Emulation On The Steam Deck Just Got A Lot Easier! EMU Deck Set-Up Guide!

EMU Deck allows you to easily turn Your Steam deck into an amazing emulation handheld!
It takes care of everything, RetroArch Configuration, Bezels, Gamepad Configuration for Gamecube, Wii, PS2, PS3, Dreamcast, PSP, and many many more! Pair EMU Deck with Steam Rom manager and get all of your favorite retro games on the steam decks main screen with Artwork! In this video, I show you how to set up EMU DECK on the all-new Valve Steam deck!
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00:00-Intro
00:15-Overview
01:08-What's Needed
02:03-EMU DECK Set-Up Guide
10:01-Final Thoiughts
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[@DrEvil-ex1dk]

Steam Deck is the all-in-one handheld device we have ALL been waiting for.

[@castrol112]

exactly and i just cant wait for mine, hope it will be avaiable for purchase this month

[@GinjiVitis]

this is spectacular. I wanted a solution like this because I want to keep SteamOS and see how it develops but a nice clean way to find my roms. I intend on using my deck 50/50 for emulation and PC gaming

[@mgabrysSF]

Pretty much as I did for the VCS (which he had a GREAT tutorial on). I've been using Proton like crazy ahead of the Steam deck and getting comfy with Linux (ubuntu - KDE looks much nicer (in spite of me installing Espresso to keep my UI muscle memory with Ubuntu happy) - although I'll make the Steam - desktop Linux AND Windows both to max the compatibility with games, music library and productivity apps (Affinity). Can't wait to upgrade 2x the cores and 2X the threads from the VCS. It's funny - so many people pooh-pooh'ed the VCS - I just wanted a mini PC to get off the Mac and prep me for the Steam Deck - it's performed great, in fact, I'm typing on it right now. Probably the only downside is getting 2TB of legacy data onto an SSD from a 10 year old mac mini - and having to buy windows. BTW - should I get 10 or 11? I'm getting all manner of conflicting opinions on that so I'd love to hear who has done Windows on their own Steam Deck from an SD card and which ver they're using (I haven't looked at it much until I heard drivers finally got 'caught-up' to the platform). The Steam Deck is the first UMPC I got interested in since the OQO - over 18 years ago.

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

That was my intention but my Steam Deck isn't playing ball.

[@wyheee]

Same here ☺️

[@robertkrig8648]

Little tip for people not used to the Dolphin file manager. Instead of openening two windows side by side. You can just click on "split" in the menubar, which will open up a second pane. And then you can switch between them and easily copy/move stuff between different directories.

[@AuranDerg]

ETA should pin this

[@silentgrind34]

Where do I find the downloaded files? Like control panel uninstall program in windows

[@RealziesCuts]

It just shows the same thing on both sides of the split for me

[@robertkrig8648]

@@RealziesCuts yeah, and then you can navigate to a different directory in each window separately.

[@OrunitaVivi]

This thing just gets more and more awesome every couple of days

[@Latchfpv]

This looks absolutely amazing. I think this will be exactly the route I'll be going. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@billford171]

I literally just commented on your last EmulationStation video about EMU Deck and how I was having issues. Thank you for this vid, will try again to see if I can sort it out!

[@lordhashimoto4035]

Amazing! I can't wait to get my hands on it!

[@ChristopherToro]

This is life changing, playing crisis core on the steam deck is a tsunami of nostalgia. Thanks for the simple tutorial!

[@GamerPlaypen]

This is the only device I’ll need for years to come, love that they made it so easy to install emudeck…now I’m just waiting on my turn to get a steam deck

[@kacpernowacki4654]

Great video with great amount of information about each step. I was never into emulation but I think it’s time to get into it.

[@benprice5248]

Thank you for this! This is absolutely amazing. Haven't gotten my Deck yet but this will be the first thing I do once it arrives. So excited.

[@SuperSkip64]

I was looking for a guide to getting EmuDeck and saw your name. I knew I could trust the info and quality of your videos, thanks man!

[@chrom4ful]

Steam Deck is AWESOME can't wait to get mine!

[@LordDemonos]

To answer your question from the previous video, I want mine to do everything. I want the Steam OS frontend and the EMU Deck you showcased looks amazing. I want the desktop mode, I want to dual boot into Windows, all of it. I love tinkering with this stuff.

