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

[@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!

[@ukaszbeben2557]

Nice to hear. I see one problem, scrapped media are installed in internal memory. it is possible to save them on microsd?

[@AguFungus]

Great to know. Also, will there a way to be able to choose a region while scraping a game instead of letting the scraper choose the region automatically? Keep up the good work.👍

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

@@ukaszbeben2557 Yes, in the "Other settings" menu you can change the scraped media directory via the "Game media directory" setting. Just be aware that ES-DE will only point to the new directory, it will not move any actual files as that would be a bit dangerous, so you need to move the files manually outside ES-DE. But that's a one-time job of course.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

@@AguFungus Yes you can change that in the Scraper->Other settings menu. You can choose both region and language, but be aware that this works only with ScreenScraper and not TheGamesDB.

[@5226-p1e]

I can't wait for the steam deck to be water cooled.

[@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 😄

[@andyhello23]

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.

[@maxducoudray]

I can’t imagine anyone will use it solely for emulation. Even if that’s your #1 use case, you’re going to take advantage of the Steam library once you have the device.

[@FL4SHK]

For portable GameCube emulation, it's probably one of the cheapest devices

[@hjalmarjohnson5846]

I got mine *primarily* for emulation, but I'm sure the siren's song of handheld PC gaming will grab me eventually.

[@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!

[@mftnbeats]

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

[@woogaloo]

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

[@therealtrue842]

Here's a tip for games on SD card: Instead of transferring them, you could rip / download them directly to the microSD card

[@Dec4AllTimeAlways]

Even though I will continue to watch Deck videos daily, I'm not sure I'll get it. My smartphone pictured already gives me my retro gaming needs up to Wii emulation. Or I might wait for a Steam Deck 2. Wish it had a kickstand like the bigger Switches do.

[@Damailmann1]

Thank you for this tutorial. I hope in the future, you can do a tutorial on how to install Sega Model 3 Arcade Emulator on the Steam Deck.. I've always wanted to play that on a PC and now it would be real awesome to have it on the Steam Deck. Thank you

[@SatoriHaddad]

this is the tutorial I would follow if I could buy a steam deck in my region.

[@derrekwilson5295]

Mannnn are you in the bay area because I'm seeing stars as tell us what to do? I'll pay!

[@CarlosRodriguez-cl5dq]

take a shot everytime he says MicroSD Card lol

[@HalkerVeil]

Do the Steam Decks come in a package that's obvious what it is? We get a lot of package theives and I'm sure they don't have Amazon coverage for theft.

[@creepingmee]

please do a video on the retrodeck distro. its a fork of 351elec that is my goto for my ambernic 351p.

[@amacdaddy]

Gamecube games on EmulationStation not running half as well as with just EmuDeck/Steam Rom Manager. Just needs time I'm sure. When new version of EmulationStationDE release, would we just install over?

[@mauriciobentz]

Have you messed with RetroArch yet?

[@khaild521]

For some reason my Dreamcast, ps2,ps3, and GameCube games Wii U aren’t showing up. Am I missing something here.

[@malafob]

Is it possible to add DosBox and scummvm games? Can u do a tutorial for this? On PC this was the hardest to get to run.

[@Terry-zr6ys]

No matter what I do I can't get coleco to work I put the bios in the bios folder but when it tries to load it says no bios found. Any suggestions?

[@AkuAku695]

im a newbie to this, and I realize WHY you have to be vague with bios', but that is the most integral part to getting this to work. where can I find the bios to run these games cuz the ones i downloaded aren't launching my games

[@ZombieZifiction]

ETA is an idiot

[@miladbokaie9176]

So im getting my steamdeck friday and cant wait to follow the steps in youre vid. Im a noob so thats why im asking this i want to do this without a SD card is that possible ? And i understood anything you said except the bios part i have no clue what that is or where i get them. I just want to play 2 PlayStation 2 games on the emulation station..

[@miladbokaie9176]

If someone is so kind to help me get this working with defjam ffny and mortal kombat it would be much appreciated !

[@asunavk69]

This is hypothetical, i could be wrong but basically you can see that under bios folder there is yuzu, thats the switch emulator, ETA prime copied the ones he uses on retroarch, i never emulated in my life so i don t know exacly how or were these files come from but perhaps u could find them when u install them and then paste on the bios folder like he did. Hope i was specific enough..

