Future people trying this, it's been an issue for months and still is as of now, if you think the install is stuck at the Gamecube/Dolphin Widescren part, move the window, there's a popup that pops up behind the screen and you get stuck there until you click OK.

To me this is why the steamdeck is unbeatable... The community and the stuff they make is just insane.

EmuDeck is shaping up to be the single best piece of software that I've ever used. Massive applause for the devs.

Important note is to click the battery icon at the bottom right and set it so the steam deck does not go to sleep while installing emudeck. Messed my installation up a bit and had to start over. Just hit the box to manually block sleep and screen locking and your good :D

"Yeah man, I wanna do it." So simple, so silly, and yet it gets a chuckle from me every time.

Excellent guide! It’s amazing how far these tools have come in such a short time. 👍

it is absolutely mindblowing how nice this whole process is, playing retro games on such a handheld machine and the community is just gigantic. Im so happy channels like these exist, and im really excited for the future of emulation especially on the deck.

Had my steam deck for 8 months and I'm finally getting this done! Thanks for your help and thank you emudeck for making it so easy!

Congrats on 300k and thanks for all the awesome videos. Your channel's been my one-stop-shop for retro handhelds, emulation guides (always use written as well lol), micro PCs, and more.

Really enjoy your guides, and not a word of a lie, your first emudeck video was the reason I went and got a steam deck.

Love how you become the guy of source for emulation guides etc, i remember over the years scouring a trust worthy and consistent channel for this content and could never find, good work mate!

I used your previous guide to setup the first time and it was flawless 👌 thanks so much for the time and effort to keep it up to date. Great videos

I just got my steam deck yesterday and Russ uploads a video on Emudeck today, such perfect timing! Thank you for always supporting the emulation community and congrats on 300K!! Keep up the good work man ❤

I love emulation and have been emulating for years and i have to say this is the most sleekest, smoothest, stylish, easiest, and most comprehensive way of doing anythint emulation ive ever seen. The Deck is truly something amazing. The community for the Deck is even more incredible! Great guide!

I appreciate how quick your intro is and how you got to the meat of it right away. Many other content creators could learn from you cause many seem to struggle with cutting the fluff. I'm grateful for you man.

Wish this guide was here months ago when I first tried to set up emulation on my deck. This was so comprehensive and understandable, thank you so much for this!

I cannot understate what a Godsend this program is. The presentation, the automation, the sheer convenience of it: wonderful.

Hey Russ, just another amazing video - thank you so much! A video suggestion idea, can you do a video on your "gaming workflow", how do you decide what to play with so many games, systems, backlog anxiety, etc? I think it's an issue a lot of people "struggle" with. I know, a total first world problem. Anyway, I'd appreciate a basic "off the cuff" video talking about how you approach gaming, time management, staying organized, etc. Cheers!

This is perfect! I ordered a Steam Deck recently and will be following this guide to get retro gaming in full swing!

Thank you so much, this is the only emudeck guide I've found that's up to date and comprehensive enough to follow. It's finally working properly for me!

Brilliant coverage and a brilliant update to EmuDeck!

FYI in case it wasn't clear, if you're just starting you can use the internal storage and download the roms using the desktop mode and skip all the SD card and USB stuff for now.

Just got my OLED today and used this guide to import all kinds of retro games. Thank you for the concise guide, it was really easy to follow!

Thanks so much for this guide. I followed your old one and it worked but I had to send my Deck to Valve for repair and they wiped everything so I had to set everything up again. Glad to see that the process was smoother, the new version of Emudeck is great and I'm getting better results than before. Thanks again for these free resources! There were 4 games I was considering getting a Switch just to play but now they're working on my Deck.

Elite content, steam deck owners have been eating with your videos

Wow! So much respect and thanks to the folks that made this. The amount of work must be crazy. I'm hoping the Windows' version will be here soon.

Been using emudeck for a few months now and i thought I had it all covered but i just learned so many new cool tricks! Great work!!

