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I've only used one, but Vita's OLED screen makes a significant difference. I've had both and while it's not a dealbreaker to use LCD, OLED is objectively superior.
Valve introduces Steam Deck
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Has anyone got one of the 8bitdo Ultimate controllers working with their Deck? Does it work over Bluetooth or do you have to use the dongle?
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For anybody that may be interested. Xenia emulation on the deck is a thing now. I'm currently playing Lost Odyssey and have a consistent 30fps for the most part with minor graphical glitches here and there. I'm only like the first hour in, but well, seems like a good moment to fuck around with 360 emulation since it's already included in emudeck now.
Important detail though,
Important detail though,
By default I had it in Vulkan and it was having a much rougher time running, once swapped to d3d12 it's been stable ever since.
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@ShitLurker nice one! I can finally try that cancelled Goldeneye XBLA port that got leaked some years ago.
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The way I see it, it is just a new product category that Valve has shown as being a viable market and other hardware manufacturers are there to offer alternatives. As far as I'm concerned, the more the merrier, far more choices and competition always favors the end consumer. The laptop PC market is far more over saturated but nobody is complaining. Also I think a lot of people are finding these handhelds as a viable alternative to get into PC gaming without having to deal with how overpriced the PC component market has gotten as of late. ( Not just GPUs, even basic motherboards are becoming overpriced.)
With OLED each independent pixel is its own light source which means it can turn off completely to create perfect deep blacks unlike LCDs that need a separate back light layer. This is particularly bad in small screen that, because of their size, do not have local dimming zones, so there is this constant glow even in areas of the image that are supposed to be black but end up looking dark gray. As for example playing a game in a 4:3 aspect ration in an OLED you get perfect black bars to the sides of the image. Also OLED has better overall color reproduction allowing for more vibrancy and color saturation.
As for no wanting to support Valve, this goes back to what I always advocated regarding this new market: costumer choice. I'm glad that there are other hardware manufacturer making more alternatives to the Steam Deck so people can pick and choose whatever device fits their needs.
Although I'm not sure how owning a Rog Ally is going to help you regarding Steam moderation since you still need to log in to Steam to access your games unless you completely divorce your system from Valve and just play games using independent .exe files and use other companies' launchers.
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I got an SN30 working, but I needed to update the firmware. I know someone who got his working with the dongle, but he couldn't get the Bluetooth working until he updated the firmware on it too.
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I feel like some of you madlads would get a kick out of this.
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I don't see why not, but it'd probably need to be a different kind than the DS ones. Those screens work differently.
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That extra screen needs to be on the bottom. The OLED screen is wonderful yet this is using it as the secondary screen.
You'd need to use a stylus with a fatter nib. The pointy styluses of yesteryear only really work with the resistive touch screens not the modern capacitive touch screens.
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Is the extra screen a touchscreen? Will you have to reverse the screens for 3DD games?
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The extra screen is from Wisecoco - https://wisecocodisplaysolution.aliexpress.com/ They look to do a whole range of chinkshit displays, touch and none touch. I haven't been able to find the exact one from the tweet yet but it looks to be a 6 inch of some kind seeing as the edges of the decks display seem to match my OLED at 7.4 inch.
My point though was that the Deck OLED is a really nice display and this guy is using some chinkshit display as the primary, it makes no sense.
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MelonDS is the standard DS emulator used on Deck, it supports upscaled internal resolution. By default when installed by EmuDeck it renders at 5x (1280x960) internal resolution. In short, yes I would say it matters.
But you're still missing the point. Why would anyone want to use a wanky LCD as the primary display when you can use a really good OLED.
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If I were to guess, it's mostly for the form factor of having the controls on the same base as the lower display, as the DS did before.
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Gonna ask this here, any idea how to get WMVs working for rpg maker/the CWC game
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Go to decktop and install ProtonUp-qt, and use that to add Proton-GE. Then in Steam you go to the game's properties, and select it as the version of Proton to use for compatibility.
The same applies to Unity and really other engines where videos show up as static.
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I already run GE-8-28 but still get the "ZeusVideoPlayer wont run" bullshit. Weird, must be something due to the way dependencies are on wine and probably how wmvs are programmed in rpg maker
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known issue it seems: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1464
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You could try switching to experimental. GE is almost always ahead of Steam’s version, but some people have success switching between one and the other.