Steam Deck: The Ultimate EmuDeck Beginner's Guide v3 (EmuDeck 3.x / ES-DE 3.x / Missing Emus)
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День томуv3 Update: Complete with new EmuDeck 3.x and Emulation Station 3.x and new techniques!
I've been asked many times - despite the plethora of EmuDeck videos on youTube - to do a complete beginner's guide to installing, configuring and using EmuDeck.
I did it - but it is already out of date with new versions replacing the old.
Well, here it is. I'll take you through all the features, help you set up "the hard parts" and give you some insight on the tool. As usual we'll "teach" as we "do" - and once you're done with this video - you'll be ready to tackle almost anything within EmuDeck's framework.
Yes, we're going to show you how to "put back in" those recently "removed" Ninty emulators as well. Update: You'll need to set Emulation Station to use Y*** (not shown) ... You need to change the default emulator. MAIN MENU, OTHER SETTINGS, ALTERNATIVE EMULATORS ... I'm guessing you can figure it out from there...
Chapter Jumps
00:00 - Intro Note
00:07 - Bumper
00:15 - Recommended Dolphin File Manager Video
00:35 - Downloading and Running Installer
01:10 - Setting a SUDO Password
01:36 - Installing (Custom Mode)
01:58 - The New Way To Choose A Location (Symlink Edition)
03:28 - Choosing Emulators and Configs
04:08 - Auto Saves
04:13 - Configuring RetroAchievements
04:35 - Bezels, aspect ratios and shaders
04:58 - Controller Layout
05:16 - Front Ends
05:26 - Emulation Station Themes
05:40 - Pegasus Themes
05:51 - Install Starts / Tips
06:40 - Help With Stalled Installer
07:34 - Manual Game Copy (and Why)
08:17 - Launcher Selection
08:35 - Post Installation Warning!
08:55 - Re-Run (shows hotfixes and other things)
09:27 - Injecting ES-DE to Steam with Steam Rom Manager
10:18 - Testing ES-DE Injection (with Error discussion)
10:41 - Understanding Where BIOS/ROMS Go (and the HOW and WHY)
11:36 - Using BIOS Checker Before Copying
12:23 - Copying my BIOS backup to Emulation/bios
12:45 - Using BIOS Checker AFTER Copying
12:57 - Copying ROMS (with tricks and tips)
14:20 - PSX Action with ES-DE
15:23 - Inject Einhander PSX into Steam via Steam Rom Manager
17:15 - Testing the Injected Game (A Look at Steam after Injection)
18:20 - Scraping metadata into ES-DE (feat. PSX)
19:34 - Restoring Y*** Emulator Back Into EmuDeck
21:10 - Restoring the 3DS Emulator Back Into EmuDeck
22:01 - Adding Proper Configuration to Y*** and 3DS Emulator with EmuDeck
23:42 - Miscellaneous Features of EmuDeck / Closing
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@roanries1418 Місяць тому
Followed your old video but haven't really started emulating games, Ill just re-install and follow this update video, thanks
@D0ct0rD4RK Місяць тому
The virtual directory and installing the standalone emulators are two great pieces of advice! I wish I had known about them sooner.
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Yeah, I was considering just letting my old video stand (it gets MAD hits) but with all the changes and .. omissions ... along with this technique that would have saved my own ass a couple of times? I felt I NEEDED to redo it.
@sofrits3 Місяць тому
Fantastic walkthrough! Thank you so much
@feeshifeeshi Місяць тому
Great video! Very informative and easy to follow
@Adam2Boa 27 днів тому
the best beginner's guide for emudeck ever
@valhallaoutcast Місяць тому
great updated guide, now we will need a way to move our old Rom location to this new semilink method haha
@soiltek2015 Місяць тому
Great video!
@ferrrmolina 14 днів тому
thanks a lot!
@mAcroFaze 21 день тому
Thanks for such an informative and easy-to-follow video!! One thing I'm having a ton of trouble with (maybe any pros here can help (please!!)), is how to reconfigure controls for each emulator. I know that Emudeck has hotkeys which is supposed to span across all emulators as efficiently as possible, but for whatever reason, I'm unable to reconfigure any of the buttons even when attempting to do so via each standalone's input settings in Desktop Mode. It's making the whole process of playing the games more confusing and a test in muscle memory than I'd like :(
@Darkuni 21 день тому
I've never found it to work "right" in Desktop mode. Not sure why. The controls are always borked.
@mAcroFaze 20 днів тому
@@Darkuni Thanks for clarifying! :D I found a bit of a workaround (so far as anything launched via RetroArch is concerned at least), if you're running an emulator and click both joysticks in, it'll bring up the RetroArch menu, go to Quick Settings, then Controls, then the first controller option and from there you can reconfigure the button inputs for that particular emulator. Still haven't found a workaround for the other emulators like Cemu and Dolphin though..!
