Yeah, I was considering just letting my old video stand (it gets MAD hits) but with all the changes and .. omissions ... along with this technique that would have saved my own ass a couple of times? I felt I NEEDED to redo it.

I'm very curious to know if this can be done using the same process if we already went through this installation months ago?

I would recommend the EmuDeck "cheat sheet" (easy find in a google search) along with RetroArch's Wiki on bios files. These will tell you exactly what files are needed - and if there is a deviation location from "Emulation/bios" folder. There is a particular "archive" site that claims to be about preservation but is really the biggest piracy site in the world. Anything "piracy" related to emulation will be found there.

Unless you're an extensive user of Steam ROM manager? I wouldn't worry about the upgrade. This video has you 99% covered. If you're one of those people that have like 300 steam items injected? You're going to have to remove them all and put them all back.

@@Darkuni I might be one of them people 😂

@@senorsombrero Yeah, seems like the SRM user took the biggest hit with this new upgrade. So glad I'm not a user of it. I like the idea, but I'm not a "casual emulator guy".

Bro, this video was very helpful!!! Love the additional tricks you added in. It’s going to save a lot of time!

@@thewalkingdino So glad you found it useful!

I'm pleased it helped you.

Thanks!

PS2 is just like that. Once you hit that generation, performance is typically on a "game by game" basis. :(

Thank you for the request.

Not sure it warrants a video. Move the emulation folder to a new location, then change the EmuVirtual link to match that new location.

@@Darkuni Okay, thank you. I really appreciate the response. I guess I still have one more question... How do you change the link? I'm assuming left click and through properties...?

Yeah, I haven't found an "effective" way of updating an existing implementation easily. I have some ideas. Probably on tap for the weekend project.

Did you put it on the desktop? It won't run anywhere else. There is also the possibility you said "OPEN" instead of "EXECUTE" and that will open it in a text editor. You'll have to reset that behavior if you did.

Nevermind, watched 10 more seconds and saw the command pop up hahaha my bad

@@kellendavis9885 :) Was about to say .. you SURE you watched the video :P Glad you saw it.

That's a bold statement to make :) We all start off making similar promises - then? Well, you know. If you're going to never ever EVER change where EmuDeck is going to be installed, and NEVER want to use multiple storage devices for EmuDeck support files? Choose internal. But this is a good exercise if nothing else - and future proofs you with really no downside - other than a few minutes of your time.

Sounds good. I have various devices for various things, and I'm getting a Steam Deck from my sister and I'm solely using it for portable emulation and am 100% positive the internal space is sufficient. I just dont fully understand what a Symlink does so i am not sure if there's a point to making one if I set up with internal storage. I'm not new to emulation but I'm a complete noob with both Steamdeck and Linux lol so excuse my noob questions 😅

​@@Velocifaptor92 A symlink is a "fake folder" that links somewhere else. So you can create a symlink folder (let's call it EmuVirtual) that points to some folder on your current SD card (let's say it is named "Retro Roms". Now let's say you want to have another SD card for new consoles like PS3. That card will have a different name (Windows uses drive letters, Linux uses mount paths). So you put the new card in, with the right folders and everything but Emudeck is completely broken. This is because all the paths you set up (without a symlink) no longer are there ... what used to be run/media/desk/retroroms ... is now run/media/deck/ps3games ... nothing works. With the symlink? You just point the symlink to the new card and BOOM ... everything continues to work as it should. EmuDeck expects you to forever and ever use the exact same path - but that doesn't always work out.

@@Darkuni That clears up so much. Thank you!!

So last question, and I hope to stop pestering you! What am I doing when I want to use a second SD card? Am I having to change anything about the symlink if the new SD card has a different mount path. Im completely new to the steam os, so im sure once i fiddle with itll start to click. I'm sure this is way more simple than I'm making it. Im setting it all up tomorrow, so I'm excited, yet a little cautious. Want it to be right the first time 😅

The "hard" part of emulation is illegal. That's why none of us cover it. I've already been kicked for this... Others have too ... Emulation setup isn't hard. Piracy can be. Feel free to drop by our discord. Many of us there can help you where we can't help here...

