Sharp X68000 on Steam Deck! X68000 Emulation Setup Guide and Tutorial! The Legendary Japanese PC

It’s retro video game emulator setup time on Steam Deck with a Steam Deck Emulation tutorial for the Sharp X68000 Japanese retro gaming pc via RetroArch! Handheld game console games on Steam Deck time! Plus some retro video game reviews as I am showing you some awesome games to play!
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When enough of you keep asking me for the SAME THING I try to listen...so here we go; Steam Deck coverage! But of course this is a retro gaming channel so it's not like we are going to talk about modern PC Gaming on the Steam Deck...we are going to talk about retro emulation...more specifically Sharp X68000 emulation via RetroArch and EmuDeck! Because there are so many gaming hidden gems on the X68000!
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I asked, you answered...and I try to listen :) Of all the requests for new content on the channel one of the most frequently asked for videos is a series on the Steam Deck; Valve's new Nintendo Switch competitor that could
On today's Steam Deck video I will go over how to get Sharp X68000 games running on your Steam Deck via RetroArch, including required bios / firmware files, game formats, how to use Emu Deck 2 (EmuDeck 2) to facilitate the process and most importantly how to start enjoying Sharp X68000 games on Steam Deck today!
Again I recommend getting a Dock for your Steam Deck as the process is MUCH easier that way!
But the Steam Deck is proving to be an amazing retrogaming handheld video game emulation machine and I love it!
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[@markkilborn512]

Cannot wait for the best of X68000 video. I’m familiar with a handful of games, all of which were in this video. Looking forward to more suggestions!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Probably will be here late nov / early dec

[@ianbaggins5063]

Awesome guide, thanks for going through the bios step, it didnt work for me until I added the folder! Now I can finally experience this computer's software library without needing to track down old hardware (got the games though lol)

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Glad you are enjoying it!

[@METR0lD]

Love seeing that R-Type! One of my favorite games of all time!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

A classic for sure. So many good games on the X68000

[@Mingodough]

Good timing lol, I wanted to play Cho ren sha a couple days ago but when I started setting this up thanks to this vid I found a bunch of other cool games. Very cool :)

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Glad you enjoyed it. This was a fun one to make!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I can’t link that kinda stuff here unfortunately

[@Latchfpv]

Awesome tutorial, this is gonna be great.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Enjoy it!

[@phillai]

X68000 is one of my favourite cores on my MiSTer system. I just might have to try this on my Steam Deck and stop it from gathering dust! 😅

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def try it. It’s legit awesome and once you have the initial setup complete a really easy to deal with and enjoy emulator for Deci

[@Charlie-Cat.]

Oooh! The Sharp Sharp X68000 count me in VGE. 8^) Anthony..

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

An absolute CLASSIC platform

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

I recently found out X68K runs in MAME but there's a lot of Setup required I haven't done I've gotten a few things to run but controls are super off.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I heard that too. Luckily this is pretty easy and once set up correctly works near flawlessly

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

I'll have to try this myself

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def give it a shot. I was highly impressed by how well it worked

[@simon41978]

I like Akumajo Dracula for X68000 or even better the PlayStation version. I can actually see the end of the game in the latter. I had my 50'' TV put on a 360 degree rotatable mount today so I can play the TATE MISTer shmups. I posted some photo's from my twitter account earlier today but YT deleted the link. It's very nice.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

You rotated a 50” tv? 😂 damn that’s dedication

[@simon41978]

@@VideoGameEsoterica 😄 I should have mentioned it's a TCL TV that only weighs 7 kg. It's a great, cheap option if you want to play TATE games and be able to just move the screen back to YOKO mode for the others. Playing Tatsujin was easier than ever but still very tough.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haha ok I was imagining rotating my 70” Samsung weight wise

[@simon41978]

@@VideoGameEsoterica I once bought a 34'' Hantarex Arcade monitor on Ebay. It weighs 65 kg. I played Ikaruga a lot on it in Tate mode. These days, I just rest my drinks and stuff on it when I workout in the garage. The image quality is not that great so it's no travesty.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haha that must have been a hell of a box arriving in the mail

[@yousefslimani99]

I have a question, does this core includes savestates?

