Steam Deck (handheld from Valve) - shipping is 4-8 days from NL to UK

[Lorfarius]

1 hour ago, ph0rce said:

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?

 

Try different BIOS files.

[ph0rce]

44 minutes ago, Lorfarius said:

 

Try different BIOS files.

Tried that, that’s not it. 
 

I’m sure it’s most likely something I’ve done ( or not done ) as opposed to bad files / bad game. 
 

😠

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

@ph0rce Go into tools on emudeck, then steam rom manager. Within SRM, tick the duckstation box on the left, then at the top click preview, then generate app list, then click save in the middle window when all art is loaded and the game shows up and it'll say imported to steam or something in tiny text at the bottom of the screen, then go back into game mode and try again.

[bradigor]

Portable PGR4 is a little bit closer than it was a few days ago.

 

[Gotters]

PGR4 - how so ? That 360 stuff will have the fans exploding on an emulator even if technically it works ?

 

I picked up the remaster of Saints Row 3 for 95% off at cd keys, shows unsupported but runs at 50-60fps on medium settings. What a nuts intro, never played a saints row before. 
 

After a bit of initial fan puff to compile shaders Resogun via PS3 emu is pretty good and settled down nicely. Highish battery usage but very playble and rock solid framerate

[Ry]

1 hour ago, bradigor said:

Portable PGR4 is a little bit closer than it was a few days ago.

 

 

Stop giving me hope. 

[ph0rce]

So the issue it seems is down to regions, I had put ( what I assume ) all three bios files ( JAP, NTSC, PAL ) in the folder & then tried a PAL game, which didn’t work. 
 

Then, just on the off chance, I tried a NTSC version of the same release & it works fine. 
 

Did I miss something about region switching; are you only allowed one bios per console at a time or should it auto select?

[simms]

I assumed it would just automatically work.  Maybe a bad dump of the PAL version?  Maybe try another PAL game.

[BubbleFish]

Good bargain at CDKeys. For £13.49 you get all three Darksiders games, including the original remaster and the dlc from the third game. 
 

All three run at 60fps with all settings on very high/ ultra.

 

You'll also find Darksiders Genesis for under £5. Little more demanding but I’m still getting 55/60 fps with everything on very high.

[Stanley]

23 hours ago, bradigor said:

It's brilliant. Just in the middle of setting up a cargo sea crossing linking train lines to move tools.

Is it easy to get into? I have no experience with these types of sim building games previously.

[bradigor]

5 minutes ago, Stanley said:

Is it easy to get into? I have no experience with these types of sim building games previously.

 

Yeah just do the campaign and it'll guide you through

[Stanley]

1 minute ago, bradigor said:

 

Yeah just do the campaign and it'll guide you through

Ooh, I like the look of it, especially for £10.85 on shopto right now. Is it quite chilled? 

[bradigor]

1 minute ago, Stanley said:

Ooh, I like the look of it, especially for £10.85 on shopto right now. Is it quite chilled? 

 

Very much so. The odd stressful moment but few and far between

[Stanley]

19 minutes ago, bradigor said:

 

Very much so. The odd stressful moment but few and far between

Thank you, just bought it 

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

So Xenia then. Red Dead Redemption is fully working but frames are awful (10 - 20 with occasional peaks up to 30) but it looks amazing and shows a lot of promise.

 

Forza Horizon got me all excited cos the opening and intro are fine, but as soon as it cuts to in game, the screen is black with only the UI visible.

 

Lost Odyssey is flawless though. Put an hour or so into it and it looks and runs great. Full charge says 2hrs of battery life too, so less power hungry than rpcs3.

 

Once a standalone Linux version becomes available this could be amazing for deck owners. Fingers crossed and that.

 

 

 

 

[simms]

9 hours ago, Opinionated Ham Scarecrow said:

So Xenia then. Red Dead Redemption is fully working but frames are awful (10 - 20 with occasional peaks up to 30) but it looks amazing and shows a lot of promise.

 

This is outside the realms of Steamdeck but I’m currently on a playthrough of Red Dead Redemption on my desktop PC (10700k and 2070s) with Xenia running at a solid 60fps using a 60fps mod.  It looks and runs wonderfully for a 13 year old game.

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

1 hour ago, simms said:

This is outside the realms of Steamdeck but I’m currently on a playthrough of Red Dead Redemption on my desktop PC (10700k and 2070s) with Xenia running at a solid 60fps using a 60fps mod.  It looks and runs wonderfully for a 13 year old game.

