RetroDECK brings an environment to catalog and play your retro games directly from SteamOS and it's tailored specifically for the Steam Deck.
It's inspired by embedded emulation systems like AmberELEC, EmuELEC, CoreELEC, Lakka, and Batocera.</p>
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Powered by EmulationStation Desktop Edition, which uses RetroArch and other standalone emulators to allow you to import and play your favorite retro (and even not-so-retro) games in a tidy environment without flooding your Steam library.
No other software is needed as everything it's already included!</p>
<li>Theme revamp: for a proper theme visualization please run Theme fix tool in order to delete some old scraped data that breaks it.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Backend:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>New varialbes system: now some variables such as game folder location are saved in /app/retrodeck/retrodeck.cfg.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Known Issues:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>PCSX2: due to its limitation, the standalone PCSX2 doesn't have any way to set the hotkeys, so no save and load state, no quit button. In order to quit press: STEAM -> PCSX2 -> (X) CLOSE WINDOW, be aware that the state is not automatically saved</li>
<li>Due to a Steam limitation, external controllers and keyboard seems not to be working, expecially in the desktop mode</li>
</ul>
<p><b>IMPORTANT NOTE:</b>
At the moment the emulator configs are reset during every update, this was made because every version they may bring new configurations, please back them up if you did some manual configs.
<li>DOLPHIN (SA): Fixed a bug where Dolphin couldn't be properly configured. If it's still misconfigured please run `flatpak run net.retrodeck.retrodeck --reset-sa` in order to reset all the standalone emulators, including Dolphin. </li>
<li>PCSX2: due to its limitation, the standalone PCSX2 doesn't have any way to set the hotkeys, so no save and load state, no quit button. In order to quit press: STEAM -> PCSX2 -> (X) CLOSE WINDOW, be aware that the state is not automatically saved</li>
<li>Due to a Steam limitation, external controllers and keyboard seems not to be working, expecially in the desktop mode</li>
</ul>
<p><b>IMPORTANT NOTE:</b>
At the moment the emulator configs are reset during every update, this was made because every version they may bring new configurations, please back them up if you did some manual configs.
<li>The emulators that was showing a small viewport like N64, Wii, GC, and Dreamcast are now showing a more appropriate viewport</li>
<li>Fixed home path in MelonDS (SA)</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Frontend:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Updated ES-DE to 1.2.4</li>
<li>RetroDECK doesn't open ES-DE anymore during the first setup, almost everything is now automated: HURRAY!</li>
<li>Now a custom roms path can be selected if SD Card is selected and the SD Card is not found in the default path</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Backend:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a bug where the folders where not symlinked correclty</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Known Issues:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>PCSX2: due to its limitation, the standalone PCSX2 doesn't have any way to set the hotkeys, so no save and load state, no quit button. In order to quit press: STEAM -> PCSX2 -> (X) CLOSE WINDOW, be aware that the state is not automatically saved</li>
<li>External controllers and keyboard seems not to be working, expecially in the desktop mode</li>
<li>Yuzu makes RetroDECK freeze in some situations, like if the rom is a bad dump</li>
</ul>
<p><b>IMPORTANT NOTE:</b>
At the moment the emulator configs are reset during every update, this was made because every version they may bring new configurations, please back them up if you did some manual configs.
<li>Wrapper complete rewrite, now it's faster, tidier, solid</li>
<li>Wrapper: user data is now backup and moved when managing the internal folders</li>
<li>Introduced versioning: now the version is visible by CLI or in the options menu</li>
<li>Rewrote cooker.yml workflow as the old one was no more useful for the scope</li>
<li>Removed the bios/bios folder that in some situations is mistakenly created</li>
<li>Logs are now into ~/retrodeck/.logs however they must be improved</li>
<li>Moved the scraped data folder into ~/retrodeck/.downloaded_data for backup purposes and to avoid data loss when resetting RetroDECK</li>
<li>Moved themes folder in ~/retrodeck/.downloaded_data, same as above</li>
<li>Updated es_find_rules.xml</li>
<li>Updated es_systems.xml: some default emulators are changed, if you cannot load the game is maybe because of that, you can still choose the former emulator from the list</li>
<li>Added post-install scripts, now deleting ~/retrodeck/.log or ~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck is no more needed (hopefully)</li>
<li>Added CLI arguments, run flatpak run net.retrodeck.retrodeck -h for more info</li>
<li>Added a CLI option to reset RetroDECK --reset</li>
<li>Replaced Kdialog with Zenity</li>
<li>Added manifest: this should fix the Discover bug</li>
At the moment the emulator configs are reset during every update, this was made because every version may bring new configurations, please back them up if you did some manual configs.