@talbi89 Місяць тому
Hey MonroeWorld, is it possible to re-route using the virtual symlink method if my setup has already be done the standard way as in selecting the SD card in the inital setup etc I hope this makes sense, would like to use this symlink method but worried it will screw my current setup games and saves etc? cheers
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Yeah, I haven't found an "effective" way of updating an existing implementation easily. I have some ideas. Probably on tap for the weekend project.
@senorsombrero Місяць тому
Can you do a guide for those of us holding off on updating emudeck on our decks considering the recent issues with emudeck on recent updates?
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Unless you're an extensive user of Steam ROM manager? I wouldn't worry about the upgrade. This video has you 99% covered. If you're one of those people that have like 300 steam items injected? You're going to have to remove them all and put them all back.
@senorsombrero Місяць тому
@@Darkuni I might be one of them people 😂
@Darkuni Місяць тому
@@senorsombrero Yeah, seems like the SRM user took the biggest hit with this new upgrade. So glad I'm not a user of it. I like the idea, but I'm not a "casual emulator guy".
@thewalkingdino 17 днів тому
Bro, this video was very helpful!!! Love the additional tricks you added in. It’s going to save a lot of time!
@Darkuni 17 днів тому
@@thewalkingdino So glad you found it useful!
@kellendavis9885 24 дні тому
So my deck just arrived and I’m following along ready to get going. First issue, is that my emudeck install/download is taking FOREVER. I’ve been watching sonic run for a bit now.
@kellendavis9885 24 дні тому
Nevermind, watched 10 more seconds and saw the command pop up hahaha my bad
@Darkuni 24 дні тому
@@kellendavis9885 :) Was about to say .. you SURE you watched the video :P Glad you saw it.
@JasonRobert197 4 дні тому
This is a very helpful video! After installing EmuDeck though, it doesn't show any of the menus (BIOS checkers, etc), instead it just shows the installation options (easy or custom) - I wonder is this because my steam deck crashes after the installation in desktop mode? FWIW, it seems my deck crashes quite often in desktop mode. I have no problem running EmulationStation and playing the ROMs from both desktop and game modes, but I was wondering is it better if I just format my steam deck and microSD, and redo the installation all over again? I don't have lots of data or configurations yet (just got the deck over the weekend). Again, thanks for such an informative video, any help is appreciated!
@Darkuni 4 дні тому
It definitely sounds like there's something wrong on your deck's end. I would probably reimage your deck. Just to be sure. If you continue to have crashes? Then I would reach out to Valve and get a ticket opened. Because that is not normal behavior.
@JasonRobert197 4 дні тому
@@Darkuni Thanks for the tip! I will take a look at your video from last week on re-imaging then!
@TomLally 29 днів тому
thank you so much for some great content. does the games have to go on the internal in order to play them? Id love for them to stay on a HDD thats plugged into the Deck. is this possible? plug and play basically. thank you.
@Darkuni 29 днів тому
You COULD ... But I don't typically recommend it. The mounting of internal storage and the internal microSD card are handled quite well by the OS. External drives do seem to occasionally have mounting issues. I would certainly use the virtual symlink for the install as shown. Then you can change easily - even if your external drive takes on a new mount point!
@TomLally 29 днів тому
@@Darkuni thank you so much for the speedy reply! So it’s best to just stick in a SD card? Would you recommend putting in a new one just for emulation? Thanks so much again
@Darkuni 29 днів тому
@@TomLally I'm not the biggest fan of the microSD slot on the Deck. I am not sure it would handle a ton of ins and outs. I would put a nice big SD card (if you can swing a SanDisk Extreme - that's recommended).
@TomLally 29 днів тому
@@Darkuni Awhh so do this via a USB C to SD card reader? Or even my Ugreen hub thing? Sorry for all these questions. I want to get this right to the T.
@Darkuni 29 днів тому
@@TomLally Probably easier to answer your questions in our Discord ...
@akasavitar3661 13 днів тому
I did that been up for hrs I can’t get it to work with es like I actually have the games in es but it’s fine I can still play doe thanks 🙏
@_WolfeRacing Місяць тому
When I am hitting custom I am getting a different file directory than Dolphin?
@80skidsgaming Місяць тому
Please sir 🙏! Make a pegasus setup video. Thanking you in advance.
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Thank you for the request.
