IMPORTANT: Before starting the emudeck installation, you’ll need to decide if you want to install your games to micro SD card or internal SSD. If you are using a brand new micro SD card, be sure to format it first by selecting ‘Format SD Card’ in the Settings > System menu. If you are already using your sd card for steam games, you do not need to re-format. Just be sure that there is enough free space! Also at 12:51 the correct path is bios > Yuzu > keys
I own a steam deck with emu deck and emu station already installed but I’ll be upgrading to an oled soon. Is it possible to connect my hard drive to the old steam deck and grab everything like the files and roms folders from there and then connect the hard drive to the new steam deck and just drop everything off in the new one?
Getting my OLED soon and this is a really good step by step! I tend to forgot how I have things set up on my other devices or what I need to check on before hand. This helps me out so much
Thankyou. I watched 10-15 videos and couldn’t get this working. Don’t know what you said or did that was different, but i was finally able to understand it and make it work. Thanks for making it a lot easier
Thank you for taking the time to make this highly informative and easy to follow video, I’ve watched a few videos on this and yours is the best and most helpful one as you explain each settings and so much more! Looking forward to your future videos on the emudeck I appreciate your videos on this!
Something about how you've presented the information clicked for me and now I'm getting to enjoy this awesome part of my device! I was able to do all of this from my steam deck thanks to you. This is my first crack at emulation. Yes, learning something you're unfamiliar with is stressful, but following this guide and the advice if USE THE EMUDECK CHEAT SHEETS will make this pain free. Thanks so much!!!
I’m buying a Steam Deck because of your video. Very well done! You’ve given me the confidence to run emulation on this system. Thank you! New subscriber😃
For anyone wondering if it still works - yes. I just followed this video and succeeded today. This video included pretty much all I needed except for stuff about BIOS and ROMs. You may want to watch a couple more videos for these, sadly there is no video that includes all these parts, mostly because of some legal obstructions.
Where are all your roms stored? If you have them stored in dropbox or something, then no, you don't need a USB drive - you can just download from your steamdeck. However, most people have them on a PC, so simply transferring them to the steam deck via USB drive makes more sense. if you don't have any roms, then as I said in the video - go research how to obtain those legally. if you are looking for ways to obtain these illegally, then you are on your own. Anyone sharing links to download roms in a UA-cam video is an idiot. You'd also be an idiot to trust the links are not malicious.
@@Almxghty1Just do some googling and you can find reliable sites but if you wanna get your own roms... otherwise known as "making your own backups" the method to do so really depends on what console you have and is probably long enough to be a video on its own. But they all probably involve jailbreaking said console. The first thing I told you is the easiest method and most everyone that's into emulation has likely done it at some point or another if they try to say they've never pirated anything they're lying 😂
I just got my grubby little mitts on a Steam Deck a few days ago. Acquired it in a trade. I've got most of the powerhouse hand held systems both native and modded but this, this is the high lord of mobile gaming.
Im so happy that i went with a steam deck some months ago. Def the right handheld for me personally and emulation was really easy to set up with emudeck :)
Have a steam deck oled. Running into an issue, I've tried plugging several usbc drives directly to the steam deck, but none of them show up, no matter the format, fat32, exfat, mac os, ntfs. UPDATE: I found the fix on reddit for the oled deck, it appears to be software related issue, b/c the solution I found is booting into bios and accessing setup utility > advanced - changing 'USB Dual Role Device' value from 'DRD' to 'XHCI'. Once I saved this change, booted back into steam deck then back into desktop mode. I plugged in the original usbc drive I attempted, and it now shows.
Yes, any changes you make in steam Rom manager will update in steam. Alternatively, if you use the steamgriddb plugin you can change the artwork directly from gaming mode
It is really easy! A lot of people see emulation videos like mine and and think “cool. I’d like to do that”. Then you tell them that you need to obtain the roms and bios files yourself, and then they get all confused…In short, you need to have the bios and roms (games) already. If you don’t then go research how to obtain those first. Once you have these files, the rest is EASY! You are literally just putting the files into specific locations.
Yeah but dood once you learn it and you get it that's it!. You'll know what you're doing and you'll fly through the process, and have the WORLD of emulation in your hands.
Congratulations. Before it arrives, as I mention in the video - take some time to get all your bios and roms organised! It will make the whole process easier!
Is it possible to download the games directly from the desktop mode on the steam deck and then place the game into emudeck? Or do you have to use an external pc? I’m still very confused, I’m a noob. My OLED deck will be here next Tuesday and I want the setup to be seamless.
what is the theme on your thumbnail? Also since the legal issues with yuzu is this tutorial still relevant for swith emulation or do i need to use a different emulator?
Yuzu and cenu no longer available on emudeck. Rest of the video is still relevant. I cant remember exact theme name. Think it was “switch like” or something combined with other ones
Hi, so I've been emulating games on my deck for a while now, and my concern is will my saves from PCSX2 and ryujinx transfer over to emudeck or will I have to manually transfer them?
Thanks for, very clear an easy to follow. 1 q - if I have an SD card I already use on another machine, can I just take it out and use in the steam deck or will I have to start over? Thanks
@@Brian-ye9yv Just in case the other two didn’t go through (hard to say if it did or didn’t) It’s illegal to download them online but it’s not illegal to make the things to play yourself. If you do pirate them the police won’t care however.
are the prod keys game specific (i have the game cartridge for the games i want to play AND the game files) or could i search up a yuzu prod key and use that to get it to work?
