

That's almost everything you have to do on the desktop. It's built to play nice with controllers.) (One note here if you're also installing Duckstation: it has two interfaces, and "DuckStationNoGUI" is the one you want to add to Steam. Once I had my chosen emulators installed, I launched the desktop version of Steam and used the "Games > Add a non-Steam game to my library" menu to add each emulator to Steam so that I could access it from the SteamOS interface. Because of the way Valve set up the partitions and file permissions on the Deck, installing emulators or any other software via the terminal is pretty locked down unless you have some serious Linux skills.

The best bit is that these aren't just one-off executables you're installing-when new builds of the emulators are released, you can update with a single click, too. There are some other emulators available in Discover, too, including mGBA for the Game Boy Advance and Citra for the 3DS. bsnes (opens in new tab), for the Super Nintendo.Yuzu (opens in new tab), for Nintendo Switch.PPSSPP (opens in new tab), for PlayStation Portable.PCSX2 (opens in new tab), for PlayStation 2.DuckStation (opens in new tab), for PlayStation 1.Dolphin (opens in new tab), for GameCube/Wii.Yuzu is licensed under the GPLv3 (or any later version).

If you wish to support us a different way, please join our Discord and talk to bunnei. GPUs as-needed to improve rendering support, other peripherals to add support for, etc.)