I just got my steam deck a couple days to ago on sale and you made it so easy to emulate some of my childhood favorites thank you man

Up till 3 am but it literally only took me 3 hours to get this up and running ❤ thanks buddy! Im blown away on how smooth and sharp all these classics run 😍😍😍

A few videos ago you mentioned something along the lines of “sometimes it’s nice to wait on people.” Every time I’m waiting for someone I think about that now. Good work 😂

Great guide!! I got my refurbished steam deck yesterday and set everything up. Runs beautifully.

Once again a great vid. Russ, you´re content is the most informative and professionally made on KZfaq. Way ahead of the rest. Respect, thanks and keep going!

Just wanted to say thank you for your EmuDeck videos. I was afraid of emulators because of their complexity, but you showed that there's an app that does all the stuff automatically, all I have to do is find and put bios & rom files into preconfigured folders. Now I'm playing the very first Mario games that I missed as a child. And now they have achievements. A 80's game with almost 200 various achievements. What great time we live in...

I put off learning to emulate for like a year since getting my Deck b/c I'm super lazy and assumed it would be hard. Then I finally decide to do it, look up Emudeck and it's like "Oh yeah it's 2023 and people just make things easy" lmao. Thanks a ton for the emulation and also this video to walk thru it

Thanks for the tutorial! Just set this up finally on my new OLED Deck LE :)

This is what I love about the Steam Deck, easy and simple Emulation 😊

Oh nice! SRM finally has a way to fine-tune which ROMs to add. That is absolutely fantastic. I can finally stop having to make "favorites" folders for each system and making sure the parsers are pointing to that, while EmulationStation looks at the various systems root/rom folders.

Thanks for this. Huge help. I didn’t realize I needed to go on an adventure hunting for the bios, but I found everything I needed, and am retro gaming cozy with nostalgia feels. Thanks!!

So excited to get this up and running thank you!

I love how much value and function you can get out of the steam deck. I don't game on it nearly as much as I tinker with it.

Thanks for another great video, this gave me the push to finally sort out my emulation setup once and for all... I have one tip using symlinks for everyone with a large collection that is unsure about having it all on internal storage or SD cards since it is a pain swapping cards just to fire up some tiny snes games or gameboy etc. I had been thinking of trying a workaround to have the best of both worlds for months now with symlinks and finally tested it, so far everything seems to work as completely as hoped / expected 😎... It is simple enough to get going; install emudeck as normal with it set to use the internal storage and copy over all of the systems that you want permament access to as usual, but then when it comes to larger systems like gamecube / switch / ps2 / psp etc. you can just delete their empty forders on your internal (or cut and paste to an sd card if you have games there already) then drag the folder with the same name from sd card into your internal roms directory and create a symlink. Or, alternatively, you should be able to do it on a per game bases by keeping the folder as it is but symlinking individual games that you are happy to only have work when that sd card is inserted and keep the games that you want to work no matter what on your internal. Also by getting used to doing it this way you should be able to keep individual systems or games on different sd cards, so say you don't really want to swap your main steam games SD card just to play a particular game, like I do not know.. prime hacks, then you can just have the symlink from that sd card maybe ?, or if you have a particularly giant collection you can keep that on its own sd, or I guess external hdd on a dock or so ? and still have your go to games with you no matter what.. not sure, worth a try though :) The only issue that I have noticed is that emudeck's compress feature doesn't work on symlinked folders, so if your files are not already compressed then do that first, or delete the symlinked folder and make a new temporary folder to copy every game that needs compressed to, run it, then move back and do the symlink again... or use the same compression tools on pc hehe, though decks are quite powerful and it is nice to have emudeck do things like batch conversions of psp games to .cso files instead of having to do them all individually, rock on and many thanks as always to the EmuDeck crew 🤟 By doing all this, as well as making a small batch file on my pc to 7zip every (selectively chosen) snes / genesis / gba / n64 roms that had no compression but the emulators support (check system info in each system's rom folder first) I have gotten my internal rom folder down to about 1.2gig I guess with all my smaller systems and n64 taking up 1/3d probably hehe, and gb / gbc / pce etc next to nothing, but then with my spare sd card inserted for larger games it adds another 50 gig hehe, and that is not even that many more games added so far, lol... why I kept trying to think of a better way to handle this before doing a full commit towards perfection, it has taken me 10 months to get this far I think 🤔🤭. If anyone is unsure about the compatability of symlinks in emudeck then, hehe, as I was setting it all up I noticed that they use symlinks anyway for many of the rom folders to save emulators needing duplicates etc, and if you ever opted to install the homebrew games then these are all symlinked from a seperate homebrew folder to keep them seperate from your own roms, it is all tried and tested and true, and I honestly cannot see any issues. I doubt that I am the first to do it this way to have the best of every world when it comes to using emudeck and sd cards etc, just nobody seems to ever mention it ?, sorry if they have and I am blind.. life is strange, I have little time to try and keep up with deck news or nerding out perfecting my own :). Here is the 7-zip batch I made for zipping up supported games on your win pc before transfer if anyone needs it, just paste into notepad and adjust folders so it matches whatever you want then save as a .bat file and run it... for %%i in (e:\Roms\GBA\MyPicks\*.*) do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "e:\Roms\GBAZipped\%%~ni.7z" "%%i"