How are you launching the games? through steam? Emulation Station? and which systems are having issues? all of them? Usually you can solve this by making sure the controller is connected before starting the game.
@@steamdeckguy I am only using Emulation Station but have Mame and RetroArch installed and everything was working so perfectly until I connected my keyboard and now my controller is player 2 on every system 🤦🏿♂️
@@andril I suspect the issue is your keyboard is detected as a controller. If you bring up the main menu take a look under input device settings. There are a few option there that you could try such as ‘ignore keyboard input’ . Also make sure you have connected your controller before launching emulation station
Great video, thank you for this! Question, since EmuDeck installed all of the folders and organized them by emulators. Can I just remove the SD card and do all of the file transfers there and then reinsert into the steam deck and parse them?
The card will be in Linux format (ext4) which won’t be readable by Mac or windows. There may be some third party programs that may be able to read it, but never tried.
@@steamdeckguy thank you! Do you know if you’d still be able to use WiFi functionality,’such as Pokémon games trading with everyone or Mario kart online?
@@twpaq9332 if you mean Nintendo switch online then no, you can’t. Best you can do is play against other Yuzu players. Personally I don’t care much for online
Now a beginners guide to setting up wii controls for games like mario galaxy, mariokart wii, mario and sonic at the olympic games, mario sluggers, and sonic and the black knight
loved the video, great job. any chance you know about save data errors for pokemon on melon ds through retroarch ? is there any way for me to load my in game save or is there another way i’m supposed to make saves ? thanks
If you formatted your SD card or drive to EXT4 in game mode, How did you mount that drive to your PC and interact with the files. that doesn’t seem to be natively supported By windows or Mac as EXT4 is a Linux format
Hi mate. Great video. I do have a question though. How can I access the actual emulator itself? Example duckstation. I have them all on my pc, and I like to go into the actual settings and mess with them. Do I just select the actual duckstation emulator in steam os?
Yes. In desktop mode you can just open the emulator like you would on a PC. If you want to be able to select it from gaming mode, make sure to select the emulators it in the steam Rom manager parsers.
@@steamdeckguy that’s great! Thankyou so much. There’s so many videos out there on emudeck. But none of them explain how to access the actual emulators. Question though, how do I access the emulators from desktop mode? Where does emudeck install them? Il be choosing internal storage. Also, if I choose only flycast for my Dreamcast emulator, when I launch a Dreamcast Rom from steam. Will it launch with flycast? Obviously through retroarch.
Again! So much appreciation for this tutorial. I'm gaming away on every system! One last question..... To add more roms do I just follow the same steps? Do I have to delete the previously loaded roms from the USB drive?
No, you don’t need to delete the roms. It will just copy over any new ones you added. Alternatively, you can manually copy the games to the relevant folder on your steam deck rather than using the transfer wizard
@steamdeckguy thank you so much! I will just follow the tutorial again and repeat the same.e success without having to even think. I'm old. First generation gamer.
If I launched every rom that I have installed on my MicroSD card, I would have over 10,000 games on Steam. It would take me an afternoon just to find one game. I bought a 1.5TB Sandisk MicroSD card just for storing rom's on. Then, I found out that my entire collection of retro games came to less than 10GB of storage. I think that I might have gone OTT with storage on the deck. I have a 2TB NVME, 1.5TB MicroSD, and a 1TB in a hub, magnetised to the back of my deck.
@@steamdeckguyThanks for the quick reply! I didnt realise but I formatted my Flash drive to the Steamdeck too which made it the wrong format to even read on my PC, which was the problem, turns out i didnt have to format the Flash on the SD too. All sorted as I've used a different USB flash. I will have to find a way to reformat the one thats formatted to the SD back to a windows readable format!
So I wanted to remove and add some emulated games, went into EMUdeck and clicked "manage roms". Thsi stripped all my files of the custom artwork I manually added via the steamgrid plugin. Will this happen every time as it undid a couple hours of work.. thanks.
Can I use my Thumb drive with folders on a friends steamdeck as well? Meaning....after finishing up with mine, do I need to start over again with an empty thumb drive and reformat with folders?
You can reuse the thumb drive. You’ll probably need to click the ‘create folders’ button on your friends steam deck, but since they already exist it won’t actually do anything. Then you can click copy to copy them over automatically
Hello thanks for the tutorial also I have a question can I download roms from my own steam deck without the need of another computer. Sorry If u already explained my main language isn’t English
You need a way to get your games and bios files from your computer to steam deck (you can use thumb drive, hard drive, whatever) Alternatively, you can download all the files directly from the steam deck itself e.g. if you have all your files stored on a google drive.
After I create EmuDeck folders on my thumb drive, there are no bios folders for Ryujinx or Yuzu. The bios folder is empty. Why is it not creating the bios folders for the Switch emulators?
Hi after I use parsers on emudeck, none of the artwork transfers to steam. Have tried fully loading 5 times and reinstalling emudeck with no success. If anyone has any ideas why, that would be great. Thanks.
Waiting on my Steam Deck OLED and this is very helpfull thx ! Quick question, do you have to copy bios&rom via a USB-C device ? I don't feel like getting a USB-C Adapter for this single purpose :'). Would it work with an external DD that has other stuff on it ?
