Retro Arch via Steam on Steam Deck

[Halfmystic]

Hey all.

I want to use Retro Arch on Steam, but with some of the comforts afforded via Emudeck/RetroDeck. Mostly because of Retro Arch support Steam Cloud for all the games, which is insanely convenient.

Basically, I got it working well, but I want to know how to put my roms in the steam library instead of opening Retro Arch, then opening the game. Anyone have an idea on how to do that?

[Fried Brains]

never used it, however, you can use the command line interface:
https://docs.libretro.com/guides/cli-intro/

[Halfmystic]

Oof.. Possibly any automated way to do it? I could do CLI but I can see myself just not bothering after a while.

[Fried Brains]

You would have to make a shortcut for each game then add each shortcut to steam as a non steam game. Just use RetroArch do a manual scan of your roms and RetroArch will build a playlist for them.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

You can probably do a batch file.

[Halfmystic]

Thanks guys. I'll use CLI to do some automation. If I get it going easily, I'll share the outcome.

[Fried Brains]

It tried it and got it to work, example windows shortcut target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RetroArch\retroarch.exe" -L "c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RetroArch\cores\mame_libretro.dll" "c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RetroArch\downloads\mame\digdug.zip"