[@emin62bek]

Great Video Love the Community around the deck

[@vainitauh]

I just love how your network is named "The LAN before Time". really cool.

[@dr.ticklebum2385]

Made me chuckle. Mine is "Dr Ticklebums Tickle Palace." Lot of unmarked vans sitting by my house since I made it though. Dunno why 🤔

[@famnyblom6321]

This is already looking amazing. Looking forward to get my own Steam deck after Q3 😃

[@evanj571]

Oh man! I cannot wait for my steam deck!👍

[@nakedexposure964]

Man rips out content, hella appreciated

[@ChurchOfNofap]

hey man ive seen you for YEARS, congrats on the 1 million subs, :D

[@JonathanHolt1988]

I am so impressed with this thing. Unfortunately have to wait until Q3 for my preorder, but I can't wait. And I really like this as an option for running retro games. I love Batocera, but having everything integrated within steam OS is pretty appealing to me.

[@Evanz111]

I hope yours has arrived by now, mine just came yesterday :)

[@abstractedbluestar9245]

Im waiting for q4 orders

[@andresbravo2003]

That was amazing. This will do the help.

[@MrOuksta]

Great clean content man, ez sub. Keep up the good work

[@RPGglitchy]

Important note: Make sure to format your SD card with the steam deck. In game mode, click the steam button, go to settings and format your SD card there. Another note, for the artwork uploads, you can click the 'select type' drop down list and upload images to Grid, poster AND icons. This will make your lists more beautiful overall.

[@dragonchi26]

Very helpful, thank you.

[@SeraphX2]

To keep tips grouped: Just a note so people don't become confused. There is no longer separate downloads. You pick local or SD during installation. There is only one download button on the website.

[@LateiiTheParty]

@@SeraphX2 Thankkkkkk youuuuuu!

[@writerb5001]

I'm not doing that again. It bricked 2 of my SD cards.

[@bossedup957]

@@writerb5001 how so.. When you suppose to

[@Carfreak226]

@ETAPRIME you rock!!! 🤘🏻

[@michelletoni3067]

I absolutely love my Steam Deck, I honestly am so pleased with everything about it, 15 out of 10.

[@ansyarh5747]

I'm salute for u eta... Always update to u video 👍🙏👍👍👍

[@FTF96]

Awesome video, thank you!

[@shanesutton7007]

I always ask my self what console next glad I pre ordered this one 🔥🔥

[@mannyloves2dancesmith242]

This actually makes my games work and not crash thanks for this some of them anyways

[@gothicm3rcy426]

the reason I ordered a steam deck is for emulation (and witcher 3 of course) :)). This is looking so awesome.... all we need now is a fully working batocera and dual boot :) :). great video as always, thanks :)

[@wwe682]

I'm like 5 to 10 minutes in with this video and you gave me a great idea especially with using my hard drive for my games. I've already downloaded emudeck last week so I'm definitely going to download that artwork thing

[@TheRealXyzven]

Your guides are always spot on for me!

[@darthfodder]

Can't wait. I mostly ordered my Steam Deck as a handheld emulator.

[@nabidisla.5086]

that was my thought Day one can't wait for all the old Nintendo games the PSP and so on

[@overoula]

amazing cant wait to install it on my steam deck that comes this week :D

[@corngames8982]

Daaaaaang i cant wait for mine! Still on track for Q2

[@bossshoang]

My boy out there pumping out content like no one business. Gotta keep up with the grind

[@ETAPRIME]

😂

[@xenobreak1160]

I'm convinced that ETA Prime is a set of Triplets!

[@AzureWoof]

I can't wait for the next available time to buy these. Gonna have a field day with this.

[@razerkishi44]

Awesome bro thanks 🤘

[@andreasankar2768]

Very nice video. Where duo you find all bios and roms ?

[@pandabearmadness6263]

OMG I'm getting my deck soon🎉🎉🎉

[@Spingi]

I could see Wii emulation with the trackpads as the Wiimote working pretty good

[@njnjco]

Probably depends on the game. There are some where you need to rotate the wii controller and stuff, but the steam deck already has some motion controls.

