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It's most of the reason I got a steam deck. Emulation on the go ftw.
Out of curiosity what is the most modern system you are able to emulate on a steam deck. I've dabbled in MAME and PSX before, but is there a decent PS3 one?
Depends a lot on the games and compatibility. As mentioned Switch is definitely emulateable and often runs great but it heavily depends on the title.
On the Playstation side, RPCS3 is the PS3 emulator, it's great. There are some experimental PS4 emulators, but they aren't ready yet.
On the Xbox side, Xenia works well as an Xbox 360 emulator; it's not linux native though, but it might work well under wine. I'm not aware of Xbox One (or later) emulators.
On the Nintendo side, I would be surprised if a Nintendo game that couldn't be emulated exists. Even Switch games run very well on day 1 of release.
Yeah, don't take this guy face value. These systems don't emulate excellently at all. It definitely emulates perfectly up to GameCube and PS2 though.
Sorry, I had responded but also missed the "Steam Deck" qualifier. To be clear, the poster you're responding to is absolutely right in general terms, but performance will be an issue for 360 and probably PS3 on the Deck.
I've got some PS2 games to run well, some don't run well at all. Anything below that is great.
So what I've got is: NES, SNES, Genesis and Master System, PS1, PSP and then PS2 as a hit and miss.
I've not tried anything aside from those yet on the Steam Deck.
Edit: noticed I replied to the wrong person, but close enough, I'm not fixing it because I'm about to fall asle...
Would you be able to run AetherSX2 (android PS2 emulator) somehow on the deck to run ps2 games? That app runs a lot of then pretty well on Android phones.
For Deck, you'll likely be using EmuDeck for your emulation setup, which will install PCSX2 for PS2 games.
You can see the other available EmuDeck emulators here: https://emudeck.github.io/frequently-asked-questions/steamos/#what-does-emudeck-install
A dude I work with just showed me PS3 emulation on the Steamdeck and it’s LUDICROUSLY good. I was shocked.
Only started getting good recently. PS3 is an especially difficult system to emulate.
You’re not wrong at all. I tried a few years ago on a high end machine with awful results. Now, thanks to incredible devs, even a lil Steamdeck can run tons of games better than an actual PS3.
I’ve been able to Emulate the Switch and Wii U on the deck. So, the steamdeck can probably do as far as the ps3/Xbox 360 era, maybe ps4 and Xbox one, but that’s a big maybe
I've been going through the Turbografx/PC Engine library, particularly shumps. Lots of stuff that gets overlooked from when Nintendo and Sega were dominating.