i’ve been thinking about this since i got my oled. while its cool to have all your emulated game in your library with box and all…it definitely makes things kind of cluttered, and its a bit more of a pain in the ass than i’d like. the tool to find the right box art is never quite good enough and often gives the wrong thing anyway. i just don’t feel like taking the time to do it again. I’ll probably just install the emulators and run retroarch and the like manually.

  • deathblade200@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I only use it for specific games that I want specific controls for such as if a game has inverted controls so I can change the controls only for that game via the steam decks controller settings instead of changing it for every game in the emulator.

    • cmsj@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I only use the Rom manager to put EmulationStation in Steam. I have way too many ROMs installed to put them all into Steam. This way is much cleaner imho.

      • deathblade200@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        but then try to change controls for an emulator via the steam layouts and it will apply to every game until you change it back.

        • cmsj@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Yeah, I like the idea of pushing out the specific games that need alternate layouts. I actually meant to reply to OP about the general point of “push everything into Steam” vs “don’t do that”.