With EmuDeck we can enjoy any retro game on any console on the Steam Deck, without having to configure controls, apply performance improvements, complex installations and more, since it takes care of everything absolutely do. The only thing we need to do is copy the ROMs of the video games we want to play.
Retro gaming emulator for Steam Deck
Thanks to EmuDeck we can enjoy any video game of Atari, MAME, Mega Drive, Game Boy, PSP, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 2, Nintendo 64, Neo Geo, Wii U, Nintendo Switch and much more, provided there is already an emulator on the market for one console in which the video game was released. Once the application is launched, the library of titles is automatically updated to display the latest ones that we have copied and, from the main screen, we must choose the console of the titles that we have.
The app supports set by default all control buttons, so just launch the game and use the buttons displayed on the screen to be able to interact and use fast forward, save, load saved copies and exit game functions without closing the application.
If you want to get the most out of it and want to know the whole process and also modify it, you can choose the Custom option during installation to customize resolution to which we want to be shown the video games of the emulators that we are going to use.
Adding new titles is as simple as copying it to the device’s memory card and updating the library so that it automatically detects new titles and displays them with the original video game cover.
EmuDeck is a project Open source created and maintained by the community of video game enthusiasts, it is therefore available completely free of charge, like all console emulators. To download EmuDeck, we just have to click on the operating system that we are going to use to carry out the installation, whether it is the SteamOS, QuimeraOS, Linux or Windows distributions, although the latter is in the beta phase. The video that we show you below shows the steps to follow to install from Windows.
The developers of this emulator are working on a version for Android which they will release in the coming months. If you own an iOS device, there is no need to wait because Apple prohibits any type of content related to emulators.
At that time a file is downloaded that we must run to download the latest version available for our PC’s operating system and that we will use to install the emulators and ROMs of the titles we want to play.
If we have any questions during the installation process or how it works, the developer EmuDeck invites us to join his Discord channel from here or take a look at the Wiki of this project available on GitHub.
