Emudeck worth it?

[Sterbin]

Id like to move my emulations from my pc to my deck.
But ive heard so much good but also heard it can cause alot of technical issues for the system

[RedBaronK™]

Related question.... If I already have an emulator installed without emudeck, and install emudeck over it, will it overwrite or mess with it or leave it as is and be integrated into emudeck? Do I pick the emulator that's already installed to be installed again by ED or uncheck it since it's already installed?

[NimrodX]

Another option if you don't like RetroDeck's flatpak restrictions is to burn batocera to a microsd and boot that. Then you avoid any mess or os update conflicts in steamos, but it's pretty easy to boot a sdcard and you can do whatever you want with it.

[Clouce]

Personally I have found the only thing EmuDeck is good for is making my deck freeze and forcing me to hard reboot it. I would call it hot garbage, but hot garbage at least keeps people warm so it's not completely useless.

[AfroSniperGirl]

No and here is why...

I always say.
If a software is controlled by another Company/Person and has updates. They can and will at any moment remove / change / Modify your setup.
Thus the reasoning behind emudeck removing YUZU due to the Nintendo copyright lawsuit.

It is FAR better to manually install and run standalone emulators that YOU control and can change instead of being forced to.

[PopinFRESH]

AfroSniperGirl a écrit :

No and here is why...

I always say.
If a software is controlled by another Company/Person and has updates. They can and will at any moment remove / change / Modify your setup.
Thus the reasoning behind emudeck removing YUZU due to the Nintendo copyright lawsuit.

It is FAR better to manually install and run standalone emulators that YOU control and can change instead of being forced to.

Nice necro...

And the Yuzu developers are the ones who pulled it; not the Emudeck developers. They also pulled Citra as well; for the same reasons.

[Haruspex]

PopinFRESH a écrit :

Nice necro...

And the Yuzu developers are the ones who pulled it; not the Emudeck developers. They also pulled Citra as well; for the same reasons.

On top of that, Emudeck will still detect and manage Yuzu and Citra installations if you install them yourself. It just won't automatically download it for you anymore.

[Zef]

It's not necessary and can brick emulator configs and installs if they release a bad update (happened multiple times in the past).

If you only use a few emulators you could just aswell set them up manually and import the games into steam library using steam rom manager.

The advantage is pre-configured emulators, controls and (if all things work well), an easy central management interface to update all your emulators and configs from.

[whosethesquirrelnow]

I don't think Emudeck installation/uninstall could actually break the OS, it only installs stuff under home-folder (or so have I thought).

But in my opinion the Emudeck is overly complicated and the installer does not always work too well. I found it way more easier to just install and configure the emulators manually.