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sp6@lemmy.world 7 months agoOn 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.
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.
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: emudeck.github.io/…/steamos/#what-does-emudeck-in…
Holy crap that is pretty much all the emulators in EmuDeck.
!List of Standalone Emulators installed by EmuDeck
Cemu (Wii U) Citra (3DS) Dolphin (Gamecube and Wii) DuckStation (Playstation 1) MAME (Arcade games and more) melonDS (Nintendo DS) (Standalone) mGBA (Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance) (Standalone) PCSX2 (Playstation 2) PPSSP (Playstation Portable) PrimeHack (Metroid Prime Trilogy) RetroArch (Retro Systems) List of RetroArch Cores Used by EmuDeck Rosalie's Mupen GUI (Nintendo 64) RPCS3 (Playstation 3) Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch) ScummVM (Point and Click Adventures) Vita3K (Playstation Vita) Yuzu (Nintendo Switch) Xemu (OG Xbox) Xenia (Xbox 360)
If you do not see an emulator in the list above, it is likely installed as a Retroarch core.!<
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
MudMan@kbin.social 7 months ago
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.
steeznson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It depends on the game. Dolphin seem to be struggling with movie tie-in Gamecube games still judging by some of their blog posts. There was some awful game called Haunted Mansion or similar that they couldn’t get working because playing it to find the bugs was such a chore.
MudMan@kbin.social 7 months ago
No, he's pretty much right on the money. It takes a bit more performance and the setup is much harder and more annoying, since there's a bunch of encryption and account stuff to spoof, but short of annoying compilation stutters, most modern gaming PCs can manage it.
Compatibility depends on the system. The PS Vita is very spotty, 360 isn't fully there, but WiiU and Switch are nearly perfect and PS3 games are much more likely to work than not.