Glad it helped! The Steam deck is a computer so there are many ways to do this. e.g. Move them to a dropbox/google drive, connect USB Drive or hard drive directly to the steam deck, FTP transfer....
My Saturn games don’t work. Have the Bios. When I launch, the Saturn boot screen comes up, but it then kicks me to the Saturn dashboard screen as if no disk is inserted. How to fix this?
I have been tempted to use emu deck compression tool, but worried it will ruin my game library and makes games unplayable like Dreamcast games. Has anyone had a good experience with it?
I mentioned this in the video. You should select only one parser for each system. There are duplicates because each one is configured to launch the game with a different emulator/core
@@carlosmelendez8317 No. all the parser is doing is adding a link to the game in steam and adding launch parameters so that it loads in a specific emulator/core. You should find that each one is in its own collection. For example if you enable ‘switch - yuzu’ and ‘switch ryujinx’ then you will have two collections, each containing the same games. If you launch the link from the ‘switch - yuzu’ collection then the game will load in yuzu. Likewise, launching the game from the ‘ryujinx’ collection will load the game in ryujinx instead of yuzu. Personally, I only have one collection for each system to avoid duplicates
Bios is not per game, it’s per system but not all systems require a bios to work. If a system requires a bios (see the cheat sheet) then yes it’s needed otherwise games won’t boot
Each system should appear in there own folder under collections in your library. If You only see the ‘emulator’ collection this means you haven’t selected any systems.
This is a long shot.. 🙏🏻 I'm using "parallel launcher" (n64 emulator.) My buttons are all messed up I think.. When I try to keybind, the buttons, it says "not bound" when I press a button. The right stick also controls the mouse as well as the right trackpad. Is there a "community layout" that can help? I just need help to make the buttons recognizable for keybindings. I think I need to re-bind for all emulators...
@@steamdeckguy The default gamepad options are under "Recommended"? I only see one. I tried it, but I still can't button map. Should I just reboot the whole thing?
followed this guide to a T but the only emulators that installed were ESDE, Vita3K, and PCSX. Everything else failed and won’t install. Any ideas? On a brand new OLED deck
Does it give an error? What does it say in the post-installation summary? If you still face issues, I'd suggest a full Emudeck reset and keep everything as default.
What would you suggest if I’m getting error messages in the log menu in steam rom manager after his save to steam? Because I’m not able to get any images for my games.
I've plugged my usb into EmuDeck and let it create the ROM and BIOS folders however when I plug the usb into my mac I can't see the folders that EmuDeck has allegedly created.. any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
@@steamdeckguy thanks for the reply. When I view the contents of the usb on the steam deck it looks as though the folders are there. I’ll give it another go
I got my deck during the first sale they did. Had a separate SD card for emudeck and got stuff working great but when I decided to delete stuff it left a load of files or links to stuff that weren't there anymore. It got so annoying I ended up resetting the whole system and starting again. I have relatively recently started a batocera build but it doesn't support switch without hassle. I will be going back to Emudeck for a specific few systems as I've just picked up a small 1tb ssd (£30 cheaper than an sd card!!!) and I'll be doing a batocera build on that and use the spare 512gb sd card for an emudeck build for nintendo systems.
Did they remove Yuzu? Followed these step by steps today and I couldnt find it amongst emulators available for install. Also, this program is far from easy for a new user as nothing is intuitive.
It might be that the drive has not been mounted. I’d try ejecting it and retrying. Also, check if the files have actually been created because it might just be a bug with emudeck
Great guide! I’ve already played through paper Mario the thousand year old door! Was wondering if anyone has seen an issue with Wii games now that I’m setting to setup super paper Mario. When I launch it in the game UI it stutters at 100% speed limit with breaking audio but works fine at 90% or 110%. It also seems like this isn’t true when launched in desktop mode.
There are various forks (copies) of citra out there, but unfortunately I haven’t tried any yet, so I cant tell you which is best. To be honest I was never really impressed with Citra so I probably never will…
I’ve tried emulation on my computer for ps1 consoles and onward…. It never worked. I could never get dolphin or any of the others to work. Emu deck is very easy and you only need to tweak emulator settings a little (lag on PS2, and graphics distortion on GC) I’m finally able to play PS1-3 games, GameCube, and original Xbox. I love my steam deck
Yeah, if it just mentions the bios file, but no specific path, put it in the main BIOS folder. E.g game boy gba, ps1, ps2, and Saturn all go in the main bios folder
Thank you for this tutorial video, really helped me out and im fairly new on my steam deck and emultion. I have a good collection of retro games all working fine but I have problem with my yuzu emulator tho hoping you can maybe help me out. I have the latest keys in the bios folder on switch. When I go to boot up super mario bros deluxe u it loads up to the start menu and then after ive pressed start, the screen goes black an stays like that? Haven't tried any other games yet but i do own mario kart deluxe so hoping that will work
I saved to steam. And it's says done adding to steam with the images. But when I load up steam in game mode none of the artwork is there for the games or emulators. Any ideas? Thanks for the help!
I’d try again, it sounds like the changes you had made were not saved. Alternatively, you could install steam grid db plugin which will allow you to change the artwork directly from gaming mode.