Would it be possible for you to send me over some info or instructions on how to do this please:) 

[simms]

30 minutes ago, Opinionated Ham Scarecrow said:

Would it be possible for you to send me over some info or instructions on how to do this please:) 

 

You have to use Xenia Canary version to unlock 60fps

 

Download Xenia Canary https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/wiki/Quickstart (go to the Where do I download Xenia)

 

Get the patch from here and follow the instructions (once the patches has been downloaded and unzipped you have to go into the config file set certain values to true or false) :

 

https://github.com/xenia-canary/game-patches

 

 

[Siri]

One step closer to having a portable version of my favourite kusoge white whale, Operation Darkness.

 

[Gotters]

I take it there is some news for 360 Steam Deck emulation - anybody care to expand on that as if I look for xenia news not seeing anything very exciting

[Siri]

16 minutes ago, Gotters said:

I take it there is some news for 360 Steam Deck emulation - anybody care to expand on that as if I look for xenia news not seeing anything very exciting

 

Long story short - Xenia's canary branch had some Vulkan renderer updates that makes more commercial games play nicely in its currently experimental state.

 

It's still primarily a DX12-only emulator until the Vulkan renderer is fully featured, but it's gone from 'I hope you like Goldeneye' to 'hey Lost Odyssey is basically full speed even when you double the framerate of the original version via a patch'.

[moosegrinder]

Hopefully be taking delivery of one of these this week all being well. I'm looking forward to completely ignoring all emulation and fucking about and just playing the games that have been installed on my PC but unplayed for years because I fucking hate gaming at my PC. Inscryption runs well, aye?

[Siri]

5 minutes ago, moosegrinder said:

Hopefully be taking delivery of one of these this week all being well. I'm looking forward to completely ignoring all emulation and fucking about and just playing the games that have been installed on my PC but unplayed for years because I fucking hate gaming at my PC. Inscryption runs well, aye?

 

Should do. I haven't played since Kaycee's Mod got released, but I can have a quick peek this evening as I'm free from the clutches of Diablo IV.

 

And, yeah, ignore emulation if you can unless you really want to play one specific thing at a time. Choice paralysis is bad enough with the average Steam Library anyway.

 

Of course, I say that after spending the weekend playing something that's not on Steam.

[bradigor]

One of us 

One of us 

One of us

 

[Siri]

I think in addition to trying Inscryption this evening, I'm going to start the long, arduous journey of starting up every game that I've got installed on my Steam Deck at least once, to prepare for a few long haul flights in a month and a half.

 

The usual suspects are already good to go, I just need to get everything else ready before I promptly ignore them and play Tetris for 18 hours

[Gotters]

Initial view playing Nex Machina on this using the default settings was it's still a great game but you'd be lucky to get an hour of battery playing it, and the fans were working hard.

 

Sticking the default settings to low though and it's playing in the high 50s frame rate, hardly got the fans working at all and battery is much better. With the small screen and vibrant deck settings it still really pops and looks good even on low, so it's a far better way to go.

 

The game remains brilliant, as does Resogun via PS3 emu (this again calmed down on battery once I think the emu had done it's initial thing with shaders).

[deerokus]

Why did I start playing House Flipper on this? It's dangerously and inexplicably addictive.

[Stanley]

9 minutes ago, deerokus said:

Why did I start playing House Flipper on this? It's dangerously and inexplicably addictive.

The name alone puts me off, mainly because a colleague of mine keeps going on about ‘house flipping’ and other money making schemes he’s into. 
 

What do you do in the game, just buy houses and sell them? 

[deerokus]

14 minutes ago, Stanley said:

The name alone puts me off, mainly because a colleague of mine keeps going on about ‘house flipping’ and other money making schemes he’s into. 
 

What do you do in the game, just buy houses and sell them? 

There are a few things you can do. One is clean them up and renovate them then sell them for profit. Knocking through walls, building new ones, designing the rooms and choosing furniture etc. Homes Under The Hammer, the game. But there are also missions and jobs where someone will ask you to come and replace their radiators or convert their garage into a sauna or something. These are the more structured parts of the game, the actual house flipping is very open-ended. I also bought it in a bundle with dlc which adds stuff like pets and gardening.

 

Plays like powerwash simulator crossed with the building and interior decorating parts of the Sims. I think it's on gamepass, I certainly played it on Xbox before but the pc version is better.

 

And I don't understand why it's so addictive. The other day I was doing housework in the game instead of my own actual housework.

 

I suppose a game like this channels the sheer fantasy of ever owning a house.

[ph0rce]

Hehe, just dug out an old PS4 controller & paired it with my deck, then beat the first boss on Super Mario World, so good.

 

It's been years since I've played it on the SNES ( as it's at my sister's house ) but is it correct that I can only save at specific points ( bosses, blocks, etc ) or am I missing an option to save manually?

 

It's nice the way that the deck switches the button inputs to map to the controller buttons, very clever.