Depends a lot on the games and compatibility. As mentioned Switch is definitely emulateable and often runs great but it heavily depends on the title.
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bulwark@lemmy.world 7 months agoOut of curiosity what is the most modern system you are able to emulate on a steam deck. I’ve dabbled in MAME and PSX before, but is there a decent PS3 one?
shrodes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
A dude I work with just showed me PS3 emulation on the Steamdeck and it’s LUDICROUSLY good. I was shocked.
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
Only started getting good recently. PS3 is an especially difficult system to emulate.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
You’re not wrong at all. I tried a few years ago on a high end machine with awful results. Now, thanks to incredible devs, even a lil Steamdeck can run tons of games better than an actual PS3.
spudwart@spudwart.com 7 months ago
I’ve been able to Emulate the Switch and Wii U on the deck. So, the steamdeck can probably do as far as the ps3/Xbox 360 era, maybe ps4 and Xbox one, but that’s a big maybe
sp6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
On the Playstation side, RPCS3 is the PS3 emulator, it’s great. There are some experimental PS4 emulators, but they aren’t ready yet.
On the Xbox side, Xenia works well as an Xbox 360 emulator; it’s not linux native though, but it might work well under wine. I’m not aware of Xbox One (or later) emulators.
On the Nintendo side, I would be surprised if a Nintendo game that couldn’t be emulated exists. Even Switch games run very well on day 1 of release.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, don’t take this guy face value. These systems don’t emulate excellently at all. It definitely emulates perfectly up to GameCube and PS2 though.
MudMan@kbin.social 7 months ago
Sorry, I had responded but also missed the "Steam Deck" qualifier. To be clear, the poster you're responding to is absolutely right in general terms, but performance will be an issue for 360 and probably PS3 on the Deck.
steeznson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It depends on the game. Dolphin seem to be struggling with movie tie-in Gamecube games still judging by some of their blog posts. There was some awful game called Haunted Mansion or similar that they couldn’t get working because playing it to find the bugs was such a chore.
MudMan@kbin.social 7 months ago
No, he's pretty much right on the money. It takes a bit more performance and the setup is much harder and more annoying, since there's a bunch of encryption and account stuff to spoof, but short of annoying compilation stutters, most modern gaming PCs can manage it.
Compatibility depends on the system. The PS Vita is very spotty, 360 isn't fully there, but WiiU and Switch are nearly perfect and PS3 games are much more likely to work than not.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve got some PS2 games to run well, some don’t run well at all. Anything below that is great.
So what I’ve got is: NES, SNES, Genesis and Master System, PS1, PSP and then PS2 as a hit and miss.
I’ve not tried anything aside from those yet on the Steam Deck.
chepox@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Would you be able to run AetherSX2 (android PS2 emulator) somehow on the deck to run ps2 games? That app runs a lot of then pretty well on Android phones.
sp6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For Deck, you’ll likely be using EmuDeck for your emulation setup, which will install PCSX2 for PS2 games.
You can see the other available EmuDeck emulators here: emudeck.github.io/…/steamos/#what-does-emudeck-in…
chepox@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Holy crap that is pretty much all the emulators in EmuDeck.
If you do not see an emulator in the list above, it is likely installed as a Retroarch core.!<