Great video! But please I need help. Once I open an emulator and start playing a game I don’t know the controllers! lol. Don’t know how to save and quit as well. Please help
At 15:50 in the video you are able to check the hotkeys for each emulator. For majority, pressing start and select quits the game back to steam or emulation station. If you have auto save enabled it will save the game automatically when you quit the game
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IMPORTANT: Before starting the emudeck installation, you’ll need to decide if you want to install your games to micro SD card or internal SSD. If you are using a brand new micro SD card, be sure to format it first by selecting ‘Format SD Card’ in the Settings > System menu. If you are already using your sd card for steam games, you do not need to re-format. Just be sure that there is enough free space!
Also at 12:51 the correct path is bios > Yuzu > keys
I own a steam deck with emu deck and emu station already installed but I’ll be upgrading to an oled soon. Is it possible to connect my hard drive to the old steam deck and grab everything like the files and roms folders from there and then connect the hard drive to the new steam deck and just drop everything off in the new one?
So can the PC emulator run marvels spiderman I would really appreciate not having to pay for it😂
Getting my OLED soon and this is a really good step by step! I tend to forgot how I have things set up on my other devices or what I need to check on before hand. This helps me out so much
Thankyou. I watched 10-15 videos and couldn’t get this working. Don’t know what you said or did that was different, but i was finally able to understand it and make it work. Thanks for making it a lot easier
Thank you for taking the time to make this highly informative and easy to follow video, I’ve watched a few videos on this and yours is the best and most helpful one as you explain each settings and so much more!
Looking forward to your future videos on the emudeck
I appreciate your videos on this!
Something about how you've presented the information clicked for me and now I'm getting to enjoy this awesome part of my device! I was able to do all of this from my steam deck thanks to you. This is my first crack at emulation. Yes, learning something you're unfamiliar with is stressful, but following this guide and the advice if USE THE EMUDECK CHEAT SHEETS will make this pain free. Thanks so much!!!
I’m buying a Steam Deck because of your video. Very well done! You’ve given me the confidence to run emulation on this system. Thank you! New subscriber😃
Good luck it’s impossible to figure out
Nah i did it ,so can you
@@kademixell553
Thank you for the walkthrough. Good editing, instructions, and sound quality.
Finally a guide that shows how to show the games in the library.👍
Bookmarked this video so I can re-watch it when my Steam Deck arrives! Finally made the plunge and got one now that they're on sale.
Probably gonna watch this a few more times so I fully understand everything. This is really helpful.
THANK YOU for explaining what each of the emulators are for, I had no idea how to choose what to download!
For anyone wondering if it still works - yes. I just followed this video and succeeded today. This video included pretty much all I needed except for stuff about BIOS and ROMs. You may want to watch a couple more videos for these, sadly there is no video that includes all these parts, mostly because of some legal obstructions.
But like do I have to use a usb drive I thought I could do it without but everyone’s video is kinda bad
Where are all your roms stored? If you have them stored in dropbox or something, then no, you don't need a USB drive - you can just download from your steamdeck. However, most people have them on a PC, so simply transferring them to the steam deck via USB drive makes more sense. if you don't have any roms, then as I said in the video - go research how to obtain those legally. if you are looking for ways to obtain these illegally, then you are on your own. Anyone sharing links to download roms in a UA-cam video is an idiot. You'd also be an idiot to trust the links are not malicious.
@@steamdeckguy I’ll try that
@@Almxghty1Just do some googling and you can find reliable sites but if you wanna get your own roms... otherwise known as "making your own backups" the method to do so really depends on what console you have and is probably long enough to be a video on its own. But they all probably involve jailbreaking said console. The first thing I told you is the easiest method and most everyone that's into emulation has likely done it at some point or another if they try to say they've never pirated anything they're lying 😂
I've got a deck on the way and am watching vids like this to learn how to expand functionality for it. This is a solid tutorial.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for making this straight forward and easy to follow. Just got a 1TB sd for my steam deck and ready to setup emulation!
Dude this is awesome, how this channel doest have 1m subs already... Mr Deck Guy Thank you sir
you made a better guide than the other guides well done sir
I just got my grubby little mitts on a Steam Deck a few days ago. Acquired it in a trade. I've got most of the powerhouse hand held systems both native and modded but this, this is the high lord of mobile gaming.
Im so happy that i went with a steam deck some months ago. Def the right handheld for me personally and emulation was really easy to set up with emudeck :)
Have a steam deck oled. Running into an issue, I've tried plugging several usbc drives directly to the steam deck, but none of them show up, no matter the format, fat32, exfat, mac os, ntfs. UPDATE: I found the fix on reddit for the oled deck, it appears to be software related issue, b/c the solution I found is booting into bios and accessing setup utility > advanced - changing 'USB Dual Role Device' value from 'DRD' to 'XHCI'. Once I saved this change, booted back into steam deck then back into desktop mode. I plugged in the original usbc drive I attempted, and it now shows.
had the exact same problem and changing it so XHCI solved it
I’ve been screaming for something like this so many thanks for the effort I will be busy this weekend now.
May i ask where you get your roms?
Thank you for keeping it so simple i have others way over my head i appreciate my guy
This guide was sooo helpful! Are you able to change the artwork after importing the games to steam already?
