EmuDeck is a collection of scripts that allows you to autoconfigure your Steam Deck, it creates your roms directory structure and downloads all of the needed Emulators for you along with the best configurations for each of them. EmuDeck works great with Steam Rom Manager or with EmulationStation DE
** If you are a dev please read till the bottom **
There are two ways of using EmuDeck:
This option gives you all your games presented with their box arts as if they were a regular Steam Game. EmuDeck has preloaded configurations for Steam Rom Manager for the following systems:
| System | Emulator | Roms format |
|---|---|---|
| Atari 2600 | Retroarch Stella core | .7z .a26 .bin .zip |
| Atari Lynx | Retroarch Beetle Lynx core | .7z .lnx .bin .zip |
| GameBoy | Retroarch Gambatte core | .7z .gb .dmg .zip |
| GameBoy Color | Retroarch Gambatte core | .7z .gb .gbc .dmg .zip |
| GameBoy Advance | Retroarch mGBA core | .7z .gba .zip |
| Dreamcast | Retroarch FlyCast Core | .7z .cdi .chd .cue .gdi |
| Final Burn Neo | Retroarch Fbn core | .zip .7z |
| Mame 2003 Plus | Retroarch Mame 2003 Plus core | .zip |
| Mame 2010 | Retroarch Mame 2010 core | .zip |
| Mame Current | Retroarch Mame Current core | .zip |
| Neo Geo Pocket & Color | Retroarch Beetle NeoPop | .7z .ngp .ngc .bin .zip |
| Nintendo GameCube | Dolphin Standalone | .ciso .dol .elf .gcm .gcz .iso .nkit .iso .rvz .wad .wia |
| Nintendo DS | Retroarch melonDS core | .7z .nds .zip |
| Nintendo 3DS | Citra | .3ds .3dsx .app .axf .cii .cxi .elf .cia |
| Nintendo NES | Retroarch Nestopia core | .7z .nes .fds .unf .unif .zip |
| Nintendo 64 | Retroarch Mupen64plus-Next | .7z .bin .n64 .ndd .u1 .v64 .z64 .zip |
| Nintendo GameCube | Dolphin Standalone | .ciso .dol .elf .gcm .gcz .iso .nkit .iso .rvz .wad .wia .wbfs |
| Nintendo Wii | Dolphin Standalone | .ciso .dol .elf .gcm .gcz .iso .json .nkit .iso .rvz .wad .wia .wbfs |
| Nintendo Wii U | Cemu | .rpx .wud .wux .elf .iso .wad |
| Nintendo Switch | Yuzu | .kp .nca .nro .nso .nsp .xci |
| Super Nintendo | Retroarch Snes9x Current core | .7z .bs .fig .sfc .smc .swx .zip |
| Super Nintendo Widescreen | Retroarch bsnes hd beta Current core | .7z .bs .fig .sfc .smc .swx .zip |
| PrimeHacks | Dolphin PrimeHacks | .ciso .dol .elf .gcm .gcz .iso .json .nkit .iso .rvz .wad .wia .wbfs |
| Playstation | DuckStation | .cue .chd .ecm .iso .m3u .mds .pbp |
| Playstation 2 | RPCSX2 | .bin .chd .cso .dump .gz .img .iso .mdf .nrg |
| Playstation 3 | RPCS3 | /PS3_GAME/USRDIR/eboot.bin |
| PSP | PPSSPP & PPSSPP Retroarch core | .7z .elf .cso .iso .pbp .prx |
| Sega 32X | Retroarch PicoDrive core | .7z .32x .bin .zip |
| Sega CD | Retroarch Genesis Plus GX core | .7z .32x .cue .chd .iso .zip |
| Sega Game Gear | Retroarch Genesis Plus GX core | .7z .gg .zip |
| Sega Genesis / Mega Drive | Retroarch Genesis Plus GX core | .7z .gen .md .smd .zip |
| Sega Genesis Widescreen | Retroarch Genesis Plus GX Wide core | .7z .gen .md .smd .zip |
| Sega Master System | Retroarch Genesis Plus GX core | .7z .gen .sms .zip |
| Sega Saturn | Retroarch Yabause core | .7z .cue .iso .chd .zip |
| Wonderswan & Color | Retroarch Beetle Cygne core | .7z .pc2 .ws .wsc .zip |
| Xbox | xemu | .iso (xiso format) |
EmuDeck configures EmulationStation DE to use the same rom folders that EmuDeck creates for you and it even downloads all the emulators and cores the ES-DE needs, all configurations that EmuDeck installs are carried over when using EmulationStation DE. For a comprehensive list of all the systems that ESDE supports go to ES-DE
We try to use the same hotkeys for every emulator but some of them have their own different hotkeys, shown here:
| Hotkey | RetroArch | Dolphin | Citra * | Cemu * | Yuzu | PCSX2 * | RPCS3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menu | L3 + R3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Exit | Select + Start | Select + Start | R5 | Select + Start | Select + Start | STEAM Button | STEAM Button |
| Pause/Unpause Emulation | Select + A | Select + A | - | - | Select + A | - | |
| Fast Forward | Select + R2 | Select | - | - | Select + R2 | Select + R4 | - |
| Load State | Select + L1 | Select + L1 | - | - | - | Select + L1 | - |
| Save State | Select + R1 | Select + R1 | - | - | - | Select + R1 | - |
| Full Screen | - | - | L4 | - | - | - | - |
| Swap Screens | - | - | R4 | R4 | - | - | - |
| Toggle Layout | - | - | L5 | - | - | - | - |
Note that Nintendo-oriented emulators refer to "A" in the emulated sense (physical Steam Deck "B") * You need to activate Steam Input to get those hotkeys to work https://www.emudeck.com/#steam_input
If you wanna help us improve EmuDeck we are open to accept your PR! Just keep in mind this simple guide:
- Think EmuDeck is for everybody, tech savvy and regular users, so everything has to be properly explained, use Easy mode for unattended automatic stuff.
- User input is non recommended, everything should be done with no mouse or keyboard input. If input is a must then you have to code your feature only on expert mode.
- Things using sudo are a big no no, there are exceptions but always try to find a way of prevent using sudo.
- Every Emulator added has to be included on this readme file, have a SRM profile and follow the AmberElec hotkey mapping ( just check the previous table)
- Always do your PR to the dev branch.