[@Hightower2804TP]

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

[@linuxstreamer8910]

when i saw emulatiostation in retropie for the first time i loved it but setting it up is a pain in the ass now it is very easy

[@trenken]

Lost me at bios. He skipped through it and didnt explain it. Awesome.

[@TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat]

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.

[@deoxal7947]

@@thomasrossbabin3671 There is commercial desktop software for Linux like DaVinci Resolve. Never used Launchbox but it looks like there are open source alternatives and I'll always pick them when I can.

[@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!

[@neburNight26]

Great video. All seems easy EXCEPT bios. Any chance you can link to the pack your using. I searched up but found so many different sources I am nervous to just random download .

[@alexanderhoffmann9324]

Do you got it working?

[@neburNight26]

@@alexanderhoffmann9324 no. Still have not found a good place to get full bios pack. Gonna look harder this weene

[@mza4739]

Any luck?

[@Epsilonsama]

Just got my deck and following this video and there's already changes for EmuDeck. No need to download a specific version, there's only one now and it will ask if you want it on the Internal Storage or SD card.

[@BaldHeadedMETAL]

Your videos have been helpful setting it all up but i have two issues. 1.) EmuDeck im not able to access the emulator menu the way you do by click the analog L3 R3. 2.) I can't get PS3 emulator to boot in gaming mode. Id really appreciate your help!

[@ghostlegit]

I wouldn't recommend ps3. Ps3 runs awful on the deck. I've seen God of War 3 run at 10 fps

[@BaldHeadedMETAL]

@@ghostlegit Some games run well like first generation games. How about the first point?

[@krisshietala2119]

All of the tales of games run perfect.and emudeck creates shortcuts in steamui fully configured and playable.

[@UndawnWithMoodySwings]

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

[@gwilly4744]

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

[@shadowtheimpure]

All of your Sonic Advance scraped as Sonic Advance 3. That is why I don't like to turn off the interactive mode, since the scraper tends to do really stupid things like that far too frequently and it's annoying to fix.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

The upcoming 1.2.2 release will fix the issue with inaccurate searches when using the automatic scraper.

[@shadowtheimpure]

@@ES-DE_Frontend My complaint was less with 'YOUR' scraper than with scrapers in general. I find they work better with a babysitter.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

@@shadowtheimpure Yes but there really was a specific issue with the scraper in ES-DE v1.2.1 that led to low search accuracy. But it's been fixed now and I've just made the v1.2.2 release available for download at the ES-DE website!

[@bigdaddy5303]

Dammit, I have everything you need except the steam deck

[@iradhill81]

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

[@Composites83]

You are seriously terrified of Nintendo, aren't you??? :D:D

[@EfficientTrout]

Makes you wonder why buy $500 smartphone for game emulation now when you can pay the same for Steam Deck, and play all gen emulation plus PC native games

[@TheManofIdeas1]

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?

[@ocelott3348]

I have a quick question. The BIOS folder you copied over to the Steam Deck. Is that a Bios folder you have already created, or is it something that can be downloaded?

[@tonyrodriguez4421]

I need all those bios!!!! Someone help!!

[@mza4739]

Was wondering this myself...

[@normik84]

🙌 looking forward too my steamdeck. Thanks for the guide

[@hamadalazmi7978]

How about the wii games with motion control like Mario galaxy will it be auto configured?

[@FrogImperium]

Can I use my SD card for both native Steam Games and Emulation Station without issues?

[@ianwalters451]

Yes, I've got both on my 512GB card.

[@DuzceliCK]

where do i get the bios? i heard that its copyrighted but i still dont want to download the wrong ones

[@Adoak1]

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

[@tonydcllen3237]

I'm really envious of people who got their steam deck or soon to be when will this release worldwide?

[@train21]

Man I can't wait to get my steam deck. Q2 gang here but I ordered 75 minutes into pre orders because the website crashed so I'm probably the end of Q2

[@yamayama817]

Same Q2 gang here!

[@IgnusFast]

I was only FIVE minutes late (10:05 PST) due to issues purchasing in the app, and I am still in the Q2 group for a 512.

[@train21]

@@IgnusFast us market as well? Well I guess I'm the last week of q2...

[@genericgamer1319]

​ @ETA PRIME btw you don't need to open 2 dolphin windows you can use tabs just open a tab & drag the file you want to copy/move/link or you can use split view sorry windows explorer just looked ugly to me it looks a bit better now in windows 10 not only was it ugly it also lacked basic features like tabs seeing someone open 2 windows in dolphin or any other linux file manager just pisses me off because 99% of them have tabs & features that make them more usable than the unholy abomination known as windows explorer/file explorer i don't like being reminded of it

[@xTheLonelyWolfx]

There's no sd card option for me on the website, why?

