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Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Has anyone done this? How well does it work? Do you recommend it?

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[–] bonedaddy@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

I installed Retroarch on Steam and wrote a script in desktop-mode to point it's default folder to my emulation files hosted on a home server (raspberry pi w/ external drive). I loaded the script into steam as a non-steam "game" and can run it in game-mode so once it was all set up it's literally two clicks to get to an enormous library of retro+arcade games.