EmuDeck for Windows! Emulation Guide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- EmuDeck is one of the easiest ways to get emulation up and running on the Steam Deck, and it's now available in early access for Windows! In this guide I'll walk you through the setup process so that you can play your favorite classics on any Windows device -- desktop, laptop, or handheld.
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Timestamps:
00:00 introduction
01:27 early access
03:14 installation
04:42 initial setup
09:30 Steam ROM Manager vs EmulationStation
10:58 adding ROMs and BIOS
16:43 Steam ROM Manager
21:35 EmulationStation
24:08 EmuDeck maintenance
26:05 cloud sync and game mode
28:31 summary and conclusion
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I was literally just going to pull up your channel to watch your last emudeck and emulation station videos to see how I could make it work on my windows PC. And here you are with the exact thing I’m looking for! What a fun coincidence
Brilliant as always. Thank you, Russ! Love to see the innovation and great ideas of the EmuDeck team getting some love. Nobody else is talking about this, let alone doing a full walk though, which is why the community is so lucky to have you.
That “game mode” for Windows is super smart. I’ve been replacing my shell with Steam Big Picture mode on Windows for years (in a separate user distinctly setup for only gaming) to achieve the same end, but doing it manually isn’t for the feint of heart.
I myself used to code frontends (many old videos on my channel) for an emulation community in the past and it's interesting to see how much things have changed while the concept remains the same. Somehow it gives me a bit of motivation to work on my own once again and revive my old project. I'm also glad to see that today there are so many alternatives.
"Yeah man, I wanna do it" is my favorite recurring bit. Gets a chuckle every time
This is just incredible. For years I've been keeping up with the latest emulators, downloading and configuring them over and over... Now I can just do this instead. This will replace my entire setup for sure. It's time for an emulator cleanout :D
Great content as always my guy! I supported the Patreon and I can't to use all these options as they become available. You guys are doing some great work over there. Keep it up!!!
Yes!!! I am so excited for this one. Thanks for the awesome work Russ!
Thanks Russ! I'd REALLY love to see a guide for setting up windows on steamdeck, specifically a really good guide on using tools like handheld companion. Since you do so many guides that end up being the go-to guide, I'm sure you'd knock it out of the park. Looking forward to the playnite guide. I've got it set up myself on a deck running Windows 11 and I'm really enjoying it, but sometimes handheld companion doesn't seem to work exactly how I'd like and I'm sure I just have something misconfigured.
Bro! THIS is what I’ve been waiting for! Russ!!! Thank you! Thank you!
Finally EmuDeck for Windows
Do we need emudeck though when we have launchbox
@@maxheadroomsfan Linux didn't need EmuDeck either, we had RetroArch for over a decade. It's a good thing the community is building and maintaining more software around emulation regardless.
@@maxheadroomsfancan launch box put roms inside steam interface?
@@charlesm.2604EmuDeck and RetroArch are not interchangeable... EmuDeck offers so much that RetroArch can't do.
For switch games. I used to have to download them in parts. Is there anyplace that has switch games in 1 file not 3 or more parts? Thx.
Posted 2 hours before I searched for this video. Thanks!
Oh God EmuDeck does everything in a fraction of the time it took me to set up Launchbox, Retroarch and standalone emulators on Windows!
They even got the 8:7 aspect ratio for SNES, which is the default output before it was stretched, Super Mario World blocks would be perfect squares, if you use 4:3 it would get stretch, that's why you get chonky Link in Zelda. Depends on the games, some are output with 4:3 in mind like MK3. I have to do some research to find that out. That's phenomenal that EmuDecks know about it right of the bat. God damn!!!
I feel like the ROG Ally with Emu Deck is all I ever wanted in my life. This is fantastic. Thanks !
Awesome! I been waiting for this for my gpd win 4
fantastic video just what i was looking for thanks
Picked up my Russ patron token! Stoked for this! 🚀
It's like you read my mind! Thanks for the video!
