Emulation MEGA Guide for Steam Deck (feat. EmuDeck)

[@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. :)

[@FanTheDeck]

Yessss! Let's go!

[@skjonas]

Nice! Mine’s coming tomorrow. So excited!

[@TheBaysydeStudios]

@@FanTheDeck I'm now the proud papa of a healthy baby 256 GB deck. Time to emulate!

[@robhern9512]

If you need some help with putting emu deck lmk I can walk you through if needed

[@Swjj22]

I just received mine today in the afternoon!! 512gb baby!!!

[@xenos_n.]

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

[@FanTheDeck]

Almost theeeere!

[@YouCanCallMeMich]

Don't worry, once you get it, your social life is basically over ;D enjoy it while you can!!!

[@xenos_n.]

@@YouCanCallMeMich not a problem, I already don't have one.

[@tastemyhammer2757]

Aye! Q3 in the building!

[@kimra9433]

same here Q3 gang

[@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.

[@RosaFlora7]

💐💐Dr. Zoidberg How Can You Even Afford A Steam Deck When Professor Farnsworth Pays You Like Crap 💩 Like All Of His Employees Even Though Your His Best Friend. A Jackass Move If You Ask Me But Then Again The Professor Has Always Been A Crazy Bastard Even Though He Is Very Likeable. My Guess Is You Either Got It From Bender Who Probally Stole It From Some Poor SOB Or You Found It In A Dumpster That Belongs To A Millonaire LOL!!!!. You Know A Console Is That Excellent If People Are Still Playing It 1000 Years Later In The Year 3000 LOL!!!!. However You Got It Dr. Zoidberg Enjoy Your Steamdeck , You’ve Earned It After All The Stress Of Being A Show That Keeps Getting Cancelled And Brought Back LOL All Kidding Around Aside The Steamdeck Is Freakin Awesome And I Look Foward To Getting It In The Future. From One Futurama Fan To Another : I’m Back Baby LOL 😂!!!!.💐💐

[@cagethelonewolf]

Yeah from nes to n64 every other emu has weird setups retro arch is the biggest nightmare

[@alfwaibel4773]

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!

[@alfwaibel4773]

Since then, I have reinstalled Emudeck (on MSD) after installing a bigger SSD in my Deck. The new Emudeck version is fantastic, - very easy to install, artworks load very complete. Thanks again for showing this!!!

[@bigwingedkuriboh]

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

[@havenharrison2831]

Same tho

[@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.

[@lafourmiedesbois5901]

When do you get yours ? Im EU 513 and ordered july 23 i expect the email this thrusday or on the 27 as the calculator says, i think its off by a week.

[@philboyd2025]

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.

[@Berengal]

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

[@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!

[@gothicm3rcy426]

me too (q3) bit worried its fedex though.... worst company on the planet

[@SylverstoneKhandr]

@@gothicm3rcy426 I am too, but I have hope that I won't be part of a bad batch.

[@ihatexboxxboxsucksijustnee7132]

It sucks how they did me I literally preordered as soon as preorders went live and I was literally pushed from The first batch to then Q2 a week later and then the first month of Q 2 they pushed me all the way to Q3. It's been really frustrating. I reached out to steam and didn't help either.

[@opafritzsche]

Just here. Anyone knows how to Exit the "fullscreen" Mode in GameCube (Dolphin) Emulator ? or other Emulators ?

[@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 :)

[@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 !

[@AndreVandal]

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

[@FanTheDeck]

They even added my video to the Wiki: github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck/wiki I hope it's very helpful for newcomers and vets.

[@AndreVandal]

@@FanTheDeck Well that is way awesome. Good job!

[@chrismadrid1096]

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

[@FanTheDeck]

Glad you enjoyed, Chris!

[@remulaevergaze5342]

Oh my god, that PS1 game Einhander, I have been looking for that forever, I've been too lazy to look at every PS1 game one by one. Thank you! Now I can stop hurting my brain trying to figure it out.

[@FanTheDeck]

Wow that’s cool!! Glad I could help haha

[@BluesElwoo2]

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!

[@CitizenRPG]

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

[@ZombieBatmanJesus]

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

[@augustday9483]

My Deck is in the mail and will get to me in a couple days. I'm really excited to dig in, and I definitely plan to use your guides!

[@kamsulaman7007]

enjoy bro!

[@emiliosanchez4610]

And this is why you’re the best! Thanks for the guide, I might get into emulating someday and this is no doubt gonna help immensly.

[@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.

[@adambrant3589]

I get mine Q3 july-sep . This is the first thing I’m doing when I get it. Thank you for the video!!

[@Mopsie]

Thanks for sharing this informative video! I'm excited to get my deck soon and will definitely be using the tips you shared. One suggestion for future videos: it might be helpful to speak a bit slower or with more pauses so that viewers have more time to process the information. Keep up the great work!🎉

[@kingmaniactech]

Just got my steam deck this afternoon. I went right to this video. Thank you!

