lazorne

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Bazzite, Aurora, Proxmox and Ubuntu Server.

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The marketing was really weird. I tought it also was a Zelda / God of War heavy metal game. They showed tons of trailers with the first boss but little after that. But the entire game was an RTS game and I did complete but... But was a little disappointed.

Lazorne @lemmy.zip 9mo ago

We hope to one day in the far far future implement ares as well. As we know some people don't like RetroArch.

But we rather focus on new systems first before adding alternatives.

All we need is more developers xD

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Lazorne @lemmy.zip 9mo ago

RetroDECK does not delete any save states, they should all be there under retrodeck/states/

There where some bugs in RetroArch we have addressed in 0.9.1b that might have caused the menu option to disappear in RetroArch.

How ever save states are not a safe long term saving method as cores or emulators updates they might break compability with old states.

Always use in-game saves as your default saving method and states as temporary backups.

Lazorne @lemmy.zip 1y ago

It's a creative commons font https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1844233/pixel-sans-13

Lazorne @lemmy.zip 1y ago

You can follow the effort here to squish the bug once and for all.

If you got the issue and want to send your logs etc check the comment a bit down

https://github.com/RetroDECK/RetroDECK/issues/862

Lazorne @lemmy.zip 1y ago

We will release 0.8.4b

As 0.8.3b did not fix the issue for all users we will do a minor patch of 0.8.4b that should move the folders correctly to retrodeck/ES-DE/ and force set the correct path in ES_Config.

The 0.8.0b branch is still on the old manifest and it is a bit unwieldy to debug and we are making changes to our testing routines and the tester user program.

In some more positive news for @everyone. As soon as we got this fixed we will post our blogpost for August detailing some of the work we have done during the summertime (the new manifest).

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Lazorne @lemmy.zip 1y ago

There is https://github.com/ShadowBlip/OpenGamepadUI/

As well.

RetroDECK uses ES-DE but don't support native games yet, so pure ES-DE is better for this.

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Lazorne @lemmy.zip 1y ago

How about Gitea?

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Lazorne @lemmy.zip 1y ago

I agree, mistakes and vulnerabilites happen in all software commercial and open. Now I can only speak for RetroDECK but, we also make mistakes and need to do minor patches to fix those.

I think Jorge and the team handled it as you should: Be transparent, inform on all channels they can and learn from your mistakes.

Me personally have full confidence in them.

Those that try to hide or shift blame of mistakes are a bigger red flag in my book.

Lazorne @lemmy.zip 1y ago

Jorge, Kyle and the others over at ublue is doing a great job with their Fedora spins.

I run Bazzite on all my computers and if you got a full AMD system you can even get full gamemode running by installing the deck image. This in turn give you the best controller experience for games, as Desktop Steam got several issues with Steam Input valve have not fixed yet.

But not all credit should go to them for this but also ChimeraOS team, Nobara and others that are constantly working on an improved gaming experience on Linux.

When developing RetroDECK Steam Input profiles I mainly use the Steam Deck with SteamOS and Bazzite on my desktop to test them.

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Lazorne @lemmy.zip 2y ago

It is the version that ships with RetroArch so it got all the features of that.

But it is based on an older version of Citra so there no hotkey support and the performance is not as good.

But it is also the only version we can ship.

The Ponzu feature can be used to load legacy versions of removed emulators without support.

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Lazorne @lemmy.zip 2y ago

We have pressed the publish button on Flathub (Discover) so it should show up within a few hours :)

Lazorne @lemmy.zip 2y ago

Fubarberry

RetroDECK is a flatpak application that builds in a variety of emulators and systems into one app you can download from flathub.

We are also working on the "Add to Steam" function. You can read more about it in the links posted in other replies in this thread :)

Lazorne @lemmy.zip 2y ago

RetroDECK CM Here:

First Question:

When I plug a controller in and try to play something with Dolphin, many times I have to go and swap the controller in Dolphin’s gamepad setup, otherwise it doesn’t see the controller.

A: We recommend using the Steam Input interface to leverage order switching, look here:

Change Controller Order

We are also working on better external controller support with a variety of hotkey for the next big update 0.8b.

You can even download and test them right now (check the comments for latest ZIP):

Issue 573

They are subject to rapid change as I'm rethinking several aspects of them, until their first version in 0.8b.

I'm also trying to utilize some features unique features for certain controllers more.

For example right now:

DualSense and DualShock 4 can use their touchpad for as cursor movement for: Wiimote pointer, Lightgun aim and shoot, General mouse for like point and click SCUMMVM games.
The Steam Controller can do the same as above but... has back buttons L4 and R4 so I'm using R4 as a mode switcher to change the right circular touchpad into various forms between mousemode and joystick mode. I'm also experimenting with arcade trackball mode for it for games like Centipede.

Second Question:

Someone else mentioned that it’s possible to use emudeck to launch games directly from steam. Is this possible with retrodeck, and if not, are you planning to implement the ability to do something like that?

A: Yes, we are working on it and have it semi working in our cooker (development builds).

For more information what we are working on check out:

What we are working on

But also the

The RetroDECK Blog

Other Questions check the following links:

Lazorne @lemmy.zip 2y ago

Now as the RetroDECK CM another benefit is it also make it rather easy to move the important data between installations or even take backups.

If you take RetroDECK for example all you need to do move/copy over to a new installation is:

Move/Copy the RetroDECK datafolder that is either in home/sd-card/external drive/(other place where you put it) to where you want it on the new device.
Re-install RetroDECK from flathub on the new device.
During initial setup point to the location where you put the RetroDECK folder.

That is it.

All your roms, saves, scraped data and everything has been moved.

I personally run RetroDECK on my Steam Deck and both my Linux Laptop, Linux Desktop and more in my home.