[@qbalsdon]

Thanks for the video - I had no idea where to put the roms and so the generate list thing was confusing me!

[@BIGwillTHEGAME]

I’m looking forward to doing this on My Steam Deck soon.

[@BOYSSSSS]

On KDE in the Dolphin file manager, try clicking "Split" on the upper right corner or F3.

[@cosmicegg1283]

And alt/super drag as well

[@PharoahsKingdom]

Just got my Steam deck can't wait to play Eternal Darkness on it

[@DomVito87]

Did this a few days ago… best … thing…. Ever !

[@clankfish]

@5:45 dolphin supports a split panel view of your folders etc, you can access it by press f3, no need to open two different windows :)

[@ph5homer]

Nice work again!! Been following for a while now and I'm messing around with the Deck same as you!! EMUDeck is perfect in a lot of ways!! But, I'm still figgering out Chiaki for PS4/PS5 Remote Play.. I've got everything setup, but still some issues with remote 'waking' my PS4 PRO and I can't find my PS-Button anywhere. To wrap it up, I would love to see a PS Remote Play video!! Keep up the good work!! Untill the next!!

[@Splarkszter]

Steam deck is awesome man. 0% drawbacks 100% benefits

[@seifeldinayman2286]

its amazing the number of things that the steam deck can do with this price not only playing pc games on a handheld but also emulating games of other consoles on very good fps shout out for valve

[@scislife2398]

I'm planning on using mine to run Ableton live and do a hardware music live set with it. She's a beast

[@schlitzbull13]

Thanks for the guide! We are neighbors too!

[@Jrocc811]

Hopefully i remember to find this vid in late 2023 when i finally get my pre orderd deck.

[@Dracossaint]

That Xbox cloud gaming video ya made for steam deck, you may want to check for the update. They make you unlock your os's file system for installing it previously and steam will overwrite it with updates and possibly cause some os corruption. Just thought its worth a mention.

[@ericqel-droma7628]

This guide is already out-of-date. EmuDeck has updated the steps in their installation guide and now it's even easier than before. (This is not a criticism of ETA Prime at all. It's just that I'm following his tutorial and finding that there are many steps I can now skip because of the changes.)

[@c.m.7037]

Where is their documentation at?

[@CommanderFade]

CLEAN DECK

[@jimmynegredo]

Love this tutorial. You sir won my sub with this. Super helpful and easy for dummies like me who recently started into the emulation world. Btw, where did you get all of those "1-file-only ROMs" and so many BIOs??? All the webs I found are crap or have multi-file ROMs... Thanks a lot!!!

[@redscorpion9325]

Same,I really need those Bios

[@Zardoz66]

that is sick.

[@cozval81]

Amazing! But where can i find all those bios and rom?

[@arden4259]

"The Lan before time" epic SSID

[@gamingoutloud293]

Awesome devices!

[@alexandrosroussos]

Thanks for the video. Have you ever tried booting on RecalBox (which uses Emulation station) ? Might need some configuration for the screen orientation but other than that my guess is it should work pretty fine. I don't know if Steam Deck bios allows booting from an external device though so as to do that easily through a dedicated sdcard and preserve internal OS.

[@IRWPD]

When I do get a Steam Deck will be doing this.

[@Viewer19]

When you DL the art work you can click on a game art and there can be more than one choice or you can supply your own

[@JapanTomato]

O____O It looks great! Where can I get all those bios kit folder?

[@hksduhksdu]

Thank you for the video, this is going to be super useful for trips without internet. I love those marvel vs capcom type of games too but I wonder if I could hook it up with the USB-hub with the logitech wired USB-A controller lying around and play two players mode on these games?

[@tysonm.8430]

Not seeing the link mentioned in the description, just fyi. Thanks for the video!

[@prismflux5129]

Steam os does seem like a good option for a htpc now, i wonder how waydroid performs on it. Android tv applications for media consumption would be great

[@TarikA]

Yeah I'd love to see a Waydroid video. Hopefully ETA Prime does one soon.

[@benlogan100]

Fantastic

[@SilverKnight16]

"The Lan Before Time" Just gotta give a shout out to that.

