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

"Yeah man, I wanna do it" is my favorite recurring bit. Gets a chuckle every time

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.

Finally EmuDeck for Windows

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.

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

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.

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!!!

That Game Mode on startup will be a game changer 😎

Bypassing the desktop is so useful. Truly makes even Windows feel like a game console. Perfect for these Win Handhelds.

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.

Yes!!! I am so excited for this one. Thanks for the awesome work Russ!

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!!!

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.

I feel like the ROG Ally with Emu Deck is all I ever wanted in my life. This is fantastic. Thanks !

Bro! THIS is what I’ve been waiting for! Russ!!! Thank you! Thank you!

Posted 2 hours before I searched for this video. Thanks!

Picked up my Russ patron token! Stoked for this! 🚀

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.

Awesome! I been waiting for this for my gpd win 4

fantastic video just what i was looking for thanks

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

Really admire the Emudeck team and their work. But for Windows, I've been totally happy with Playnite. Very capable front end, and it has a big picture mode, too.

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!

It's like you read my mind! Thanks for the video!

This shit is amazing. Ive always wanted a one stop shop to play games from different retro consoles along with newer gen easily.

cool that steam rom manager is its own tool so it can be used with a more customized emulator setup as well

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! 😄👍

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.

Dang game mode will be a game changer for windows handhelds!

Cloud saves between my Deck and my Windows PC is a killer feature for me.

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.

This video single-handedly allowed me to deeply reconnect with my childhood

Can’t wait for this to come to public release

Great tutorial mate, thanks heaps!

Once installed on the device, will the software continue to work after canceling the Patreon subscription?

Will you be doing a similar video/written guide for playnite, bigbox or retrobat?

As long as EmuDeck continues to support the Asus ROG Ally Ill keep supporting it. You have my Patreon.

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.

on the parsers i dont see anything ??

Finally what I’ve been waiting for! Hope I don’t rek my micro SD card 🤣

That's great news! Would be awesome if steam will add it to the library officially like retroarch

Finally for window and thanks for share then guide

Great guide! Thanks

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.

I was actually messing around with Launch box, but this looks to be a lot easier. Thank you. Perfect timing.

Russ, can you do a video on EmuDeck for Windows specifically in properly configuring the controllers in the Ally, LeGO, or other PC Windows handhelds?

Thanks for conning me !!!!!!

could it be possible to do the same guide with Retrobat?

Retrobat is available right now and is very good too.

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.

It has been 4 months and it's still in early access

Just waiting on the RP3 metal case video, hope there's no problems as mines on the way lol

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!

Great video👍

3:23 “yeah man, I wanna do it”

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.

How do you get the controller to work for the roms?

When this goes free.. this will be a seriously popular program.

Emulation station de crashes on load, so does Pegasus when I launch from steam. I'm using WIndows 11. Am I missing something?

Could you explain how you made it auto-boot into steam? (27:46)

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?

What do i do if i have most those emulators already on my pc? Do I delete them and reinstall w emudeck ?

So the Steam input options aren't required?

Can't wait for the official release of EmuDeck for Android

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?

You should have a section about the hotkeys for windows as you did for steam deck

Got Boogerman working on Sega. I've downloaded mx2002 for ps2, got multiple ps2 bios in the bios folder, added mx2002 into the steam manager. When I launch it, it tells me PSX2 needs a bios and to add it under "tools" but I've already put the bios in the folder. I've even launched retroarch and tried running Mx2002 from there, and then it tells me I dont have the core. Am I missing something? Also, Mario kart 64 doesn't show even though it's in my roms library/folder

Will this work on Aya Neo 1 ?

Do we really need emudeck when we've always had launchbox?

I followed this video and installed it all on my ROG Ally (windows 11) a few month back and I've had no issues. Yet, I am coming back to it now, to try and install in on my windows 10 desktop and the file is a .bat file now so I dragged it into CMD but it won't download "dependencies". I went to the website and it said install them all separate, so I did that an Di have nothing. It doesn't start to install or anything 😢

I was extremely confused on exactly what emudeck was. I thought it was what emulation station is. I didn't realize that it just puts the games in steam library. It was so obvious but I still didn't notice it. I'm just getting emulation station because I don't like having in my steam library

What happens if you already have emulators installed before starting the setup for Emudeck? Will it install them a 2nd time?

How do I turn the text rom file into what it needs to be to into the Bios file?

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.

Pretty excited about this! I loved Emulation Station on a Raspberry Pi and have been waiting for it for Windows. The EmuDeck looks like a great easy way to set up Multiple systems at once on windows! So much better and easier than Launchbox.

I use Retrobat on Asus ROG Ally, work perfectly to.

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?

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

Awesome 😊

This reminds me of portable emulation station and retropie86 with a better interface and simplified.

Love your channel and I wanted to ask can you install and run on a external hard drive with this software

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.

yeah man I want to do it !lol

can we use xbox(input) controller on windows 11 emudeck steam?

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.

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?

Wild that it's 4 months later and still paid access only.

Can you make a video for adding ps3 games to emulation station? Playing around on the ROG Ally all of this is very straight forward but PS3 is the outlier, there is some special work that has to be done and you can’t just drop the ROM files and software in.

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?

Hi there, I have tried installing the emudeck on my Asus Rog ally. Patreon payment done and acquired the token. Now the installation is stuck on collecting drives. It doesn't get to the step of selecting drives ( c or SD drive). It's so frustrating. Please advise

Good timing, I just had to reinstall windows and all my emus are gonzo. LOL

Im using it but man working around plugging a controller in with my ally and have it work and swap between the built in controller and my external controller is proving to be a living nightmare

Great now i need public release for my Ayaneo

has anyone had any issues trying to parse it keeps saying my selections are invalid

lol yeah man I wanna do it

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 got a issue when I download emudeck for windows my steam rom manager doesn’t pop up has anybody had this problem?

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?

Cloud saving was not working for me with google drive, system was very buggy, crashing when trying to use controller with N64 emulator. I fell back on using Playnite. The UI for Emudeck is far superior to Playnite, but I cannot say Emudeck is ready for user use. I am looking forward to trying it again once the final version is released.