This is so sweet of you to say!
Really, this is fun for me. Its going to take all my resolve to not do this again in 24 hours (because, over saturation!), it just makes me happy to find what interests me.
I'm lucky to have found a place like this community, where it just so happens others find that same stuff (so far!) just as interesting!
Thanks for this, made me smile!
Make sure you check for a 'Xenia compatilibility list'
This is a spreadsheet showing whether any particular games are working, and how well they work. Some don't play at all, and some play perfectly!
I have 5 PS3 games installed on my Steam Deck, through RetroDECK right now that play perfectly, and a couple that required tweaks!
I do remember that Xenia (the 360 emulator!) plays Skate 3 perfectly, though!
Oh my Gosh the Steam Deck has been by far my fav gaming purchase. I was the same, rarely playing anything, looking for something new, but the convenience of this thing changed everything for me.
I adore how it plays to two strengths: for those who want a simple console-like experience, it works right away! And for those who want to tinker (me) - the sky is the limit!!
Look for my friend's work if you decide to buy one, he makes something called Decky Loader. From there the customization is endless!
I promise I will be!
My only issue is somehow keeping it formatted nicely (I miss peppering these with pretty pictures and GIFs), and being able to stop!!!
And you should try both! They're very easy to install, and I absolutely swear by RetroDECK
Oh my gosh, you so should!
At the very least, look into my friends' work called Decky Loader!
It will let you install a plethora of (verified safe!) plugins. My fav is SteamGridDB (let's you choose custom art for all your games) and CSS Loader (let's you customize the home page, so it can look however you like! Mine is very 'Switch like')
I love finding other GOG fans! They're my absolute number one, and that tended to be my focus. I'll keep it in mind that especially here, there's more of us!
Thank you! So much! This is really helpful for reading through :)
Next time will be far prettier then, I pinkie-swear!!!
It's definitely more polished and complete now! The dev also works hard, especially if a user has any little issues, they have a Discord and Git page all where help and previous issues are detailed and worked out step-by-step on a fix. There's also a huge list on games which work via Legendary, and any tweaks users have reported to make games work are listed there on the Discord, too.
I'd be curious how you find it, after so much time has passed between the beta and now! Do update how you go! (I've shared that people have written comments here about Junk-Store, with Eben the dev (hi Eben), so I know he'll be lurking here)
*ma'am!
You're so welcome! It's a bit of awful thing, writing up something like this and wondering if it's going to go down okay (for me anyway!), but that might be a lot of the typical Reddit user responses tainting my previous experiences doing this kinda thing!
I'm glad the responses are positive here, you can count on this being a regular thing <3
Further:
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sadly no store pages are live yet to wishlist
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the release date is September 5th (for some reason skipping Judgement Day's date?!)
I feel so heartbroken that I never got a sequel to Prey
Thank you so much!
It was bought by a crypto company that pushed aggressive monetization, and fired most of the original staff.
Constant nerfs to the original gameplay, invalidating months of users' grind by removing ('improving') core mechanics.
This is why the popularity dropped, but as to their official announcement, it was very short on details. Just another failed game, sadly.
I'd like to!
At some stage this was a weekly thing for me, at least on Reddit under another username.
I focused primarily on GOG and Epic, because few users covered their news. In fact one game site offered me a job (or the beginnings of an offer) after they gained some popularity.
Regardless, I'd love to post these in a somewhat regular manner. Hard to know what I find interesting is for others, before I try it. Looks like it might be though!
Thank you so much <3
I believe you need to scan the QR code to install it on Apple phones!
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/mobile/ios
(and thank you, its kind of you to say!)
Hello!!!
Junk-Store is a wonderful piece of software! Eben (the dev) has a background in the same field of work I am in, pen-testing. He's also a talented programmer! JS runs on the Deck, but also on Bazzite, after Kyle (Bazzite dev!) noticed his work and how well it suited things there.
