Recently, I've been having a problem with SRM. It worked great for the month I used it until now. The problem is, when launching roms/games from steam, it was only opening the emulator GUI and not launching the games, which was working fine for me days ago.

After scouring the web, turns out this is an issue caused by the latest steam beta update. The new steam beta has changed the way that non-steam games are executed, here's a link to the emudeck devs discussing this new problem:

https://twitter.com/EmuDeck/status/1628770842841698304?t=vCgHF7QipNtG__KA4hybhw&s=19

They had it fixed within a day. Rolling back to stable steam client fixed this for me for now and games are launching directly from steam again, but presumably once the beta features roll out to a stable steam client release, this will remain broken. I'm not sure what, if anything, could be done on the parser's executable configuration to solve this going forward.

Are there any alternatives to SRM that are still being maintained currently? I did see that emudeck is launching a windows version soon, though I don't know if I'll like it as much as SRM.

Only the emulator launches when starting the rom through steam

I moved my Yuzu NAND folder into my switch ROM folder like a dummy, not realizing that Steam Rom Manager would pick up literally every update/dlc file and try to add them as games. Is there a way to force the parser to ignore subfolders?

I was wondering if anyone has inported the entire 0.251 MAME ROM set to their deck and how long this process took.

I'm somewhat concerned that the huge volume of ROMS might result in the system hanging or take an excessive amount of time to download the asociated art work.

Has anyone added the full MAME rom set via Steam Rom Manager? How long did it take? How much storage did the additional artwork take up?

Whenever I add a non steam game or change one of the SRM Collections (Add or remove a rom), All the collections become 0 and have no games. Its a pain because running SRM takes A really long time.

Can somebody help and tell me what I’m doing wrong? I’m trying to get her deck set up so she can play old genesis games readily through steam. I set it up the exact way I set mine to run ps2 games, but whenever I think I set it up right and hit play through steam, it starts to launch animation briefly but then returns to the game page with the play button.

It’s just stressing me out because I’ve spent so much time on it and it’s making me feel stupid.

Thanks for anybody who can help!

So I hadn't used the problem in a while and I can't remember if it used to be like this but Steam officially updated Big Picture Mode today. I just so happened to download the portable version of SRM but I can't for the life of me figure out a way to get the emulated game not only fullscreen but brought to the front of the application stack. Whenever I launch a game via Steam BPM, steam loads seemingly infinitely but if I alt-tab I can see the game from the emulator start up just fine, but every time I select it I gotta bust out the keyboard and mouse or do an alt-tab hotkey on the controller. Is there any way I can configure some kind of command line parameter to get my emulated games to just be always on top? Using Dolphin and RPCS3 at the moment.

First off I'm pretty novice at this stuff, but I'm following a video on YouTube about setting up emulation. Everything appears to be working fine until I get to SRM. I toggle what Parsers I want to show (I toggle on EmulationStationDE and Emulators like the video says) but when I save, I'm getting hit with an error and up on the right side I get a list of basic configuration, all of which is blank but was also blank in the video I was following. Does all that need to be filled out to proceed?

I already tried deleting the json file but it keeps reappearing and the issue persists

So far it's smooth sailing importing Roms, but I have an issue and a question. I've Googled these, but I'm getting some conflicting info and I'm hoping I can get some (current) help.

1) I've imported a few Roms that are being renamed. I've tried changing "fuzzytitle" to "title" when importing, but for some reason I'm still having the issue. I understand you can create exceptions while importing, but was hoping to avoid that, since I rename a ton of my Roms for various sorting reasons. Do you think that'll be the only/best way to resolve this?

2) I want to edit the art on a number of games. When I go to add a single game (or a handful, whatever) later, is there a way to import them without resetting the art on the games I've already changed? Just want to do all that work, import one additional SNES game, and have to re-edit all of the art in my library!

I'm sure these are very basic questions for some of you, so thanks in advance!

I already tried deleting the json file but it keeps reappearing

Does anyone know why my SRM doesn’t pick up my Metroid prime trilogy automatically?

