Arcade Punks have a 1TB Steam Deck Batocera image for download:
https://www.arcadepunks.com/fully-lo...-gaming-build/
You should definitely grab it this weekend.
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Arcade Punks have a 1TB Steam Deck Batocera image for download:
https://www.arcadepunks.com/fully-lo...-gaming-build/
You should definitely grab it this weekend.
Nice thanks. Not sure I have enough HD space to download it and extract it. Would be great to get though, especially for the newer systems. Not tried PS2 or PS3 emulation on the Steam Deck yet.
And interesting that it boots completely from the SD card, bypassing Steam OS. I hadn't actually realised that was possible from the BIOS. You learn something new.
They also have a bootable 1TB USB stick version for PC, I'm downloading that at the moment, only to check it out, don't really need it, but could be a great gadget to give to a friend.
You don't have disk space :o I even have some 4TB external HDDs lying around in my cupboard which I don't even need. Taking "only" my internal and NAS space I have 140TB.
Btw, what is happening there with the UK postal services? It has been over 2 months now that I sent you the SD card, and I didn't receive it back either so it still must be somewhere. I don't have any tracking number as I just sent it with our local post, no insurance.
I don't have any HDDs with 2TB free on a single drive for downloading it and expanding the archive. Most of my HDDs are still 2TB in my PCs, and 4x 4TB in my NAS, so not a huge amount of space as I use most on the NAS for video projects. Really hoping to save up soon for some larger drives.
Referring UK post. There was a big attack on the Royal Mail international shipping computers in January using ransomware, so no international mail could be sent out received in the UK. It started working again last week as I managed to post something to the USA. So fingers crossed your parcel arrives very soon.
I clicked the link to see what it was all about and a box pops up asking to allow updates. I was just about to get angry when I see the option boxes have been labelled '**** no' and 'hell yes'Quote:
Originally Posted by Demon Cleaner
I fully approve of such, and it made me smile.
:lol: yeah, it's that last bastion of underground downloads you can pretty much trust.
Did you try the CryoUtilities 2.0?
I pre-ordered the Asus ROG Ally today, don't know yet if I'm gonna keep it but apparently they're already sold out almost everywhere, so I grabbed the chance, plus my fingers were tingling :)
I'm still waiting for my Loki Max which I pre-ordered on July 22nd last year and it still didn't ship. I'm not so sure about the ROG Ally's size, it's almost as big as the Steam deck, and I sold my OneXPlayer because of it's size, although that on had even 8.4" screen, so still bigger than the Ally. Plus that was almost 900g whereas the Ally is "only" 600g.
These kind of toy's are really not up my street & I've never really wanted to game on the go.
I like to sit down in a comfortable surrounding when gaming, but this ROG Ally is quite a box of tricks looking at the official web link
:cool:
Me too :lol: I never play on the go, never. Basically I just take them with me to Finland for when it gets boring. I also only use retro gaming on them, used the Odin Pro a lot (in Finland) playing PS2 games, but it struggles a bit here and there. I wanted one handheld that can emulate those systems flawlessly, like PS2, XBox, Wii or GC, even Saturn, as that's still tougher to emulate. The never ones also run PS3 and Switch without problems, although I have a Switch Lite and a Switch OLED, but emulating is more my thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kin Hell
They are a bit of collection items for me, I love setting them up with everything, but once I'm done, they get put away in some drawer and only taken out for demonstration or updating. Or like I said, they find their use from time to time when I go to Finland.
The ROG Ally only gets released on June 13th, so if by any chance I get the Loki Max by then or if I change my mind I still can cancel my order. But seeing that they are selling out so fast I just wanted to put an order just in case. Perhaps the prices will increase after that and I can sell it for more.
I'm not so sure about the Ally. It's been getting way too much hype. Even M$ jumping in to try and push Xbox gaming. But in preview testing but Linus and other regular handheld testers it isn't delivering on the promise. The battery life being the worst part. In performance mode outs estimates to be 1-2 hours. That isn't good. And real world tests show it only managed about 5-8 fps better in some games than the Steam Deck.
I also don't like the design. Offset sticks always bugs me, and the D Pad doesn't look good. And I've got so used to the touchpad on the Deck trying to use a Windows based system without them will be fiddly.
Finally for me the cost is too high.
But we will see. It isn't it yet so it might surprise. But I'm not holding out.
Very entrepreneurial indeed. - Hedging all bets too! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Demon CleanerMe too :lol: I never play on the go, never. Basically I just take them with me to Finland for when it gets boring. I also only use retro gaming on them, used the Odin Pro a lot (in Finland) playing PS2 games, but it struggles a bit here and there. I wanted one handheld that can emulate those systems flawlessly, like PS2, XBox, Wii or GC, even Saturn, as that's still tougher to emulate. The never ones also run PS3 and Switch without problems, although I have a Switch Lite and a Switch OLED, but emulating is more my thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kin Hell
They are a bit of collection items for me, I love setting them up with everything, but once I'm done, they get put away in some drawer and only taken out for demonstration or updating. Or like I said, they find their use from time to time when I go to Finland.
