• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Well, it’s a great machine for emulators, for one. I setup Retrodeck as a single flatpak, then was able to dump my ROM collection into some folders and it used EmulationStation Desktop Edition combined with some pre-defined mappings and pre-configured emulators to have a retropie-style interface with almost no setup effort on my end (and the setup you do do is well documented on their site).

    Now I have my entire library of games, new and old, available to play on a machine with super comfortable controls built-in, in a smaller form factor than a laptop plus controller.

    And this is coming from a guy with Moonlight installed on my AndroidTV so I can stream my main gaming rig to it.

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        1 year ago

        Couple reasons:

        RetroDeck is a flatpak and EmuDeck is basically a script that installs a bunch of custom stuff directly and configures it. I like the flatpak ecosystem and it makes more sense to me to do it that way so it’s self-contained. Seems like it’d be cleaner to remove/update/move the installation and less likely to break due to a SteamOS update

        EmuDeck is working on Windows/ROG Ally support, while RetroDeck is just for Linux and dev priorities are still fully focused on the Deck

        RetroDeck supports a couple fewer systems than EmuDeck, but they both cover all of the ones I care about personally.

        RetroDeck is also more closely partnered with EmulationStation-DE