Most importantly, this means they can take advantage of the Steam Deck's biggest perks:

Once you're back in the Steam Deck's primary interface you'll find the emulators in your library, where they more or less work like any other game.

(Image credit: Future) Using emulators in SteamOS Then you can reboot the system and jump back into SteamOS. The last step is to copy over whatever games, BIOS files, memory card saves, etc. 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.

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