Alpha Box Media

Tonight I was faced with the task of burning an XBOX 360 ISO on my Ubuntu Linux system. Honestly I had never burned one under Linux before. I had always used iburn360 under Mac OS X to get the job done. I did some google’ing and found a very simple growisofs command to get the job done. It worked very well.

I thought to myself, I should write a GUI for this in case I ever need to burn another XBOX 360 ISO. So I did.

Thus was born “burn x360″.

The fruits of my labor can be found hosted here. I made a debian package that should work for any debian based distro (I use Ubuntu). Download, install, and burn!

Visit the burn x360 Homepage

I am a huge fan of game console emulators, so when I found this great Ubuntu PPA I was pleased as punch. It has a nice selection of emulators and they seem properly packaged. Included in this PPA are:

• Bsnes – the most accurate SNES emulator there is. Regular and SSE2 build.
• Dolphin Emu – Nintendo Gamecube and Wii emulator. It’s simply awesome.
• PCSX – Sony Playstation emulator – both DF and Reloaded flavors.

In addition to emulators he also provides a few other apps and libraries needed for the above emulators. All in all its was a great find and I was pleased.

To add this repository to your Ubuntu Software Center open a terminal and type this in

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hunter-kaller/ppa
• sudo apt-get update

I’m skipping ahead to Ubuntu 10.10 to update my arcade script. Currently I’m diligently working on my *NEW* arcade script/application for setting up Ubuntu 10.10 as a killer arcade front-end. As of right now I’m using zenity for the GUI, so no more terminal commands It’s in heavy testing right now and should be ready on the day Ubuntu 10.10 is launched. Expect a full guide, also.

I recently finished the updated version of my legendary Ubuntu Linux Arcade Cabinet Guide. This time around I switched from vanilla Ubuntu to XUbuntu for a snappier system. Other enhancements incluse a step by step pictorial guide and simplified terminal commands.

Go and check it out, sucka!