This was such a quick and easy to understand guide. Thank you so much!

i just got my steamdeck today and i was very excited to get started with not only playing my steam games on the go but also emulating, i was very intimidated by the setup process however this video did such a phenomenal job at explaining everything very clearly and in an easy way to understand. I thank and appreciate you for making this video

For anyone wondering if it still works - yes. I just followed this video and succeeded today. This video included pretty much all I needed except for stuff about BIOS and ROMs. You may want to watch a couple more videos for these, sadly there is no video that includes all these parts, mostly because of some legal obstructions.

Thanks for posting this. Got my wife's Steamdeck running Paper Mario and she is thrilled. Such a cool channel, man. Always love the videos. Just subbed because I always thought I was subbed!

Great video. I knew about emudeck but didn't know about all the different features and options you mentioned, especially emulation station. I just upgraded my deck's ssd to 2 TB so I have plenty of space to install games now and they will all load super quickly.

It's awesome that it's so well integrated. I only would use my steam deck for steam, so it's not for me, and I'm using my GPD Win 4 instead anyways, but it's great to see more complete setups that don't require as much setup. Can't wait for your review of the RP Flip!!!

Wow always such amazing guides, and I have to say most people who make modding guides are bland and boring. You always add your own brand and jokes I love them so much! And the level of detail and information provided is always stellar! Thank you so much really appreciate it! Yeah man I wanna do it!

Ty for this video!! I look forward to putting my favorite games from my childhood into this handheld pc!!

Great video and great stuff from the EmuDeck team.

Excellent recipe! So clear. That new version of rom manager is so much better. It's really interresting to listen all the podcasts that you're on. I love the Nerd Nest 👍

Impressed by how polished and easy to use EmuDeck has become. My only gripe is Steam ROM Manager organising imported ROMs by system. It'd be nice for the option to scrape an online database and set catagories by different criteria. I prefer my games organised by genre instead of by system. Because of this I've manually installed my emulators and ROMs and time consumingly individually added each as non Steam Games. Suppose I could've imported everything with EmuDeck and then manually reorganised the catagories post install.

thats 1 incredible helpful Guide here🥰! Got myself a Deck in the Summersale mostly for Emulation! Putting the Bios together, copying Roms & Scraping all the Games took me literally Days but in the End it worked out without Issues! Thanks for your Help & to the Devs for this awesome Software!! Also love your Intro, gives me Stranger Things-Vibes haha😁😁

Thank you very much for putting all of this together! I really appreciate it.

Bios and roms are such a pain I wish you would elaborate further on how to configure them 😢

Would you be interested in doing a follow up video to see how Switch Emulation has updated on the deck? i imagine with updates to Yuzu that the performance has changed a bit over the past year or so.

Thank you for this. Easy to understand, and helped me set up my emu deck. ❤

Very nice tutorial, will be following once i get my deck. Thank You.

Awesome guide! You should do a video on multidisc games on the steam deck. (Aka PS1 PS2) My emulation station ends up super ugly with multiple listings with the same name. A fantastic idea would be a deep dive into each emulator for tips and tricks on cleaning up your library or fine tuning each one’s experience. Kinda a follow up to this guide. ::Edit. Turns out he has a video 2 months ago with a super deep dive into what I was saying! Man I love this channel::

how to change emulation directory from internal storage to sd card if I already installed it on internal storage?

