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I came across a weird issue with Dreamcast emulation and figured I'd mention here in case anyone else has the same problem.

Some games were in Japanese when booted, I thought I messed up and downloaded the wrong versions but it was definitely the US/European releases. Apparently some DC games use the system language to determine which language to launch the game in and for some reason retroarch defaults to Japanese so all you have to do is go into the core settings and change the default system language to English. Not sure how many games do this but at least Chu Chu Rocket and Crazy Taxi 2 use the system language and would have Japanese menus on launch.

I think this is a retroarch issue rather than deck specific so solution should work on other platforms.
 
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Alright, I spent the week trying to load more roms and bios files. Got n64 running pretty well through retro arch, I loaded a bunch of nkit.iso's into GameCube and dropped the bios in. Dolphin gave me a warning about nkit files and the few games I tried ran okay but had ass moments. Sunshine's cutscences looked like 140p quality compared to the rest of the game, metroid prime ran okayish but the controls were dog shit so I decided to load up the trilogy into prime hack, the trilogy was a nkit file as well, it just straight up froze in the first minute.

Somebody explain to me what's the difference between different file types for disc images?
 
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Alright, I spent the week trying to load more roms and bios files. Got n64 running pretty well through retro arch, I loaded a bunch of nkit.iso's into GameCube and dropped the bios in. Dolphin gave me a warning about nkit files and the few games I tried ran okay but had ass moments. Sunshine's cutscences looked like 140p quality compared to the rest of the game, metroid prime ran okayish but the controls were dog shit so I decided to load up the trilogy into prime hack, the trilogy was a nkit file as well, it just straight up froze in the first minute.

Somebody explain to me what's the difference between different file types for disc images?
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What the fuck is an nkit and where are you getting them from? For clean roms just grab them here:

/r/Roms Megathread

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r-roms.github.io r-roms.github.io
 
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For what it's worth, Dolphin's built in compression (rvz I think) works fine. I compressed all my games and they run great on deck. The gains can be massive - some games go from a couple GB raw Isos to under 200 MB.
 
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Stasi said:
I came across a weird issue with Dreamcast emulation and figured I'd mention here in case anyone else has the same problem.

Some games were in Japanese when booted, I thought I messed up and downloaded the wrong versions but it was definitely the US/European releases. Apparently some DC games use the system language to determine which language to launch the game in and for some reason retroarch defaults to Japanese so all you have to do is go into the core settings and change the default system language to English. Not sure how many games do this but at least Chu Chu Rocket and Crazy Taxi 2 use the system language and would have Japanese menus on launch.

I think this is a retroarch issue rather than deck specific so solution should work on other platforms.
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I just use emu deck instead with standalone emus from that, retroarch I always have issues with
www.emudeck.com

Configure your SteamOS and Steam Deck Emulators

Configure your Steam Deck Emulators
www.emudeck.com www.emudeck.com
 
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Stasi said:
For what it's worth, Dolphin's built in compression (rvz I think) works fine. I compressed all my games and they run great on deck. The gains can be massive - some games go from a couple GB raw Isos to under 200 MB.
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some gamecube games have a lot of useless filler data, just remember the physical size of the OG gc discs. that's why a "scrubbed" image is only a fraction.
iirc extends to some wii games too.
 
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Has anybody tried Dead Space? It says Verified, but I can't imagine these controls are working as intended.

The camera whips around like crazy and is nearly uncontrollable. I messed with an in-game setting or two but it didn't help. Or maybe the game's camera is just shit?
 
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Has anybody tried Dead Space? It says Verified, but I can't imagine these controls are working as intended.

The camera whips around like crazy and is nearly uncontrollable. I messed with an in-game setting or two but it didn't help. Or maybe the game's camera is just shit?
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could try use one of the community control layouts, see if that helps
 
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Has anybody tried Dead Space? It says Verified, but I can't imagine these controls are working as intended.