[@itchyisvegeta]

If they make a Steam Deck pocket or lite, I'm totally buying it. Steam Deck is making me want to get back into PC Gaming

[@nylonprotest7745]

would you mind doing a follow up video? I prefer you over most emulation based youtubers and there was apparently a MAJOR upgrade to emudeck

[@HotWiredMedia]

This is great! I got this working pretty quickly, but it didn't give me the collections page. What do I do?

[@constantine6313]

Thanks for the video. Where do I get the games?

[@MrMutawa]

Great explanation … where can I buy the games? Specially the old ones lite Atari ?

[@novaspritenovasprite423]

Please do a video on setting up Redream stand alone on steam deck.

[@noonoo390]

i cant wait

[@Zenny291]

I'm still waiting for my steam deck and can't wait to do this ... I do want to know what is bios

[@FadiQv]

Man I can't wait to get one of these. My order got pushed to october 2022.

[@ricksmith4840]

I'm so sorry bro. Getting mine next month

[@brandon_nope]

@@ricksmith4840 don't know for sure though

[@r.t.watson738]

Me as well. I'm just going to buy one from a scalper on Ebay. Then, sell my other one when I get it in October. The holliday season should fetch me a great price.

[@ricksmith4840]

@@brandon_nope true.

[@moongurd20]

I just ordered a 512gb card to my steam deck, i really gotta get some ps2 games to play, ratchet and sly cooper and god of war games... i cant wait! my ps2 died years ago... the posibilities...

[@TheSasuke1202]

I understand everything except for the bio part. Where do I get the bio from before I transfer it to the steam deck?

[@welshie6313]

What's the best naming convention for the rom files?

[@TeamDaemon1980]

Current smartphones peak at Wii emulation and it's a nightmare because there will be titles that require mapping it to motion controls. Deck is the answer if you want a PS4 on the go. Many of the best PS3 games were ported onto PS4.

[@paulb4uk]

This is superb i need to get the funds to buy a steam deck docked with video out from usb dock it would be more capable than my 10 year old sony laptop i use for web and watching content .

[@guillermogarcia4131]

whats up brother love the video i was wondering if you can recommend a good site to download the roms from for my steam deck and how can i obtain the bios files ? i appreciate your help

[@tjstrato1]

There is no more SD or internal storage option anymore for the emu download, its built into the installer

[@voltspc9394]

HAHA we have the same name for our wifi network, when I saw the notification in the video I thought it was for my computer but then realized I was on windows and that's not what the window's notification looks like

[@robumphrey1344]

Is there a way to add unified bezels to the vertical mame games? It would be a nicer finish than having the black bars on the sides of the screen.

[@ThePsychoKillers]

Finally got my Steamdeck, following this tut, but I don't see the link for the steam rom manager you speak of at 4:04

[@firdausqomaruzaman]

Is there any chance that you review nvidia jetson agx in the future?

[@robertbuckley8067]

What did you plug the usb with bios into? Did you use a usbC hub? Which one?

[@ThatGuyThatCommentedOn_A_Video]

I’ve seen almost every thing that I want from the steam deck, but I haven’t seen anyone do Ratchet and Clank a Crack in Time, with RPCS3, on the steam deck.

[@robertholland9482]

Can you do per game settings for pcsx2 this way? Just incase the settings for one game would be a problem for the next

[@wolvrG]

Awesome.. I dont hv deck but looking forward to repeat this procedure once i get my hands on it. By any means is it possible to upload the BIOS collection??

[@Moskeeto]

BIOS files are illegal to share.

[@TarikA]

Please do a video on Waydroid, ETA Prime.

[@sixmillionpesoman2556]

I followed the steps perfectly but when I go to preview and generate app list nothing shows up.

[@devintimberlake3751]

Did you make a separate video on how you installed all of your emulated games onto a usb drive?? I was crystal clear until I got to that part and now I’m so lost and have no idea what to do..

[@FaisonI]

What's up, great content and I am a subscriber. Can you please do PS3 games... there are more files and I'm having trouble place them in the correct folders. For example: VF5 Final Showdown.

[@atthetimeclips8474]

The reason i love the steam deck is the powerful handheld, at a price I can afford

[@sorrowwinds]

Does that thumb drive need to be formatted a certain way to work on both? Having a hard time transferring files and new at this.