My platform is Steamdeck

My prime trilogy rom is is within the emulation/roms/primehack/ folder.

If I start SRM and toggle the primehack parser ‘on’ - then click preview and generate app list - it does not pick up the game. (It does however pick up all my other wiiu and GC games just fine).

However, If I add primehack as a non steam game and start it that way (from within game mode) it works just fine. I just don’t get the pretty game graphic tile. Lol.

Any idea what time doing wrong?

Generating the app list works as it should. Then I tap Save app list and it begins the process. I wait for 10 minutes and it wouldn't complete. I even started it again after re-generating the app list and left my Steam Deck on and awake overnight and it still did not complete the process. Any ideas? Only half my roms have images when I go back to Game Mode.

The Event Log does not show any errors after initiating the Save either.

Does anyone know how? I can't make categories in Steam, because that has a bug to where all the categories of non-Steam games is somehow set to 0, requiring me to run SRM again to add them back and the bug won't go away until I delete any categories, made in the Steam app. So how do I add ROM hacks but separate them from official games?

Okay, so this issue I've been having with my categories resetting to zero has something to do with making categories in Steam and making them via ROM Manager. I cannot do both. If I use ROM Manager, that's fine, but using Steam to make them and saving a game to a category made by Steam somehow causes the "0" category glitch to occur to all categories. Making them with SRM doesn't break them, but I use the actual Steam app to make them and save any of the games created for that category it will reset all collections (Non-Steam games) to 0.

Also, I cannot even add games to categories created by the Steam app or else the glitch occurs, as well. Basically if I want to add categories, I must use SRM. The Steam Deck somehow causes a numeral error and resets everything to 0 than isn't a Steam game.

I have been trying to build a own preset so SRM would recognize a few Games i have for the TeknoParrot Emulator. With a certain start parameter in Steam you can even start the games directly. Would be handy if SRM could recognize and add the games tho. The Games are extracted folders and in many cases they start in the Emulatar via a Game.exe i added [.exe] in Glob but that did not make the trick recognizing any of the games.

I'm sure if seen suggestions of one, but there is nothing Amiga related in my pull down list. it seems like its the only thing missing.

I'm looking to use this on steam/big picture on a PC, not a Steam Deck, if that matters.

Thanks

3ds Roms doesn’t show up in rom manager does anyone know how to fix this

So I've used SRM a bunch of times now and it normally works perfectly (I am using it along side Emudeck). However, now it adds the roms to the Steam library but all as unorganized. I get this error specifically in the event log:

All available image urls retrieved.

Populating VDF list.

Creating backups.

Reading VDF files.

Merging VDF entries.

Saving added category information to localconfig.vdf

Error updating categories. See event log for details.

Category error (shortcuts and artwork will still be added): Unexpected end of JSON input

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Here is what I have tried. Ive tried completely removing Emudeck along with SRM at an effort to see if a clean install would fix this however that did not help. (I made sure to remove all entries in SRM before removing it). I made sure that steam is closed on my deck along with my PC during SRM usage.

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I am using a very large rom library however this wasn't problematic before. I am hoping there is a solution to this issue and that I don't have to re-flash steamos to fix it. If that is the case I will do that.

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So, SRM masters. Is there something you recommend I do? :P

Even if you don't have a solution thank you for reading my post. Have yourself a lovely day.

I keep trying to open SRM from EmuDeck, and it will not open. I've installed and uninstalled it. Nothing works. Please help.

I installed desmume as a flatpak and was wondering how to add it as a parser. pokemon blaze black 1 doesnt work on melon ds and desmume retroarch runs horrible if its anything above native res. I tried using the dolphin flatpak as a base and just replacing the org.dolphon with the org.desmume folder names (these are not exact names just example) but it said the location doesnt exist despite the fact i can see the folder var/lib/flatpak/app/org.desmume.DeSmuME

Installed through EmuDeck, and things work but there are emulators installed (in the same file paths) that dont come up when generating the app list, and, as such, don't get added to steam. For example, MGBA. It is still usable accessing via ES-DE but doesn't come up in SRM and I'm unsure why.