@sichambers9011 23 дні тому
I've been using dolphin for game cube emulation and some of the control schemes are awful. Because I've used the Emulation station front end, does that mean i cant set up deck profiles for individual emulated titles? On the steam input ES seems to have various action sets for different emulators yet i cant see one for Dolphin which is odd. Do you have any suggestions as to how to get steam control profiles for individual titles and whether steam input will work with emulated titles the same as regular steam games?
@Darkuni 23 дні тому
I don't use Dolphin much, but Emulation Station has its own per-emulator based input settings. If you want to depart from them, you're going to need to create your own input switching (someday I might do a video on that) or you're going to need to inject the game into Steam and use Steam Input from there. Hope that makes sense.
@helpzeagedzimmerframegamer2818 Місяць тому
Hiya wonder if you can help. Upgraded to esde v3 few days back after having a fully working emustation. Have finally got it back to where its about to run "scanning games" it gets half way through the process and just crashes the app. Any ideas? Any and all help would be amazing as its now making my brain ache cheers
@Darkuni Місяць тому
This is something new to me. I haven't seen this. My guess is that one of your games has an odd filename and it is blowing up ES DE. Check ES DE's log file for any clues as to what is crashing it.
@degas_ 17 днів тому
I was hoping you will also cover crazy controller templates EmuDeck put on the last update, but nothing about it… Don’t get them at all, maybe you could round 2 and speak about that? Thanks!
@Darkuni 17 днів тому
Can you give me an example? I hadn't noticed this change ...?
@Lay... Місяць тому
Ps2 gfx settings would be good to see. Seeing a few games struggle to run at times
@Darkuni Місяць тому
PS2 is just like that. Once you hit that generation, performance is typically on a "game by game" basis. :(
@SaniSmiles_ Місяць тому
Thank you for the tutorial! I can see the game in ES-DE but when I launch it, it'll just go back to the ES-DE main page again... What could it be? There aren't any ROM alternatives and I also have the according BIOS
@Darkuni Місяць тому
You'll need to look at the esde log file and see what it says isn't working.
@SaniSmiles_ Місяць тому
@@Darkuni where can I find that? 🥹
@Darkuni Місяць тому
@@SaniSmiles_ ~/ES-DE/logs
@SaniSmiles_ Місяць тому
@@Darkuni ok thanks! I looked but it just seems to tell me where it got the data from, but no error 🤔
@Darkuni Місяць тому
@@SaniSmiles_ At this point, I'd drop into our Discord and someone can help you there.
@crysomemore2335 14 днів тому
I really don't understand the concept of Symlink, but is this something I'm going to want to do if I keep everything on internal storage with no plan on upgrading or using an SD card? Thanks in advance :)
@Darkuni 14 днів тому
That's a bold statement to make :) We all start off making similar promises - then? Well, you know. If you're going to never ever EVER change where EmuDeck is going to be installed, and NEVER want to use multiple storage devices for EmuDeck support files? Choose internal. But this is a good exercise if nothing else - and future proofs you with really no downside - other than a few minutes of your time.
@crysomemore2335 14 днів тому
Sounds good. I have various devices for various things, and I'm getting a Steam Deck from my sister and I'm solely using it for portable emulation and am 100% positive the internal space is sufficient. I just dont fully understand what a Symlink does so i am not sure if there's a point to making one if I set up with internal storage. I'm not new to emulation but I'm a complete noob with both Steamdeck and Linux lol so excuse my noob questions 😅
@Darkuni 14 днів тому
@@crysomemore2335 A symlink is a "fake folder" that links somewhere else. So you can create a symlink folder (let's call it EmuVirtual) that points to some folder on your current SD card (let's say it is named "Retro Roms". Now let's say you want to have another SD card for new consoles like PS3. That card will have a different name (Windows uses drive letters, Linux uses mount paths). So you put the new card in, with the right folders and everything but Emudeck is completely broken. This is because all the paths you set up (without a symlink) no longer are there ... what used to be run/media/desk/retroroms ... is now run/media/deck/ps3games ... nothing works. With the symlink? You just point the symlink to the new card and BOOM ... everything continues to work as it should. EmuDeck expects you to forever and ever use the exact same path - but that doesn't always work out.
@crysomemore2335 14 днів тому
@@Darkuni That clears up so much. Thank you!!
@crysomemore2335 14 днів тому
So last question, and I hope to stop pestering you! What am I doing when I want to use a second SD card? Am I having to change anything about the symlink if the new SD card has a different mount path. Im completely new to the steam os, so im sure once i fiddle with itll start to click. I'm sure this is way more simple than I'm making it. Im setting it all up tomorrow, so I'm excited, yet a little cautious. Want it to be right the first time 😅
@superdragon4ever Місяць тому
I made a sudo password a while back when I was trying to get powertools all setup for emudeck but unfortunately I forgot it. Is there a solution?
