The New EmuDeck is Here! Steam Deck Emulation Guide

[@chomp7927]

Future people trying this, it's been an issue for months and still is as of now, if you think the install is stuck at the Gamecube/Dolphin Widescren part, move the window, there's a popup that pops up behind the screen and you get stuck there until you click OK.

[@erenyaeger2320]

Thank you!

[@jaqf2397]

You, sir chomp the 7927th, are a hero.

[@RaineyRetro]

W 🙏🏾

[@mattsteele2625]

Just seeing this now, four hours later lol.

[@joedonn6237]

Thank you so much!

[@Razen94]

To me this is why the steamdeck is unbeatable... The community and the stuff they make is just insane.

[@K3nVV]

..it's an unbeatable deal, period.

[@terribletimes902]

There’s already betas out for Windows EmuDeck so haha get beaten LOL

[@pauledangerously1077]

GOAT console

[@K3nVV]

@@terribletimes902 point me to it?

[@Razen94]

@@terribletimes902 Its not just emudeck you know. Not to take away from it ofc but emudeck is just a fraction of the incredible stuff available. I dont know of any similiar device with as much community support behind it.

[@88Spint]

Important note is to click the battery icon at the bottom right and set it so the steam deck does not go to sleep while installing emudeck. Messed my installation up a bit and had to start over. Just hit the box to manually block sleep and screen locking and your good :D

[@plainlover9865]

Same I messed it up lol

[@aarepelaa1142]

Oh lol probably the same thing with me, i was wondering why the hell it wants to install emudeck again after doing it once and didn't find any other app to open the emudeck proper.

[@vargasaidan7366]

ty

[@RaineyRetro]

W 🙏🏾

[@mukdukk]

I appreciate how quick your intro is and how you got to the meat of it right away. Many other content creators could learn from you cause many seem to struggle with cutting the fluff. I'm grateful for you man.

[@shoeeater4235]

still took 6 minutes to get to the point but sure yeah could have been worse I guess

[@Jacob-2796]

@@shoeeater4235 sad indictment of KZbin nowadays that this is a shining example. so much throat-clearing fluff

[@BlueKyuubi64]

I love emulation and have been emulating for years and i have to say this is the most sleekest, smoothest, stylish, easiest, and most comprehensive way of doing anythint emulation ive ever seen. The Deck is truly something amazing. The community for the Deck is even more incredible! Great guide!

[@markymoo22]

Can you tell me Where's best place to grab rom packs? Can you download directly from steamdeck or is it to PC then transfer?

[@Rakka5]

EmuDeck is shaping up to be the single best piece of software that I've ever used. Massive applause for the devs.

[@spartan2188]

Coming for Windows as well, which will be awesome for the Asus Rog Ally!!

[@59.9fps]

Hope it will also come to Steam OS Desktop (or currently HoloISO), for the PC gamers!

[@JohnZombi88]

​@@spartan2188you're brave putting your trust in Asus

[@jaykres]

⁠Coming to Mac as well. As a Mac Studio owner and getting a Steam Deck, their cloud sync will be amazing!

[@Freakazoid12345]

I couldn't get it to work.

[@SpikeSmeagol]

"Yeah man, I wanna do it." So simple, so silly, and yet it gets a chuckle from me every time.

[@YouthInAsia1]

We need a t-shirt

[@skycloud4802]

Just imagine this guy's love life. How would his wife keep a straight face?

[@phoenixyt124]

it is absolutely mindblowing how nice this whole process is, playing retro games on such a handheld machine and the community is just gigantic. Im so happy channels like these exist, and im really excited for the future of emulation especially on the deck.

[@natejoe9924]

I'm thinking about buying a steam deck but do you need a PC to download these emulators I'm thinking you don't because this is a mini PC but I'm not too for sure

[@natejoe9924]

I don't own a PC or a laptop I'm thinking you don't need those things because the steam deck is a mini PC but I'm still not too for sure

[@phoenixyt124]

@@natejoe9924its a good idea. The steam deck is more capable than youd think, i think you can happily buy one. Although i recommend the OLED model. Much better screen and battery life.

[@odiplol]

@@natejoe9924 it will be slightly more compilicated but yes, the emulators get installed by the emudeck automatically, and you can import the roms without a usb drive.

[@LuckIsNifty]

@@natejoe9924 you can use just the steam deck, im guessing by now you decided tho, i just saw the comments while scrolling

[@namelessfire]

I cannot understate what a Godsend this program is. The presentation, the automation, the sheer convenience of it: wonderful.