Yes, any changes you make in steam Rom manager will update in steam. Alternatively, if you use the steamgriddb plugin you can change the artwork directly from gaming mode
This already sounds confusing af. Just the 1st couple of mins about the files
It is really easy! A lot of people see emulation videos like mine and and think “cool. I’d like to do that”. Then you tell them that you need to obtain the roms and bios files yourself, and then they get all confused…In short, you need to have the bios and roms (games) already. If you don’t then go research how to obtain those first. Once you have these files, the rest is EASY! You are literally just putting the files into specific locations.
Yeah but dood once you learn it and you get it that's it!. You'll know what you're doing and you'll fly through the process, and have the WORLD of emulation in your hands.
I'll give it a try, I don't have the roms or bios 😞
@@ThatsJustEric seek and you shall find
@@joeyxl3456 I'm seeking. Can you help?
Saving this for reference....mine is arriving in 2 days...🤞
Congratulations. Before it arrives, as I mention in the video - take some time to get all your bios and roms organised! It will make the whole process easier!
Thank you for the Hard work😃💪
Oh wow.. that USB transfer update feature really makes life a lot easier. We didn’t have that back in ye olde days.
Is it possible to download the games directly from the desktop mode on the steam deck and then place the game into emudeck? Or do you have to use an external pc? I’m still very confused, I’m a noob. My OLED deck will be here next Tuesday and I want the setup to be seamless.
You can do it all from the steam deck
Great guide, thank You!
Perfect just got the new OLED steam deck
what is the theme on your thumbnail?
Also since the legal issues with yuzu is this tutorial still relevant for swith emulation or
do i need to use a different emulator?
Yuzu and cenu no longer available on emudeck. Rest of the video is still relevant. I cant remember exact theme name. Think it was “switch like” or something combined with other ones
This was very useful. Thank you
thank you so much for doing this, its so helpful and straight-forward
Hi, so I've been emulating games on my deck for a while now, and my concern is will my saves from PCSX2 and ryujinx transfer over to emudeck or will I have to manually transfer them?
going to try this as it looks easier than most how to videos
You’ve got this 👊
The cheat sheet!!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Thanks for, very clear an easy to follow. 1 q - if I have an SD card I already use on another machine, can I just take it out and use in the steam deck or will I have to start over? Thanks
You need to format (wipe) the SD card before you can use it with the steam deck
@@steamdeckguy ah man! Thanks for replying mate
I love when UA-camrs say “You need to legally obtain the ROMs and BIOS” when 99% of people who want emulators are gonna pirate them 😂
So it’s illegal to emulate games?? I’m thinking about getting a steam deck, but I don’t want any trouble. Can you respond
@@Brian-ye9yv Just in case the other two didn’t go through (hard to say if it did or didn’t) It’s illegal to download them online but it’s not illegal to make the things to play yourself. If you do pirate them the police won’t care however.
How do i get the keyboard on my steam deck lol i dont have a mouse i cant write on it
@@frankypolglish It’s a button combination. Press the Steam Button and the X Button at the same time.
are the prod keys game specific (i have the game cartridge for the games i want to play AND the game files) or could i search up a yuzu prod key and use that to get it to work?
Hypothetically if you “found” the prod key file on the internet it would work.
@@steamdeckguy k, i’ll have a look into it, thx!
the game DOES have a steam port, so i could prob just use that instead, but still, thx!
Hey I’ve just downloaded emudeck and got as far as steam rom manager. But when I load it up I ain’t got none of the parsers. Any help?
got it installed and switched controllers but now the one i have keeps coming up as Player 2 - any suggestions?
How are you launching the games? through steam? Emulation Station? and which systems are having issues? all of them? Usually you can solve this by making sure the controller is connected before starting the game.
@@steamdeckguy I am only using Emulation Station but have Mame and RetroArch installed and everything was working so perfectly until I connected my keyboard and now my controller is player 2 on every system 🤦🏿♂️
@@andril I suspect the issue is your keyboard is detected as a controller. If you bring up the main menu take a look under input device settings. There are a few option there that you could try such as ‘ignore keyboard input’ . Also make sure you have connected your controller before launching emulation station
@@steamdeckguy will try this when I get off work and appreciate you and your help
@@andril no worries, and hope you get it sorted!
Great video, thank you for this! Question, since EmuDeck installed all of the folders and organized them by emulators. Can I just remove the SD card and do all of the file transfers there and then reinsert into the steam deck and parse them?
The card will be in Linux format (ext4) which won’t be readable by Mac or windows. There may be some third party programs that may be able to read it, but never tried.
@@steamdeckguy thank you! Do you know if you’d still be able to use WiFi functionality,’such as Pokémon games trading with everyone or Mario kart online?
@@twpaq9332 if you mean Nintendo switch online then no, you can’t. Best you can do is play against other Yuzu players. Personally I don’t care much for online
@@twpaq9332hey man, did it work?
This is a good guide if you’re familiar with emudeck but not sure with some details.
Now a beginners guide to setting up wii controls for games like mario galaxy, mariokart wii, mario and sonic at the olympic games, mario sluggers, and sonic and the black knight
Maybe....
loved the video, great job. any chance you know about save data errors for pokemon on melon ds through retroarch ? is there any way for me to load my in game save or is there another way i’m supposed to make saves ? thanks
If you formatted your SD card or drive to EXT4 in game mode, How did you mount that drive to your PC and interact with the files. that doesn’t seem to be natively supported By windows or Mac as EXT4 is a Linux format
Simple answer. I didn’t….. the drive where the games and roms are being copied from is not EXT4
Hi mate. Great video.
