Playing ISO and BIN/CUE Games on the Deck?

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

I'd love to play some of my older disk-based games on the Deck, but I'm not sure how I could do this under Linux. If Windows Dual-Booting is ever coming I'm sure it'll be less of an issue, but for Linux I only know of CDEmu and a few others which work fine in Pop!_OS but there are no flatpak versions available and they all require system file access from what I can see. Is there any way?

[Taktloss]

Well then try DosBox after you did boot into DosBox you can try this
https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT#Note:_make_sure_to_use_CUE_and_not_BIN_for_Mixed_Mode_CDs

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

I'm not trying to play DOS games

[Taktloss]

Earthworm Jim the example you said is a Dos game or are you talking about the Sega CD Version then of course you use a Sega CD Emulator.
Come on you make it more complicated as it needs to be, what exactly are you trying to play old PC Games or Console games, Chess !?

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Earthworm Jim Special Edition is a Windows game
I'm not making anything complicated at all, I'm just having a feeling you tend to not read thoroughly

Also, I was never looking for a solution for a single game to begin with, I would prefer to have a proper method that works for every game in the future. But it doesn't look like that's gonna happen, so I guess I'll be waiting for Windows dual boot

[Taktloss]

Your are really funny now telling me i didnt read ;).
For someone who does have so many devices with Linux on them you dont seem to know what you are doing. Dual Booting is already a thing by the way.
Anyway have a nice day.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Publicado originalmente por Taktloss:

Your are really funny now telling me i didnt read ;)

Well yeah, it happened, what can I say

Publicado originalmente por Taktloss:

For someone who does have so many devices with Linux on them you dont seem to know what you are doing.

Cool story
tell me more about how you would install CDEmu through pacman on an immutable file system...
Not to mention that observation is totally ridiculous and redundant when someone literally asks a question about something, no crap I don't know everything about Linux, and why would I

Publicado originalmente por Taktloss:

Dual Booting is already a thing by the way.

Since when? To my knowledge the only thing you can do is install Windows on to an SD card to get a pseudo dual boot. I ain't going that route though

[Marlock]

look for Gnome Disks in the Discovery store, it should let you point to an .iso and mount it as if it was an actual disk

ps: on Linux Mint that app is preinstalled and called just "Disks", maybe Valve took tge trouble to gave it preinstalled on SteamOS 3

edit: since SteamOS 3 is based on Arch Linux with KDE, this is a better bet (and i confirmed it should be available via Discovery store on Desktop Mode)
https://apps.kde.org/partitionmanager/

pps: you can always issue a "mount" command via terminal for your current session, which once built is easy to reapply even if it won't stick around after a reboot or after SteamOS 3 upgrades overwrite the read-only system image

[Prezidentas]

The amount of people who don't even have a deck in this thread is funny. You can't get lutris without disabling read-only. You would need to use Bottles, which is available. However you won't go far without CDemu, and the way it works means it will never appear in the flatpak store.
Best bet would be to get DOSBox-X from the flstpak store, since it supports installing Windows 95, and running it thru that.
DOSBox-X website has a tutorial about installing Windows 95. Make sure the tutorial is actually for the X variant.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Lutris is available as a flatpak but that doesn't do anything. There is no way to mount a disk.
Also, sorry if I wasn't more clear, but it must be .bin and .cue and not .iso because otherwise CD audio won't work. Many games also come with a disk-check and will complain if the disk cannot be found in a tray, so the tray does need to be virtualized and the files can't be mounted as a partition or whatever

Anyways, based on my research, this simply isn't possible without CDEmu, and I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it to undo the immutable file system, though CDEmu would break after every update then

[Taktloss]

Comedy Gold

[Zoot]

Publicado originalmente por We Be Leaving You:

Lutris is available as a flatpak but that doesn't do anything. There is no way to mount a disk.
Also, sorry if I wasn't more clear, but it must be .bin and .cue and not .iso because otherwise CD audio won't work. Many games also come with a disk-check and will complain if the disk cannot be found in a tray, so the tray does need to be virtualized and the files can't be mounted as a partition or whatever

Anyways, based on my research, this simply isn't possible without CDEmu, and I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it to undo the immutable file system, though CDEmu would break after every update then

It really seems like something Wine ought to emulate without having to plug in external software like CDemu. Wonder if there's a particular reason it doesn't or it's just that no one has bothered implementing it.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Publicado originalmente por Zoot:

Publicado originalmente por We Be Leaving You:

Lutris is available as a flatpak but that doesn't do anything. There is no way to mount a disk.
Also, sorry if I wasn't more clear, but it must be .bin and .cue and not .iso because otherwise CD audio won't work. Many games also come with a disk-check and will complain if the disk cannot be found in a tray, so the tray does need to be virtualized and the files can't be mounted as a partition or whatever

Anyways, based on my research, this simply isn't possible without CDEmu, and I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it to undo the immutable file system, though CDEmu would break after every update then

It really seems like something Wine ought to emulate without having to plug in external software like CDemu. Wonder if there's a particular reason it doesn't or it's just that no one has bothered implementing it.

Yeah, and Valve probably didn't see it as a priority either. They only sell games digitally after all, and most games are available digitally anyways. But it's unfortunate for the few Windows disk-based games that have never seen a digital release

[Marlock]

there is always .exe no-cd cracks...

[Prezidentas]

Publicado originalmente por Marlock:

there is always .exe no-cd cracks... :diceythief:

the whole point is to get CD Audio, which you won't with a no-cd.

[Prezidentas]

Publicado originalmente por Zoot:

Publicado originalmente por We Be Leaving You:

Lutris is available as a flatpak but that doesn't do anything. There is no way to mount a disk.
Also, sorry if I wasn't more clear, but it must be .bin and .cue and not .iso because otherwise CD audio won't work. Many games also come with a disk-check and will complain if the disk cannot be found in a tray, so the tray does need to be virtualized and the files can't be mounted as a partition or whatever

Anyways, based on my research, this simply isn't possible without CDEmu, and I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it to undo the immutable file system, though CDEmu would break after every update then

It really seems like something Wine ought to emulate without having to plug in external software like CDemu. Wonder if there's a particular reason it doesn't or it's just that no one has bothered implementing it.

wine is created for running software, not emulating disc drives. one purpose per program is part of the Unix philosophy after all.