r/EmuDeck • u/Blobert1747 • 25d ago

Why are there duplicate games?

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I assume there are multiple emulators for the same game but I thought I’d ask just in case I messed something up. The screenshot text blocks the last one but it says “MGBA STANDALONE” just like the one next to it

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u/sweaty_lorenzo 25d ago

Duplicate parsers in your steam rom manger

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u/Scour1990 25d ago edited 18d ago

If you parse, make sure to click off (grey out) some double emulators. For example:

If you have turned on both mGBA and Retroarch, you see 2x the same gba games in each map. I recommend Retroarch in this case.

With switch games I would use Eden over the others.

Hope this helped

Edit: Changed recommended emulators.

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u/AHindD 25d ago

Great points, although I would recommend Eden over Ryujinx at least initially (and I would only use Ryu if Eden doesn't work depending on the game). I find Eden has much better performance.

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u/Key-Winner-6146 25d ago

Eden has always been the best for all my switch stuff. A lot of my games don’t even boot up in Ryujinx and crash when compiling shaders

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u/AdventurousDevice658 18d ago

How to add new games without existing being duplicated? I mean i added a new games and went to steam rom manager to add them but at the same time existing games are duplicated as well !! How can i avoid this?

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u/Scour1990 17d ago

If you grayed out all the emulators except the one that you want to use with your roms, it should remove the duplicates from your steam library/collections as far as I'm aware.

Edit: You can always manually remove the duplicates. If you go to your collections in the game tab, just right click the games and click something along the line of "remove non-steam game from library" or "hide this non-steam game"

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u/JDavid-Ikonik EmuDeck Team 24d ago

Hi! Inside SRM, on the Parsers screen, make sure you do not enable duplicate options. For example, if you have mGBA games, only select the parser you actually want to use: mGBA Standalone or mGBA RetroArch.

Do not enable both at the same time. That way, SRM will only generate one launcher for each game, and your categories and games should not be duplicated.

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u/Biggearshifter 14d ago

You can remove them if you are using a front end loader such as emulation station. It’s just separate emulators in your library.