The ROG Ally only gets released on June 13th, so if by any chance I get the Loki Max by then or if I change my mind I still can cancel my order. But seeing that they are selling out so fast I just wanted to put an order just in case. Perhaps the prices will increase after that and I can sell it for more.
Guess you're not buying one then eh! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
Valve announced this week Steam Deck support has now officially reached 9000 games, and this is only officially tested games with verified or playable status. There are many more games that do work, but haven't been officially tested yet. The Steam library now had over 70,000 games so there is no way they will all very tested, but 9,000 is impressive and that is already far more than any standalone system.
There is a site called protondb that tests more itself with contributors and can even show their results for your own library.
I continue to be impressed by Valve's level of support, constantly updating Steam OS and Proton to fix games not working or performing well. They even rolled out next day Proton updates for new game releases. No other hardware and OS developer has ever done that.
The Steam Deck hardware is now already at least 2 years old. But it's price point is still very good compared to anything Windows based and it's performance is still good enough for most current releases. Plus more and more support keeps appearing from 3rd parties. The Heroic installer lets you access and install GOT and Epic libraries. And Lutris enables you to access an ever expanding number of gaming libraries, including Humble Bundle, GOG, Epic, Amazon gaming etc, but also now directly has emulation support for systems like mame, dolphin, retroarch etc.I
I'm now also looking Linux again over Windows thanks to the Steam Deck. It's for more lightweight and just works.
I eventually canceled my order of the Loki Max and got it already refunded. I was checking a lot of videos lately, and like I said, the Ally will even be available before the Loki as they still didn't ship yet, plus they're now trailing behind, the Ally being a lot more powerful for the same price. I wonder have many people have withdrawn their Loki orders, but what I read in YouTube comments there are quite some.
I also ordered another 1TB SD card for it and a 2TB NVMe, M.2 2230 (Team Group MP44S) to replace straight away, that should leave me with some space.
I got it today, that was quite fast. I will only test a bit as I'm still waiting for my NVMe to arrive. I had to cancel the Team Group MP44S because it was still not available for shipping for still at least 10 days. So I ordered a SABRENT Rocket Q4 2230 NVMe 2TB High Performance PCIe 4.0 SSD which should arrive this weekend hopefully.
I also ordered an M.2 enclosure from UGREEN to make backups and as I already was in the shop I ordered a fanxiang S770 4TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD M.2 2280, 7300 MB/s with heatsink for my PS5 because I'm constantly deleting stuff which is annoying, I wanted to download NBA 2K23 which is one of this month free games but it's over 200GB.
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Btw, ETA Prime tested the battery life of both devices:
Battery Life 15W TDP:
Steam Deck: 103 minutes
ROG Ally: 96 minutes
Charge Time (Full Charge):
Steam Deck: 45W Stock Charger = 3.3 hours
ROG Ally: 65W Stock Charger = 1.4 hours
There isn't an emoticon for falling off a chair in shock.... so just imagine it.....Quote:
download NBA 2K23 which is one of this month free games but it's over 200GB.
I can't fathom how the game would require that much space. Loads of uncompressed textures?
That's mad. I've yet to encounter a game that big. What would a sports game contain to need that much storage? Just stupid. And I was thinking GT7 with all the updates being over 110GB was big enough, but at least I could see with all the content why it was so big.
What's funny is if that game is also on Xbox anyone with a Series S would only be able to install that one game before needing a storage expansion as it only has a 512GB SSD with about 240GB free.
I installed my 4TB in the PS5 and downloading all the stuff back, might take some time.
I will probably receive the 2TB SSD for the ROG Ally tomorrow.
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And it's in :)
https://i.imgur.com/RUcP1LU.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1Jowp1J.jpg
How easy have they made it to upgrade the M2 in the AOG?
You put it in just by opening the cover and you just swap it, it's reachable straight away. No cable removing or such.
Then you switch it back on and it boots into the BIOS, you just chose ASUS recovery and it installs everything from scratch by itself, very easy.
Nice. That's the only thing about the Steam Deck I wish they had thought of and designed better. They support upgrading the built in SSD, but it's a more involving process. Maybe if they eventally design a Steam Deck 2 in the future.
I installed RetroBat now for emulation, but I have to go through every single ROMs install process again, as that uses gamelists, maybe I can use some from the RPi4, but my library got updated.
I wanted to go with LaunchBox but as I can't install every single game of that, PS2 f.ex. takes 1.9TB already, I will have to chose which games I want to use, thus having to edit xml files anyways, so it might even be easier or faster to just create the gamelists.