I do have a question though. How can I access the actual emulator itself? Example duckstation. I have them all on my pc, and I like to go into the actual settings and mess with them. Do I just select the actual duckstation emulator in steam os?
Yes. In desktop mode you can just open the emulator like you would on a PC. If you want to be able to select it from gaming mode, make sure to select the emulators it in the steam Rom manager parsers.
@@steamdeckguy that’s great! Thankyou so much. There’s so many videos out there on emudeck. But none of them explain how to access the actual emulators.
Question though, how do I access the emulators from desktop mode? Where does emudeck install them? Il be choosing internal storage.
Also, if I choose only flycast for my Dreamcast emulator, when I launch a Dreamcast Rom from steam. Will it launch with flycast? Obviously through retroarch.
@@steamdeckguy you there mate? lol
@@richwatson1985 in desktop mode, you’ll find it installed under applications - similar to how it would be on a windows PC.
@@steamdeckguy thanks :)
Have you recently seen emudeck has gone tits up with the latest update :/ I’m not sure now whether to install it.
Again! So much appreciation for this tutorial. I'm gaming away on every system! One last question.....
To add more roms do I just follow the same steps? Do I have to delete the previously loaded roms from the USB drive?
No, you don’t need to delete the roms. It will just copy over any new ones you added. Alternatively, you can manually copy the games to the relevant folder on your steam deck rather than using the transfer wizard
@steamdeckguy thank you so much! I will just follow the tutorial again and repeat the same.e success without having to even think. I'm old. First generation gamer.
Entoyerly 😆 I love it ♥
If I launched every rom that I have installed on my MicroSD card, I would have over 10,000 games on Steam. It would take me an afternoon just to find one game. I bought a 1.5TB Sandisk MicroSD card just for storing rom's on. Then, I found out that my entire collection of retro games came to less than 10GB of storage. I think that I might have gone OTT with storage on the deck. I have a 2TB NVME, 1.5TB MicroSD, and a 1TB in a hub, magnetised to the back of my deck.
You can never have too much storage! 👍
Where do you find your roms
@@boshi7250 Typically, the internet archive, and Romsfun. Some of them you may have to convert after downloading.
Hello SDG!
I don't know whats happening but my PC can't detect the Flash Drive as its not formatted to windows, am I missing something?
Right click the drive and select format. Select either NTFS or exFAT
@@steamdeckguyThanks for the quick reply!
I didnt realise but I formatted my Flash drive to the Steamdeck too which made it the wrong format to even read on my PC, which was the problem, turns out i didnt have to format the Flash on the SD too. All sorted as I've used a different USB flash. I will have to find a way to reformat the one thats formatted to the SD back to a windows readable format!
very much appreciated
So I wanted to remove and add some emulated games, went into EMUdeck and clicked "manage roms". Thsi stripped all my files of the custom artwork I manually added via the steamgrid plugin. Will this happen every time as it undid a couple hours of work.. thanks.
Did you change just the capsule image in steamgridDB? Or all the artwork? And has it definitely overwritten the images?
@@steamdeckguy mix. Some animated for example. Yeah it killed my customizations. Sounds like that’s not normal?
@@solomani5959 I always thought steam Rom manager wouldn’t overwrite the ones updated through steamgridDB. Been a while since I’ve done it though.
@@steamdeckguy I experimented and it hasn’t done it again. So likely a ME issue.
Can I use my Thumb drive with folders on a friends steamdeck as well?
Meaning....after finishing up with mine, do I need to start over again with an empty thumb drive and reformat with folders?
You can reuse the thumb drive. You’ll
probably need to click the ‘create folders’ button on your friends steam deck, but since they already exist it won’t actually do anything. Then you can click copy to copy them over automatically
@steamdeckguy awesome thank you.
That happened to me on my SD. It wouldn't offer me "copy files"
I did what you said and all was fine
Emudeck does not give me the option to copy my games if i reinject my usb drive... do you know any fixes for that?
Click copy folder first (don’t worry, it won’t overwrite anything) then you’ll see the option to copy the games
Hello thanks for the tutorial also I have a question can I download roms from my own steam deck without the need of another computer. Sorry If u already explained my main language isn’t English
Yes, you can do everything on the steam deck directly.
@@steamdeckguy thanks man appreciate that ❤️
Do you need a thumb drive to do this? ( im very new to all of this:) )
You need a way to get your games and bios files from your computer to steam deck (you can use thumb drive, hard drive, whatever) Alternatively, you can download all the files directly from the steam deck itself e.g. if you have all your files stored on a google drive.
After I create EmuDeck folders on my thumb drive, there are no bios folders for Ryujinx or Yuzu. The bios folder is empty. Why is it not creating the bios folders for the Switch emulators?
You have to create the sub folders yourself, per the cheat sheet instructions
Hi after I use parsers on emudeck, none of the artwork transfers to steam. Have tried fully loading 5 times and reinstalling emudeck with no success. If anyone has any ideas why, that would be great. Thanks.
Waiting on my Steam Deck OLED and this is very helpfull thx !
Quick question, do you have to copy bios&rom via a USB-C device ? I don't feel like getting a USB-C Adapter for this single purpose :'). Would it work with an external DD that has other stuff on it ?