[@patrickosm]

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

[@IgnusFast]

If I ever GET my Steam Deck, I'll be sure to try this!

[@lewderoge7386]

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

[@dwayneduphraine7024]

So there's a question I've been trying to find an answer to, with no success so far: if I'm using an external drive to move files from a computer to the steam deck or microSD, how should that drive be formatted? (More ambitiously, is there any way to format it so it's compatible with both the deck and a windows 7 desktop?)

[@yeeminyamin5515]

Still ain’t got mine. 🤨 but when I do? 😊

[@johnwilson7680]

Is there a way to get rid of the "Steam Virtual Gamepad (10462/4607) not configured, using fallback" error message? Thank you!

[@doslover]

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

[@anFy81]

impressive - thanks a lot! one question: as beginner I'm not sure what those bios are that get mentioned at 6:05 currently I am using an Odroid setup and as far as I know I only have "ROMs"

[@The_Sonkles]

a bios is basically a copy of a systems internal software, some emulators (ps1, ps2, ect) require it for games to work. You can find them online pretty much anywhere, and sony actually has the PS3 bios directly on their website

[@el_tate]

Is there any performance difference on high demanding consoles (like Wii-U or PS3) between batocera and ES-DE?

[@wingchong68]

Hello. Excellent work as always. Have you heard of the new Rockchip Rk3588 SOC ? It's fast with Antutu score over 400k. It beats the Nvidia Shield TV box by 2x and can plays 8k videos at 60 fps. Thanks and god bless.

[@NivekBe]

Is there a way to ger rid of the borders that look like the console? same as in your video i have two borders that look like the Genisis, but they are a bit faded because part of the game is being shown behind them, can i just remove the borders completly?

[@AdventDawn]

I absolutly loved this guide! The only issue I have run into is with PCSX2 not being configured properly out of the box, and not being able to locate the Bios files I have placed.

[@bra1nc417d]

Any idea why some of my videos are gone from Emulationstation? I had the COMPLETE list of videos, screenshots, box/cover atr and all that shit, for SNES, then after I install scrapes for NES, those preview videos for SNES seem gone? WTH happened? Do I actually need redo that? It too ALL NIGHT Im using it on my Steam Deck BTW.

[@johnhess9443]

the people who work on this stuff are heroes

[@KrisKomar]

Emudeck has a feature that will pull any games off of a usb stick and move them to the card. You don’t have to do the manual copy like you were showing.

[@jmprsh153]

No matter what i do i cannot get any games to play. i have psx/ps2/n64 installed in the emulationstation and no games will open up. i have the bios files too

[@RheaTempleton]

Question... Is it possible to take the emulation station image that's in my raspberry pi 3 b+ an put that in my Steam deck?

[@lordnino]

Noob here. Other videos I’ve seen just use emudeck as the main app for emulating. Why do you use emulationstation? Is it just a UI thing?

[@675computer]

Hey if any one could help I’d really appreciate it. When I drag my rom files for the PlayStation 2 to the ps2 file under Roms the ps2 emulator doesn’t pop up in emulation station. I have other systems working on ES so I don’t have it downloaded wrong and I’m transferring safe roms to the proper location at least for the other consoles any ideas or help would be appreciated

[@user-nx1qe3fg2h]

How can I get my PS3 emulator to show up on Emulation Station?? Please help. I have the emulator and everything

[@sandiego2380]

when I play ps2 I can't use any of my buttons on my steam deck. I tried going to settings and configuring the buttons but once I play the emulator, I can't use any of the buttons?

[@SpitfireRenegade]

Can anyone help, my pictures are not showing up when using the app (emustation) or when viewing games in my library. they show up when launching rom manager just fine though

[@RiffyDevine]

Where does the ps2 bios file go? I moved the bin one I normally used in PCSX2 in but the games won't boot.

[@JohnOkleberry]

Does anyone else have trouble getting PS1 games to work? I'm probably just missing something

[@Systemop01]

Does anyone know how to uninstall themes in Emulation Station? Only the two default themes are in the ‘themes’ folder.

[@novaspritenovasprite423]

Redream standalone doesn't detect the sd card on the steam deck for a path to the game library. How do you guys avoid putting the games on the internal memory?