[@rogersnick17]

You have the greatest emulation content for Steam Deck on the entire internet. It's comprehensive and helped introduce me to the world of emulation, fter receiving mine. More people are getting their Decks and will need assistance. If you can please keep putting this amazing, updated content out, we are all really appreciate it. I'm going to stay subscribed to this channel and recommending it to my five friends that are getting their Decks in Q3.

[@squib4382]

I don't have a steam deck yet and I still watched your whole video, really interesting

[@charlesgurley7030]

This is amazing! Im hopefully getting the 512 deck at years end and never really went so deep into emulation, so this is exciting for me! Also never used Linux so im researching that. Lots of new things haha. Loved the vid/saved for later and subbed, thanks man!

[@MegaSimmaster]

If you want to get comfortable with Linux, try using Linux mint on virtual box and play around in it. I've found Linux mint is pretty similar to the SteamOS desktop.

[@CoreyTL]

@@MegaSimmaster i know this is quite late, but to me the steam deck looks like its running kde, so id probably try run endeavour or fedoras kde edition in a virtual machine to learn to use it instead

[@TIMP91]

Just got my steam deck, now i regret not to buy the sd card earlier. Thanks for your Video and everyone involved into Emudeck !

[@littlefiddlesticks]

Im so excited for my steam deck, waiting for it to ship now. I’ve wanted to get into emulation, and this is an excellent guide!

[@handsoapinc]

My Steam Deck arrives today, and this will be my Tutorial Video!

[@FanTheDeck]

Lovely! Make sure to watch my Q3 review too! kzbin.info/www/bejne/npvChHl6ppt2p6M

[@ريّان-ذ4ت]

thank you so much for this, this has been immensely useful!

[@chadnikolaus8793]

Great video, thanks a lot. Just received the Steam Deck today and I'll be following this guide for sure.

[@adamb404]

Very thorough. Excellent work. And thanks for taking the time to share the data directory locations!

[@volcomseco]

very clear explanation. The first time user for Emu Deck, Emulation Station, and Steam Rom manager can get confused as to what each thing does..not to mention once you're messing around more with Yuzu and Cemu you can get lost.

[@Sentinel-USA]

excellent video. i been emulating 12 hrs a day for the past 3 weeks. lol seriously. (vacation) It has been easy to learn. Been watching lots of you-tube videos. (only prob i have had seemed to be ps2 stuff...dont know why. especially since i have no problem with all the other ps's,nes's,xbox,genisis's,gameboy and wii, etc. Been looking for a game, cant find anywhere too. Well...I saved this link and subscribed. Excellent video.

[@venom1117]

Dude. this video is GOLDEN! Thank you once again for going into detail for those of us who are new to all of this.

[@alchemistofsteel8099]

I'm excited for the steam decks to became more wide spread in a couple years

[@mansoso3903]

Thank you for this bro. That emu station is gonna come in handy!

[@raulescudero5207]

Great work!! Perfect guide to follow during process!!!🤩

[@FanTheDeck]

Glad it was helpful!

[@HandsLikeTRex]

Great informative vid! just got my Steam Deck today with SD card coming tomorrow and I'll be going through this excitedly

[@Marcus-oj9xw]

Thanks for this detailed guide. This seems to be one of the best Deck emu guides out. This will be my primary use of the Deck when i get it in Q3

[@bluepill8077]

I've had mine for 2 months and mainly wanted to dock it and use wireless controllers on my TV but the controllers dont ever work right so I've given up. You can play on steam deck itself tho and it's fine. Controller configs are a nightmare

[@vanimapermai]

I finally ordered my own deck its on its way and i cant wait for it

[@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.

[@tyronejohnson409]

[@qwekwe]

Yes. I got my deck in Monday actually

[@donpetazaragomatuta9988]

How is the sports games like fifa and nba 2k and formula 1 how does they run on it and how much is the cost of the games?

[@zee_zee9439]

​@@donpetazaragomatuta9988 All of the games you mentioned is works perfectly, 60 FPS.

[@thomasdrennan1291]

I’m considering selling my switch to buy a deck. Of course I have most of the triple A titles, would I have to re-buy them on the steam deck or are you able to emulate them?

[@thishauntedhouse3014]

I'm a massive horror fan who adores the old school Resident Evils, but who never got a chance to play Silent Hills 2 and 3. I hope I'll be able to try those out when I eventually get my Deck!

[@minty-bird8663]

Same here! I got mine on thursday! time for some stuff i never got to play >:D such as fatal frame, haunting ground, and silent hill.