Glad it helped! The Steam deck is a computer so there are many ways to do this. e.g. Move them to a dropbox/google drive, connect USB Drive or hard drive directly to the steam deck, FTP transfer....
@@steamdeckguy Thx for clarifying man !
My Saturn games don’t work. Have the Bios. When I launch, the Saturn boot screen comes up, but it then kicks me to the Saturn dashboard screen as if no disk is inserted.
How to fix this?
Sounds like bad roms tbh
Is it better to use emudeck than installing all emulators individually?
You can install them manually, but why do that when emudeck can install them all for you? Including applying the best settings for the steam deck
I have been tempted to use emu deck compression tool, but worried it will ruin my game library and makes games unplayable like Dreamcast games. Has anyone had a good experience with it?
Getting a deck soon is it possible to not have to transfer files from my pc to the deck ? Can i just download it directly from the deck desktop
Yes
@@steamdeckguy great video by the way I rewatched it and noticed you clearly answered my question lol 😆
My whole install and everything with Emudeck is screwed, is there a way to just blow it all away and start over?
Yes, you can do a full uninstallation or redo the setup which will override all the settings back to default
@@steamdeckguy great thank you. Sometimes there's some gotchas when trying to remove this stuff, which is why I asked
Why do I have 2 Parsed files of the same game when adding to Ryujinx and sometimes other emulators? It's like there are 2 copies in the Library.
I mentioned this in the video. You should select only one parser for each system. There are duplicates because each one is configured to launch the game with a different emulator/core
@steamdeckguy cool I will watch again. If I have 2 parsers configured will it have trouble loading the game?
@@carlosmelendez8317 No. all the parser is doing is adding a link to the game in steam and adding launch parameters so that it loads in a specific emulator/core. You should find that each one is in its own collection. For example if you enable ‘switch - yuzu’ and ‘switch ryujinx’ then you will have two collections, each containing the same games. If you launch the link from the ‘switch - yuzu’ collection then the game will load in yuzu. Likewise, launching the game from the ‘ryujinx’ collection will load the game in ryujinx instead of yuzu. Personally, I only have one collection for each system to avoid duplicates
Thank you.
hey, i know its an old video, but how would i install DLC to my emulated games? like the fighters pass to smash bros ultimate for example.
Hi - I’d recommend reading through the Yuzu FAQ. It has everything you need to know
Do I need bios and the rom of the same game for it to work? I try to use just roms but it won’t launch any games.
Bios is not per game, it’s per system but not all systems require a bios to work. If a system requires a bios (see the cheat sheet) then yes it’s needed otherwise games won’t boot
i’m subscribing mainly because of your channel name.
Can u pls help me, my game shows up in steam rom manager but doesnt show up in the emulator folder i have to search and add it .
Each system should appear in there own folder under collections in your library. If
You only see the ‘emulator’ collection this means you haven’t selected any systems.
@@steamdeckguy i did that still doesnt show up, it was working perfect before the update.
This is a long shot.. 🙏🏻
I'm using "parallel launcher" (n64 emulator.) My buttons are all messed up I think.. When I try to keybind, the buttons, it says "not bound" when I press a button. The right stick also controls the mouse as well as the right trackpad. Is there a "community layout" that can help? I just need help to make the buttons recognizable for keybindings. I think I need to re-bind for all emulators...
Set the controller profile to gamepad, and then redo the keybindings in the emulator settings
@@steamdeckguy Where's the option? I can't find it
@@leozar69 you asked for community layouts earlier. Instead of selecting a community layout just select one of the default gamepad options
@@steamdeckguy The default gamepad options are under "Recommended"? I only see one. I tried it, but I still can't button map. Should I just reboot the whole thing?
@@leozar69 I ‘d try switching over to desktop mode, launch the emulator, and then try the button mapping from there.
followed this guide to a T but the only emulators that installed were ESDE, Vita3K, and PCSX. Everything else failed and won’t install. Any ideas? On a brand new OLED deck
Does it give an error? What does it say in the post-installation summary? If you still face issues, I'd suggest a full Emudeck reset and keep everything as default.
What would you suggest if I’m getting error messages in the log menu in steam rom manager after his save to steam? Because I’m not able to get any images for my games.
What does the error actually say?
I've plugged my usb into EmuDeck and let it create the ROM and BIOS folders however when I plug the usb into my mac I can't see the folders that EmuDeck has allegedly created.. any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
If you’re not seeing the folders then it hasn’t created them. I’d suggest trying again.
@@steamdeckguy thanks for the reply. When I view the contents of the usb on the steam deck it looks as though the folders are there. I’ll give it another go
Are there instructions for the OLED or is it roughly the same?
It’s the same
where do you download these games ??
The internet 🤷♂️
i have the emulators but when i go into game lists into one of them (duck station for example) there’s nothing in the game list. fix?
Probably bad Roms. Check the cheat sheet for the supported Rom formats, and also ensure that you are obtaining them from Legit sources.
I got my deck during the first sale they did. Had a separate SD card for emudeck and got stuff working great but when I decided to delete stuff it left a load of files or links to stuff that weren't there anymore. It got so annoying I ended up resetting the whole system and starting again. I have relatively recently started a batocera build but it doesn't support switch without hassle. I will be going back to Emudeck for a specific few systems as I've just picked up a small 1tb ssd (£30 cheaper than an sd card!!!) and I'll be doing a batocera build on that and use the spare 512gb sd card for an emudeck build for nintendo systems.
