting everything up though, so I’ve spent many hours tweaking settings, installing ROM’s, getting joy-pads working and so forth. It’s looking pretty good so far and I’m happy to say that the laptop now boots directly into the emulation front-end and I can select which system to run and then launch a game (with the joy-pad!). Very, very nice!

Picture of the ROM-Loader – You can select system with a controller! (taken from Puppy Arcade website)

I’ll be back with more info on the system some time during this week. Will post some pictures for you all to see. :) I’ve got a joy-pad here, USB, that looks just like an original SNES controller. It will be cool to play Diddy’s Kong Quest (SNES) with!

Thanks for reading and have a good evening!