[@Kbfrmdaa]

How does he get the games from the usb? The ones he drags then drops. I’m confused

[@Megas2point0]

One of the great mysteries of the internet. Not but really, there are sites out there where you can find the ROMs.

[@xxxjuji]

Had my steam deck for 8 months and I'm finally getting this done! Thanks for your help and thank you emudeck for making it so easy!

[@MetalJesusRocks]

Excellent guide! It’s amazing how far these tools have come in such a short time. 👍

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks for watching, let me know next time you're in Hawaii!

[@jon8223]

Agreed!

[@heyjeySigma]

oh Holy cow! its metal Jesus.. its nice seeing you here

[@tuckerhauser]

Did everyone read metal Jesus's comment and hear his voice? 😂

[@MaxDad7]

I know! Gone are the days of spending weeks doing this stuff.

[@goauld88]

FYI in case it wasn't clear, if you're just starting you can use the internal storage and download the roms using the desktop mode and skip all the SD card and USB stuff for now.

[@MyFootballManagerSeasonsnStuff]

From where?

[@kameronharrington5478]

@@MyFootballManagerSeasonsnStuff its as easy as a google search for "ROMs" - plenty of sites with big catalogs. I would just take caution when downloading ROMs directly to the Steam deck from desktop mode because there might be a bad egg that sticks your console with some adware or some other annoying virus; it happened to my brother when he tried downloading directly to the device.

[@stanfoo1175]

@@MyFootballManagerSeasonsnStuff you have to figure that out yourself, why would you think youtube would allow piracy and the discussion of it on this platform?

[@ky1ejennings]

@@stanfoo1175at least give a brother a point in the right direction damn😂

[@yea2570]

@@stanfoo1175🤓🤓🤓

[@ErnestChan-w6b]

I just got my steam deck yesterday and Russ uploads a video on Emudeck today, such perfect timing! Thank you for always supporting the emulation community and congrats on 300K!! Keep up the good work man ❤

[@tattoodrdoke]

Welcome to the club

[@JTGames1000]

Enjoy it, this thing can run almost anything you throw at it. Recent games for me are RE2: Remake, Elden Ring, Skate 3 (Ps3 version), and sons of the forest. Forest runs kind of poorly, but it was at least playable with my friends, have around 13 hours in it.

[@WhispersOfaSilhouette]

Bro I just got mine this morning. I haven’t been this excited about a game purchase in a while..

[@chuck176]

@@WhispersOfaSilhouette it’s absolutely amazing! Is it east to emulate?

[@WhispersOfaSilhouette]

@@chuck176 It can seem daunting if you don’t know emulation. I knew nothing about different game file types and bios requirements, or compressing files to .chd format to save space. Ive had some issues but Reddit posts along with YT vids & comments help out. My N64 emu works awesome but now I’m trying to fix a ghosting problem on 1080p PS2 SanAndreas. Having to learn the settings can be infuriating but If you want the best graphics and performance you have to understand them. It will be stressful if you ain’t tech savvy. I know how to improve a games performance and graphics now.

[@Someoneelseee]

Just wanted to say thank you for your EmuDeck videos. I was afraid of emulators because of their complexity, but you showed that there's an app that does all the stuff automatically, all I have to do is find and put bios & rom files into preconfigured folders. Now I'm playing the very first Mario games that I missed as a child. And now they have achievements. A 80's game with almost 200 various achievements. What great time we live in...

[@djbpresents9584]

Whete get ya roms from etc how much space does emu deck take up

[@Someoneelseee]

@@djbpresents9584 I just google something like "download roms" and find roms. Each sites has different games list and different download limitations. IDK about space of raw emudeck, but 6 (about a half of them) emulators take ≈2 GB, each NES game ≈200 kb, each Wii game ≈4 gb, more modern games should take even more space. If that's what you asked for.

[@ShadowMan64572]

It didn't do anything automatically for me, and I'm installing it for the 3rd time.

[@AnvilPro100]

I put off learning to emulate for like a year since getting my Deck b/c I'm super lazy and assumed it would be hard. Then I finally decide to do it, look up Emudeck and it's like "Oh yeah it's 2023 and people just make things easy" lmao. Thanks a ton for the emulation and also this video to walk thru it

[@Rkiver]

Really enjoy your guides, and not a word of a lie, your first emudeck video was the reason I went and got a steam deck.