The camera whips around like crazy and is nearly uncontrollable. I messed with an in-game setting or two but it didn't help. Or maybe the game's camera is just shit?
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IIRC the game has issues with the mouse with certain FPS. Is it definitely picking up the deck input as a controller and not as mouse input?
 
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Has anybody tried Dead Space? It says Verified, but I can't imagine these controls are working as intended.

The camera whips around like crazy and is nearly uncontrollable. I messed with an in-game setting or two but it didn't help. Or maybe the game's camera is just shit?
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Weird. I played it recently under Linux with no issues but the game stability is very dependent on running at 60 fps and not higher. Maybe it is running with internal frame rate unlocked and that can cause all sort of issues.

Go into the game's options and turn off VSync

Then on the Steam menu, go to the Properties and in the section SHORTCUT --> LAUNCH OPTIONS insert the following command:

-nointro DXVK_FRAME_RATE=60

Let me know if it solved the issue for you.
 
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Has anyone tried Yuzu on the Steam Deck, and where would one go for Roms for it?
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Currently playing Fire Emblem: 3 Houses and Kirby Forgotten World. Very slight stuttering and some graphical oopsies once in a while, but nothing that I file as "ruins the gameplay", I have had it crash on me a couple of times though and once forced me to redo a battle. Kirby more stuttering, playable but more annoying since it's a platformer, also some graphical defects and those do impede gameplay sometimes, but this last one may have improved with newer versions since I'm focused on FE and Armored Core 3 for the most part right now.

EDIT: Forgot stating where I get Roms from, basically torrent hunting has been my system.
 
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Currently playing Fire Emblem: 3 Houses and Kirby Forgotten World. Very slight stuttering and some graphical oopsies once in a while, but nothing that I file as "ruins the gameplay", I have had it crash on me a couple of times though and once forced me to redo a battle. Kirby more stuttering, playable but more annoying since it's a platformer, also some graphical defects and those do impede gameplay sometimes, but this last one may have improved with newer versions since I'm focused on FE and Armored Core 3 for the most part right now.

EDIT: Forgot stating where I get Roms from, basically torrent hunting has been my system.
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Don't Switch games tend to stutter a lot on emulator anyway because it caches shaders as you play? Watched a friend play some Three Hopes a while back over emulator and his was stuttering to an utter halt due to shader caching, but as soon as the emulator worked through those processes, the game ran like butter.
 
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Don't Switch games tend to stutter a lot on emulator anyway because it caches shaders as you play? Watched a friend play some Three Hopes a while back over emulator and his was stuttering to an utter halt due to shader caching, but as soon as the emulator worked through those processes, the game ran like butter.
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Pretty much. 3 houses in general goes smooth for the most part, kirby I just assume has a solid variety of shit happening so shaders are less of a onean done.

But even then it can be very hit and miss. Metroid Dread went like a dream from start to finish on my desktop, Live A live had some graphical oopsies once in a while but fine outside of that, yet 3 houses had constant slowdown and music breakup while triangle strategy was stuttery till a newer version of the emulator came out and I suddenly didn't have those issues.

I also have to clarify I haven't setup power tools on my switch to fuck around. I have heard fiddling with those settings helps performance but I have a certain respect at the prospect of fucking with the cores. I also haven't fiddled with the Yuzu settings outside of the defaults from Emudeck.
 
There's also Ryujinx which can give better performance than Yuzu for some Switch games. You'll need to mess with Steam Rom Manager to get specific games to launch with Ryujinx or Yuzu.
 
So, I've recently found my ability to sit down at my computer and actively play games cut down significantly. Is a Steam Deck worth getting? I mostly just want to play New Vegas in the comfort of my bed after a long ass day, but all my steam games being available in portable form sounds pretty tight.
 
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So, I've recently found my ability to sit down at my computer and actively play games cut down significantly. Is a Steam Deck worth getting? I mostly just want to play New Vegas in the comfort of my bed after a long ass day, but all my steam games being available in portable form sounds pretty tight.
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Yep, NV works well on the deck.
 
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