[@djpr3cise]

mine came yesterday. it's absolutely amazing

[@ifrit35]

A comprehensive and useful video. In terms of emulation I only use the Steam deck to play a handful of consoles. Namely Gamecube, PS2 and Saturn. It's unfortunate that Steam Rom Manager is still so complicated and only works well for most common games. If you start adding Saturn titles then it doesn't recognize half of them and rename titles arbitrarily. PS2 on the go is amazing though, something that we never got to experience apart from a few titles ported to PSP or Vita.

[@buttonslam]

Great video! I been enjoying your videos. Keep up with the great work. You have lots of content that I will be coming back to once my steam deck is here.

[@FanTheDeck]

Thanks dude!

[@cristobalcontreras08]

Great video! I bookmarked it for when my deck arrives (hopefully soon)

[@dr.c196]

This is so far the best instruction video on emudeck. I do need to reinstall.... because the other videos led me wrong......

[@don5139]

My steam deck arrived yesterday. Great guide! Immediately subscrided

[@deathsaintxv]

About to order mine tomorrow I cannot wait any longer

[@mattbrown4833]

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

[@bonkgameing]

Pssst! Yo! What site you use for switch ROMs?

[@mattbrown4833]

@@bonkgameing I've never emulated Switch. I'm not really that interested in Nintendo games.

[@bonkgameing]

@@mattbrown4833 Ah shit. sorry

[@Rickyog2009]

@@mattbrown4833 good thing you didnt say you did, Makuhita may be a nintendo spy trying to expose you to a legal lawsuit lol

[@MastaGambit]

@@Rickyog2009 Whether he's a real user or actually a nintendo ninja, either way you can just google those sites super easily lol

[@taylorb1356]

Thank you so much for this. Been struggling with the nuances of the different emudeck supplied emulators. So far its been a lot of trial and error. Slowly making progress with various emulators. This is going to speed that up. This helps a freaking crap ton!

[@firestriker6846]

Man, thank you! I had a specific question about whether you can add video snaps on this and you covered it!

[@johnfrankster3244]

I would have loved to see an overlook on the additional features expert mode adds. Literally every emudeck guide leaves them out despite the fact most probably come in incredibly handy.

[@FanTheDeck]

Yeah I wanted to cover this and I started to write about it but it kind of felt like a better fit for a separate video. I tried to address some of the bigger stuff like SteamDeckGyroDSU and RetroAchievements here but yeah - would be good to cover more holistically.

[@johnfrankster3244]

I understand 👍, this video is already pretty long as is & you cover a great deal of content. Will look forward to your extra features vid 👌🏽, great content though & as always very informative.

[@DreadDormammu47]

Just got my deck will definitely be trying out emulation

[@VanillaSkyCrawler]

This video was both incredibly insightful and helpful, thanks so much! I can't wait to get my hands on a Steam Deck and really get at it!

[@yllwboy1123]

First thing I'm doing is starting that emulation journey on Deck! This vid couldn't have dropped at a better time.

[@FanTheDeck]

Enjoy!

[@bigshacaca6932]

I absolutely needed this I couldnt get WIi U to work. And Switch was my next target.

[@jackjacquez938]

Just what I needed thank you my man :))

[@benjaninja]

Amazing video, I'll definitely need to check this later

[@-Wust-]

fantastic work. thank you for putting it together.

[@thatguyalex2835]

'Sup sir. Have you gotten the Steam Deck yet? I don't play videogames, but I love following these tech trends. Do you like emulation technology? The Deck is like a Switch, but 100x better, since it is 2 TeraFLOPS and can emulate dozens of consoles. :)

[@Cyromantik]

Thanks for the guide! Looks great!

[@gothicm3rcy426]

excellent video.... there are 3 channels I look at for steam deck emulation fan the deck, eta prime, and retro gaming. great stuff... very easy to follow

[@OnnieKoski]

A-mazing! Thanks for this. I’m still Q3(sadface) but I’ll be coming right back here. [wake me when September ends]

[@Sephsplaces]

Hey this video is really useful, for the multi-disk stuff, I actually converted all my ps1 games into psp eboot's that work in duck station and can have multiple discs; I'll have to check that works as intended as I havent set up emulation stuff on my deck yet.

[@Sephsplaces]

it works btw*

[@PsoBloke]

Absolutely amazing video, thank you!

[@mcgloomy]

I saw this one day after I received my Steam Deck. Thank you for making this so easy and accessible! I know I would have have been overwhelmed by the Steam ROM Manager alone. (Now I only need an easy way to transfer files.... ^^')

[@buddybleeyes]

Legend ❤️ can't wait for mine to arrive after October

[@ZeldaOdelta]

Got my Deck on the way, getting a feel for some of the things I'm gonna want to do on it and emulation is pretty much number one. Really comprehensive guide, and I'm definitely saving it for a few days when my Deck arrives!

[@reggaerock]

You can tell you spent a ton of time on this, it's awesome! Thanks for your hard work

[@DragAmiot]

Great video as always man. You've got one of the best channels out there for steam deck!

