That is a very relevant point, honestly. I doubt I’d even be playing something like Cyberpunk on it, at the end of the day, so do I really need it to be able to do even that? Probably not! I just get caught up imagining futures where I might want it for things of that sort, I suppose
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I’d like if they didn’t advertise it for AAA. If you want to play new high fidelity games, you’ll probably be disappointed. If you’re going to play games from a few years ago or indies and emulation, it’s hot shit in a champagne glass.
I wish I had the OLED though. The LCD screen is really bad. I don’t regret my purchase; I just wish I could easily upgrade.
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Can it run Crysis? (Forgive me)
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Started getting into emulators finally. Duckstation is wonderful. Playing Ridge Racer Type 4 with a clean, hi res, widescreen presentation is revelatory. I’ve long thought the PSP was less a handheld PS2 and more of a rezzed up PSX with higher texture quality - and this cinches it. It makes Sony’s PS Classic offering of R4 look like doo-doo.
Fully polygonal racing, fighting, and STGs all look great as well. What are some other PSX games that benefit from widescreen on Duckststion?
Tried getting a widescreen patched version of Super Metroid going but can’t get it to display properly. Retro arch is not very well laid out. Lots of options and granularity, but the UI is dense and vague.
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Emudeck is the way to go if you want to keep your emulators together. I find Retroarch needlessly obtuse and outdated.
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If you want a Metroid hunting alternative that uses the screen’s width: I cannot recommend AM2R enough. You can get started by installing AM2R Launcher on the Discovery store.
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I’m right at the end of AM2R which brought me to trying Super in widescreen!
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After having had a steam deck for four months if there’s one piece of advice i can offer it’s to boot into desktop mode if you are ever using the thing with an external monitor. will save you a lot of headaches
pretty much everything appears to run at least a little better in desktop mode tbh, Steam’s Big Picture frontend/overlay has always been curiously resource intensive
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I have been loving Duckstation on this thing. What’s the preferred Saturn emulator? Does any Saturn emulator improve resolution/warping and offer widescreen like Duckstation?
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After a quick jaunt across the world wide web - it would appear that Saturn emulation isn’t ready for prime time on the steck.
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So I’m 99% sure I’ll be pulling the trigger on a Steam Deck order in a couple days, and I’m considering the possibility of using it as an emulation machine alongside my Steam library. How difficult is setting that up, considering I have no Linux experience (and honestly, no emulation experience after like, the late 90s / early 00s?)
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Easy. Very easy.
The challenge is if you want a custom set up like I famously have, but if you want it to work quick and with minimal effort download emudeck and go wild!
If you want to just play games that work it’ll do that as is.
If you want a much more in depth configuration you can, but almost everything you can imagine someone has already done and has been kind enough to put that solution up online somewhere.
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To start with I’m sure this will be more than enough for me, so that’s good to know. Thanks, Tom!
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The Steam Deck is my first Linux experience, and I set up Emudeck on it pretty easily.
There was one step where the command window was in the background and I didn’t know it was waiting for me to respond to a prompt, making it seem like install progress has stalled. Otherwise it’s really smooth.
I also like to install itch.io games on my Deck, and it’s a pretty simple matter of putting them on my sdcard, adding them to Steam, and setting the compatibility options to Proton (I like to add artwork from steamgriddb.com too, but that’s optional).
Getting some of the emulators working can be rough though. I still haven’t figured out how to get the TurboGrafx-CD emulator working, and ended up just playing the Wii Virtual Console port of Rondo of Blood in Dolphin (btw, Steam OS’s version of Windows Explorer is also called Dolphin. That confused me at first).
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Happy to help. Once you get started and realise what it’s capable of, you can have a lot of fun with making it all your own.
Fortunately I’ve been using Linux for a while due to many years of Raspberry Pi emulation - but when I got my deck I stopped using them. The experience did help as emudeck makes RetroPie for simplicity seem like another world!
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Agreeing with what everyone said already. The flow is nicely shored up for a lot of cases and the guides online are written for people in your same situation. You can dabble and pick up stuff the more you may want to mess with it. Since it had such fervor out of the gate you can also search for “game steamdeck” and usually find someone’s impressions on how it ran or how they got it to run. From FFXI to custom PSO BB servers or every Ridge Racer.
You can do set ups and tweaks with the handheld/controller, but its a little more comfortable if you have a mouse + keyboard you can connect up in a pinch.
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this is what I consider the best guide for installing emudeck and getting it all set up on steam deck. and congratulations!! i love this thing
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I cannot recommend what @esper said any higher. Russ from Retrogamecorps does amazing emulation reviews and guides, and I’m so glad to have seen his channel grow from something very small to what it is and will be!
I was just playing on my other handheld (Anbernic RG40XX H, keep your dirty minds calm) with his amazing guide on how to set up the GBA screen for the best image and it’s beautiful!
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I will honor it as the word of god