[@hamstersmash]

Love how you become the guy of source for emulation guides etc, i remember over the years scouring a trust worthy and consistent channel for this content and could never find, good work mate!

[@TheTromboneFreak]

Congrats on 300k and thanks for all the awesome videos. Your channel's been my one-stop-shop for retro handhelds, emulation guides (always use written as well lol), micro PCs, and more.

[@thecoryguy]

It is great but he doesn't answer questions really, though. There are some games and specific things people are looking for so it would be great to get some viewer Q&A every once in a while

[@KaiserSenpai420]

Just want to give this video a big shoutout, this video helped me setup all my roms / emulators! From Switch to NES, I appreciate you for making this video!

[@ALLtwoEAZY]

I have never had any type of experience in emulating anything at all, but this guide in conjunction with reading some comments here helped me understand a few things, for example, while downloading emudeck it seems to get stuck at the dolphin installation portion of the setup but after reading a few comments, the problem was behind a different window that needs an ok confirmation to continue. It might seem like a daunting process but following this guide and reading a few comments on what problems might occur has helped me immensely to get started on emulation.

[@LiquidTurbo]

Hey Russ, just another amazing video - thank you so much! A video suggestion idea, can you do a video on your "gaming workflow", how do you decide what to play with so many games, systems, backlog anxiety, etc? I think it's an issue a lot of people "struggle" with. I know, a total first world problem. Anyway, I'd appreciate a basic "off the cuff" video talking about how you approach gaming, time management, staying organized, etc. Cheers!

[@jakesmith5278]

Wow! So much respect and thanks to the folks that made this. The amount of work must be crazy. I'm hoping the Windows' version will be here soon.

[@IsmaelLa]

Was just going to ask about this. Need this for Windows!

[@thegraybeards2568]

For anyone wondering if it still works - yes. I just followed this video and succeeded today. This video included pretty much all I needed except for stuff about BIOS and ROMs. You may want to watch a couple more videos for these, sadly there is no video that includes all these parts, mostly because of some legal obstructions.

[@ShadowMan64572]

But how do you setup those parsers? The video didn't explain that.

[@thegraybeards2568]

@@ShadowMan64572 what do you mean by parsers? Game roms?

[@ShadowMan64572]

@@thegraybeards2568 Nevermind, had an issue with EmuDeck not installing properly until like 4 tries.

[@Lfunk1983]

I just got my steam deck a couple days to ago on sale and you made it so easy to emulate some of my childhood favorites thank you man

[@aFand0mCollect0r]

Same

[@berreh917]

This is perfect! I ordered a Steam Deck recently and will be following this guide to get retro gaming in full swing!

[@Jay89]

This is what I love about the Steam Deck, easy and simple Emulation 😊

[@WheeledHamster]

Is that what you think, yes every video shows it as simple and easy. There's a lot of stuff they don't explain or shows you, there are hidden problems and issues abundance.

[@Jay89]

@@WheeledHamster yeah I know where your coming from but speaking from experience I set up Emudeck on my Steam Deck is was far easier than any other emulator I installed on my PC, Emudeck does all the configuration for you, sure you have to get the bios and roms and know where to put them but honestly I didn't think this was hard at all, nothing a Google search couldn't fix, Imo Emudeck is the best front end around as it does allot of leg work plus the devs are pationate and it will continue to improve

[@oarias5158]

I’m just having problems getting games. Any suggestions? 😢

[@Jay89]

@@oarias5158 cool roms or vimms lair which is slower but the best of them all and completely legit

[@HUYI1]

@@WheeledHamster really? like what?

[@AkuAku695]

Elite content, steam deck owners have been eating with your videos

[@mattwilderx85]

I'm literally eating lunch and watching this.

[@donk6765]

Nom nom nom bigg Facts

[@RJ_chaos]

A few videos ago you mentioned something along the lines of “sometimes it’s nice to wait on people.” Every time I’m waiting for someone I think about that now. Good work 😂

[@GentleGrizzly]

Over a year later and your video is still tons of help. Just picked up a Rog Ally X since my new job has me away from home a lot. Thanks!

[@FallenArtemie]

After months of eyeing the Steam Deck, I finally bought one. This is the first thing I did on it. And you're right, you really breezed through the installation, I had to pause a couple of times just to get myself caught up. But everything works like a charm, thanks mate

[@kyra2877]

Is the installation still working ? How did you did it ? What should I be aware of to avoid any mistake ?