How do I emulate Amiga 1200 games?
Would love to play Batman 1989, thundercats and other games
Install retroarch through emudeck, find the roms online, then put them into Amiga1200 roms folder.
My SD card fried along with emudeck in it. How do I reinstall emudeck on my SD card so I can play it on my steam deck again?
Did they remove Yuzu? Followed these step by steps today and I couldnt find it amongst emulators available for install.
Also, this program is far from easy for a new user as nothing is intuitive.
Yes, and citra (3ds). There are ways to get it working or you could just use Ryujinx instead which I believe is still supported by emudeck
How much storage you need for all the emulators and a few games?
I’d recommend a 512gb card as they are fairly cheap nowadays
Any idea why it is not creating the ROMs and bios file on my usb drive. Just seems to stick saying creating emudeck folders
It might be that the drive has not been mounted. I’d try ejecting it and retrying. Also, check if the files have actually been created because it might just be a bug with emudeck
@@steamdeckguy I think it may have been a bug as on there and working fine thank you and an amazingly simple video to follow
Mine won't bring up the sega32x games. I can launch them from emulation station or retroarch but they never show up in emudeck parses. Any ideas?
Sounds like you haven’t selected the parser, or you put the games in the wrong folder
Which should be a correct size for the micro SD to have all the emulators ?
Emulators are installed on the internal SSD. It is only the Bios and Roms that will be stored on the micro SD
Great guide! I’ve already played through paper Mario the thousand year old door! Was wondering if anyone has seen an issue with Wii games now that I’m setting to setup super paper Mario. When I launch it in the game UI it stutters at 100% speed limit with breaking audio but works fine at 90% or 110%. It also seems like this isn’t true when launched in desktop mode.
Thanks! Not tried much Wii, so not come across that issue myself, but I’m sure someone will be along soon with some advice! 👍
I'm playing through thousand year door on my ROG right now. I can't wait for the remake.
Do you know how we can emulate 3ds now that Citra is gone?
There are various forks (copies) of citra out there, but unfortunately I haven’t tried any yet, so I cant tell you which is best. To be honest I was never really impressed with Citra so I probably never will…
What if we dont have a pc and i want to download a ps2 game or bios directly trough the steamdeck is that possible
Yes you can do everything from the steam deck directly if you know where to get the files or if you have access to google drive, Dropbox etc
I’ve tried emulation on my computer for ps1 consoles and onward…. It never worked. I could never get dolphin or any of the others to work. Emu deck is very easy and you only need to tweak emulator settings a little (lag on PS2, and graphics distortion on GC) I’m finally able to play PS1-3 games, GameCube, and original Xbox. I love my steam deck
Very easy you just need the right bios
If it doesn't say "PLACE" on the Cheat Sheet, I'm guessing I just put it in the main BIOS file?
Yeah, if it just mentions the bios file, but no specific path, put it in the main BIOS folder. E.g game boy gba, ps1, ps2, and Saturn all go in the main bios folder
thank you
You’re welcome!
Thank you for this tutorial video, really helped me out and im fairly new on my steam deck and emultion. I have a good collection of retro games all working fine but I have problem with my yuzu emulator tho hoping you can maybe help me out. I have the latest keys in the bios folder on switch. When I go to boot up super mario bros deluxe u it loads up to the start menu and then after ive pressed start, the screen goes black an stays like that? Haven't tried any other games yet but i do own mario kart deluxe so hoping that will work
Apparently for that game you need to do a firmware dump. yuzu-emu.org/game/new-super-mario-bros-u-deluxe/
Ah ok thank you I will do some research how this is done 👍🏼
I downloaded psvita game, but it’s a PKG file… & have no way to transfer that into Vita3K emulator. I can’t seem to find the actual game file rom.
You need to extract/convert it to one of the supported formats
I saved to steam. And it's says done adding to steam with the images. But when I load up steam in game mode none of the artwork is there for the games or emulators. Any ideas? Thanks for the help!
I’d try again, it sounds like the changes you had made were not saved. Alternatively, you could install steam grid db plugin which will allow you to change the artwork directly from gaming mode.
can you use just a usb c flash drive to add the roms and bios to steam deck?
Yes
My steam rom manager looks different than yours where you toggle the parsers and stuff. I’m confused at this section
Go to the settings and choose the steam deck theme
Do I need a pc to download games to put on my steam deck because I don’t have a pc ?
you can do if from the steam deck directly if you prefer
@@steamdeckguy How am lost?
@@blackgoku8897 open web browser > Download game >Put in roms folder….
Can I do this over windows on my steam deck I just downloaded it last night
Yeah sure, it is a PC afterall
Don’t worry Steam Deck Guy, I promise to obtain all my bioses and roms 110% legally! 😃
Pinky promise?
@@steamdeckguy cross my heart!
Great video! But please I need help. Once I open an emulator and start playing a game I don’t know the controllers! lol. Don’t know how to save and quit as well. Please help
At 15:50 in the video you are able to check the hotkeys for each emulator. For majority, pressing start and select quits the game back to steam or emulation station. If you have auto save enabled it will save the game automatically when you quit the game