Steam Deck Thread

[chrisis123]

(05-11-2022, 05:47 PM)MayImilae Wrote: If you want to make it easier, you can set up profiles in Dolphin for the Wii games, and bind those to hotkeys. Then you can bind a Menu (of whichever type you prefer) to the left trackpad with all of those hotkeys. So any time you swap games, just touch the left trackpad and you're done~

Coming from the Steam Controller I can say with confidence that you should never underestimate the usefulness of that left trackpad!

I never had a Steam Controller and I'm still slightly overwhelmed with the various controller options But I'm mostly playing Gamecube games on the go/in bed anyway and for these the controls usually are perfectly fine...

[AdmiralCurtiss]

(05-11-2022, 05:49 PM)MayImilae Wrote: Emudeck makes it hard to tell exactly what versions it uses for things, but it has Retroarch all over its page. Can you provide some evidence that it isn't using Retroarch?

https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck/blob/main/install.sh#L741-L749

Seems it is indeed using flatpak, but I agree they're not very clear about that on their homepage.

Regarding the framepacing issues someone mentioned in another thread, I'm guessing it's because they default-enable Immediate XFB:
https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck/blob/main/configs/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu/config/dolphin-emu/GFX.ini#L15

[AdmiralCurtiss]

They also ship with pre-configured analytics. =/ At least they removed their analytics ID a few weeks ago?
https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck/commit/6f0a4a4d2d780e6c0ad216e140f7077ab4329181

[Shonumi]

(05-11-2022, 05:17 PM)chrisis123 Wrote: one thing I wish was available on Dolphin (in general, not only on the Deck) would be a per-game control scheme set up, as it's a bit of a pain switching control schemes for each game (for Gamecube it's mostly not necessary, but for Wii games, especially motion emulation is a bit of a pain to set up...)

Dolphin supports this already. Take a look here: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=GameINI_(Controller_Settings)

You'd have to setup a specific controller profile first, then point to that in the INI file for that game.

Also keep in mind that Dolphin supports swapping controller profiles via hotkeys, so if you only have a couple of profiles, you can quickly switch between them.

To be fair, I haven't used either of these features, so I don't know exactly how they work, so if I'm off base, someone will kindly correct me

[jacke9708]

(05-11-2022, 03:43 PM)MayImilae Wrote: You should install Dolphin through the Discover app in desktop mode. Dolphin supports Linux natively, you don't need proton!

the emudeck seem to use the discover dolphin app as it says it is already installed, thats the one thats stuttering.

[jacke9708]

(05-11-2022, 11:52 PM)AdmiralCurtiss Wrote: https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck/blob/main/install.sh#L741-L749

Seems it is indeed using flatpak, but I agree they're not very clear about that on their homepage.

Regarding the framepacing issues someone mentioned in another thread, I'm guessing it's because they default-enable Immediate XFB:
https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck/blob/main/configs/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu/config/dolphin-emu/GFX.ini#L15

thanks for the tip with [color=#000000]Immediate XFB, sadly it stilll seems i'm getting those weird syutters every 10-20 seconds.[/color]

[chrisis123]

(05-12-2022, 12:09 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Dolphin supports this already. Take a look here: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=GameINI_(Controller_Settings)

You'd have to setup a specific controller profile first, then point to that in the INI file for that game.

Also keep in mind that Dolphin supports swapping controller profiles via hotkeys, so if you only have a couple of profiles, you can quickly switch between them.

To be fair, I haven't used either of these features, so I don't know exactly how they work, so if I'm off base, someone will kindly correct me

Ah thanks well looks a bit complicated to set up but I might try it when I have time, good to know that it exists nonetheless

[Leseratte10]

(05-11-2022, 11:58 PM)AdmiralCurtiss Wrote: They also ship with pre-configured analytics. =/ At least they removed their analytics ID a few weeks ago?
https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck/commit/6f0a4a4d2d780e6c0ad216e140f7077ab4329181

Yeah, I suggested they remove this analytics ID as well when they removed the hard-coded MAC address (because I did not want every SteamDeck user to connect to Wiimmfi with the same MAC address. Was part of my PR ( https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck/pull/54 ) which would have removed the "PermissionAsked" thing, too, but they decided to not merge that PR and instead just removed the ID and MAC. 

(05-12-2022, 12:09 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Dolphin supports this already. Take a look here: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=GameINI_(Controller_Settings)

You'd have to setup a specific controller profile first, then point to that in the INI file for that game.
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To be fair, I haven't used either of these features, so I don't know exactly how they work, so if I'm off base, someone will kindly correct me

That's exactly how I've set it up on my Steam Deck, and it's working great. Made three controller profiles in Dolphin (one for Classic Controller, one for sideways Wiimote, one for Wiimote + Nunchuk), and then added GameINI files for all of my games that each specify one controller config.

[chrisis123]

While this is not explicitely concerning the Steam Deck (it's more of a general Linux question) I assume most people like me are using the Flatpak version of Dolphin for the first time on Steam Deck (previously on Linux I always just compiled the latest git version myself).
Since the new Dolphin progress report has been posted recently and the beta was released for other platforms I was wondering how long it usually takes for the latest beta to be available from Flathub? Honestly my knowledge on how the flatpak format/flathub.org works is quite limited

Currently flathub.org still has 5.0-16101 on there, even though 5.0-16380 is the latest beta version.

[MayImilae]

I honestly don't know how long it takes. I wasn't paying attention the last time the flatpak was updated. ┐(´-｀)┌