Its no secret the upcoming version won't be Decky Loader dependent however, so make of that what you will!
I'll literally tell Paweł that you're a Heroic fan! And I'll pass on a link to this comment so he can see that I am praising his work wherever I go! <3
(I shared the link, hi Paweł!!!)
Steam Deck News
As a preface, I used to do this a lot on Reddit. My hobby (sounds odd) was to make a little old-school-blog-style post, detailing what I found interesting in gaming in the last week or so. I got a name for it, for a time, but having long-since abandoned reddit I thought I might try the same thing here, if you'll indulge me!
This isn't entirely all Steam Deck news though, and there's only a touch of pirate-y news in here. But regardless, I hope you might find it interesting, and if you do enjoy it, I'm happy to make this a regular thing.
I've been made a mod here, so I guess this is my first official post!
...again, these are my opinions, and my own poor formatting because I'm still getting used to Lemmy. So, let's get started?
EMULATION NEWS
- RetroDECK (a emulation suite known for its use on the Steam Deck system) has had a recent update and sub-sequent blog post which you can read in its entirety here! showing the recent video tutorial by Retro Game Corps on YouTube gave it a huge boost in user-base.
I'm personally thrilled with this, as I adore RetroDECK. I was a user of the far-more-popular EmuDeck for some time, but Retro won me over long ago, and I keep on pushing others to try!
- MAME 0.275 has been released: This release adds support for several arcade games on PlayStation-based hardware, a few PowerBook Duo sub-notebook computers, some hand-held LCD games, and a couple of Casio music keyboards.
You can read the blog post on MAME Dev here!
- RSPC3's founder "DH" has come back, and announced that they will be developing a port for Android phones. This looks to be a proper port, and not just encapsulating termux. Funny to see since the last week has seen a lot of dodgy builds from a lot of dodgy 'developers' for Android.
You can find the link to the GitHub page right here, if you wanna check things out
- Xbox One Emulation Well, it's not emulation, it's a compatibility layer much like Wine, but emulation as a term is far more recognizable than what it really is!
I'm only sharing this because it is fascinating to see what is possible, and what will be possible soon. This is just a video on YouTube by a creator by the name of MattKC Bytes. It's a great look at what is new, what options are available and what is happening in the scene.
A link to which is right here. Again, really recommend watching this one, it's a great video!
Pirate News
gog-games has proposed new changes, and briefly on his site was asking for devs to help build in a new element to the site: browsing by genre.
Seems a massive undertaking, as if you know the site you'll know their library is extensive to say the least. That work is going on right now, and I'm told it's going perfectly. No expected date on when it will be made public though.
Denuvo In the past few weeks, we have seen Denuvo removed from:
- Visions of Mana
- Deliver us Mars
- Immortals of Aveum
- The Great War: Western Front
GOG AND EPIC
What I use to play GOG (and Epic, and Amazon) games I have the tiniest Steam library, like a handful of games. The bulk of my library (thousands) is on GOG, along with the cliche of claimed Epic Games' titles most PC gamers collect each and every week.
I use a combination of Heroic Games Launcher and Junk-Store. I use Heroic on my gaming desktop, but I also use it on my Steam Deck alongside Junk-Store.
Heroic has the benefit of a partnership between the devs and GOG itself, whereby GOG game purchases made from within Heroic will give a small % of the total to the devs, and also using their affiliate link will give them a small %. This is unique, and rather amazing.
It might be no surprise, considering GOG (in)famously announced their planned native Linux support, then abandoned doing so...leaving Heroic to fill that space.
Junk-Store has the benefit of running through Decky Loader, and opening up in it's own little world. It's like a Steam Deck within a Steam Deck. The thing I adore most about it is how it replicates the native Steam games library on the Deck - it feels almost native.
(the developers of both Heroic and Junk-Store are personal friends of mine, so in case it matters, thought I'd mention it!)