I was in the same boat as you. If you need help let me know

This video is not beginner friendly

​@Mike-sp7zv phew, glad I'm not the only one. I took my lenovo go back bcus I couldn't get my emudeck to work. I tried for 10 days.

​@@Darkuniwhat's the discord?

I would use gaming mode....

Can you give me an example? I hadn't noticed this change ...?

Can you drop by the discord tomorrow? Someone else reported this and I would like to get to the bottom of it.

That's strange. The file you download should disappear after EmuDeck installs.

Use Steam Rom Manager or Decky Loader's SteamGridDB plugin. You could set it yourself, if you like. I have videos on all of these.

Wouldn't that be better on PC? Or is that one of those "delisted" ones?

For those in the same boat getting the " I don't do emulation" response....ok yth u buy a steamdeck that's what it's for...anyway Go ahead and uninstall and then reinstall emudeck. Then after that, do the same with emulation station. Everything went back to normal for ME after that. Good luck.

@@georgecalderon6024 Gonna say .. last I looked, this video was still current. Glad you got it worked out.

Did you remove the injected item, and inject it fresh? SHOULD work.

​@@Darkunirestarting everything from scratch seems to have fixed it. I think I accidentally clicked "launch games from steam" instead of "launch games from Emulation Station or Pegasus".

@@exeledusprince9165 Glad you're ok!

The number is issued to any device that is mounted that doesn't have a name. Most people do not name their SD cards; so the system assigns it a unique, long winded ID. If you put a different card in, it would have a different name (or a number).

The symlink should be pointed at HOME. Within HOME, the EMULATION folder and its subfolders will be created. When I refresh this video, I'll include a section for internal users as well. Drop into our Discord and we can better help you.

@@Darkuni thanks for the quick reply, and i will be joining the discord!

No, the BIOS files all go in the ROOT of Emulation/bios ... there are a few RARE exceptions, but as a rule? Put all bios files in the ROOT, not in a system named folder. Most "bios packs" you obtain online aren't very clean. I wouldn't recommend using them - just take what you NEED from them. Unfortunately, mine is messy because I pulled the bios files from my Anbernic handheld boot card - not the way I should have done it.

Depends on the game. Some games you may have to do some controller monkeying. For retroarch (most of the early systems) it's hold down view and tap menu.

@@Darkuni Thanks for your help and reply😊🙏🏻🤝

Not 100% sure the question here. Drop by our Discord and join #steam-deck and throw some more details in there.,..

Does Emulation Station see your games?

Please join our discord and let's work it out there.

Solution for myself was uninstalling/reinstalled Emulation Station. Oddly, works now.

There's nobody we haven't been able to fix. If you are of the mind, join our discord and let us help.

It definitely sounds like there's something wrong on your deck's end. I would probably reimage your deck. Just to be sure. If you continue to have crashes? Then I would reach out to Valve and get a ticket opened. Because that is not normal behavior.

@@Darkuni Thanks for the tip! I will take a look at your video from last week on re-imaging then!

I've never found it to work "right" in Desktop mode. Not sure why. The controls are always borked.

@@Darkuni Thanks for clarifying! :D I found a bit of a workaround (so far as anything launched via RetroArch is concerned at least), if you're running an emulator and click both joysticks in, it'll bring up the RetroArch menu, go to Quick Settings, then Controls, then the first controller option and from there you can reconfigure the button inputs for that particular emulator. Still haven't found a workaround for the other emulators like Cemu and Dolphin though..!

Depends on the emulator in question. N64 and anything PS1 and earlier should be click in both analog sticks (R3 + L3)

Not sure how to direct you. Did you reset the emulator's config after re-enabling it?

