Steam Deck Emulation Testing -- Six Months Later!

Updated EmuDeck guide: https://youtu.be/rs9jDHIDKkU A few notes (thanks for the all the questions and feedback): - Apparently using the v1.0.0 version of Link's Awakening improves performance; I was using v1.0.1 in my testing - When closing the PowerTools plugin, press the B button to close it instead of the QAM ("three dots") button, which can cause the SD to crash - If you experience slowdown when playing RetroArch, it's likely because you downgraded the display refresh in the Steam settings -- set it back to 60Hz - I am currently not very interested in testing Xenia (X360) because most of those games are ported to PC or backwards compatible with current consoles. I may try a few exclusives down the line. - I also said "across the board" a lot in the video, forgive me.

I love my Steam Deck. Hands down the best gaming handheld I’ve purchased. I barely play my PC games on it due to what I can play with emulation.

This came at the perfect time for me! Having my steam deck shipped very soon, and stumbled across your channel looking for info on the unit and its emulation capabilities. I've since begun bingeing your reviews of smaller emulation handhelds and really enjoy your stuff!!

My Steam Deck came in literally the day this was posted (my birthday! Very convenient timing, Valve!) I'll wait for the new setup video to make things easier on myself. Thanks for putting in all the effort to make this process painless.

I'm getting my steam deck in two days. I'm super excited for it and also looking forward to your full guide

Getting mine in tomorrow and can not wait. Love that there's still videos like this coming out and that people haven't moved on

It's time!! Grabbing some coffee and digging into this video. Thanks Russ!

Favorite thing about the Steam deck is that Valve is supporting the hell out of it. It may have bugs but they have consistently put out updates to fix it. Sometimes going a bit beyond what was required. It shows they give a damn and want their product to flourish which I can respect.

Thanks for another great video! (and for the cat break!) Looking forward to the updated Emudeck video!

Great coverage, as usual, Russ! As my Steam Deck came in a few weeks ago, I’m looking forward to seeing your updated Emu Deck guide. I’ve been reticent to dive too deeply into my dumped PS3 library, assuming it wasn’t going to run quite as well, but I may give it a toss after seeing your experience. Also, great tip on the plug-in for altering threads, will definitely be giving that a look as well! I’ve said it before but it bears repeating—every video you publish has something of value and is worth the watch! Thank you for your work! One thing that might be worth covering in the updated guide if you please—what is the out-of-box update process like for the Emu Deck updater?

cant wait for the updated guide

This is awesome to watch. The gaming community really is great to be part of, getting to see tech advancements as cool as this is a big highlight😎 👍

Great video man, got my Deck on Monday and it's been incredible so far. Mostly messing with PC stuff but knowing EmuDeck is out there makes it all the more amazing, I was gonna start in on it but knowing they're working on a big update with some QoL and knowing you've got a full video on it soon means I'll wait for that instead, thanks.

Oh thank heavens Chicken is ok. They were absent from videos for so long I was afraid to ask where they went for fear of bad news. Glad to see they are ok and making cameos again. Good cat.

thank you so much for this. this is the exact video I've been looking for. every other emulation is from when this thing came out and was always looking forward to the improvements (especially dolphin)

Can't wait for the updated installation guide

Awesome! My Steam Deck was literally delivered a hour ago, so I am very excited to watch the updated guide. Still need to secure a micro SD card, so by the time I get that, maybe I can use the new guide!

I’ve been looking for something I can take with me on the go lately and I’m really impressed with this. I may be picking one up soon! Really glad I ran across this before purchasing something like an ambernac system

Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Excellent video, I am going to wait for gen2 of the deck but great to see how many games run well.