HOORAY ... I am dancing around the room like a kid ... it is all setup and working, with snes and good old duke nukem!!!! But dont ask me how I did it lol
I tried the quad rootfs, but it gave me a ton of errors (probably my bad ... I used the same command as for the mips tar ... Quad, should I have done something different??) ... I then decided to give it one more time, printed the tutorial, killed the partitions and started again and it WORKED. Only did two things different 1) only made my ext3 partition 500mb not 1.8G and copeid the inittab file from the quad rootfs ...
But thanks to all .... bloody hell this is brilliant!!!