This kind of dedicated distros are around from twenty years at least, usually they do is give a nice frontend that loads straight into an emulator.
I would give a shot to NetBSD for an emulation machine, too.
Is very lean as system, and still support 32 bit and dozen of abandoned platforms. You can pick any kind of board, from old pentium 1 to SPARK, and have an OS updated with the latest software. And if you don't go into Playstation, you haven't need much power.
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