This is so fn cool! What an age we live in! I'm going to set this up on the Ally. Thanks so much for this EXCELLENT guide! 😄👍
I've actually done all the work manually myself. I'm still tempted to become a patron just to support it, because I want people to be able to emulate fairly easily.
Also I'm still going to watch the video, Idfk. But I am
Thanks at least for thinking about it!
@@emudeck3499 I have done so in the past :p I prefer donating outright instead of pateron
Are you using portable emulation station?
@@tomdillanall the emulators are in portable mode so they won’t mess with your current installations
Tried setting this up myself and did it but things are just subtly off. Been waiting for your vid to get the realness. Thanks for the video, you are dependable and reliable.
Bypassing the desktop is so useful. Truly makes even Windows feel like a game console. Perfect for these Win Handhelds.
Great tutorial mate, thanks heaps!
Very cool feature for the cloud saves... I run my own SFTP and it looks like they have this app setup for it. Thanks for posting!
That Game Mode on startup will be a game changer 😎
Just bought a Deck after thinking about it for months. The sale convinced me. This is the first thing i'm going to do with it. I cannot wait to backup my entire retro library onto it. It's going to be amazing to have a on the go and plug and play device for all of my retro games - to be able to be played upscaled on an HD TV, it's going to change how I operate for sure... but I'll always collect physical
Wonderful video and exiting news. Just switched to W11 on the SD and was trying to decide which front end to use (used Retrobat in the past and currently booting into Batocera when needed) and thias looks great.
Great guide! Thanks
Already install this on my ROG Ally and my AOKZOE A1 PRO, Works almost as good as my Steam Deck. It will get there in time. Fantastic app and very convenient.
Im genuinely so confused . do i need steam rom manager
@@markwrobel9558 No. If you want to emulate older consoles, you could just download and install the individual system emulators for free. However, you would have to configure each of them yourself. Emudeck is just a convenience.
If you have no interest in playing older gen games using your game ROMs and all you want to do is play games from the established stores and publishers such as Game pass, Steam and others then this means nothing to you.
This might be a dumb question but how do I install the games for emulation
Great video👍
Hey Russ! Thnx for another awesome video 🎉
Had a request, do you think a Windows emulation/library front end comparison would be a good video?
Great video! Thank you for this. I just have a couple of questions: how friendly is emudeck with multiplayer? Is it possible to play 2 controllers the same game? Is it possible to set up a pokemon trade using gameboy emulator? Thanks again!
Finally for window and thanks for share then guide
This shit is amazing. Ive always wanted a one stop shop to play games from different retro consoles along with newer gen easily.
Love your channel and I wanted to ask can you install and run on a external hard drive with this software
Will you be doing a similar video/written guide for playnite, bigbox or retrobat?
I was actually messing around with Launch box, but this looks to be a lot easier. Thank you. Perfect timing.
My plan this week was to put EmuDeck on my PC, coincidence that you put this on. However I thought it had been out for Windows already, I must had gotten mixed up.
Great video. I like the idea of using Emulation Station for all my roms. However, having the emulators directly in the Steam UI gives you the ability to individually remap your controllers for each game with Steam. Is there a way you can do this within Emulation Station? I know you can remap the controllers within the emulator, but it can be confusing since all emulators are different.
Finally what I’ve been waiting for! Hope I don’t rek my micro SD card 🤣
Thanks for conning me !!!!!!
That's great news! Would be awesome if steam will add it to the library officially like retroarch
Can’t wait for this to come to public release
I've started using syncthing to sync savegame files between my PC and steam deck. I'm wondering if it would be possible to sync my retroarch (installed under emudeck) config folder to a windows install of retroarch.
is this still behind the Patreon or has this been released yet? Also, is there a way to manually add a rom from ES directly to steam? or does it have to be done through Rom Manager?
Ok, I got everything loaded on my freshly installed Windows 10 PC (was previously having issues getting GIT and 7zip to install during setup). Have a bunch of games loaded in Steam according to this video, but getting no sound when the games actually run. The games on the Steam storefront have audio when you run a game preview video. Emulation Station also makes noises when you toggle through games and such. Did I do something wrong on the install? I am very new, and trying to get this going for my daughter who is itching for some Pokemon Stadium action with sound.
can we use xbox(input) controller on windows 11 emudeck steam?
