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Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone done this? How well does it work? Do you recommend it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

That's probably one of the most common use cases for the Steam deck, I've played a ton of emulated games and had a great time. Its far from perfect, especially for newer consoles, but pretty much anything GameCube and below is at least runnable

Archive.org is the best source of safe roms, who knows how long that will last though