Emulation MEGA Guide for Steam Deck (feat. EmuDeck)

Steam Deck is the easiest way to start emulating and it just got better!

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00:00 Start
01:57 Preserving Vintage Software
02:41 EmuDeck
03:33 EmuDeck - Getting Started
05:14 EmuDeck - Emulators
06:04 EmuDeck - Folders and Files
07:02 Steam ROM Manager
09:14 EmulationStation
10:47 Testing Emulators
11:04 Switch (Yuzu)
13:15 3DS (Citra)
14:44 Wii U (Cemu)
17:01 Wii (Dolphin)
17:55 GameCube (Dolphin)
19:04 Metroid Prime Trilogy (PrimeHack)
19:57 PS3 (RPCS3)
22:52 PS2 (PCSX2)
23:50 PS1 (DuckStation)
24:35 PSP (PPSSPP)
24:49 Xbox (Xemu)
25:28 [Almost] Everything Else (Retroarch)
26:37 Summary and Other Tips
27:32 Future of Emulation on Deck

[TheBaysydeStudios]

The crazy timing of this video. The first thing I plan on doing with my deck is emulation and FedEx is out for delivery with my deck as I type this. Couldn't have planned this better myself. Thanks for the video man. :)

[xenos_n.]

I'm July-September, almost there. So psyched to get my deck!

[WhatAboutZoidberg]

Had my Deck for 2 or 3 weeks now and had just setup most of these things, but theres still some new, good info in here for me. Such a good system and the updates already are nuts. I can't wait to see what devs come up with once they all have a Deck to play with and test themselves. Sega Saturn is also just super easy to get going, which has historicly been a pain for me on many a device.

[bigwingedkuriboh]

This is easily the best guide video for anything I’ve ever seen on YouTube, I still only understand like 30% of it, but this is miles clearer than anything else I’ve ever seen

[alfwaibel]

Watching your vid let me think about to reinstall and reorganize my whole emudeck installation, which I have done quite a few weeks ago. Since then, it seems, things have changed a lot. Thanks for sharing!

[MattFriend]

I'm really psyched for emulation on the deck (whenever mine arrives!). Thanks for this video, I'll definitely refer back to it when I'm getting things set up.

[mattbrown]

“Just dump the ROMs yourself” of course, I wouldn’t dream of doing it otherwise 😉

[SylverstoneKhandr]

Q3 is almost here, man! So close! Plus big ups for the Steam ROM Manager mention, tons of phenomenal work that they scrape from SteamGridDB to make your library look good. Might've caught one of my designs in there too!

[Berengal]

I really appreciate you overlaying the name of the game you're showing on the footage.

[ykiikii]

I really can't wait to get my hands on my Deck.
My first one was unfortunately stolen by GLS (thank you!) but Steam is luckily sending me a new one soon :)

[philboyd]

This is by far the best, most comprehensive, and easiest guide for Steamdeck emulating out there. I struggled for days using other guides trying to figure out how to get everything nicely set up and aesthetically pleasing. This guide made everything so much more simple. You, sir, deserve an award.

[iRemainNameless]

Just got my Deck 2 days ago and absolutely am blown away by it's power and capabilities. I've never owned a good PC before and the SD is easily the most powerful gaming machine I've ever owned. Just came from a Switch, their exorbitant prices of old software and the sub performance.
Downloaded Mass Effect Trilogy remaster today and I am just blown away at how good everything runs.
Thank you for the video, I'll be coming back to it often as I begin installing my retro library on my SD.

[Ultriix]

Just got my Steamdeck, for those who are waiting your in for a treat when you get it, possibly the best thing I ever bought. Regret buying so many games again for Switch e.g witcher 3 etc as they run and look so much better on deck than switch, its an incredible device for the size and money.

[LordDemonos]

I really enjoyed this video, particularly because you went through each emulator for each system. I don't have a lot of experience emulating systems later than PS1, so this tells me what to look for and expect. Thank you !

[chrismadrid]

finally a great guide and insight of steam deck and emudeck. thanks

[AndreVandal]

Thanks for all this, very good reference guide, will go in my emulation bookmark folder

[ZombieBatmanJesus]

Probably the first decently paced and explained video I've found on this, thank you.

[CitizenRPG]

I've pretty much only been emulating on it, because its such a good device for emulation.

[BluesElwoo]

Thanks for this! I got my deck about 2 weeks ago. Didn't think I needed it, but I am really glad that I got it! Its so cool! I've been meaning to set up emulators on it, just haven't done it yet!

[fcf]

One thing that is not clearly mentioned is that Emulationstation is able to run all the games from the stand alone emulators. You don't need to add RPCS3 or Cemu to the deck, you can just fire up ES and it will show your PS3 and all other platforms (as long as you configured them correctly). It is much better to have one single interface like ES than going through the various emulators; and your button combinations will always be the same. What you lose is the ability to change preferences and settings, so if you run those newer emulators and you want to change settings, you are forced to hop on the standalone version of the emulator to do so.

Hopefully Vita and XB360 will be coming to the Deck too, and hopefully the settings will be improved so you get a perfect setup out of the box; because as now there are still some things that may cause problems like video filters, shaders, video size/multiplier for the rendering resolution and game specific hacks you have to configure yourself. Although it is the easiest setup ever made so kudos to those people making this possible