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All hail the almighty PS3 phat, it can now leave it up to the slogan that follows it around incessantly: “It only does everything”. Why? Simple, it only play all games.

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Feel like playing some classic? No problem.

Over the past year, Jason Carter of the zero gamer project has been at it tirelessly, working, tweaking and changing his installation of Yellow Dog on Linux on his PS3 so that it would be more emulation friendly. The goal? To get his install as close to the friendliness of Xbox emulators as he could, making it so that with a game list and a few button presses and the game of your choice is on the screen.

The result is serious business: zerogame is a bash shell script that will take a freshly installed copy of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 on your PS3 and with a few minutes and occasional input from you will give you one good emulation box that you can boot up whenever you feel like playing some classics.

Developer’s Note:

The project is a confluence of a number of different programs working behind the scenes on top of an optimized install of yellow dog linux 6.2. The great aspect of this project is that the only effort required by you is to install yellow dog linux then install The Zerogame Project; that is it. No hunting down various emulators for various systems then tweaking and configuring each. No configuring bluetooth for the sixaxis or dualshock 3. No need to learn a new operating system. Just follow zerojays txt guide. After the install you dont even need to touch a keyboard every thing can be controlled from the 6A/DS3. Note: the program is in beta at 0.5 so it still has kinks and is a work in progress.

Here’s What You Need:

Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 freshly installed on your PS3
A working internet connection
An HDTV that supports 1080p or 720p (480p/i and 576p/i support in the future)
A wired USB keyboard
One or more Sony Sixaxis/Dualshock3 controllers

For the full thing head here.

Thanks, Evan.