Turn The Steam Deck Into The Ultimate Next-Gen EMU Hand-Held With EmulationStation DE!

n this video I show you how to easily install and set up Emulation Station on the all-new valve steam deck! Just like RetroPie, Batocera, and Recalbox on the Raspberry Pi we now have Emulation Station on the SteamDeck, and it's awesome!
Using a combination of EMU Deck and EMulationStation DE Desktop Edition we can get this up and running on the steam deck with all of your favorite emulators like THIS for Switch, and RPCS3 for PS3, Dolphin for Gamecube and Wii, CEMu, and many many more!

00:00-Intro
00:15-Overview
02:03-Installing everything
08:03-Making It Look Awesome
11:05-Download Box Art And Videos
14:05-Final Thoughts

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[ES-DE_Frontend]

Thanks for the great video! Just a comment regarding the non-interactive (automatic) scraper shown and recommended in the video. There is an issue in the 1.2.1 release that causes the results to be inaccurate for some games with similar names, like sequels and similar. This has been fixed already, and will be part of the upcoming 1.2.2 release in the near future!

[HightowerTP]

Emulation has never been easier or more comfortable yet powerful at the same time. Thanks so much for everyone involved!

[EvilWaysGaming]

Crossing my fingers for next Monday I get my reservation for my 512gb. I was originally q1 so I must be close!! Keep the steam deck video coming!

[mftnbeats]

This looks amazing. I wish the Vita had more stable emulation support.

[buddybleeyes]

I like it, but I love how the other application (can't remember the name off the top of my head) creates the collections and combines with steam os :) great video though dude, I love you showing us cool stuff like this! Thank you for all of your hard work 😄

[ThatRandomFastingGuy]

Launchbox Native Linux Port, I can feel it in my bones.

The Steam Deck is the device that will finally get the team to consider it.

[iradhill]

This is brilliant. What a magical gaming time we live in.

[mattwall]

Wow, this is exactly what I was dreaming about when the deck was announced. Thank you for continuing to be my go to guru for all things emulation. I have followed your instructions to set up RetroPie from scratch and all kinds of fun tweaks there and now seeing how simple the process has become is mind blowing. A docked steam deck really is poised to become the ultimate console. Can't wait to see what their official dock looks like.

[UndawnWithMoodySwings]

Great channel!. Emu deck is amazing. I just started using emulators and Steam Os makes it so easy!

[Doshinkyo]

Thanks for the upload. I just did this. Things have moved on a little so needed to tinker a bit to get it up and running. There also only one download for EmuDeck now which prompts you to choose between SD or Internal during the installation. Great default theme in Emulation Station also!

[doslover]

This looks sick, and I love that you added it into SteamOS. Totally doing this when I get mine. Thanks for the tutorial!

[andyhello]

You have to hand it to the emulation community, when there is a product that is worthy of there time, they sure go for it.

I doubt i will be buying one, but for those that do, this is great that the emulation community is supporting it.

Will be interesting to see where this goes, looks very nice.

Expensive just for emulation, but if someone brought it just for such things, good for them.

[normik]

🙌 looking forward too my steamdeck. Thanks for the guide

[johnhess]

the people who work on this stuff are heroes

[gwilly]

So, you are saying I should use a SD card? 😜 Just teasing. You said it like 100 times though. Great video!

[patrickosm]

Playing all of my favorite games on a single portable console was my childhood dream.

[Adoak]

Just got everything set up, thank you for the guide!

[TheManofIdeas]

Really informative video. Could you one day show a video where you explain how to install Japanese locale games that are bought outside of steam? Do you have to install them through steam, or can you play those kinds of games straight from the desktop mode?

[lewderoge]

Nice guide and simple to follow. Can’t wait to get my steam deck.

[woogaloo]

I can't wait to get my Steam Deck even though it'll be October before I do... Great tutorial.