[@Bushidounohana]

Brilliant coverage and a brilliant update to EmuDeck!

[@KIR4x420A]

Up till 3 am but it literally only took me 3 hours to get this up and running ❤ thanks buddy! Im blown away on how smooth and sharp all these classics run 😍😍😍

[@griffinreeder3088]

Where did you get your roms from?

[@minx8334]

@@griffinreeder3088 have u heard of google/?

[@kennypowers1945]

@@minx8334google doesn’t have all the answers

[@eyn85]

​@@griffinreeder3088 cdromance has plenty of consoles covered...otherwise google it

[@Slodds]

@@minx8334I laughed when he said he’ll leave it up to you to find it while hovering over Google in the video 😂

[@mRibbons]

I love how much value and function you can get out of the steam deck. I don't game on it nearly as much as I tinker with it.

[@MCarter40881]

I just found out about the Steam Deck today. Fell down the rabbit hole and it led me here. You are amazing and Steam Deck should pay you. You made me buy one. Thank you.

[@Gregolas16]

Wish this guide was here months ago when I first tried to set up emulation on my deck. This was so comprehensive and understandable, thank you so much for this!

[@senditkitecoaching]

I used your previous guide to setup the first time and it was flawless 👌 thanks so much for the time and effort to keep it up to date. Great videos

[@dylanpearson9480]

Wow always such amazing guides, and I have to say most people who make modding guides are bland and boring. You always add your own brand and jokes I love them so much! And the level of detail and information provided is always stellar! Thank you so much really appreciate it! Yeah man I wanna do it!

[@lesadpanda]

Either I'm dumb or they changed something, I'm stuck to the part where emudeck is supposed to add folders to my USB Drive, it just does nothing at all and I keep trying to reinstall it.

[@alvarogoncalves1888]

Shootout to your team for these amazing guides and to the people who created emudeck. Even to a complete emulation noob like me this has been so easy so setup.

[@bsho7450]

OMG!!!! DUDE.... This application is seriously the coolest and most well made app that I have ever seen! It blows my mind that this application can update 10+ emulators at once and does it in minutes!!! The time saving is crazy. Great guide on this bro, good job. I am getting my Steam OLED here in a few days and I am excited to mess around with it.

[@8BitCerberus]

Oh nice! SRM finally has a way to fine-tune which ROMs to add. That is absolutely fantastic. I can finally stop having to make "favorites" folders for each system and making sure the parsers are pointing to that, while EmulationStation looks at the various systems root/rom folders.

[@linuxretrogamer]

Impressed by how polished and easy to use EmuDeck has become. My only gripe is Steam ROM Manager organising imported ROMs by system. It'd be nice for the option to scrape an online database and set catagories by different criteria. I prefer my games organised by genre instead of by system. Because of this I've manually installed my emulators and ROMs and time consumingly individually added each as non Steam Games. Suppose I could've imported everything with EmuDeck and then manually reorganised the catagories post install.

[@kazukikazuma27KK]

Thanks!

[@Superiordee]

Great Video. Just bought my Steam Deck OLED, can't wait to setup some classic games.

[@MistaWells]

got stuck at around 7:10. there was no button that says "yeah man i wanna do it"

[@spookymunky1]