If you followed this video, I discourage the use of SRM at all and use ESDE as the central hub of launching emulation titles. You may reach out to the SRM developer and see if you have recourse. Then? Never use it again other than to inject ESDE :D

​​​@@Darkuniyes, I think I made a mistake. I only want to have the Emulation Station Icon in my Steam Libary to start all my roms. I will try to delete it and try it again. :(

@@Vegan_Lifting you probably missed the part where I said turn off ALL parsers EXCEPT ESDE.

@@Darkuni Yes! I thought I need all to play the games. And English is not my mother language.

@@Darkuni I can't get it undone. I have now only selected the simulation station in the Roms software. But the thousand games remain under “non-game games”.

Oh, I'm not handling Nintendo's encrypted IP on this channel. That's just asking for trouble. You still have to do the "support stuff" for these emus.

I have a reset video ...

This is something new to me. I haven't seen this. My guess is that one of your games has an odd filename and it is blowing up ES DE. Check ES DE's log file for any clues as to what is crashing it.

I don't use Dolphin much, but Emulation Station has its own per-emulator based input settings. If you want to depart from them, you're going to need to create your own input switching (someday I might do a video on that) or you're going to need to inject the game into Steam and use Steam Input from there. Hope that makes sense.

Because you didn't set it up with my video :) I use tricks and tips to protect the install.

Easy if you used the symlink solution I showed here. If not? You're likely going to have to reinstall EmuDeck after you change cards because the mount point to that card in Linux will be different than the old card and EmuDeck's hard coded values will break. If you used the symlink, replace the card, remake the symlink and you're DONE. The exact reason why I recommend doing it this way :D

@Darkuni Hi, I did follow your guide to the letter and included the symlink. 😀 but I'm very new to all of this. If you could give me a few quick bullet points on how to do it, or even better, a video on how to upgrade to a larger sd card using your symlink method would be amazing, As im sure a lot of your less technical followers would appreciate, then I would be very grateful. Thank you for your swift response 👍 🙏

@@chris.9595 Good idea for a video. I do have a video for upgrading your SD card, but not specifically to EmuDeck. Essentially, you're going to get the new card in, delete the EmuDeckVirtual sym link and create it again with the new card as seen at 2:38.

Ok, thanks for your time and I'll have a go at that as soon as my 1tb card arrives 😉👍

Did you change the default emulator?

@@Darkuni Nvm, I got it to work! Had to select it from the Alternative Emu menu 🤦‍♂ Thx!!

@@plagasx8105 Perfect!

To my knowledge, those game graphics were removed due to legal actions taken by Nintendo. You'll have to find them somewhere and add them yourself.

I'm sorry. There is no way to discuss Switch firmware files that isn't blatant piracy. I can't really discuss that here.

I would scrutinize the filenames being used for the game. It isn't really great at "fuzzy searching" you may have to do some manual work there.

@@Darkuni Strange because the problem is only with Xbox. On Windows I use Retrobat. It's Emulation Station too and the Xbox scraping is not perfect but it works good and better than with Emu Deck. I think there are more scraper.

@@Vegan_Lifting here's my guess and I have no data to back this up. The way that scraper works effectively is if there's a hash check of your file that matches the scrapers database. These hashes require a lot of CPU to generate but on small files? It doesn't take very long at all. But with an ISO? A big giant disk image? It's not going to be able to hash check those effectively. So it has to go 100% based on the name. If the name has anything funky in it it will kick it back as unfound or you do a manual search and it will show you three possibilities and 99% of the time one of those possibilities is the one that you want. But it's not going to auto scrape it.

@@Darkuni Thanks for your answer. That could be the reason. Tomorrow I will change the names manually and run the scraper. I think I have all my Xbox games in .xiso.

@@Vegan_Lifting be sure to come back and let me know how it goes. I like to make sure we're getting accurate information out there whenever possible.

If you're using steam rom manager? I can't really help you. Emulation station? I can help you out there.

@@Rubayeth123 ... and you used the settings change as I show in the video? It should be working ...

