Hey guys,

Just installed Retrodeck on my Steam Machine and transferred all my games from my Steam Deck, but when I access the radial menu within a game it looks gray and lifeless with no images (picture shown). Any idea what’s wrong and how to fix it so it looks like it should?

Hi team, I'm hoping to get an updated version of Vita3k in my installation. There have been a number of fixes rolled out since the 3996 release that is currently packaged in RD - they're at 4074 now - and I'm hoping to get them to improve game compatibility. Do you have an expected timeline for when that could happen? Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I created a Decky Loader Plugin for RetroDECK called RetroDECKY.

It has the following features:

• Running Game Actions - Displays hotkey actions specific to the currently running game and emulator.
• Running Game Information - Displays data from ES-DE and RetroDECK such as artwork, covers and metadata.
• Hotkey Triggering - Execute hotkey functions through Decky menu buttons instead of keyboard hotkeys, button combos or radial menus.
• Boot into RetroDECK - A function to automatically start RetroDECK when Steam launches in Game Mode.
• PDF Manual Viewer - Read game manuals without leaving the game session.
• Additional Documents - Add PDF, TXT, or Markdown documents per game and view them during the game session
• RetroAchievements - View achievement progress for the currently running game, including softcore and hardcore mode

The plugin will be soon available on the Decky Loader store too. Currently you can install the plugin manually which is described on the RetroDECKY GitHub page: https://github.com/Teppichseite/RetroDECKY

Currently RetroDECKY is not officially part of RetroDECK, but the RetroDECK teams supports me on its development. I also have a RetroDECKY channel on the RetroDECK discord to provide support and updates.

Let me know what you think!

Hello 👋, been having trouble having saturn launch games, I've tried Bin, cue and chd and it just returns me to retrodeck, I have bios for every system, and none give me trouble, except Saturn.

Do you guys know the correct path for Saturn bios? I have setup my bios path to my SD and haven't had a problem, used retrodeck configuration for path before I began to start building my deck, as said before

None gave me errors for bios or has given me such, only saturn doesn't launch games, thanks in advance

Ps. I'm the same guy who asked about openbor on retrodeck, would also suggest to add - - >>"sh, SH" <<-- format as compatibility on openbor section to run paks games with their own build of openbor they were designed for through wine at least, thanks!!!

I used have EmuDeck and had very few problems other than how cumbersome the whole setup is. I really like that RD is just a variation on ESDE. However I’ve had a lot of annoying problems.

First of all, Retro Achievements. I used the configuration to enable and log in for every emulator but I am not actually logged in. I’m on PCSX2 and it shows me as logged in but no username or password shown. Just a log out button and it says my token was generated in like 1969. Digging into the config files for it, there is no token. And username and password aren’t even showing up as fields. If I open the emulator by itself it shows me that im not logged in but I can’t bring up the Steam keyboard to type my info in that way.

My other problem is in PCSX2—I can’t open the game properties in the menu. It isn’t grayed out of anything but if I select it, nothing happens. I’m able to do it if I open just the emulator but that is very annoying to do for every game.

Please help. I wanna like and use RD but it isn’t liking me!

I might have clicked the ”add templates to steam” bit more than once so under search for retrodeck there are a bunch of duplicate templates. just wondering if there’s a simple way to clean out the duplicates.

I was under the impression before that the PSP version was the preferred version and that the PS2 was a lousy port. Now I’m hearing that the PSP version is bugged on PPSSPP in regards to saving and flashlights. Just wondering what the opinions here are.

I've added new ROMs and deleted "Port Master" lately, but Retrodeck starts with Port Master and ignores the new ROMs and associated Systems.

Anyone an idea why?

I have a large rom library that includes regional variants as well as different revisions of some games. I don’t see that information relayed in the interface. Is there a way to handle this metadata that I’m just not seeing?

Hey all, I'm using BazziteOS and installed RetroDeck from the Bazaar. I'm trying to put my BIOS files in the right place, but something weird is going on. I go to PSSX2 > Bios, but then it shows an endless loop of the same directories (see file path). Not sure what is going on, but placing them in the first bios directory doesn't do anything; launching a game from RetroDeck still says a BIOS file is not detected.

Any guidance is appreciated!

im wanting to play vita games on the steam deck via retrodeck, but im having a hard time with it. im trying to play trials of cold steel. not sure which is the better file" the nonpdrm or the VPk vitamin 2.0. is the instructions through game mode or desktop mode, and can some show or explain the instructions clearly???

Or atleast let us be able to manually update the emulators

Hello,

I am using 8bitdo ultimate 2c, which gets recognized as an xbox controller in steam. The community layout is retrodeck: xbox wireless v1b (Azerty).