Could you explain how you made it auto-boot into steam? (27:46)
Cloud saves between my Deck and my Windows PC is a killer feature for me.
What happens if you already have emulators installed before starting the setup for Emudeck? Will it install them a 2nd time?
I've just tried Playnite and it's almost perfect for handhelds. My ROG Ally feels more like a gaming hand held device now. I also like the Steam Big Picture but that's no surprise. Armoury Crate isn't that great to use, it's only feature to me is that it's faster to use because of that designated button on the Ally.
Hi, i can't understand how the EmuDeck works with Retroarch. Both work as an emulator aggregator how they don't get in conflict. In my PC i have set retrorch with all my games, bios , thumbnails and settings of the emulators. how can add to emudeck reatroarch with all my settings. Because i saw in the video that emudeck need a specific directory where you put roms and bios.
How do I turn the text rom file into what it needs to be to into the Bios file?
Does Batocera work on the ally? Might be worth testing out to see if you get better power to battery ratio considering you dont have windows running.
Also why hasnt anyone tried running Steam OS on the ally?
As long as EmuDeck continues to support the Asus ROG Ally Ill keep supporting it. You have my Patreon.
What do i do if i have most those emulators already on my pc? Do I delete them and reinstall w emudeck ?
Russ I have two days to decide whether or not to return my Asus ROG ally to best buy. I live the form factor, power and open abilities for multiple game sites without work around. However it often feels Jenky in that things get stuck alit (in and out of emulator), or just not responding and lack of cohesion that the steam deck now has. I'm super excited to complete this guide. Do you think this unit will ultimately work as efficiently as the steam deck but with more power or should I return and just wait for a steam deck successor? Appreciate all your hard work
Hi, I think that things will improve on the ROG Ally, but it will likely never have that same seamless "console-like" experience of the Steam Deck and SteamOS, just by virtue of being a Windows machine. There are ways to hide it, like when using EmuDeck and launching directly into Steam Big Picture mode, but it's not quite the same as having a solid dedicated OS like SteamOS.
I would suggest format windows do a clean install i did that to mine day one and it ran better then out of the box but do a legit format not the recovery cloud from the asus bios hope that helps for u
Super video, merci beaucoup! Juste je voulais ajouter la négation et interrogation restrictive, qui va nier une seule partie de la phrase (pour la négation) et qui va donner des réponses optionnelles mais restreintes (pour l’interrogation: tu viens chez moi ou chez toi?
cool that steam rom manager is its own tool so it can be used with a more customized emulator setup as well
Awesome 😊
could it be possible to do the same guide with Retrobat?
What hand held emulator has frogger 2 for ps1 pre uploaded and ready to play. Thank you for your help
Dang game mode will be a game changer for windows handhelds!
This video single-handedly allowed me to deeply reconnect with my childhood
should you do this on the rog ally or on your PC and added to a sd card?
From within a game on the rog ally (launching via steam) what key do I press to get out of the game (ie pause/save state the game) and drop back to steam?
Hey Russ, follow this video step by step but when I do the parsing there are no emulators coming up to parse. =( What have I done wrong? Installation shows they were installed
How do you get the controller to work for the roms?
Having problems to install Emudeck on Ally with 2TB SSD. After I select Custom Mode in Emudeck and it goes to the next step to (Select Drive Option) and it is frozen showing white screen. Tried this multiple times without any luck. Any help is greatly appreciated
Can you change resolutions for emulators later on the Ally I didn’t get that prompt
Help please! I downloaded the file, sign up for patreon, however I’m stuck when opening the file, it gives me 3 choices to open it, media player, notes and can’t pass there, haven’t owned a windows device in at least 20 years, can’t figure it out please help.
Once installed on the device, will the software continue to work after canceling the Patreon subscription?
I recently got an Ally and wonder what are your thoughts about Launchbox/Bigbox compared to EmuDeck?
Retrobat is available right now and is very good too.
