[Discussion] Emudeck and other Emulators on the Steam Deck
[Discussion] Emudeck and other Emulators on the Steam Deck
I've installed Emudeck on my device, the process was really easy to follow, here's a guide.
I just made this post to share info and suggestions on the best games to try. Right now I'm playing a (totally owned) rom of Zelda breath of the wild and so far is flawless (although stuck to 30 fps x some reason). Any suggestion for other good game??
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What's the difference between emudeck and retrodeck? I've been using retrodeck and enjoying it quite a lot.
As I recall, retro deck installs an emulation hub that you go into, and then choose what to emulate.
Emudeck installs a bunch of individual emulators and configures them, and also sets up roms so they show up as standalone games in your library. The end result is the games feel like steam games, and you rarely have to mess with anything showing them to be emulated titles.
Emudeck also installs EmulationStation. You can choose to access your games and not by integrating then into Steam. Just like Retrodeck.
And Decky Loader has several Emudeck plugins, but I don't recall seeing any for emulation platforms.
Fubarberry
RetroDECK is a flatpak application that builds in a variety of emulators and systems into one app you can download from flathub.
We are also working on the "Add to Steam" function. You can read more about it in the links posted in other replies in this thread :)
I may have to check out emudeck then. I'm not sure if retrodeck can do that too, but I like the idea of it treating roms as standalone games in my library. I might end up running some games as part of retrodeck, and some from emudeck.
From my experience Retrodeck tends to lose the config files a lot during updates. So far I'm yet to experience that with Emudeck.
EDIT: Apparently it was a bug and it's been fixed almost a year ago, see the dev reply below. Don't let my comment discourage you from choosing RetroDECK!
Greetings, RetroDECK dev here, this was a known issue that was solved on 0.6.2b (15/03/2023), now we are on 0.7.5b and that bug is only a memory. Please let us know if you encounter any issue related to your config if you will decide to try RetroDECK again. Thanks a lot for your patience :)
Oh, that's amazing to hear! I prefer the design of RetroDECK over Emudeck a lot, so I'm more than happy to migrate back then.
Pssst... Hi, got a couple questions, one's potentially bug related, the other is feature related.
First question: when I plug a controller in and try to play something with Dolphin, many times I have to go and swap the controller in Dolphin's gamepad setup, otherwise it doesn't see the controller. I'm pretty sure it wasn't that way when I originally installed retrodeck (I could seamlessly go from holding the deck to using a controller on the couch), so I'm wondering if there are any settings that I might have accidently enabled/disabled that are requiring me to manually swap controllers in dolphin settings. If it helps, the steam deck shows up as Xbox 360 pad 0, my steam controller shows up as Xbox 360 pad 1.
Second question: someone else mentioned that it's possible to use emudeck to launch games directly from steam. Is this possible with retrodeck, and if not, are you planning to implement the ability to do something like that?
RetroDECK CM Here:
First Question:
When I plug a controller in and try to play something with Dolphin, many times I have to go and swap the controller in Dolphin’s gamepad setup, otherwise it doesn’t see the controller.
A: We recommend using the Steam Input interface to leverage order switching, look here:
We are also working on better external controller support with a variety of hotkey for the next big update 0.8b.
You can even download and test them right now (check the comments for latest ZIP):
They are subject to rapid change as I'm rethinking several aspects of them, until their first version in 0.8b.
I'm also trying to utilize some features unique features for certain controllers more.
For example right now:
- DualSense and DualShock 4 can use their touchpad for as cursor movement for: Wiimote pointer, Lightgun aim and shoot, General mouse for like point and click SCUMMVM games.
- The Steam Controller can do the same as above but... has back buttons L4 and R4 so I'm using R4 as a mode switcher to change the right circular touchpad into various forms between mousemode and joystick mode. I'm also experimenting with arcade trackball mode for it for games like Centipede.
Second Question:
Someone else mentioned that it’s possible to use emudeck to launch games directly from steam. Is this possible with retrodeck, and if not, are you planning to implement the ability to do something like that?
A: Yes, we are working on it and have it semi working in our cooker (development builds).
For more information what we are working on check out:
But also the
Other Questions check the following links:
Not a contest, really. Post the link I'll check that too 👌. What retro game you play??
It's in the Discover app, just do a search for it! I like the fact that it has a scraper for getting box art, game metadata, etc.
As for what I've been playing, recently finished Jet Set Radio Future and I've been playing Luigi's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine, along with some og Animal Crossing (I love that the villagers have no problems with insulting you).
http://retrodeck.net/ I'll check it.