Thanks for another great video, this gave me the push to finally sort out my emulation setup once and for all... I have one tip using symlinks for everyone with a large collection that is unsure about having it all on internal storage or SD cards since it is a pain swapping cards just to fire up some tiny snes games or gameboy etc. I had been thinking of trying a workaround to have the best of both worlds for months now with symlinks and finally tested it, so far everything seems to work as completely as hoped / expected 😎... It is simple enough to get going; install emudeck as normal with it set to use the internal storage and copy over all of the systems that you want permament access to as usual, but then when it comes to larger systems like gamecube / switch / ps2 / psp etc. you can just delete their empty forders on your internal (or cut and paste to an sd card if you have games there already) then drag the folder with the same name from sd card into your internal roms directory and create a symlink. Or, alternatively, you should be able to do it on a per game bases by keeping the folder as it is but symlinking individual games that you are happy to only have work when that sd card is inserted and keep the games that you want to work no matter what on your internal. Also by getting used to doing it this way you should be able to keep individual systems or games on different sd cards, so say you don't really want to swap your main steam games SD card just to play a particular game, like I do not know.. prime hacks, then you can just have the symlink from that sd card maybe ?, or if you have a particularly giant collection you can keep that on its own sd, or I guess external hdd on a dock or so ? and still have your go to games with you no matter what.. not sure, worth a try though :) The only issue that I have noticed is that emudeck's compress feature doesn't work on symlinked folders, so if your files are not already compressed then do that first, or delete the symlinked folder and make a new temporary folder to copy every game that needs compressed to, run it, then move back and do the symlink again... or use the same compression tools on pc hehe, though decks are quite powerful and it is nice to have emudeck do things like batch conversions of psp games to .cso files instead of having to do them all individually, rock on and many thanks as always to the EmuDeck crew 🤟 By doing all this, as well as making a small batch file on my pc to 7zip every (selectively chosen) snes / genesis / gba / n64 roms that had no compression but the emulators support (check system info in each system's rom folder first) I have gotten my internal rom folder down to about 1.2gig I guess with all my smaller systems and n64 taking up 1/3d probably hehe, and gb / gbc / pce etc next to nothing, but then with my spare sd card inserted for larger games it adds another 50 gig hehe, and that is not even that many more games added so far, lol... why I kept trying to think of a better way to handle this before doing a full commit towards perfection, it has taken me 10 months to get this far I think 🤔🤭. If anyone is unsure about the compatability of symlinks in emudeck then, hehe, as I was setting it all up I noticed that they use symlinks anyway for many of the rom folders to save emulators needing duplicates etc, and if you ever opted to install the homebrew games then these are all symlinked from a seperate homebrew folder to keep them seperate from your own roms, it is all tried and tested and true, and I honestly cannot see any issues. I doubt that I am the first to do it this way to have the best of every world when it comes to using emudeck and sd cards etc, just nobody seems to ever mention it ?, sorry if they have and I am blind.. life is strange, I have little time to try and keep up with deck news or nerding out perfecting my own :). Here is the 7-zip batch I made for zipping up supported games on your win pc before transfer if anyone needs it, just paste into notepad and adjust folders so it matches whatever you want then save as a .bat file and run it... for %%i in (e:\Roms\GBA\MyPicks\*.*) do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "e:\Roms\GBAZipped\%%~ni.7z" "%%i"

[@elzer0181]

Are you going to do a new vid as emudeck has changed how it looks. I have it installed, but when I add some roms to the relevant folders, there not showing in emudeck ... This is for SNES roms - not even started to get head around bios

[@Sneaky_racoon_sly]

Did you find a way around? Because in steam rom manager is no preview button

[@elzer0181]

​@@Sneaky_racoon_sly I started again on a clean install and it now works as it should.

[@I.M.T.S]

Got tired of my RP4 pro to be delivered; finally gave in and decided setup my SD. My only retro handheld is a Miyoo Mini plus so I had to find ROM and Bios for systems I wasn't using on Miyoo. Some were more difficult than other to find but everything seems to worked out just fine. Thanks for the guide, I saved it for months.

[@baron4099]

Just got my OLED today and used this guide to import all kinds of retro games. Thank you for the concise guide, it was really easy to follow!

[@CosmicApe]

The fact that the Steam Deck can do this so seamlessly just solidifies it as one of the best gaming consoles to have released in the last 10 years.

[@mz9722]

Is there a way to set up cloud saves? I use emu deck on my steam deck, but individual emulators on my PC. Is there anything in this update that could syc those saves?

[@emudeck3499]

We are adding that in the next 2.2

[@mz9722]

@@emudeck3499 awesome! Thanks for the reply!

[@lkhgsllksgj]

@@emudeck3499 is there a way you could auto update the app?

[@lkhgsllksgj]

@@emudeck3499 nvm im slow 💀

[@andremamola810]

Would you be interested in doing a follow up video to see how Switch Emulation has updated on the deck? i imagine with updates to Yuzu that the performance has changed a bit over the past year or so.

[@realnerdethan]

Yeah I'd love to see that too. I'm having a hard time getting Yuzu to run games.

[@wordsmith451]

It's awesome that it's so well integrated. I only would use my steam deck for steam, so it's not for me, and I'm using my GPD Win 4 instead anyways, but it's great to see more complete setups that don't require as much setup. Can't wait for your review of the RP Flip!!!

