How far does emulation go for the steam deck?

[Daidek]

I know older consoles are fair game, but what about the N64, or the PS1, etc.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Daidek:

I know older consoles are fair game, but what about the N64, or the PS1, etc.

They both do fine on the Deck.

[Daidek]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Daidek:

I know older consoles are fair game, but what about the N64, or the PS1, etc.

They both do fine on the Deck.

:qr:

Alright, let's go a little further then,

What about the Xbox 360, or PS3?

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

I've seen some videos of people running things up to the Wii U generation smoothly. From what I've seen some Switch games have trouble. I haven't tried emulation yet on my Deck though. I'm waiting to upgrade my internal storage.

[DarkEmpire]

Originally posted by Daidek:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

They both do fine on the Deck.

:qr:

Alright, let's go a little further then,

What about the Xbox 360, or PS3?

All fine. Also switch (Yuzu)/wii u wil do great!

[Daidek]

Originally posted by BlackDragon875:

I've seen some videos of people running things up to the Wii U generation smoothly. From what I've seen some Switch games have trouble. I haven't tried emulation yet on my Deck though. I'm waiting to upgrade my internal storage.

I'm guessing Xbox 1 S and PS4/5 is out of the question no?

[DarkEmpire]

Originally posted by Daidek:

Originally posted by BlackDragon875:

I've seen some videos of people running things up to the Wii U generation smoothly. From what I've seen some Switch games have trouble. I haven't tried emulation yet on my Deck though. I'm waiting to upgrade my internal storage.

I'm guessing Xbox 1 S and PS4/5 is out of the question no?

I'm afraid so, thats are to powerfull beast to emulate for steam deck
BUT never say never :)

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

Originally posted by Daidek:

Originally posted by BlackDragon875:

I've seen some videos of people running things up to the Wii U generation smoothly. From what I've seen some Switch games have trouble. I haven't tried emulation yet on my Deck though. I'm waiting to upgrade my internal storage.

I'm guessing Xbox 1 S and PS4/5 is out of the question no?

Yeah, most likely. I'm not even sure how good Xbox 360 or PS3 emulation would be. I've seen Gamecube and PS2 running well on the Deck.

[Daidek]

Originally posted by λ³☠DarkEmpire☠³λ(NL):

Originally posted by Daidek:

I'm guessing Xbox 1 S and PS4/5 is out of the question no?

I'm afraid so, thats are to powerfull beast to emulate for steam deck
BUT never say never :)

I think I can live with it if the Steam Deck can emulate the first generation to 7th generation of gaming.

[DarkEmpire]

Originally posted by BlackDragon875:

Originally posted by Daidek:

I'm guessing Xbox 1 S and PS4/5 is out of the question no?

Yeah, most likely. I'm not even sure how good Xbox 360 or PS3 emulation would be. I've seen Gamecube and PS2 running well on the Deck.

N64/Gamecube/Ps1/Ps2/Xbox/and Older

with Anti-aliasing + high resulution + High res pack run creat!!

exemple i play Mario Sunshine/mario party 7/9 on 4k x2 for sharpening

Steam deck is a powerfull beast, you wont regret, only downside is setup for linux
Matter of practice

[shadowboy813]

Originally posted by Daidek:

Originally posted by BlackDragon875:

I've seen some videos of people running things up to the Wii U generation smoothly. From what I've seen some Switch games have trouble. I haven't tried emulation yet on my Deck though. I'm waiting to upgrade my internal storage.

I'm guessing Xbox 1 S and PS4/5 is out of the question no?

At this point, many of those games are likely available natively on Steam, without need for emulation.

[Modern Retro Gamer (UK)]

Originally posted by shadowboy813:

Originally posted by Daidek:

I'm guessing Xbox 1 S and PS4/5 is out of the question no?

At this point, many of those games are likely available natively on Steam, without need for emulation.

I've still got a PS4Pro hooked up to the TV for just 4 games while I wait for fpPS4 emulator to mature (this time next decade?).

[Jasspur]

Personally, I have emulated consoles up to the PS2 era, and that was long ago on a Windows machine. Generally that will work on Linux systems too, so the steamdeck should be good up to that point in the least. Things will probably become harder with PS3 with takedowns, copyright protection and etc. Personally, I think they should just let everything be free that isn't on the new X86 consoles, because there is no backwards compatibility.

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Originally posted by Daidek:

I know older consoles are fair game, but what about the N64, or the PS1, etc.

They are "older" consoles.. Anything up to the last gen (Xbox one / PS4) can be emulated on the steamdeck will, even the switch.

[silence]

Everything works basically fine up to the PS3 Xbox era PS3 some games work fine like Odin's sphere others like modern warfare 3 is a bit laggy under 30fps however I haven't tried to mess with files most say that tinkering with files you can get most games up to 60fps section 8 on xinera you will see a lot of problems switch games that I have played work fine maybe more demanding games that are 3d platformers will probably have a harder time

[Zef]

You can emulate almost anything except:

xbox 360: but that's not really a deck issue primarily, the emulator sucks
ps3: some lighter titles will work at 30 fps like fight night games and fifa and such but you will need to do a lot of tweaking and the battery wil drain like crazy. I expect more games will run better on deck after another year on development on the emulator.

anything else up to wii u and switch is perfectly playable, except the most demanding switch titles like TOTK.

I mean there are ways to get it running at around 25-30 ish fps on deck (TOTK) but you'll need to do a lot of tweaking to be honest and the experience isn't super.

BOTW on Wii u emu runs fine though, 50-60fps.

It's an emulation beast to be honest