EmuDeck for Windows Emulation Setup Guide

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Overview
01:39 - Installation
04:29 - Setup Wizard/Options
09:34 - BIOS and ROMs
10:35 - EmuDeck Wiki
12:19 - Copy BIOS & ROMs
14:40 - Steam Rom Manager
16:37 - Open Steam
17:19 - Emulation Station
17:43 - Chamge ES Theme
18:08 - Scraper
19:35 - EmuDeck Settings
21:52 - Outro

This video is for Educational Purposes only!

A few quick tips:
• Exit a game: SELECT+START
• Insert a credit (Arcade): SELECT
• Start a game: START or A
• Exit Emulation Station: START, move down to QUIT

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[minofthecosmos]

Are you psychic? This is exactly what I'm looking for for my new pc! Thank you :)

[minofthecosmos]

Just a quick heads up. I was having trouble getting the emulators to launch but fixed it by updating the Microsoft visual c++ redistributable package for both x64 and x86. Thanks again for the fantastic tutorial!

[LordDudeious]

So, I'm rather older. I'm finding this all so hard, my Grandson got me this to play my old games at my table. He did a hardrive upgrade and then left to boot camp. Said I would be able to figure this out. Yeah, it's not easy at all... I'm having such a hard time.

[Cyko..]

As much as I'd like to love this program I just can't for the main reason of scraping takes way too long and it's not Screenscraper's fault. I have a PAID Screenscraper account. I have 100 games in Neo Geo. Using EmuDeck it took like 30 minutes to scrape 100 titles. Using the Screenscraper app for Windows and going into my /roms/neogeo folder, it scraped the same 100 games in 1.5 minutes. The only problem is Emulation Station doesn't see any of this because it created 1 image and I guess Emulation Station wants to see 6 images. Another issue with that is it counts as 6 things downloaded from your overall limit for the day instead of just 1 image! The interface is horrible in Emulation Station for scraping as there is no direct option to pick Mix V2, no, instead it wants to download each of these images separately (3d box, wheel logo, media image, screenshot) taking up more hard drive space, in order to create one single image like Mix V2.

On my handhelds there is a Screenscraper option to only scrape new games that don't have any new media in the past 15 days or so. So if I add 50 games to Neo Geo it will only scrape those 50 new games. Emulation Station on the other hand wants to redownload ALL the images all over again, or I can painstakingly scrape each individual game one by one. Or lets say I'm in the middle of scraping my large SNES collection of 700 games and get to #578 and I hear a storm coming so I have to shut down my computer and when I restart the scraping it goes back to scraping the FIRST game??! Who thought this was a good idea? It's terrible. Takes up way more space than necessary and takes up way more time too. I also tried to be slick and save some time by copying over videos I had already downloaded previously and Emulation Station doesn't see that so it just redownloads them all anyway! Any suggestions on how to speed things up?

Also, when I first installed EmuDeck it did not create the rom folders inside folder Emulation. Nor would it launch Steam Rom manager. It just stood there. I figured out what the problem was and you have to DISABLE YOUR VPN to get this to work! Seriously??!

[derekswitzer]

Awesome! Is this less of a beta now (closer to final)? Also, how do you feel about this vs Retrobat? And is there a way to have both installed (used) and only need one set of bios and rom folders??

[tedburkholder]

I'd like to say this was helpful. It no doubt is for someone seasoned in emulation, but for me it didn't really help. I just want to get my ROG Ally up & running. I can't seem to find any answers anywhere. The tutorials I find on YouTube always seem to be instructing as if the person already has a good understanding of emudeck, steem, retrobat...etc. Just as lost as I was in the beginning unfortunately

[fx-]

How do we direct the front end to open a different emulator than what was installed originally like lime 3ds for example instead of citra

[MustafaAotor]

Thank you very much for the effort and the more than wonderful explanation.. How do I download to an external hard disk or SD so that it works on my Super Kincel Pro device with the ES and PagesUS system? Please help

[RetroMan-]

What's your thoughts on this vs Retrobat? Retrobat is too lockdown for my tastes as it doesnt let me change the hotkeys

[JazJonFL]

⁠Can we have RetroBat and EmuDeck installed at the same time? (Sharing one roms folder) if yes, and we installed RetroBat first, I’m assuming that means we should not let emudeck install any emulators at all. I’m going to see if steam link app on Apple TV is good or if I need to use moonlight as well.

[GrimmGungren]

What can i do for N64 Emulation considering the Windows build doesnt have one, while the Steam Deck build does? How would i add Mugen 64 onto it?

[honk_tm]

Just saw your video reviewing 100k retro game HDD and you mentioned that it has just nearly the complete catalog. Would you happen to know where I can buy/download complete catalog?

[Victor-ikpu]

I got my games downloaded. I go to start it and it crashes after a second. I checked all my files and updated the emulators. Any tips to fix this?

[AleksYurchenko]

4:57 I don't see NES/Famicom, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, SNES.

[comfysofa]

Hi - great tutorial but its totally baffling....your tutorial aside wasnt emudeck supposed to be a kind of "run the exe" stick your roms in the roms folder and away you go..??"

[sigglass]

Around time marker 12:20, can you please show and explain how to open up the folder Retrostation_PC_4_U? I could not find it on my end.

[christianmeier]

do someone knownwhy my roms are not recognized by emudeck? put dem all to tje corresponding rom folder but it only find the emulators?

[delbcl]

why is B a duckstation settings pop up???? And LB 1 fast How do i clear hot keys? This isnt set up for any ps1 game play as i need those buttons. What ever they did messed all the hot keys up for everything and i cant default them

[therexershow]

John, on the select emulators page, why is Emulationstation listed as an emulator when it’s an overall frontend and what happens if you select Emulastiknststion, mame, and Retroarch to all install ?

[valentingalicia]

Una pregunta, steam me puede banear por usar emudeck en pc?

Es que estoy jugando juegos de xbox 360 en steam con emudeck pero no se si en algun momento me puedan banear.