@Darkuni Місяць тому
I have a reset video ...
@andresturge Місяць тому
Can u pls help me, my game shows up in steam rom manager but doesnt show up in the emulator folder i have to search and add it .
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Not 100% sure the question here. Drop by our Discord and join #steam-deck and throw some more details in there.,..
@SM-pv4sn 9 днів тому
Great tutorial, but unfortunately ES isn't detecting any games despite the directories being setup, roms in place. I see it's a fairly common issue with it just not working for some people. Various random fixes work for some people, and for others nothing ever works.
@SM-pv4sn 9 днів тому
Solution for myself was uninstalling/reinstalled Emulation Station. Oddly, works now.
@Darkuni 9 днів тому
There's nobody we haven't been able to fix. If you are of the mind, join our discord and let us help.
@TheCompton2010 Місяць тому
My external sd card path just says “/run/media/deck/external” and doesn’t give a u inquest device #
@Darkuni Місяць тому
The number is issued to any device that is mounted that doesn't have a name. Most people do not name their SD cards; so the system assigns it a unique, long winded ID. If you put a different card in, it would have a different name (or a number).
@Gnalysis 15 днів тому
So how do I convert iso files to proper PS3 files?
@Darkuni 15 днів тому
When you dump your PS3 games, you elect the format to save them in. Use JBFOLDERS instead of ISO. Should be fine. I do not know of a "converter" to do so.
@VEN0VA 23 дні тому
Controls arn't work properly by default with duckstation, either they are digital and you cannot use sticks, or it's messed up and pressing B brings up the Duckstation menu.
@Darkuni 23 дні тому
I would use gaming mode....
@goodrobotdesign Місяць тому
I hope emulation station come out for the modded switch
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Honestly, shocked it isn't ...
@goodrobotdesign Місяць тому
@@Darkuni there is a version over Ubuntu switch. Too much trouble idk.
@jasonm5230 17 днів тому
I’m having an issue to where cemu emulator recognizes my games but steam Tom manager and emulation station do not. What’s going on here?
@Darkuni 15 днів тому
Does Emulation Station see your games?
@Rubayeth123 Місяць тому
I recently updated Emudeck. For the emulator that starts with Y, whenever I try to run one of the games through emudeck, it doesn't run and gives an error saying, 'Error: couldn't find emulator 'Ryujinx'... But I don't have that Ryujinx installed and don't want to use it. Do you know how I could fix this? I have checked to see if I have all the files in the correct location for Y, as shown in your video.
@Darkuni Місяць тому
If you're using steam rom manager? I can't really help you. Emulation station? I can help you out there.
@Darkuni Місяць тому
@@Rubayeth123 ... and you used the settings change as I show in the video? It should be working ...
@Rubayeth123 Місяць тому
@@Darkuni which particular setting change are you talking about. I checked and did the part in 19:34 again
@Rubayeth123 Місяць тому
At 20:10 I clicked the file and Y ran normally. Emulation station doesnt seem to want to run Y or detect it.
@Darkuni Місяць тому
@@Rubayeth123 Crap, I may have clipped that out by accident. You need to change the default emulator. MAIN MENU->OTHER SETTINGS->ALTERNATIVE EMULATORS ... I'm guessing you can figure it out from there.
@SpartanOfLuxon 21 день тому
You stopped right before talking about Emudecky. I can't for the life of me figure out how to install emudecky after the initial install
@georgecalderon6024 23 години тому
Damn this is already old looks totally different today. I updated this crap and now theres nothing in my collections folder thanks emudeck
@georgecalderon6024 22 години тому
For those in the same boat getting the " I don't do emulation" response....ok yth u buy a steamdeck that's what it's for...anyway Go ahead and uninstall and then reinstall emudeck. Then after that, do the same with emulation station. Everything went back to normal for ME after that. Good luck.
@Darkuni 11 годин тому
@@georgecalderon6024 Gonna say .. last I looked, this video was still current. Glad you got it worked out.
@CodySmiley Місяць тому
Switch not working. What about firmware files for yuzu...
@Darkuni Місяць тому
I'm sorry. There is no way to discuss Switch firmware files that isn't blatant piracy. I can't really discuss that here.
@zelda574 13 днів тому
Hello i downloaded emudeck but everytime i get to this bit at 1:56, a pop up says ‘oops😔 there was an error, please restart EmuDeck’ which i have done twice now but it keeps popping up, each time it takes forever for it to download again so it’s rather annoying, do you know anyway to resolve this issue? It won’t let me click on anything on this page 1:56 when I click close on the pop up either so I can’t do anything there sadly
@Darkuni 13 днів тому
I haven't seen this before. Where are you installing? Are you 100% sure you have free space?