[@christiegeebee765]

I would really appreciate a response, but how do you get the hdf files?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Archive is your friend

[@christiegeebee765]

@@VideoGameEsoterica Archive? Elaborate, please?

[@loz9324]

i followed this tutorial to the t but it did not create a config file and the x68000 still refuses to launch...

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

That’s odd. Double tested and confirmed working with others that used it

[@loz9324]

@@VideoGameEsoterica dont mind me im an idiot. the bios files i had were not all lowercase filenames haha. i changed the file names and it worked. hopefully this helps someone down the line. thanks for your video it rocked!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Glad you got it going!

[@cheaddos]

I played this with .dim files. one I tried had two files and I needed to load them each separately I think. this .hdf is a good find. looks easier to do.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

HDF is MUCH easier to deal with than loading multiple floppy files

[@fetishlover2859]

​@@VideoGameEsotericaWhere did you get the HDF files. I need it for PoP

[@sunderark]

I WAS an owner of an X68k, I sold it off because I didnt want to deal with restoring a busted machine anymore. I still need to set it up on MisTer. Do we still need a separate SD Card for that?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Nope. Main card is fine. I still want an X68000

[@judsonrodriguez8328]

@@VideoGameEsoterica have you tried Buyee ? the price for some are comparable to some sough after arcade PCBs.....problem is the X68000 may not work...its indeed a risk

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yes I use a proxy. Just haven’t wanted to drop the $$

[@seantagg3640]

Have you had any joy trying to run a MIDI emulator like MUNT to play the MIDI music in some of these games? I’ve been tinkering but so far unsuccessful

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I haven’t tried yet myself

[@seantagg3640]

@@VideoGameEsoterica if you do and get anywhere I would love to know. Enjoyed your videos

[@LYK1003]

​In terms of X68000 games with MIDI on Steam Deck, yes, you can do that. However, in this case, the px68k core on Retroarch is NOT your choice then as the core itself doesn't support the external MIDI output. The one that actually supports any midi output is one of those standalone emulator like XM6 Pro-68k or XM6 TypeG. Although both are Windows software, they can be run on SteamOS through Wine (A software that can runs windows .exe program on Linux based OS). As for the MIDI setup, I personally use Midi Player (from Falcosoft) to do the job and again run it through Wine. Instead of Munt emulator, I use Munt VSTi plugin so that I can use Midi Player to inject that plugin (the VSTi plugin format usually is .dll). Please make sure the Midi port between the Midi Player and the emulator has to be the same so that the emulator can output the MIDI sound. As for the game, since I don't know how to launch different games from Game Mode while using one single X68000 emulator, so I came up with a stupid, but work solution: One game PER one X68000 emulator (each game may needs different controller setup and we can take advantage with this method). So when you add a non-Steam game, add the XM6.exe (or xm6g.exe if you are using XM6 TypeG emulator) to the Steam library. From here on, you can modify its name, add its profile and so on. Finally, in the "Launch Options" under each game title's "Properties" within Steam, add a line: **Your Directory**/MidiPlayer.exe & %command% (If setting up correctly, the system will load the Midi Player that you setup before and the emulator itself at the same time.) In terms of Proton, I'm using Proton Experimental to load the .exe file from Steam. I can go on and on & go through more details in certain parts but that would be super long. Anyway, this is basically my basic tips for you. I know the progress of making this to work would involve a lot more work than the video did but trust me emulating a home computer with MIDI setup can be a lot more complicated than we would think (especially for the first time). But if you have all the energy and patient to power through the challenge (which I did lol), you can do that too. I personally set up PC-98 and X68000 standalone emulators for certain games that requires MIDI to properly work in general which took me a good chunk of time to achieve on Steam Deck. But once it's done, playing X68000 and PC-98 games with MIDI on Steam Deck in general might be one of the best way to go with :D

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Thanks for posting. Quality info!