[@BoBBaB0oN]

how to change emulation directory from internal storage to sd card if I already installed it on internal storage?

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

Just go through the installation process again.

[@johnson6t911]

Bios and roms are such a pain I wish you would elaborate further on how to configure them 😢

[@joshualong9578]

Same. I can not figure it out

[@bottlecap8372]

Did you figure it out

[@mikhail_roberts]

Thanks for this. Huge help. I didn’t realize I needed to go on an adventure hunting for the bios, but I found everything I needed, and am retro gaming cozy with nostalgia feels. Thanks!!

[@AiKz]

Hey! Don't suppose you'd be able to let me know where you found the bios would you, please?

[@BradleyDS90]

Great video. I knew about emudeck but didn't know about all the different features and options you mentioned, especially emulation station. I just upgraded my deck's ssd to 2 TB so I have plenty of space to install games now and they will all load super quickly.

[@BoBBaB0oN]

I don't understand how to get bios.

[@Mokey_MokeyLordofPuns]

The same magical place you get roms but they're also copyrighted

[@BeardlyNova]

This is still so confusing to me ugh

[@Kbfrmdaa]

Bro fr ):

[@aK-el1dc]

It's easy you download the roms lets say n64 so the n64roms goes in to n64folder that's it literally then you open emudeck and refresh save to steam then open steam and play

[@DRy51993]

Nah I thought the same thing, just go through the steps how it’s outlined in the video. Put your ROMs and BIOS in the corresponding folders and you’re good to go

[@grimreavers]

I'm to old for this ......

[@Zbaro15]

I’m lost in the sauce what if I have a SD card

[@thecoryguy]

I want a Steam Deck ... SO BAD

[@taylorhead9842]

Go get you one! You won't regret it. Emulation is great on it!

[@thecoryguy]

@@taylorhead9842 can't afford it else I'd have had one long ago. Ha.

[@taylorhead9842]

@@thecoryguy They had a 1 year anniversary in March where they had a 10% off all models the $400 model was $360 maybe sometime they will discount them again. Keep an eye for it.

[@mikiryates6075]

@@taylorhead9842Hey I have a question. Does emulation let you play already owned switch games that are saved?? I mean like would I have to restart the game all over again on SD? I’m still going to get one regardless

[@taylorhead9842]

@@mikiryates6075 I think you can with a jailbroken switch, but I don't have one. I think it needs to be modded to export your saves.

[@MrAxelStone]

Thanks for the tutorial! Just set this up finally on my new OLED Deck LE :)

[@Kris_Harp]

Thanks so much for this guide. I followed your old one and it worked but I had to send my Deck to Valve for repair and they wiped everything so I had to set everything up again. Glad to see that the process was smoother, the new version of Emudeck is great and I'm getting better results than before. Thanks again for these free resources! There were 4 games I was considering getting a Switch just to play but now they're working on my Deck.

[@codymarcotte512]

This guide is all over the place, I just want to emulate games not be taught quantum physics lol

[@GoodBread]

Tried it for two hours. Didn't work. Why does it all have to be so complicated and can't be just like a one button install? I would gladly pay for it, but no it has to be super nerdy... 😑

[@timbert4927]

Same here man. Its a fr... nightmare. Gave it up, too. Too bad, bc the steam deck works awesome with those steam games.

[@OGkrymsonclouds]

Sounds like someone doesnt have the patience to start the hobby theyre interested in 🤷

[@GoodBread]

@@OGkrymsonclouds not really. Got it done after a few tries, but was super annoyed by it. In my younger academic years (after my Master in Mechatronics) I was holding workshops on how to build small retro consoles with Arduino compatible microcontrollers, little displays and self written games (easy stuff like snake or the like)... and was all into hacking and trying all day long until it works, but I'm not there anymore and tbh I don't have the time for it either. So, that the stuff just works is so much more important than if it costs a few bucks. The older you become the more you realize that the most valuable thing you have is your time.

[@IgorSedykh]

Sadly, this tutorial is not working at all

[@JerryMeehanJr]

Great guide!! I got my refurbished steam deck yesterday and set everything up. Runs beautifully.

[@realdapperdice]

Hey, so they have updated how the installation works for the application significantly. Might want to do a new video on this. Other than that, this guide was perfect and your site with all the ROM locations was WAY better than the official Emu Deck cheat sheet.

