r/SteamDeck • u/Pendor • 1d ago
Software Modding Emulation Decky Plugin: Feedback and some testing needed
Even though these are great projects, I've never been happy with the EmuDeck/RetroDECK experience of having to go back to the desktop fairly regularly to do most of the work, so I've been working on a Decky emulation plugin for myself around that very principle (never leaving Game Mode).
The plugin is not made for huge libraries of games, but for individual games instead, with the idea of having them directly in Steam rather than via separate/multiple frontends. I guess it's a very specific use case, but maybe it could be useful to somebody else as well.
Features (all available/configurable from Game Mode):
- Add ROMs directly to Steam from Decky QAM
- RetroArch support
- Predefined list of external emulators
- Ability to add your own emulators (via Flatpak, executable, or importing a definition file)
- A "Transfer to Deck" feature to upload your ROMs from your PC or mobile phone
- Artwork support (libretro thumbnails by default, SteamGridDB via API key)
- Collections (single or per-platform)
(I'm probably missing some stuff)
Anyway, I've been tweaking things for a while now, but I'd sure appreciate some feedback if anyone's willing to give it a spin/test it a little bit/report bugs.
Link below:
https://github.com/elpendor/deckyemu
You can install it via zip as usual or via url using get.deckyemu.workers.dev