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Just now, Poet said:

The resolve was weak. Gonna have to do some work either later or Sunday night ready for Monday... stupid lovely machine.

Glad you’re enjoying it so far. My experience with it is that it just gets better the more you use it and gain an understanding of how you like to run things, and at what settings etc. It really is the best place to play games right now imo :)

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I’ve finally picked up a dock and my 8bitdo controller is having one of those days, which will no doubt end up with it taking a flight shortly…

 

Ive a drawer full of PS4, Xbox controllers, will they be any good to me? If not, what is the go to controller of our hive mind?

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16 minutes ago, ontwofronts said:

I’ve finally picked up a dock and my 8bitdo controller is having one of those days, which will no doubt end up with it taking a flight shortly…

 

Ive a drawer full of PS4, Xbox controllers, will they be any good to me? If not, what is the go to controller of our hive mind?

 

I use a PS4 controller, it works great for me.

 

Regarding the 8bitdo controller though, have you tried the different modes? Starting it up while holding the button for xinput mode usually does it for me (on the SN30 Pro, it's start and either X or Y, can't remember which).

 

I also had a retrobit Saturn pad that freaks out with anything other than xinput, from testing. And that's wired.

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My dock arrived yesterday, after I ordered it on Monday so that was pretty quick delivery really.

 

It's wonderful! I've got it set up with the lounge TV, and it's finally the mini gaming PC I've always wanted. It's also opened the door to Game Pass streaming in the lounge, not to mention Steam Home Streaming. :D

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22 hours ago, ph0rce said:

Holy shit, it's enormous!

The modern day Atari Lynx with Mega Fans is not to be underestimated :D

 

In other news I've been enjoying mine which turned up this week.

 

See you by the plug sockets, [consolevania voice] Team!

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I still can’t get over how massive it is, I think I’d just assumed that it would be Switch sized & then never paid any attention to the dimensions. 
 

Played a couple of games of Vampire Survivors last night & then spent a torturous 20 minutes trying to follow a guide to get Game Pass working, which was successful but I had to type quite a lot of it without actually being able to see the input fields!

 

Cloud Streaming is amazing though, played some Fortnite in bed last night with no discernible lag. Having to get used to the different button layout was the biggest challenge but that’ll get easier. 
 

Did the tutorial on the forklift game this morning, after a couple of more games of Fortnite. Controlling the forklift truck was great, can see that being a really nice little game to dip in & out of. 
 

Only thing so far that’s a little worrying is that it frequently loses connection the Steam servers or it can’t connect to the internet but then it sorts itself out. My wifi seems fine in general, all my consoles are wireless, I get 4K / UHD streams & I was actually sat next to the router when it was doing it so I’ve no idea what’s wrong with it. 
 

Has anyone else had issues, or got any suggestions if there are settings I can change, etc?

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Can anyone recommend a city building game that works on deck with normal controller support (ie dont have to use trackpad, no mouse cursor)

 

Don't want anything too complicated and it doesn't have to be cities spicifically. Been playing Sim City on the SNES and that seems my only option at the moment. 

 

Also not Pocket City, although that game is great I played it to death on mobile. The sequel coming soon does look very ambitious. 

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Xenia's coming along:omg:

 

As for controller-supported city builders, here's a list. If I was going to try one, It would be either Kingdoms and Castles or Tropico, but I'm not really one for the genre. I usually gravitate towards even simpler games than SNES Sim City, like Dorfromantik and Islanders.

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1 hour ago, Ry said:

Can anyone recommend a city building game that works on deck with normal controller support (ie dont have to use trackpad, no mouse cursor)

 

Don't want anything too complicated and it doesn't have to be cities spicifically. Been playing Sim City on the SNES and that seems my only option at the moment. 

 

Also not Pocket City, although that game is great I played it to death on mobile. The sequel coming soon does look very ambitious. 


Not city building but scratches a similar itch - I’ve been playing Transport Fever 2 since @bradigorrecommended it in here and it’s fantastic. A really solid campaign and fantastic controls that don’t use cursors etc. 

 

Making steady progress through the campaign. Lord save me when I play a more Freeform map - I don’t think much of my campaign transport has been profitable so far!

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41 minutes ago, StephenM said:


Not city building but scratches a similar itch - I’ve been playing Transport Fever 2 since @bradigorrecommended it in here and it’s fantastic. A really solid campaign and fantastic controls that don’t use cursors etc. 

 

Making steady progress through the campaign. Lord save me when I play a more Freeform map - I don’t think much of my campaign transport has been profitable so far!

 

Never played a transport game and hate road management in old city Sims lol.

 

Will give it a look though. How does it run on deck? Is there a demo?

 

 

Edit - oh it's only £10.85 over at shop to compared to £33.85 on steam. Might as well take the punt. 

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52 minutes ago, Ry said:

 

Never played a transport game and hate road management in old city Sims lol.

 

Will give it a look though. How does it run on deck? Is there a demo?

 

 

Edit - oh it's only £10.85 over at shop to compared to £33.85 on steam. Might as well take the punt. 


Leaving this thread forever so I never know if you hate it. 

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I was trying out a bunch of stuff with the dock yesterday, and found out some weird stuff about home streaming on the Deck.

 

I was getting horrendous performance to start with, and couldn't figure out what was causing it. A post on the Steam forum suggested turning off hardware decoding on the Deck, which massively improved things (bizarrely), but there was still a slight, but frequent stutter to contend with. 

 

Then I switched to desktop mode and streaming became flawless, even with hardware decoding back on.

 

So use desktop mode for home streaming I guess!

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2 hours ago, Opinionated Ham Scarecrow said:

 

Well I guess this is what I'm doing now with my morning coffee.

 

FYI: This will only work with the very latest Xenia Canary, as it's brought a lot of Vulkan Changes that's made some games like this possible now (and RDR1, but that needs more parts implemented to get a framerate over 10-20fps) - I'm not sure if Emudeck is using that yet, so you might have to fuck around with it.

 

Also, Lost Odyssey is 30fps by default, so to get the 60/40hz stuff you'll need a patch for the game itself.

 

EDIT: here's a guide with a link to the emulator:

 

 

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Installed Emudeck to my SD card, did the normal installation & added the app to Steam. 
 

Put the three bios files for the PlayStation into the root of the bios folder & they are now recognised by Emudeck. 
 

Put a game into the root of the ‘psx’ folder, which appears in Emudeck when I launch it but when I try to run the game, it flashes a file window briefly & then goes back to Emudeck. 
 

what have I missed?

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47 minutes ago, Siri said:

 

FYI: This will only work with the very latest Xenia Canary, as it's brought a lot of Vulkan Changes that's made some games like this possible now (and RDR1, but that needs more parts implemented to get a framerate over 10-20fps) - I'm not sure if Emudeck is using that yet, so you might have to fuck around with it.

 

Also, Lost Odyssey is 30fps by default, so to get the 60/40hz stuff you'll need a patch for the game itself.

 

EDIT: here's a guide with a link to the emulator:

 

 

 Cheers man. I stumbled upon the canary thing when I spotted my extracted folder was different to the one in the instructions I was following, but this is a great help!

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