GOG Preservation
GOG made two announcements in the last 24 hours or so, bringing more games to their lovely games Preservation Program (if you're unaware of this program, this is a link to GOG's site detailing exactly what it is here!
- F.E.A.R. Platinum (2005) coming to the program next month "...featuring the base game and both expansions – will be available as part of the GOG Preservation Program by next month. Originally scheduled for a later timeframe, we’ve decided to accelerate this release to properly recognize Monolith’s contributions to gaming"
And more good news was seeing 11 LEGO games titles added, including 4 new titles to GOG:
- The LEGO Movie - Videogame
- The LEGO Movie 2 - videogame
- LEGO City Undercover
- The LEGO Ninjago Video Game
...these are just the titles brand-new to GOG, you can see the full list AND the whole amazingly written blog post here with this link to their site/blog
GOG also ran a billboard in Times Square, showing Dino Crisis. It's impossible to see who actually paid for this placement, could be either GOG or Capcom (most likely, in my opinion). I posted the billboard here on Lemmy if you'd like to see it
EPIC GAMES
Epic is always a little (lot) harder to write about. Despite their size, their reputation is always quite awful with PC gamers, and their news cycle seems to be quite barren - for the most part. Still, two things of note have happened, in quick-succession I'll say:
-
Dauntless, one of Epic's first exclusives is shutting down on May 29th. An (ironic) post about which was shared here on Steam, if you want to see it
-
Epic Games have their mobile app released. They're giving free games away on there, one (actually two this time) each month. The app is extremely bare-bones right now, but this month if you're interested you can grab Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic as well as the sequel for free.
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I guess this is a short post, by my typical standards. There may be errors (they're my own), there may be some odd opinions (definitely my own), and there will be formatting errors (formatting here seems not-so-easy.
But please let me know how this goes! If you'd like to see more, then please let me know, I used to adore making these. The sad thing is at least on Reddit I'd go crazy with images for each point I found, GIF's, etc. Here that's not possible, but I've peppered it with links for those curious to follow things further!
Hope you enjoy!
<3
Steam Deck Gaming News
As a preface, I used to do this a lot on Reddit. My hobby (sounds odd) was to make a little old-school-blog-style post, detailing what I found interesting in gaming in the last week or so. I got a name for it, for a time, but having long-since abandoned reddit I thought I might try the same thing here, if you'll indulge me!
This has a focus on Steam Deck, as the damn thing is my obsession. But what is appropriate for the 'Deck might be elsewhere also, and obviously is for Linux.
...again, these are my opinions, and my own poor formatting because I'm still getting used to Lemmy. So, let's get started?
EMULATION NEWS
- RetroDECK (a emulation suite known for its use on the Steam Deck system) has had a recent update and sub-sequent blog post which you can read in its entirety here! showing the recent video tutorial by Retro Game Corps on YouTube gave it a huge boost in user-base.
I'm personally thrilled with this, as I adore RetroDECK. I was a user of the far-more-popular EmuDeck for some time, but Retro won me over long ago, and I keep on pushing others to try!
- MAME 0.275 has been released: This release adds support for several arcade games on PlayStation-based hardware, a few PowerBook Duo sub-notebook computers, some hand-held LCD games, and a couple of Casio music keyboards.
You can read the blog post on MAME Dev here!
- RSPC3's founder "DH" has come back, and announced that they will be developing a port for Android phones. This looks to be a proper port, and not just encapsulating termux. Funny to see since the last week has seen a lot of dodgy builds from a lot of dodgy 'developers' for Android.
You can find the link to the GitHub page right here, if you wanna check things out
- Xbox One Emulation Well, it's not emulation, it's a compatibility layer much like Wine, but emulation as a term is far more recognizable than what it really is!
I'm only sharing this because it is fascinating to see what is possible, and what will be possible soon. This is just a video on YouTube by a creator by the name of MattKC Bytes. It's a great look at what is new, what options are available and what is happening in the scene.