@@Darkuni which particular setting change are you talking about. I checked and did the part in 19:34 again

At 20:10 I clicked the file and Y ran normally. Emulation station doesnt seem to want to run Y or detect it.

@@Rubayeth123 Crap, I may have clipped that out by accident. You need to change the default emulator. MAIN MENU->OTHER SETTINGS->ALTERNATIVE EMULATORS ... I'm guessing you can figure it out from there.

You COULD ... But I don't typically recommend it. The mounting of internal storage and the internal microSD card are handled quite well by the OS. External drives do seem to occasionally have mounting issues. I would certainly use the virtual symlink for the install as shown. Then you can change easily - even if your external drive takes on a new mount point!

@@Darkuni thank you so much for the speedy reply! So it’s best to just stick in a SD card? Would you recommend putting in a new one just for emulation? Thanks so much again

@@TomLally I'm not the biggest fan of the microSD slot on the Deck. I am not sure it would handle a ton of ins and outs. I would put a nice big SD card (if you can swing a SanDisk Extreme - that's recommended).

@@Darkuni Awhh so do this via a USB C to SD card reader? Or even my Ugreen hub thing? Sorry for all these questions. I want to get this right to the T.

@@TomLally Probably easier to answer your questions in our Discord ...

People ask why I don't like or use SRM (outside of getting Emulation Station installed) - this is why. The app isn't great. It breaks a lot and the experience seems to change from version to version. ALL my emulation is controlled via ES-DE - and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Perhaps a refresh/reinstall?

@@DaGai it's really just remaking the symlink. Super easy.

@@Darkuni Is it like updating the symlink I created previous or do I follow the steps again to create a new symlink? TY for a quick response btw tho!

@@DaGai So, you would prep the new card - copy your Emulation folder to the new card. Put the new card in. Delete the EmuVirtual folder, recreate it using the new card's path. That's it.

@@Darkuni Sounds easy enough. Can I keep the existing emulation folder if I plan on switching back and forth?

@@DaGai mmmmmm.... I THINK so. There are probably challenges in there somewhere. I guess I should do a video and touch on a split install...

The better thing to do is run the ISO Compression tool and it will take all those multi-file games and up them in a SINGLE file - which will actually solve everything. :)

I see. So in the case of Sega Saturn, I would compress the .bin and .cue files into 1 chd? Also, how do I remove things I have put into Steam?

@@nekonokoe22 Not really my forte. I'm not a fan of Steam ROM Manager. I use ESDE for all my emulation. Maybe post on Reddit? Surely there is SOME way to do it ... I don't know how, though.

@@Darkuni Alright. Thank you. I may go with ESDE my self if there is no adding or removing to your Steam library.

@@nekonokoe22 Easier to troubleshoot with failures to launch, too....

When you dump your PS3 games, you elect the format to save them in. Use JBFOLDERS instead of ISO. Should be fine. I do not know of a "converter" to do so.

Yep. The advance guide is gruesome. That's when we dig into XML and JSON files to do stuff :D

@@Darkuni haha git rekt op

Could use a few more details ...

You'll need to look at the esde log file and see what it says isn't working.

@@Darkuni where can I find that? 🥹

@@SaniSmiles_ ~/ES-DE/logs

@@Darkuni ok thanks! I looked but it just seems to tell me where it got the data from, but no error 🤔

@@SaniSmiles_ At this point, I'd drop into our Discord and someone can help you there.

You injected it into Steam?

@@Darkuni im following along in your video and at that point it doesnt do anything. nothing pops up for me.

@@kevinkraftable Can you give me the timestamp of the video where you're experiencing issues?

@@Darkuni about 8:20 8:40 where I’m suppose to restart and I do but it never changes from that screen. Can’t get emulation station to do anything. No pop up. Nothing. And also now starting up Emudeck I keep getting an error message and it won’t go away. I have tried uninstalling emudeck and reinstalling but it’s still giving the same error message. Is there a way to wipe emudeck completely from my deck? Maybe I’m not wiping it completely. Let me find the error message exactly real quick too.