[@FanTheDeck]

Thanks friend!

[@NBWDOUGHBOY]

That's really, really cool. Making it easy is great for everyone.

[@master_sardu]

very good video that covers lots of SD EMU stuff. Thank you.

[@jcc3815]

This is so helpful I wish I could like this video twice

[@TalesFromCryptKeeper]

Thanks for this big guide 👍👍

[@FanTheDeck]

You're welcome, brother!

[@fcf8269]

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

[@JPerry-jw9ik]

My deck arrives tomorrow... Ye ye ye!!

[@redcrimson1028]

Great video, thanks for this. My deck is in processing of shipping so, any day now

[@FanTheDeck]

Nice! Enjoy!

[@Slider-Man]

Man the amount of time i been going through videos in my history to find this video so i can ask what game that is at 25:51 lol, came across this video last night while in bed and assumed i could find it next day, boy i was wrong but ya, if anyone knows id really appreciate it thank u

[@FanTheDeck]

Haha oh man. So the game titles are usually in the top right. That is a Super Nintendo (or Super Famicom) titled Ninja Warriors. There is a remake of this game on Switch called The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors

[@Slider-Man]

@@FanTheDeck Bruh....i was so glad i found the video i skipped to where i saw the game and scrolled down to comment so fast i didnt even see that u had the name listed lmao...no body else will see this comment so it be ok though, thank u again lol.

[@cheezyfriez12]

I would have mentioned that ps1 and ps2 games are the easiest to dump, since you can just put the discs in your PC and make an iso. Also, a Linux build of cemU is being developed and being tested on steam deck, and it is nearing completion. I haven't even reserved my deck yet, but I can't be more excited. The 3ds is one of my favorite consoles to tinker with, so having something like the deck is gonna be so much fun.

[@samsonfitness5630]

Can you just download roms from the steam deck?

[@TackerTacker]

As always a great video, should come in handy once I finally get my hand on Deck T-T

[@FanTheDeck]

🙏🏼 I'll keep you posted with updates too!

[@drsealman]

Thanks a lot for the really helpful video

[@ThierryTarrason]

Thanks for this great video

[@No62NoExit]

Man you are amazing!

[@shariarrahman7562]

DUDE. THIS IS AWESOME.

[@tystuntin]

For anybody having trouble with PS2 emulation, specifically the bios, copy and paste the bios that are in the Emulation folder directly into the bios folder. Don't put them in another folder just paste the files directory into your emulation bios folder.

[@FanTheDeck]

If you have questions, consider joining the EmuDeck discord server. They're incredibly helpful there! Here's a link: discord.gg/gqT3Jsgebx

[@xmenotux]

The link for the EmuDeck discord server doesn't work.

[@FanTheDeck]

@@xmenotux Thank you! Fixed (discord.gg/gqT3Jsgebx)

[@xmenotux]

@@FanTheDeck Now it takes me to discord but not to an invite for the server 🤷‍♂️

[@jaybooze5462]

My god it can do anything. This device is a monster.

[@iankanderson14]

Alota help here thanks dude 🙏

[@benjaminfraeyman]

:o i needed this soo much!!!

[@FanTheDeck]

Niiice!

[@salcarreiro6756]

great vid! Kudos

[@kirama5435]

I order mines like a day ago can wait for it to arrive already

[@The_Soup_Wizard]

Dolphin Hotkeys - HOLD Select in all cases: Select: Fast Forward Select + R1: Quick save state Select + L1: Load last quick save Select + A: Pause/unpause emulation Select + Start: Exit application

[@PorkChopVII]

grrr why did i not get notice of video load almost a day later. im sorry im late FTD ;) btw thanks for hte video. i had stuggled so much with the steam rom manager.

[@FanTheDeck]

All good Chop! Sometimes the algorithm is funny. It was probably punishing me for taking so long to post.

[@speedracer123222]

Just a tip for emulators like xemu. Don’t use the mangohud ui for reading fps because they would be seeing the emulated monitor they make which means it wouldn’t be it’s true fps. For xemu case you should go into debug and click video and you will see a fps counter and mspf counter for milliseconds per frame. I haven’t used the new ui update but you would find a similar option in the new controller ui (activated by start and select buttons at same time).

[@codycoco3058]

I don't even know where to get ROMS for any of this, I know videos can't tell people where to go. But it's so hard to find reliable information on where the hell to get them.

[@MugiMo510]

Thanks, this guide was dope! The 3DS timestamp is off, btw

[@calvin3941]

Superb video!! Can't say much more 👏 Edit: oh and thank you:)

[@plumeofsmoke2871]

Nice clear video.

[@FanTheDeck]

Many thanks!

[@tenthant]

I get my deck tomorrow so defo coming back here tomorrow lol

[@keeblar209]

Amazing video