A link to which is right here. Again, really recommend watching this one, it's a great video!
- Azahar (3DS) Emulator The successor to the rather popular Citra 3DS emulator has gone live now: "Starting from now, eager developers who wish to begin contributing to the project can start opening pull requests..." (and so on, it was a long statement, but you get the idea.
The GitHub page for Azahar is here
- Anbernic Not really all that relevant, but this is pretty interesting. The popular SBC retro gaming company Anbernic (SBC standing for Single Board Computer - once it was relevant to the Orange/Rasp Pi boards, but has transitioned over the years to mean primarily the Chinese retro handheld companies) has backtracked on the firmware they released for only two days which allowed users to download ROMs directly to their device. Controversial for the obvious reason, and also ironic considering the company ships thousands upon thousands of ROMs with the devices on SD cards, but that firmware has been removed now.
Obv it has been backed up elsewhere on the internet, as you can never put the genie back in the bottle! Here is a link if you want to read more/the details, but fair warning the site is pretty horrendous with pop-ups
GOG AND EPIC
What I use to play GOG (and Epic, and Amazon) games I have the tiniest Steam library, like a handful of games. The bulk of my library (thousands) is on GOG, along with the cliche of claimed Epic Games' titles most PC gamers collect each and every week.
I use a combination of Heroic Games Launcher and Junk-Store. I use Heroic on my gaming desktop, but I also use it on my Steam Deck alongside Junk-Store.
Heroic has the benefit of a partnership between the devs and GOG itself, whereby GOG game purchases made from within Heroic will give a small % of the total to the devs, and also using their affiliate link will give them a small %. This is unique, and rather amazing.
It might be no surprise, considering GOG (in)famously announced their planned native Linux support, then abandoned doing so...leaving Heroic to fill that space.
I love their UI and themes (users customizable) and that they integrate Comet for GOG - this means that playtime and achievements are logged with your GOG account, which is an obsession of mine!
Junk-Store has the benefit of running through Decky Loader, and opening up in it's own little world. It's like a Steam Deck within a Steam Deck. The thing I adore most about it is how it replicates the native Steam games library on the Deck - it feels almost native.
(the developers of both Heroic and Junk-Store are personal friends of mine, so in case it matters, thought I'd mention it!)
GOG Preservation
GOG made two announcements in the last 24 hours or so, bringing more games to their lovely games Preservation Program (if you're unaware of this program, this is a link to GOG's site detailing exactly what it is here!
- F.E.A.R. Platinum (2005) coming to the program next month "...featuring the base game and both expansions – will be available as part of the GOG Preservation Program by next month. Originally scheduled for a later timeframe, we’ve decided to accelerate this release to properly recognize Monolith’s contributions to gaming"
And more good news was seeing 11 LEGO games titles added, including 4 new titles to GOG:
- The LEGO Movie - Videogame
- The LEGO Movie 2 - videogame
- LEGO City Undercover
- The LEGO Ninjago Video Game
...these are just the titles brand-new to GOG, you can see the full list AND the whole amazingly written blog post here with this link to their site/blog
GOG also ran a billboard in Times Square, showing Dino Crisis. It's impossible to see who actually paid for this placement, could be either GOG or Capcom (most likely, in my opinion). I posted the billboard here on Lemmy if you'd like to see it
EPIC GAMES
Epic is always a little (lot) harder to write about. Despite their size, their reputation is always quite awful with PC gamers, and their news cycle seems to be quite barren - for the most part. Still, two things of note have happened, in quick-succession I'll say:
-
Dauntless, one of Epic's first exclusives is shutting down on May 29th. An (ironic) post about which was shared here on Steam, if you want to see it
-
Epic Games have their mobile app released. They're giving free games away on there, one (actually two this time) each month. The app is extremely bare-bones right now, but this month if you're interested you can grab Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic as well as the sequel for free.
