So when I got my SD last year, I spent a lot of time setting it up and setting up emulators and figuring out how Proton and Linux work. Then, I completely forgot everything.

Now, I have my steam games on the ssd whereas my emulated games on SD card, but I no longer know how to setup the folders or even transfer stuff to the SD card anymore.

Is there an easy migration option so you can just clone the system like when you purchase new phones, or do I need to redownload and relearn everything again?

  • darkuni@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Drive swap, image the internal SDD and restore to the new drive …

    Drive swap is the easiest. EmuDeck has a tool now for migrating THAT stuff.

    • AnonymousSudonym@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Drive season meaning take apart old Deck take out the ssd and take apart new deck and insert old drive into me Deck right ?

      How would you image the old ssd to restore the image on the new unit ? Would you run clonezilla and do a live cloning or something ?

      Looking for park of least resistance

  • NESRyan@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Is there ever a reply to this question that doesn’t involve tearing apart your SD? Some normies might just want to have a solution akin to what happens with an iPhone. Didn’t I read that Steam was working on a solution?

  • Rejera@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Emudeck, the tool that installs and sets up all the emulation stuff for you, has made an import/export tool for that. I’d recommend checking that out. Steam cloud saves are your friend for most saves. If the game doesn’t have cloud save, you’ll have to find where the save file is stored and transfer that to your sd card, then transfer it from your SD card to your new deck. That’s probably the easiest way if you don’t know Linux that well.