[@alvincin8850]

its not easy to follow

[@RaineyRetro]

I thought I was an expert at handhelds until I picked up a steamdeck. IMPOSSIBLE to setup without your videos. You’re appreciated fr 🙏🏾

[@ulissesjunior5280]

Been using emudeck for a few months now and i thought I had it all covered but i just learned so many new cool tricks! Great work!!

[@andrewshaw7183]

Thank you so much, this is the only emudeck guide I've found that's up to date and comprehensive enough to follow. It's finally working properly for me!

[@TheSuperSaiyan4Gamer]

I just ordered a steam deck! It should be here in 1-2 weeks!

[@Merco81]

After getting an amazing deal on a second microsd card, I decided to dedicate it to Emudeck... glad I found this walkthrough on the process... appreciate you guys

[@nimnone]

Tack!

[@downwind_dave]

Once again a great vid. Russ, you´re content is the most informative and professionally made on KZbin. Way ahead of the rest. Respect, thanks and keep going!

[@gp1019_]

Thanks for posting this. Got my wife's Steamdeck running Paper Mario and she is thrilled. Such a cool channel, man. Always love the videos. Just subbed because I always thought I was subbed!

[@MajorSSC_Gaming]

When my steam deck arrives imma definitely get this on it. This seems to be the best emulation tool ever.

[@weirddestiny999]

I had to watch this a bunch of times before it all clicked, thank you for showing me the ropes!

[@Br00t4l_Bert]

This was such a quick and easy to understand guide. Thank you so much!

[@Cactoos]

i just ordered steam deck and im hyped, thank you very much for this video !

[@Az-life]

Thanks

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks for the support!

[@harold18427lol]

Ty for this video!! I look forward to putting my favorite games from my childhood into this handheld pc!!

[@Jemmer75]

Thank you so much for this intro/guide!

[@cjsimpao37]

Mine already shipped and im so excited icant stop watching videos like this

[@TeKeekCA]

i just got my steamdeck today and i was very excited to get started with not only playing my steam games on the go but also emulating, i was very intimidated by the setup process however this video did such a phenomenal job at explaining everything very clearly and in an easy way to understand. I thank and appreciate you for making this video

[@RetroGameCorps]

Awesome, enjoy your Steam Deck!

[@markpotter8280]

Just wanted to say huge thankyou for this video I have recently purchased a steam deck oled and not having used one before or using linux it was daunting getting emulation up and running but this video helped me loads and I now have everything up and running. Only thing I struggled with was getting linux to see my flash drive but youtibe helped me out with that also so all is good

[@ericmonachello]

So excited to get this up and running thank you!

[@asd1237]

This guide made something so complex as simple as building IKEA furniture. BIG Thanks!

[@Davehhhh]

Thank you for showing me how to download this, I really appreciate it

[@MarkusAeternum]

The rom/google bit made me sub. Great vid ty.

[@RebeccaEdmundNeumeier]

My library is mostly on a Batocera drive(HDD). Will SteamOS be able to read that drive, I assume because it's also a Linux based system, it will. Thanks for all the videos, the USB Batocera drive video changed my family's life like a lottery ticket. Gratitude to you dude! Always amazing, always improving. Keep it up Russ!

[@werdizer2584]

This is such a good guide. Everything is ridiculously simple

[@the_gmer1955]

The best guide about emulation on Steam Deck. Thank you and congratulations.

[@Z-42]

Thank you very much for putting all of this together! I really appreciate it.

[@GuapoBhutto]

In case anyone runs into this, i followed this guide step by step and was coming from an older version. I uninstalled the old version and started fresh, but then my snes games weren't booting. It was because retroarch hadn't installed any cores. I had to manually go in and download them from within the desktop retroarch app.

[@cg3113]

Just got my Steam deck today. Pretty good guide, Thank you kind sir!

[@shortelocz5567]

Yo I just got mine right now lol can you help me

[@cg3113]

@@shortelocz5567 Sure

[@krikri3387]

I just bought a second hand steam deck for this! Can't wait to play my old games back again!

[@GamesintoMovies]

I don't have a steam deck, but I was thinking about getting one, wanted to see what emulators I could use. The page that shows you all your games is insane. That's like the coolest thing ever

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

Have you got one yet?

[@Vip3rGTX88]

Very nice tutorial, will be following once i get my deck. Thank You.

[@abdulbasit4660]

This is one of the main reasons I bought the steam deck and it did not disappoint

[@dion.b7059]

Question, is it hard to emulate?