@zelda574 13 днів тому
@@Darkuni wow thank you for the speedy reply :D - my storage says I have 64 GB left and I installed it on to my desktop like in the video- I just looked at the Konsole page and it says (in red) Unhandled rejection Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir ‘/home/deck/.config/EmuDeck/backend/store/genesis/‘ It says this 8 time in red, I don’t know if that’s helpful information or not but thought I’d mention it I didn’t see it till now
@Darkuni 13 днів тому
@@zelda574 Try a full power cycle - shut it down, bring it back up (the deck). Try again.
@zelda574 13 днів тому
@@Darkuni thank you !! It worked now! After turning it off and on 2 times it finally worked!! Now I can play game that I used to love on my steam deck thank you so much !!!!
@my-king 3 дні тому
I have the exact same issue. I'll shut down again. My third time. Hopefully it'll fix. Glad I'm not the only one.
@kevinkraftable 24 дні тому
why wont my emulation station open up? i click and nothing happens. same with emudeck store.
@Darkuni 24 дні тому
You injected it into Steam?
@kevinkraftable 24 дні тому
@@Darkuni im following along in your video and at that point it doesnt do anything. nothing pops up for me.
@Darkuni 23 дні тому
@@kevinkraftable Can you give me the timestamp of the video where you're experiencing issues?
@kevinkraftable 23 дні тому
@@Darkuni about 8:20 8:40 where I’m suppose to restart and I do but it never changes from that screen. Can’t get emulation station to do anything. No pop up. Nothing. And also now starting up Emudeck I keep getting an error message and it won’t go away. I have tried uninstalling emudeck and reinstalling but it’s still giving the same error message. Is there a way to wipe emudeck completely from my deck? Maybe I’m not wiping it completely. Let me find the error message exactly real quick too.
@kevinkraftable 23 дні тому
@@Darkuni Enoent: no such file or directory. Get this over and over again.
@rap-sheet Місяць тому
Y*** won't detect any input from my controller - also it won't save control configs
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Not sure how to direct you. Did you reset the emulator's config after re-enabling it?
@nothingspecial12344 Місяць тому
way above my pay grade.
@Adam2Boa 27 днів тому
plsssssssssssssss give pegasus tutorial video on streamdeck
@Darkuni 27 днів тому
I shall consider ... you're not the only one to ask
@Darkuni 27 днів тому
I'm curious what about Pegasus is attractive to you?
@yngvie659 Місяць тому
Where do I get bios?
@yngvie659 Місяць тому
I’ve never had this problem before I’ve done it with the old emudeck but for some stupid reason, I have no bios after downloading emudeck.
@yngvie659 Місяць тому
OK so it was weird I have to hit like uninstall like I’m gonna uninstall emudeck and then cancel halfway and then it’ll send me to the bios and check all of them because I don’t know which ones to check and it gives me my bios
@yngvie659 Місяць тому
Nope after I did that I checked bios and they were all green I hit the exit button and it’s gone
@yngvie659 Місяць тому
So to fix it, I just deleted emudeck and just start over hopefully that’ll fix it still installing it so I’ll see.
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Alas, BIOS are copyrighted content - you're going to have to find that on your own. :)
@0SCUBS Місяць тому
ES-DE won’t launch...
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Try re-injecting it ...
@0SCUBS Місяць тому
Yep, I watched your other video, got it figured out, thanks king.@@Darkuni
@bigvic71C Місяць тому
Do you know how to fix this? ukposts.info/have/v-deo/j11mp6d6amNzs58.htmlsi=npEkkEkLPZKZuIW7 I updated emudeck. Everything was working fine before update.
@Darkuni Місяць тому
The usual reason this happens is that there is an update pending; either on a proton version or the system has an update. I can't imagine EmuDeck having any bearing on this.
@DAJANITORRS Місяць тому
Lmao little demons
@keithbolves278 Місяць тому
This is a beginner guide??? I’d hate to see the advanced guide.
@Darkuni Місяць тому
Yep. The advance guide is gruesome. That's when we dig into XML and JSON files to do stuff :D
@miguelsuarez9876 Місяць тому
trying to do this tutorial without a mouse on my steam deck is impossible , yikes .... just saying
@Darkuni Місяць тому
There is a reason for the intro card lol
@miguelsuarez9876 Місяць тому
@@Darkuni I don't get it 🤔
@Darkuni Місяць тому
@@miguelsuarez9876 The very first 5 seconds of the video I say mouse and keyboard highly recommended lol
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