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[Discussion] Emudeck and other Emulators on the Steam Deck (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] lazorne 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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:

Change Controller Order

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):

Issue 573

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:

What we are working on

But also the

The RetroDECK Blog

Other Questions check the following links: