EmuDeck new Early Access release
Added 2023-05-28 12:21:37 +0000 UTCUPDATE: There was an issue reseting melonDS config on 2.1.7, please update to 2.1.8
Hello everyone!!
As promised, here's our next release! Let's see what's new:
Windows:
- Improved performance and speed for SD Card users
EmuDeck will now install EmulationStation and all the Emulators on your userfolder\EmuDeck\EmulationStation-DE\Emulators.
- Under the hood changes
To make the first point possible we had to change several stuff, so there might be some regressions, I've tested everything and I didn't find any bugs but you never know, please report anything not working as it should.
If you already have EmuDeck installed you need to do these steps to keep everything working:
- Open EmuDeck, wait for it to download and apply the update until you have version 2.1.7.
- Reset EmulationStation DE config from Manage Emulators ( this will take several minutes, just wait for the confirmation that it has actually finished )
- Reset Steam Rom Manager config from Manage Emulators
- Parse your games and ESDE on SteamRomManager again.
- Play like there's no tomorrow.
- MelonDS Standalone
New MelonDS emulator for those that don't like the RetroArch core, there's an issue thought, melon DS has a bug that prevents it to launch games in zip or 7z, so you have to unzip them before using it on Steam or EmulationStation.
- DualSense Fixes
Fixed controls for GameCube and Wii. To apply them just go to Manage Emulators and reset Dolphin configuration.
Steam OS:
- Cloud Backup
In addition to Cloud Sync we are bringing back Cloud Backup, this will upload your saves to your provider in the background while you use your Deck. Activating Cloud Backup disables Cloud Sync and it's the same the other way around, you can only use one of them at the same time.
Steam OS & Windows:
- New CloudSync providers.
We've added more providers: next cloud, pCloud, SFTP and SMB. With these last two you can do your own "private cloud" using a web server or a NAS.
- CloudSync toggle
Are you afraid of sharing your Deck with your relatives out of fear they could wreck your perfect play and to even make things worse upload that to the Cloud? Well, not anymore!
We've added a toggle on Quick settings so you can disable or enable Cloud Sync with just a button.
- CloudSaves Install page
Now you'll be asked to chose if you want to sync your games, just back them up ( only SteamOS for now ) or nothing at all when installing EmuDeck.
Next I want to work on Controllers for windows, specially the Switch Pro controller and the Dual Sense to try to make use of their gyro and touchpad special features. I also want to take a look at some easy way to set up a mix of controllers for more than one playe.
If you have some other suggestion please use the comments section below!
Thanks for your support!
Comments
Ed-de, the emu with the save was yuzu
Brandon Pollack
2023-05-30 11:49:31 +0000 UTCWhich system/emulator had this issue?
EmuDeck
2023-05-30 11:46:51 +0000 UTCThere’s one more issue I ran into: I launched the game with no internet and so it couldn’t sync and then next launch I’m caught in a sync loop. No matter what I do I can’t get the dialogue to stop asking me to overwrite the cloud or download the cloud or skip. Same kn close. I think I fixed it by deleting the marker files that track the version that was uploaded or downloaded or in progress last
Brandon Pollack
2023-05-30 09:06:17 +0000 UTCyep, that's the thing. You need to parse on SRM again since we've had to change all the paths, but this should be a one time only thing, everything is set up now so if we need to change anything we will just change the bat files in the background
EmuDeck
2023-05-30 08:46:20 +0000 UTCsend me a private with the file emudeck/emudeck.log and emudeck.appimage.log that you'll find in your user folder
EmuDeck
2023-05-30 08:44:37 +0000 UTCfixed on 2.1.9!
EmuDeck
2023-05-30 08:43:31 +0000 UTCI had some issues with syncing even from Emudeck, but I have found that after resetting configurations (as suggested) it works, but I *think* not when you launch from ES-DE, only when you launch Yuzu (etc) directly. This could be because my shortcut in steam was out of date, but I haven't been able to confirm yet. If that's the case I figured I'd drop a note here, though looking at the code it *should* be calling sync from the ES-DE launcher bat so I bet it was my fault for not redoing Steam Rom Launcher, I can see how doing that automatically would be a pain, perhaps the dialog should remind you to do so?
