In the following section, I will show you how we installed Puppy Arcade to a USB Flash Drive using Windows and our third party USB Installer for Puppy Arcade. Puppy Arcade (created by Scott Jarvis), is a remix of Puppy Linux with a strong focus on Console Game Emulation. Puppy Arcade includes some of the most popular Console Game Emulation software available for Linux. Of course you will need to supply your own game ROMS.
Console Game Systems that can be emulated include: Amiga, Atari, Amstrad, Arcade Machines, Colecovision, Commodore (64/128/VIC20/PET), GameBoys (GB, GBC, GBA), GameGear, Genesis, MasterSystem, MS DOS, NeoGeo, NeoGeo CD, NES/Famicom, PC Engine/TurboGrafix 16, PSX, Scumm, SNES and ZX Spectrum.
Puppy Arcade Desktop Screenshot
Distribution Home Page: http://scottjarvis.com/page105.htm
Minimum Flash Drive Capacity: 128MB (more with persistence)
Persistent Feature: Yes
Puppy Arcade Live USB Flash Drive Creation Essentials
- Windows PC to perform conversion
- puppy-arcade-6.iso
- 128MB or larger USB flash drive (fat32 formatted)
- USB Installer For Puppy Arcade (contains the files to do the conversion)
Puppy Arcade Live USB Flash Drive Creation tutorial
- Download the puppy-arcade-6.iso
- Download and launch our USB Installer For Puppy Arcade and follow the onscreen instructions
- Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot
If all went well, you should be booting from your Live Puppy Arcade USB. You will be prompted to create a persistent file for saving your session data on shutdown. Just be sure to select your USB device when prompted.