I guess this is a short post, by my typical standards. There may be errors (they're my own), there may be some odd opinions (definitely my own), and there will be formatting errors (formatting here seems not-so-easy!)
But please let me know how this goes! If you'd like to see more, then please let me know, I used to adore making these. The sad thing is at least on Reddit I'd go crazy with images for each point I found, GIF's, etc. Here that's not possible, but I've peppered it with links for those curious to follow things further!
Hope you enjoy!
<3
The System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster pages are on GOG & Steam
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster by Nightdive Studios brings to
As someone who wasn't alive for System Shock (the original), and who didn't expect to love the Remaster of it as much as she did...this sequel has me very excited.
A key for the game will also be free for those who pre-ordered the first remaster.
And for System Shock 2, while mods like Rebirth do exist for SS2's original game, there IS some issues with some 'choices' they made!
The Steam page is also here, for anyone wanting Steam over GOG
Anyone else excited for this one?
hey, flwwhtrbt here!
Hello all!
I just joined back onto Lemmy after only sticking to Mastodon for so long. And of course in my search for Steam Deck communities, I saw this one was in place!
Its interesting seeing how many subscribers there are here (though, sadly how few are active members!)
I suppose this is my round about way of offering my help, I think somewhere I still have a copy of my old guides. At the very least, I wouldn't mind starting up my news posts again.
Mod, reach out if you like. I am very interested in being involved and making this a place to be, in its own right. I'm sure my history on the reddit sub can speak for me - I'm pretty good at that!
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Wait, who are you?
I was the mod who brought r/SteamDeckPirates from being around 3K members to 35K during 2024, before I left the sub and Reddit. Flwwhtrbt.
Why did you leave?
It was time, there was one-too-many awful users who dedicates a lot of time to hassling me, and I felt I had done all I needed to do there. More besides, but that's the gist.
How do we know its you?
Reach out to agaric on the reddit sub. He and I are still friends. Or to me, on my Mastodon. The link to which is in the pinned latest news post on the sub I made last week or so.
Why are you here?
IDK. I can share my guides, if I can find them. I do so enjoy compiling news posts, I'd rather enjoy doing that again. Just offering help I suppose!
And one final note:
I did apply twice to dbzer0 for an account, and was denied twice. Which felt...odd, but whatever. So my account is on Lemmy.world
I'm weirdly unable to comment or submit a post to this community on my PC (this is a me problem, its been years since I was on Lemmy - the 3rd Party Protest era - so my inability to navigate is just me being an idiot), but I am via my app. So...who knows what's going on there. I also added what I hope will be considered 'verification' of who I am - on my bio on Mastodon there in the image
Also lovely to see you all!
Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!
I've been sinking further and further into the RetroDECK time-sink of setting up my emulators just so, and having the most fun doing so. The PS2 is a largely unknown system to me, I neither had one nor spent much time before now playing through some titles.
So...this is what I have so far! Most have either HD texture packs (Rule of Rose for example, and also Silent Hill 2 has a incredibly big 29GB of HD textures, I added after taking this screenshot), or mods applied (Gran Turismo is Spec II)
I haven't got MGS3 there, as I'm waiting for the remake to arrive, but...
Can anyone suggest any titles which are 'must adds' for me? I'd appreciate it!
GOG's billboard in Times Square, NYC
Nice to see a platform like GOG becoming so proactive these last 12 or so months (or, more so than they were previously)
With so many new initiatives (or in the case of the Dreamlist!) - re-imagined ones!
Dino Crisis and the sequel weren't my kind of games, even being made specifically for modern hardware. I'm too young to have the nostalgia or patience for the so called 'tank controls' of the old days. But I still bought them to support the initiative. I'm just one of those poor fools waiting and hoping for a modern sleek remake, like the Resident Evil games were blessed with!
STILL, so nice to see this billboard in a prominent space! Nice work, GOG.