Steam Deck

I can't recall what mine was formatted to - I assume that it was Mac OS Journaled. Linux has no issues reading that and it didn't have the 4gb limit that FAT does. From a quick google, NTFS seems like it should work fine.

Can I ask how you got BotW running, I thought I had everything in place but when I load up the game it tells me the Wii-U needs a software update

Lads might be a stupid question but I'm assuming we're classed as UK because of our plug and not EU?

Yup, at least in steam deck term we are part of the UK 🙂

I ordered one of those ( it was mentioned on boards I think ) came within the week even though the date was November.

Mine got delivered there this morning. Unfortunately flat out today so won't get to really look it til later, just charging it up now so it's good to go.

Yea I followed all the emudeck steps but it just doesn't work for me unfortunately. When you say you installed them via cemu, does that mean you loaded the app up separately from Steam Rom manager?

OK I will give that a go, thanks. Rest of the Wii-U games worked fine straight from the ROM manager (after I found a txt file with the keys).

That's pretty much my set-up. I have Series X and a Steam Deck and with Game Pass cloud streaming I switch between the two all the time. Am currently playing Like a Dragon and Dragon Quest IX that way - play on the Xbox and then pick up from the exact same point later on the Steam Deck.

Haven't really been missing Playstation games either because they all run so well on the Steam Deck - God of War, Horizon, Uncharted, Spiderman, they all play brilliantly on it.

Man, I was hoping with fixed hardware and a custom OS that this would be a step towards PC gaming finally getting close to console gaming for user experience and ease of use but nope, it's as painful and clunky as ever. First game I tried was Wildermyth, which is listed as compatible, but ran at a resolution that meant you could only see the top corner of the screen and not enough to interact with any buttons to change settings like resolution. Found a solution online that involved manually editing some config files but honestly we should have been past that 20 years ago, I can't believe it was still the first thing I had to do on a brand new fixed hardware machine.

Next thing on my list was to start setting up some emulators, Emudeck installed easily but copying any roms over is a total pain as the deck requires the SD card to be formatted in a different file system to Windows and you can't just copy things in any kind of sane way such as plugging the device into the PC by USB like you would with a phone, instead you need to again jump through a million hoops and awkwardly type in a bunch of terminal commands using an on screen keyboard to try and set up file sharing, I've given up on that as I'm not in the mood. I was going to switch from playing Chrono Trigger on my little Anbernic device to the Steam Deck but I think I'll just stick with the little €50 chinese device that was much easier to set up and use.

Such a painful first experience, they still have a long long way to go to catch up with consoles. The hardware is nice, it feels good in the hands, but ugh, every few years I try to get back into PC gaming and I'm instantly reminded of how much everything around it sucks and just want to go back to my Switch or PS5 for a superior experience.