Brandon Pollack
2023-05-30 01:05:17 +0000 UTCSince the First version of Emudeck for windows , i haven't been able to install PPSSPP, There was an issue trying to install PPSSPP 😥 is there a way to check the logs and se whats causing it ?
RBMACHOK
2023-05-29 17:03:29 +0000 UTCCan you check if you have Chrome installed on Discover? The kioexec issue only happens with Firefox so we force Chrome to open the login
EmuDeck
2023-05-29 16:35:27 +0000 UTCYou have to press and hold the L button, it works fine on Citra using the Pro Controller :)
EmuDeck
2023-05-29 16:34:11 +0000 UTCWindows or SteamOS?
EmuDeck
2023-05-29 16:33:27 +0000 UTCRunning the setup on Windows throws a Javascript error when trying to set up the controller config for Yuzu. I assume its because it is trying to open the old route for the emulator C:\Emulation\tools\EmulationStation-DE\Emulators\yuzu.. etc etc
Denarmo
2023-05-29 16:02:00 +0000 UTCRe 2.1.8 running on steam deck, I'm unable to set up cloud sync as when press set up cloud sync it opens something called kioexsec to the home folder and when I open this I get a Google log in which doesn't work, previously edge browser opens for rclone
Rob Cheney
2023-05-29 14:42:47 +0000 UTCLove your work! Saw a comment about multiplayer and thought that was cool! Also, I think gyro from other controllers (pro controller or dual sense) would be cool too :). Lastly, has there been a fox for steam input on citra yet? Can’t swap screens by holding down bumpers with pro controller yet :(
Taylor Gaines
2023-05-29 13:05:31 +0000 UTCThat’s actually something I’ve been Thinking about too! In dolphin, I’ve been able to launch dolphin through steam with all controllers turned on, go to controller config, and then map each controller to its own input :)
Taylor Gaines
2023-05-29 13:02:56 +0000 UTCI have followed the steps to reset EmulationStation and Steam Rom Manager and the latter does not work for me from Emudeck. If I open srm from Emulations/tools, no parser exists...
sanangel
2023-05-29 11:04:09 +0000 UTCUpdated the latest emudeck on windows early access. After resetting/updating the config for Melonds, it still wants me to update the config with the exclamation point.
Jeremy Kurowski
2023-05-28 20:56:10 +0000 UTCsame
Jeremy Kurowski
2023-05-28 19:57:56 +0000 UTCJust installed on windows and emudeck hangs on update all configurations left it for about half an hour, tried a reset and a clean install of emudeck and steam, the same also happens on install cloud configuration
Rob Cheney
2023-05-28 15:51:44 +0000 UTCdoing some digging through the scripts etc, I was looking at the gitrepo and the checkout doesnt not have the feature branch "feature/early" checked out. If i launch and manually check that out it fixes it. Maybe you forgot to rebase or merge it back into "early"?
Brandon Pollack
2023-05-28 14:42:56 +0000 UTCThis is amazing, thank you!!! I can get cloud sync to set up with drive or nextcloud in my deck, but windows just kinda hangs forever, even after uninstalling and retrying. Any tips?
Brandon Pollack
2023-05-28 14:08:11 +0000 UTCCheck the pinned post
EmuDeck
2023-05-28 13:59:19 +0000 UTCwhere is the windows installer?
Cameron Jones
2023-05-28 13:35:10 +0000 UTCMore than one controller setup sounds awesome! Keep up the great work :)
Russell Apfel
2023-05-28 13:25:19 +0000 UTCdisable your antivirus
EmuDeck
2023-05-28 13:16:23 +0000 UTCAfter copying of token, I got a "unexpected end of JSON input at ..." from app.asar/main/.... on windows 11. Anything I could try?
Andre Trotzke
2023-05-28 13:08:43 +0000 UTC