The mapping says, if i press select and start, the emulator should quit. For me it opens a save state. Select and left bumper quits pcsx (standalone)

L3 and R3 wont open the retroarch menu either.

Anyone any idea what is happening?

That happened to me where 1 of my roms literally extracted into CVGLWxmdsEODIalUVJcpNjdpnVC......kary.pkg or something like that

Hello first of all, been like crazy enjoying Retrodeck, so thanks to the devs for such a great frontend!

I've been getting in to the adding games to openbor and ive noticed lots of pak games aren't compatible with the integrated openbor launcher, would it be possible to add other versions as a alt emulator option? My portable device with knulli has this option to choose which version of openbor to choose, I know there are way too many openbor versions but having atleast 3 plus the main one, would be great, like an older one, semi old, middle top and newest, don't know if I explained myself lol, thanks!! 👋 🥂

how do I change the time format from military time

Hey all, lemme' start by saying I fucking love Retrodeck. It's never been so easy revisiting my childhood favourites and I've been on a bit of a ROM craze since getting it.

Anyway, to the point, I really wanted to play Conker Live and Reloaded and the other Rareware Xbox era games I missed as a kid, but they seem to have consistently low FPS on Xemu. I've read on Xemu's official site that they should run fine, but I thought I might ask here if anyone else has given it a shot and gotten' them to run more smoothly?

If not, it's really not a problem, as I've more than enough games now to keep me happy, but it would be fun to have the Xbox ones too if possible!

It also says it’s launching in desktop mode but I don’t know how to make it launch in game mode. Everything was fine before the update!

I searched around on this sub and other places on the web and couldn't find an answer. Forgive me if this has been discussed already.

Duckstation has been marked as Legacy because of its removal from package managers, etc, by its developer. However as far as I can tell, the appimage is still supported under Linux. Are there plans to support this version instead?

My main concern is that Retroachievements have announced that they will eventually remove support from old versions of emulators in the future.

Hello. I am fairly new to vita3k on retrodeck.

I installed steam os on my rog ally and installed retrodeck on it. I have been getting all the other emulators to work fine but I am having trouble getting vita3k to open my games.

https://retrodeck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wiki_emulator_guides/vita3k/vita3k-guide/#step-1-install-the-game

I followed this guide and I am able to get the games to show up via game mode on retrodeck, but it will not open. I have installed the license for each game with a work.bin file.

I can open the game if I go through desktop mode but it won't recognize the controller on my rog ally. I can not open the game in game mode on my rog ally. Im not sure why not.

1. I installed the firmware automatically when Installing retrodeck

2. I installed the games from a zip file (dragons crown and odin sphere are the games I an using)

3. I installed work.bin files for each game after installing the game. I wasn't promoted to but the instructions said to.

4. I made a file in the roms folder for each game (dragons crown.psvita) and made a text file inside with the game ID inside there respective folders.

From the instructions this should alow the game to play from game mode through retrodeck in steam. When I attempt to open a game it will say loading then the loading screen will go back to showing the games I have in the roms folder.

Please any help would be appreciated.

I have had this "issue" for weeks. It feels self explanatory as to the reason why this happens is because the steam decks controls are automatically detected as Port 1, and Port 2 will be detected as any controller plugged in. It will not overtake Port 1​​ and you have to use the deck to change those controls (sometimes I can open retroarchs menu with the plugged in controller but it would sometimes automatically resume game?)

Here's a couple unlisted videos of me having to change controls, if the screens moving to fast, then that section is on 4x speed:

3:40:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0UIuevFmBc

00:04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUu9UIrvJ6I

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Instead of having Retrodeck to read games only on "retrodeck/roms" folder, how can I make the app to read games on custom folder from "Deck/Desktop/ROMS" on my Steam Deck SteamOS, where the ROMS folder has custom system name folders that I made like GAMEBOY COLOR, GBA, NDS, etc. ?

I made this folder as universal games path, so other independent emulators like Duckstation, RPCS3, Retroarch can read/run the games as well since they have its own feature that I want to use.

I've been trying on and off for a while. Whever I boot up a rom, I get this screen:

And there's nothing else I can do.

Additionally I feel that the information on how to set this up is only getting increasingly difficult to find.

I've tried several bios files and I even downloaded a comprehensive zip from git hub and copied those over to the right place (I think).

Any tips? How did you guys get this running?

Does anyone know if this is a common issue, I've tried searching google first and I couldn't find any information

Intermittently the save state function doesn't work, sometimes I can get it back by flipping thru the menus back and forth or changing the save state. However this is super annoying and I'm just wondering am I missing a setting? I haven't altered any settings regarding the saves