RetroBat covers everything plus it downloads any missing emulators by itself, like what I did now with RPCS3. And it uses EmulationStation which I know quite well as I'm using it on most of my other handhelds, although under Linux.
How is EmuDeck, is it nice, easy to use, does it cover many systems? Isn't EmuDeck not also using EmulationStation? The Windows version is only in beta state so far though.
Yes EmuDeck is very nice. It does use Emulation Station and RetroArch. You can choose to drop into either and just use the one you prefer. But it also installs any other standalone emulators worth having.
EmuDeck is more an all in one emulation system that installs and configures the lot, and integrates it into Steam without you having to manually add each emulator as a non Steam game. It also has the ability to add individual games installing on any of the emulators directly into Steam so they appear in the games catalogues in Steam just like any other game, which is a nice feature.
It also comes with Steam Rom manager where you can scrap the internet to add boxart, screenshots etc to your rom collections, as well as a more of other stuff to manage them.
And like you say, because Steam Deck uses Linux it has the more developed and supported versions of Emulation Station and RetroArch. But obviously on PC some emulators such as Mame are further along.
EmuDeck is currently being ported to PC though and you can sign up for early access testing. They will be supporting us integration with Steam on Windows, as well as mentioning direct AOG Ally support. Might be worth you taking a look for that reason.
https://www.emudeck.com/
I saw now a video that the have these 90 degrees NVMe adapters for the ROG Ally, so I grabbed one from Amazon, like this I can add an 2280 NVMe and I'm not restricted to the smaller, less space (2TB max) and more expensive (double price) 2230 NVMe. I ordered a 4TB Corsair MP600 CORE XT which should arrive tomorrow.
Valve have now released an updated version of the Steam Deck, in the form of an OLED version.
This new OLED version has the same performance as the original. However it uses a newer smaller chip meaning it uses less power and runs cooler.
The new OLED screen specially made for Valve by Samsung has a refresh rate up to 90hz, so increasing the maximum framerate the Deck can run from 60fps to 90fps. And it still supports HDR.
And as the screen is 30g lighter, uses 2W less, and thinner, plus the main chip is smaller and cooler, this has allowed Valve to fit a larger battery and bigger heatsink.
They have also doubled the built in storage to 1TB.
And it will cost exactly the same as the existing 512GB model.
So some nice improvements and updates. In early reviews they have found battery life is up to 30% better. This updated model is not really worth an upgrade if you own the original, unless you use it exclusely travelling then the larger batter and more energy efficient chips and screen might be attractive.
It's still great to see Valve continuing to support the Steam Deck so much. They are heavily invested in Steam OS and continue to release updates every week and fix bugs and improve performance. They are also constantly improving how the OS handled games, and the whole UI and user experience. Taking all comments, feedback and bug reports very seriously.
Yes there are far more powerful handhelds on the market now, such as the Asus, but their battery life is less than 2 hours, they are running Windows which was never directly designed for a handhejd console, and they are missing many hardware features such as the dual touch pads on the Steam Deck. And they don't have any direct OS support specifically for that one device.
For me, yes I would love to see a Steam Deck with better performance, but at the moment it's the best handheld IMO as an all rounder for both emulation and PC gaming.
It's good to see that they didn't just 'bung in an OLED' but did something a little bit more thoughtful and considered. Nice.
Very true. They could of just put the oled in and called it a day, plus charge more. Instead they have done a mid generation refresh to optimise what was already there.
Valve have stated they won't be releasing a more powerful Deck any time soon as they want to optimise the existing one as much as possible, so unlike other handheld gaming makers who are turning out a new Windows or Linux based handheld every year or so, Valve are treating the Steam Deck in the same way as a proper gaming console.
Forward over 2 years since the last post in this group and I'm still using the same Steam Deck and still very happy with it, I think that can easily be called good value for money.
And Valve are still selling them, with many versions currently sold out, so even though the hardware is now quite a few years old they are still popular. It won't run some of the newest games that well, but many people play older games (myself included), so are not that worried about games that have just been released. And the support for the Steam Deck has meant better gaming support for Linux overall. I've been running Linux Mint Cinnamon for some time now and have all the same things installed to run games and emulation.
I also eventually bought a dock for it, but not the official one as it was still quite expenive for what it was. I got the Anker make dock in the end as it received a lot of good reviews. Made of metal so nice and robust, but still quite light, with well thought out port locations for HDMI, Ethernet, USB C and USB 3. Useful for charging, but also for docking when I need to do something on the Steam Deck Desktop as that's far easier with a real keyboard, mouse and larger screen to configure emulators, install and setup software or games from other stores like Epic and GOG.
And because of the Steam Deck gaming as come a long way on Linux now. Bazzite is heavily based on Steam OS but available for all PCs and Handhelds and it configures the ISO installer for your specific setup before you download it. And it has things like Steam and HGL already setup from install. There are others such as PopOS! too.