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Hello all, I made the jump. Its been hard and I am here for some help (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hey! So I have always wanted to make the jump to linux and pc gaming and figured I would do them both together. I would not consider myself techy, just aout tech literate in that I am aware of how much I dont know.

I have linux mint, on a mid to late i5 w/16gb memory. I wanted initially to make a home server but I have jusy been poking around and ended up trying to play all the games I have in attic through emulators and the like.

So I got loads of emulators, I use Cartridge which is a Lutris fork. It just seemed cleaner and worked when I tried it out. In that I had been booting into PCSX2 and finally playing MK Deception again. After three evenings poking and gaming PCSX2 shuts down every time I try to boot a game.

I have uninstalled, reinstalled and changed from 1.7.xx to 2.2 to the nightly 2.3 (I think). I cannot get it to work.

I have so many questions but if I could get back to Konquest I would be so happy, and bother you all later.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are you only wanting to emulate games with PCSX2 or multiple different emulators? If the latter, have you tried the automated install process of Emulation Station or EmuDeck? I haven't dealt with PS2 games through it yet, but maybe the automated installers and configs will help?

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The end point I want to get to is moving this pc to my living room and having it serve as my everything console. I am not sure about it dual purposing as a jellyfin server and emulator station but I want to get to a point where anyone else can easily pick up the remote and jump between consoles and games.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

If you have multiple TVs and are already considering a Jellyfin server, you could make it a Sunshine server as well. It's the open-source replacement for GeForce Now, with Moonlight as the client-side software