@@Darkuni Enoent: no such file or directory. Get this over and over again.

Did you try the biggest pirate site on the internet? Starts with an A and ends in ORG?

@@Darkuni Yes, but most of them are for Windows and the linux ones have a filename extension .bundle instead of .AppImage. If I rename the file, i'm getting an error when I execute it. I'm new to Linux, so I really don't understand the mechanics of the OS and what's bundle and what's appimage.

@@Darkuni Ok, found it, after 50 different downloads :) Now trying to find Citra :) Thanks

@@Darkuni Ok, I managed to install it and it works manually, but emudeck is always starting ryu*. Can I change the default app somehow?

@@vladimirtalijan You can set it as the default emulator in ES-DE. Outside of that? I don't know.

I haven't seen this before. Where are you installing? Are you 100% sure you have free space?

@@Darkuni wow thank you for the speedy reply :D - my storage says I have 64 GB left and I installed it on to my desktop like in the video- I just looked at the Konsole page and it says (in red) Unhandled rejection Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir ‘/home/deck/.config/EmuDeck/backend/store/genesis/‘ It says this 8 time in red, I don’t know if that’s helpful information or not but thought I’d mention it I didn’t see it till now

@@zelda574 Try a full power cycle - shut it down, bring it back up (the deck). Try again.

@@Darkuni thank you !! It worked now! After turning it off and on 2 times it finally worked!! Now I can play game that I used to love on my steam deck thank you so much !!!!

I have the exact same issue. I'll shut down again. My third time. Hopefully it'll fix. Glad I'm not the only one.

Honestly, shocked it isn't ...

@@Darkuni there is a version over Ubuntu switch. Too much trouble idk.

I shall consider ... you're not the only one to ask

I'm curious what about Pegasus is attractive to you?

Try re-injecting it ...

Yep, I watched your other video, got it figured out, thanks king.@@Darkuni

I’ve never had this problem before I’ve done it with the old emudeck but for some stupid reason, I have no bios after downloading emudeck.

OK so it was weird I have to hit like uninstall like I’m gonna uninstall emudeck and then cancel halfway and then it’ll send me to the bios and check all of them because I don’t know which ones to check and it gives me my bios

Nope after I did that I checked bios and they were all green I hit the exit button and it’s gone

So to fix it, I just deleted emudeck and just start over hopefully that’ll fix it still installing it so I’ll see.

Alas, BIOS are copyrighted content - you're going to have to find that on your own. :)

Emulation - per se - is not difficult. EmuDeck is so turn key, it is almost criminal. Chasing BIOS files and ROMS (both of which are illegal of course) is where people hit the wall quickly. Being illegal, nobody on YT or other platforms wants to talk about them for risk of punishment. There are Reddit groups that stick it to the system and talk about these illegalities - but they are transient as they end up getting spanked too, eventually. Emulation isn't for the faint of heart on Windows. On Linux? You MUST get your hands dirty. There just isn't any other way. :(

@@Darkuni finding the bios and roms wasn’t difficult at all, it’s where to put them and how to have the right format. What I’ve realised with the majority of these videos that claim they are for beginners, use all these terms that make a beginners head just start to fizzle like another language is being spoken. Definitely not creators fault, just pointing out that it might not be ‘beginner’ friendly, it’s for people who already have a decent understanding of computers.

@@Trigga123321 if you want to share some of the concepts and or terminology that you found out of band for this sort of video? I would love for more feedback. At some point I'll have to do this video again and any sort of improvements I can make would be great.

The usual reason this happens is that there is an update pending; either on a proton version or the system has an update. I can't imagine EmuDeck having any bearing on this.

? Did what?

There is a reason for the intro card lol

@@Darkuni I don't get it 🤔

@@miguelsuarez9876 The very first 5 seconds of the video I say mouse and keyboard highly recommended lol