Im looking for a mame emulator that will work on open suse, ive tried xmame to no avail. also looking for an snes emulator that works for said distro

I found that gxmame works well on Suse. I think you'll find it in YaST. However, I had no joy with this in Debian (it wouldn't read the ROMS) and I now use sdlmame which you can use with xmame gui if you don't want to run from the command line.

Actually, I've just remembered that I didn't find gxmame in YaST but in pbone, or some other such rpm site. You need to download and install xmame tools first, though.

Good luck

oi any idea where you found all the dependiencies for gxmame?

I think xmame tools is the only dependency, but you might need to add xmame-x11 and xmame base. Trouble is, these two need each other! I got round that by putting the rpms I downloaded on the desktop, then doing Applications / System / Configuration / Install Software. Then I clicked the 'configure' button and in the services tab clicked add service . From here I typed the URL of the desktop then I clicked close. In the search bar I typed xmame and pressed the search button. Finally, I ticked the xmame packages and away it went! This always worked for me, and I did have to do it on a number of occasions!