AdvanceCD: a minimal Linux distribution containing the AdvanceMAME emulator.

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http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/cd-readme.html

AdvanceCD is a bootable live CD, DVD and USB disk of a minimal Linux distribution containing the AdvanceMAME emulator.
You can boot it in any PC and play the contained games without any installation. The default distribution contains the arcade games Gridlee, Poly Play and Robby Roto and it uses only 20 Mbyte leaving the whole disk for your roms.

The scope of AdvanceCD is to transform any PC in a gaming console. You can give it to all the not expert users, which are not able to download and install emulators and roms.

If you are an addicted player, it's also nice to have a tascable mini-cd or USB disk with your favorite games to play everywhere.

The main features are :

High quality look and usability.
Boot from CD, DVD, USB and Fixed disks.
Contains AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS and the frontend AdvanceMENU.
Uses only 20 Mbyte on the disk.
Autodetects your video/audio/joystick/mouse/keyboard hardware using the Linux drivers.
Here some Snapshots or go to Download.

You can see the list of supported video boards and of the supported audio boards.

If you have problems you can Get Support.

AdvanceCD has also a SourceForge page (shared with AdvanceMAME) and a FreshMeat page.

Similar projects are The XMame on CD Project, Linux CD-ROM Game System and KnoppiXMAME. The major difference from AdvanceCD is that these projects use a standard Linux distribution, and they require a lot of space on the CD, generally something like 150-200 Mbyte or more.

Other interesting livecd projects are: Movix to play DivX/MPEG movies and SCUMMLinux to play SCUMM games.