I went ahead and ordered it. $42 shipped. Not sure when it will actually arrive though.

I installed the regular version of Jessie, not the lite. Once booted I followed ran these commands:
git clone https://github.com/ssilverm/piplay-installer
cd piplay-installer
bash installer.sh

They seemed to run correctly.
After that I rebooted and all I get is a black screen with the flashing underscore in the top left corner, it will not respond to any keyboard input. Any suggestions?
I will wipe the SD and re install jessie again in the meantime.

It does.
I got I working last night.
I loaded Jessie booting to thr desktop.
I setup the location, time and network settings.
Then, opening the terminal window, I used config to set the next boot to the $ prompt.
Lastly, I ran the three lines from above for piplay installer.
Reboot and success.

Still no luck, I went into the boot menu and tried boot to text with auto login, it booted to the command line saying that it was unable to launch the piplay menu. I tried changing boot options to boot into desktop and now Im back to the flashing underscore.

I also had problems with the image downloaded PiPlay 0.8.0 Beta 9 on SD. It never booted, but a big square "raibow color" appeared still.
Then I tried to install through Raspian ( not Lite ) console as explained in https://github.com/ssilverm/piplay-installer. After all that process I got that there was a mistake when it boots, something like an expected "fi".
Then I realized that in "installer.sh" there was a mistake.
it is on file:
(...)
echo 'cd /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/' >> /home/pi/.profile
echo 'python launchmenu.py' >> /home/pi/.profile
fi

echo 'fi' >> /home/pi/.profile

sudo apt-get -y install supervisor
(...)
it should be on file:
(...)
echo 'cd /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/' >> /home/pi/.profile
echo 'python launchmenu.py' >> /home/pi/.profile

echo 'fi' >> /home/pi/.profile

fi

sudo apt-get -y install supervisor

(...)
With that change on file it worked for me.

Genesis emu is not working:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/pimame/dispmanx/build/.libs/ && /home/pi/pimame/emulators/dgen-sdl-1.32/dgen
/home/pi/pimame/emulators/dgen-sdl-1.32/dgen: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have installed libarchive-dev and libarchive13. Any clue?

@cjbriere - did you ever figure out how to get the Genesis emulator working on jessie lite? I'm trying to get it, but haven't had any luck

I still haven't gotten a 3 yet, but I've picked up where we left off and am working on getting the libretro emulators working with piplay.

Not working for me. It all most works on my Raspberry Pi 3. I installed 2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie.img then updated it. Rebooted, then did the commands from:

https://github.com/ssilverm/piplay-installer

So:

git clone https://github.com/ssilverm/piplay-installer
cd piplay-installer
bash installer.sh

Reboot and the PiPLAY comes up after about a sec. of the Raspberry Pi 3 desktop.

No arrow keys do any thing. If I move around the mouse the desktop can show on clicks and I can do things.

So it's like the PiPlay menu is over the desktop but PiPlay don't work.

Any one know what I can do?

Just want the C64 part to work on this.

PiPlay worked on a older Raspberry Pi but playing a C64 game it's just to slow so go the Pi 3.

-Raymond Day

A little update. Reading more on this seen how it said in the Pi configuration made it boot to command line. I looked it up and found how here:

http://www.modmypi.com/blog/boot-to-command-line-raspbian-jessie

Rebooted and now it's working.

So looks like can't run the desktop.

Can't the piplay-installer be updated to it auto boots to the command line shell?

-Raymond Day