I didn’t have a steam account and I’ve never had a gaming pc. When I worked at GameStop back in 2010 all these kids would come in to purchase steam cards and I thought they were so dumb.

I bought 26 and I’ve played 4

I really enjoyed that game

I really like the steamgrid one and the screen recorder. I also like the one for game music in the menus.

You have to install decky loader. It has all kinds of cool stuff to improve your SD. Do a quick search on YouTube. It’s a simple install

Try Proton GE or experimental

It’s the small things tbh. Retro achievements seemingly are disabled if you apply decky loader achievements. Game cover art isn’t as robust as steam grid. Switch emulation is a pain in the ass for me. Also MAME isn’t easily integrated. Those are all minor gripes that are probably a me thing rather than an Emudeck thing.

You’ll love the deck man! You can play switch games on it! It is literally a pc on the go. I record music on it, browse the web, download fan made games like Pokémon Infinite, and complete work tasks for my job! You sound my age (44) so I think you’ll go nuts for the emulation. I’ve downloaded and emulated the top 20 games for every system from Atari-ps2. WiiU works well too, but I wouldn’t highly recommend Wii games because of the motion controls. You can get them to work but I choose not to bother. I showed my nephew Rad Racer yesterday and he liked it. Then we turned on Blitz the league (ps2) and he went bonkers. After that my brother and I played Archon for the nes and remembered why we loved it as kids. Top it off with Wizards & Warriors (nes) and then a smattering Mike Tyson’s Punchout. Honestly, I would’ve payed 400+ just to have all of my collection on a device, but then I can play AAA games on it too!!! I was sold lol

Can’t miss with either

If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit

Emudeck is 97% incredible

The deck is my laptop

I would say that adult only games are exclusive to the PC. I feel that PC often get multi platform games first. I saw Dredge and Dave the Diver on Steam before any other consoles.

It has overall been just short of an amazing experience. Being a console only gamer for the past 30+ years has me naive to small workarounds as a pc gamer. As a console gamer you KNOW that the games will work when you turn them on and the controller will automatically connect.

As a SD user not so much. Especially with connecting BT controllers. If I put my SD to sleep, or switch from docked w/controller to just using the SD controls, things can get wonky.

Also anti-cheat walls/Linux on the deck stop me from playing some of my favorite games. For instance COD Warzone/Fortnite. I know that there is a windows workaround to play them, but it’s not plug and play like consoles.

SD is the best gaming device that I’ve had in my entire life!! I’m not complaining, I’m just answering the question.

Hold the power button down for 10 seconds and it should boot up 👍

Is Chrono Cross any good?