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If you mean the deck. It 's mostly internal storage. Depends mostly on how much you want to cram in there and if you don't mind losing some soeed by installing stuff in a microsd
Valve introduces Steam Deck
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The only other difference is the 512gb has a less reflective screen. Either go for the expensive one (for the screen and storage), or the cheap one. Games generally run well off the SD card.
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So I have been very happy with my deck (pokemom clover and patapon taking it to the limit!) But the one thing that still eludes me is setting up the neo geo emulator. I habe a bunch of roms and a neogeo.zip that worked on an older emulator but from what I gathered that doesn't fly on the retroarch ones. Does anybody have or know of a stupid proof game dump with neogeo.zip that would just be drag and drop to work on the deck?
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I am assuming you are using the Final Burn Neo core? If so it needs roms specifically made for FBN. You can find them on the megathread in the /roms subreddit. You are probably trying to use MAME roms on it which are no bueno.
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Just got one, planning to install Windows so I can play all my games. Anyone else tried that?
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Far as I know, this is a thing you can do and Valve even has a guide for it. I've had no pressing interest to try it for myself just yet.
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Anybody mess with N64 emulation much? I'm trying to get Pokemon Stadium 2 to work right but there's significant graphical glitches that are distracting (Pokemon doubling, pieces of menus missing, etc).
I'm playing through RetroArch and the problems seem to be similar between cores. I screwed around in the settings a bit but I don't really know what I'm doing and nothing fixed it. Any ideas?
I'm playing through RetroArch and the problems seem to be similar between cores. I screwed around in the settings a bit but I don't really know what I'm doing and nothing fixed it. Any ideas?
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I can say that the two Goemon games on N64 emulate just fine with practically no issues whatsoever on the Deck. Could be a Pokemon Stadium 2 issue specifically, although I'm not finding any reports on a cursory search about emulation issues with that game.
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I've heard n64 emulation is still on the janky side. Bñast Corps fpr example also goes pretty bad on the deck but I've also heard that game is infamous for that.
Saturn similar deal, I ended changing the core that was set by default on emudeck to get it working.
Saturn similar deal, I ended changing the core that was set by default on emudeck to get it working.
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The only game I've tested was paper mario, but it seemed to work fine. It was on RetroArch from Steam, with the Mupen64 core.
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I've been tempted for a while now to throw Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness on my Deck and see how that fares, because the last time I checked that game years ago, it also had emulation issues out the ass and was nearly unplayable.
That, and I just like CV 64 despite how jank of an adventure platformer it is.
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The guy I've been following for steam deck stuff did a video a month ago. His suggestion was to use Simple 64 from the discovery store and set it up.
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Oh, I know one major emulation issue I've ran into with the Deck so far.
I somewhat recently decided I wanted to give the Armored Core franchise a spin with some of the newer titles, starting from 4, to For Answer, to 5, to Verdict Day, and I know the Steam EmuDeck suite comes with RPCS3 (and apparently Xenia, but I heard Xenia absolutely does not work by default on the Deck and necessitates dualbooting into Windows 10/11, which I don't care to fuck with), and, despite seeing AC4's lower compatibility ratings for RPCS3, I wanted to try giving it a shot anyway. Videos like the one below made me optimistic that it might run fine.
Now, the problem I repeatedly ran into, despite doing every bit of troubleshooting I could dig up, is that it would always get stuck pre-launch on some step involving compiling the PPU modules for the game, meaning I couldn't even get the game to start to see whether it suffers the reported emulation issues or not. Others have claimed to have been able to run other PS3 games just fine on the Deck, and I'd even heard that you "just need to give it time", but letting my Deck sit for over an hour with absolutely no changes to the pre-launch progress kinda made me give up hope on that one. The strange thing, it DOES seem to be opening a separate process/window for the game itself while running in Gaming mode whenever I pull up the Steam menu, but the option did absolutely nothing whenever I tried switching over to it.
So, I guess the most pertinent question here would be, has anyone else here had these shader loading/PPU module compiling issues when running RPCS3 on the Deck?
I somewhat recently decided I wanted to give the Armored Core franchise a spin with some of the newer titles, starting from 4, to For Answer, to 5, to Verdict Day, and I know the Steam EmuDeck suite comes with RPCS3 (and apparently Xenia, but I heard Xenia absolutely does not work by default on the Deck and necessitates dualbooting into Windows 10/11, which I don't care to fuck with), and, despite seeing AC4's lower compatibility ratings for RPCS3, I wanted to try giving it a shot anyway. Videos like the one below made me optimistic that it might run fine.
Now, the problem I repeatedly ran into, despite doing every bit of troubleshooting I could dig up, is that it would always get stuck pre-launch on some step involving compiling the PPU modules for the game, meaning I couldn't even get the game to start to see whether it suffers the reported emulation issues or not. Others have claimed to have been able to run other PS3 games just fine on the Deck, and I'd even heard that you "just need to give it time", but letting my Deck sit for over an hour with absolutely no changes to the pre-launch progress kinda made me give up hope on that one. The strange thing, it DOES seem to be opening a separate process/window for the game itself while running in Gaming mode whenever I pull up the Steam menu, but the option did absolutely nothing whenever I tried switching over to it.
So, I guess the most pertinent question here would be, has anyone else here had these shader loading/PPU module compiling issues when running RPCS3 on the Deck?
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I pulled the trigger last month. Liked what I saw. Enjoying it so far.
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first thing I'd do is check the logfiles and what's actually happening, linux is usually very good when it comes to that. might be as simple as permissions or disk space it doesn't throw an error for and you can only find out this way.
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I assume that's the official dock? Do you have any thoughts on it? I've been thinking about grabbing it but realized I don't need it since my small one has worked for me. Maybe if it ever goes on sale.
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Yes, its the official one. Works great. Does what it needs to do. I have'nt used other docks. The official dock comes with another power cord/ plug so you don't have to keep switching the cord. You can leave one with deck, one with dock. I have'nt tried to hook it up to a TV
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Official dock has an occasional issue of not outputting video signal. You have to power cycle it by unplugging everything from it to restart it and correct the video output failure. I use a kickstand case on my deck so I bought a USBC extender plug to still use the official dock since it doesn't connect with a case on.
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