[@markdillon9588]

can the buttons on back of the deck be used as emu deck hotkeys?

[@armedready1]

No views 2 like lol. KZbin is drunk.

[@marcello4258]

it takes some seconds to watch until it counts as watch but likes work right away

[@RawWrath]

Been seeing this same comment for 13 years I'm tired boss

[@dadasaurusprime603]

Thanks for the vid dude. Somehow none of my emulators downloaded. How can I fix this?

[@darthv72]

Is there a way to hide the non game files? I have several saturn games where the audio tracks are given their own entry and icon. Id rather not have to scroll to get to the game executable. And just see the games not all the other files that make up the game.

[@HoomanReels]

Wow...Thank you so much.. My wife is so happy with my New Gameboy Advance😅

[@Wedeemgaming]

nevermind, the install asks later if you want to install to sd or internal!

[@davidhujik3422]

Or you could plug it in make folders with the emulator and roms. Problem solved!

[@imasimpleguy3782]

With some games you scrape the gameplay videos are bad gameplay, is it possible to upload your own videos for the metadata

[@halfthebattle8913]

So the emu deck app just gets to konsole and freezes on downloading files. Any suggestions?

[@xdeadly]

I have black screen when i want boot any game on any emulator. Any ideas ?

[@ashishgup]

I think every emulation video is showing how to start the games in game mode, but no one is covering all the important stuff after the game starts. You know stuff like save states, changing resolution for games, playing with the settings, all the cool stuff that makes emulators so important and cool. That part is a real mess on steam deck right now and I wish you would go into that level of detail, not just the initial setup.

[@bstar777777]

It's not a mess actually. I think you are referring to the role Retroarch plays. To fire up retroarch, launch a game and push both thumbsticks in. From there you will have an insane level of control. I've spent tens of hours hacking around in Retroarch to better understand what everything does, so it's trivially easy for me to configure things. I recommend watching a video on Retroarch to get a better feel for what's possible. I wouldn't expect ETA Prime to do a comprehensive treatment on that in this video. Also, in this video ETA Prime stressed several times to read the FAQs. They are not comprehensive, but they do answer critical questions (like button combos for save states) that are not covered in this video.

[@ashishgup]

@@bstar777777 retroarch is easy. I'm talking about all the non retroarch emulators.

[@rigbyrib100]

You skipped over the bios part quickly… wher do I get bios files from?

[@phillgoodgaming]

I followed all the steps even added the pics and the only emulation that works is psp help please 🙏

[@IronBalls007]

Shame that I watch videos with the exact same info 3days a go on another channel, happens a lot with steamdeck videos

[@blakes9308]

The screen scraper made all three of your Sonic Advance games “Sonic Advance 3”. I suggest using Interactive mode, otherwise it’s a pain to go to each file and figure out what they were.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

That's an issue I'm fixing soon with the upcoming 1.2.2 release.

[@hepek-BiH]

Pleass. Show us how do you mapp butons under window to work. On steamdeck tenks meeen.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

must say i love in es-de that you can add steam games & for our linux folks you can add lutris games to it

[@DrDemoman74]

take a swig everytime he says SD card and two when he says micro SD card lmao, great vid.

[@powermovez1887]

Can you make a video installing CoinOps Legends 3 on Steam Deck?

[@tdome3000]

Why did you install emudeck if you are using emulation station anyway?

[@globalvillagedrunk]

Followed this guide to the letter and EmuStation doesn't load. Sigh.

[@Cubenruben110]

Do you have Killer Instinct working yet on emulation station?

[@Ypelaar]

Would this work the same for other handhelds, like the Ally?

[@MobileDecay]

Hi! Gigachad here. I'm real. 👋😊

[@rudysu3908]

And now where could we find a safe reliable source to get game images?

[@8yearoldgamer867]

Great video… Quick question, I have 100s of Roms and if I enable all to have videos would it take up alot of memory? Thanks I’m advance for the reply

[@rushmore3927]

The SD card option as listed is not on emudeck's download page.

[@khaild521]

Same here

[@rushmore3927]

@@khaild521 Looks like they put the SD install option into the options when installing. I tried it and shows the option to install to internal, or sd. Also does an option for Emulation Station, but not sure if same result as ETA showed. Will not have much time look until later this evening.

[@khaild521]

@@rushmore3927 awesome thanks for the help

[@TheModeRed]

but how to get primehack working in emulation station *with mods