I've only tried Monkey Island and Monkey Island II on YDL so far so I can't really tell you how anything else performs but both both of these games run perfectly so I see no reason to use Xubuntu and downgrade to an earlier version of ScummVM.

Are there any other benefits to running Xubuntu over YDL?

I have to admit I didn't hold out too much hope of this working being that I'm a total Linux noob but after a bit of googling I finally got ScummVM running on my PS3. For all you other PS3 owners who'd like to try but are not sure of the procedure here is how I did it. Follow the instructions here t...