After getting an amazing deal on a second microsd card, I decided to dedicate it to Emudeck... glad I found this walkthrough on the process... appreciate you guys

I had to watch this a bunch of times before it all clicked, thank you for showing me the ropes!

Is there a way to set up cloud saves? I use emu deck on my steam deck, but individual emulators on my PC. Is there anything in this update that could syc those saves?

This is still so confusing to me ugh

lmao, the zoom in on Google. Amazing video as always! Very relieved to see upgrading existing installation is easy

Such a great tutorial!! What a great system, this is seriously unbeatable. Thank you for outlining all of the great new features

The fact that the Steam Deck can do this so seamlessly just solidifies it as one of the best gaming consoles to have released in the last 10 years.

I don't understand how to get bios.

This was extremely helpful thank you!

Fantastic breakdown! Thank you!

Now what happens if you accidentally have a bunch of roms show up as non-steam games, how do you go about removing a good chunk of those? I really hope it’s not a situation where I have to manually do it for the thousands my idiot self added.

You should also go over SSH to transfer files from your computer to the steam deck since it’s super easy to set up and does not require an extra piece of hardware

Shootout to your team for these amazing guides and to the people who created emudeck. Even to a complete emulation noob like me this has been so easy so setup.

I just found out about the Steam Deck today. Fell down the rabbit hole and it led me here. You are amazing and Steam Deck should pay you. You made me buy one. Thank you.

I want a Steam Deck ... SO BAD

I ended up sticking with RetroDeck for the simple reason that when I want to make changes to Retroarch, EmuDeck would not let me save any of them. I couldn't save my own shaders, I couldn't save general changes, everything was "locked" into place for better word. Emudeck is the overall better experience especially for someone just wanting to pick up and play, but I want the additional functionality of my applications and not a child proof cap placed on it.

Thank you very much for this guide! It's super useful and simple.

I just got my deck today and this walkthrough was perfect. The Steamdeck is amazing!

This guide is all over the place, I just want to emulate games not be taught quantum physics lol

Tried it for two hours. Didn't work. Why does it all have to be so complicated and can't be just like a one button install? I would gladly pay for it, but no it has to be super nerdy... 😑

Mine already shipped and im so excited icant stop watching videos like this

Just wanted to say huge thankyou for this video I have recently purchased a steam deck oled and not having used one before or using linux it was daunting getting emulation up and running but this video helped me loads and I now have everything up and running. Only thing I struggled with was getting linux to see my flash drive but youtibe helped me out with that also so all is good

Sadly, this tutorial is not working at all

Instructions unclear, bought a bunch of CD-Roms on Google :/

Thank you for showing me how to download this, I really appreciate it

This guide is amazing. Thank you!

its not easy to follow

First❤

Excelent video! Thanks for posting!

Got tired of my RP4 pro to be delivered; finally gave in and decided setup my SD. My only retro handheld is a Miyoo Mini plus so I had to find ROM and Bios for systems I wasn't using on Miyoo. Some were more difficult than other to find but everything seems to worked out just fine. Thanks for the guide, I saved it for months.

Just ordered a Steamdeck OLED. Thanks for this!

Incredible video. Thank you. Worked perfectly. Instant subscribe. Appreciate the content.

Awesome video! very informative and well explained and clear! :D

Awesome video and resources!

I have never had any type of experience in emulating anything at all, but this guide in conjunction with reading some comments here helped me understand a few things, for example, while downloading emudeck it seems to get stuck at the dolphin installation portion of the setup but after reading a few comments, the problem was behind a different window that needs an ok confirmation to continue. It might seem like a daunting process but following this guide and reading a few comments on what problems might occur has helped me immensely to get started on emulation.

Just got my Steam deck today. Pretty good guide, Thank you kind sir!

Great video. Thanks for creating it!❤

Thank you so much for this. Fantastic video, I did struggle with the BIN section but your guide was just what I needed, along with a popular search engine. Again thank you for this!

This video is great. Great Job man. This is exactly what I needed.

I thought I was an expert at handhelds until I picked up a steamdeck. IMPOSSIBLE to setup without your videos. You’re appreciated fr 🙏🏾