Xenia

[Citizen Cook]

After the bitter disappointment of finding out that Rockstar has snubbed PC gamers again by refusing to bring Red Dead Redemption to Steam/PC I have decided to turn to emulation to play the game, specially Xenia since I believe it will be lighter to run that using RPCS3.

Don’t worry, I still own the game on disc, specially the Xbox 360 version so no Take Two or Rockstar exec will be harmed financially by my desire to play the game at 4K/60fps.

So, I have three questions, hopefully you fine people can help me out:

1. Whenever I press the start button on my Xbox controller the game exits full screen mode. Any idea how to stop this annoyance from happening?

2. How do I enable the fps counter in game?

3. Can I add the game to steam as a non steam game or only the emulator itself?

[Electric Cupcake]

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:

I couldn’t see an emulator forum on Steam.

That's because discussing them is technically against the rules, even though Steam hosts RetroArch.

Despite the brouhaha over Dolphin being kicked off Steam, it isn't really a big deal, but some people get pissy if it things aren't integrated into one platform.

[Citizen Cook]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:

I couldn’t see an emulator forum on Steam.

That's because discussing them is technically against the rules, even though Steam hosts RetroArch.

Despite the brouhaha over Dolphin being kicked off Steam, it isn't really a big deal, but some people get pissy if it things aren't integrated into one platform.

I’ve given up trying to understand then vagaries of Steam rules.

[Uaua]

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:

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3. Can I add the game to steam as a non steam game or only the emulator itself?

So I experimented with xenia and you can make roundabout executables that point to a batch file that launches xenia with the game as an argument. it's very bodged but it works for sure if you like being able to add such games as seperate entries in your library.

1. Create a windows shortcut to explorer.exe
2. Create a batch file that points to the xenia.exe followed by the file path after.
3. Add the windows shortcut into the Steam library
4. Right click on the path then add the batch's path to the arguments section

If this is all very simplistic and needs further detail I can try to expound and explain the reasoning.

[lsdninja]

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:

Update: turns out you can’t add individual games to Steam when using Xenia, but you can add the emulator which I have done. The emulator doesn’t have an fps counter either, but by launching Xenia through big picture it somehow fixes the full screen minimised issue and I can obviously use Steam’s own fps counter in-game.🙂 So everything is now perfect, except that I can’t just lunch the game itself through Steam unfortunately.

Since someone else already necro'd the thread, I'll point this out in case either OP hasn't figured it out themselves or if anyone stumbles across this thread later: You can make Xenia load a given ROM on launch by adding it as a launch option. Steam will only pick it up as a non-Steam game automatically the first time, but you can browse to the executable and add it manually as many times as you want, with different options to launch different ROMs.

edit: I didn't see this reply because I didn't immediately notice ther was a second page:

Originally posted by elbow extension surgery:

So I experimented with xenia and you can make roundabout executables that point to a batch file that launches xenia with the game as an argument. it's very bodged but it works for sure if you like being able to add such games as seperate entries in your library.

1. Create a windows shortcut to explorer.exe
2. Create a batch file that points to the xenia.exe followed by the file path after.
3. Add the windows shortcut into the Steam library
4. Right click on the path then add the batch's path to the arguments section

If this is all very simplistic and needs further detail I can try to expound and explain the reasoning.

If you just want stuff in your Steam library you don't even need to do that. You can add xenia.exe (or whatever it's actually called) to your library as a non-Steam game as many times as you want, you just have to browse for it manually each time after the first.

edit2: I know this works for Dolphin, PCSX2, PPSSPP and RPCS3 because it's how I added emulated games to my Steam library for use under Big Picture (I didn't think I had enough to make something like Steam ROM Manager worth it and Playnite handles it internally for me now), I don't imagine Xenia behaving that much differently.

[Uaua]

Originally posted by lsdninja:

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:

Update: turns out you can’t add individual games to Steam when using Xenia, but you can add the emulator which I have done. The emulator doesn’t have an fps counter either, but by launching Xenia through big picture it somehow fixes the full screen minimised issue and I can obviously use Steam’s own fps counter in-game.🙂 So everything is now perfect, except that I can’t just lunch the game itself through Steam unfortunately.

what the ♥♥♥♥ am i smoking to have done what i did above, it's like for a whole 15 minutes me and all my friends did not perceive Xenia as an exe in the first place