Emulation station de crashes on load, so does Pegasus when I launch from steam. I'm using WIndows 11. Am I missing something?
I watched your Win Max 2 review video and ended up buying one. I'm very happy with it, but I can't figure out how to install Emudeck on it. I tried to using this video, but I'm lost. I don't understand the relationship between Emudeck + Emulationstation + Steam rom manager. Apparently everything runs from Steam, but I'm unable to get Steam to recognize the Win Max 2 built in controller. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
I have it on my Ally using the Ally install option but didn't get the resolution option.
Also do not have desktop shortcuts for the emulators themselves and not under Windows apps.
I had to find the exe and create shortcuts / pin to start.
Anyone else had issues?
They need to have all the parsers available in the app. I had to create a shortcut for a non-steam program then edit the starting and target path for so I could play Virtual Boy ROMs in game mode. Slightly long-winded for only 4 games and no auto-scraping images -___- Same goes for the cores if I'm not mistaken but I didn't bother looking into that as the ones available were fine.
Also, the layout for Steam Rom Manager sucks. Each type of image should display all of them at once like the SteamGridDB plugin for Decky Loader. It's just a pain having to click through each image at a snail's pace.
Just waiting on the RP3 metal case video, hope there's no problems as mines on the way lol
Do you have a tutorial guide on adding emulators that not included in Emudeck such as Model 2,Supermodel 3 and teknoparrot emulators
When I click “Launch” on Steam ROM Manager, nothing happens. It shows a loading bar that cycles twice, then on the 3rd try seams to crash. Don’t know what to do next. I’m using an ROG Ally and have followed all instructions up until this point.
If I've already set up launch box is there any real benefits to switching to this?
Can I do this directly via the ROG Ally? Download the emudeck in ROG Ally & install it on a sd card?
Ok, I must have missed this video. First of all, Syncing saves/Save states, this is a dream come true. I hope it's standardized. I have so many devices that I can emulate on, that my saves are different on each device, and it requires copying over files to another machine to sync them. I have like 10 devices that I emulate on, and I find that a few devices, I don't even touch anymore because of this problem. By limiting the devices, I use, it's less I have to deal with this.
Just silly question here, as it looks very familiar (SteamDeck owner), I want this on my Windows Gaming PC, Can you set Emulation Station to show an icon on the desktop so I can just kick it off there and not go into steam every time I want to play?
Hello, I just got a asus rog ally. I’m just starting to setup emudeck. The question is am I downloading directly on the device or on my pc first?
How do you update switch roms since we can’t access the individual Yuzu application?
So the Steam input options aren't required?
When I try this method and try to play yuzu, I get the following error message and I can't figure it out "The BKTR subsection entry is not located". Anyone have any suggestions? thanks
I have a problem, it says GIT failed to install and needed some dependencies, any1 could point me to the right direction?
I cant find that win11 .exe 😢
Did they Change it???
I found another File, but that went to "git" which i did not get, i am new into all this.. can U pls advice?
how did you get xemu on it? im struggling to figure it out on my ally
On my ROG Ally, I’m stuck on the “Select your ROM Directory” page. I thought it used internal hard drive 😑
What should I do?
I am using emudeck for my Roy Ally unfortunately RPC3 games are listed, but cannot run within emulationStation. I do however am able to run directly from RPCS3
Is this a really old setup guide or something, cause I dont see any of this stuff when trying to install this on my Rog Ally. I got to a screen that says manage your emulators and there is no way to continue or get past it
Hello, If i join the patreon for a month, does that mean i can only use and update the emudeck for a month?
Sorry for the stupid quest but I'm new to this whole thing. Where did you download the games from?
How long does it take to update WinGet? I'm stuck right at the beginning of the install.
I'm using emulation station DE on my rog ally but i get 0 cover art. How do I add it?
I do not see the Preview and then Parse button at 17:43. My games won't show up in Steam...I am using the Rog Ally.
is it portable? If I format my pc do I have to reconfigure everything?
You should have a section about the hotkeys for windows as you did for steam deck