lazorne

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[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago
 

Dear Steam Deck community help us put the RetroDECK logo on the canvas.

Template in link and lower the opacity to see where you need to fill.

Thanks

//RetroDECK Team

[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Jorge, Kyle and the others over at ublue is doing a great job with their Fedora spins.

I run Bazzite on all my computers and if you got a full AMD system you can even get full gamemode running by installing the deck image. This in turn give you the best controller experience for games, as Desktop Steam got several issues with Steam Input valve have not fixed yet.

But not all credit should go to them for this but also ChimeraOS team, Nobara and others that are constantly working on an improved gaming experience on Linux.

When developing RetroDECK Steam Input profiles I mainly use the Steam Deck with SteamOS and Bazzite on my desktop to test them.

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RetroDECK - May 2024 (retrodeck.readthedocs.io)
[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is the version that ships with RetroArch so it got all the features of that.

But it is based on an older version of Citra so there no hotkey support and the performance is not as good.

But it is also the only version we can ship.

The Ponzu feature can be used to load legacy versions of removed emulators without support.

[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

We have pressed the publish button on Flathub (Discover) so it should show up within a few hours :)

[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Everyone is removing Yuzu & Citra as they are both made by the same company, shared code and team thus affected by lawsuit.

EmuDeck is also removing both as far as we understand.

ES-DE might also remove support for it, so it can not just find the files.

We are looking into alternatives, I will look into why the link above broke.

[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

Fubarberry

RetroDECK is a flatpak application that builds in a variety of emulators and systems into one app you can download from flathub.

We are also working on the "Add to Steam" function. You can read more about it in the links posted in other replies in this thread :)

[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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:

But also the


Other Questions check the following links:

[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Now as the RetroDECK CM another benefit is it also make it rather easy to move the important data between installations or even take backups.

If you take RetroDECK for example all you need to do move/copy over to a new installation is:

  1. Move/Copy the RetroDECK datafolder that is either in home/sd-card/external drive/(other place where you put it) to where you want it on the new device.
  2. Re-install RetroDECK from flathub on the new device.
  3. During initial setup point to the location where you put the RetroDECK folder.

That is it.

All your roms, saves, scraped data and everything has been moved.

I personally run RetroDECK on my Steam Deck and both my Linux Laptop, Linux Desktop and more in my home.

[–] lazorne@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago
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