Steam Deck - The REAL Switch Pro - February 2022

[Athas]

Weird but ok then

[Andalusian girls]

spent a couple hours making Steam Deck all purpose, got GOG Epic Game Pass Streaming and a dozen emulators up and running

also i will forever love Nintendo for being like emulate whatever who gives a shit and forever hate Sony for making me hunt down twenty five year old bios

[Prothescar]

Nintendo hates emulation. grabbing firmware for Yuzu is like a game of whack a mole

[Andalusian girls]

right but no bios and dolphin and cemu are two of the best and easiest emulators out there and they rock generationally tiny roms as a bonus

getting Nintendo's entire library up to the Switch to run is quicker than getting a PS1 and PS2 to run tbh

[Jaybar]

So I had placed my pre-order a while ago and recently got the notice to purchase the Steam Deck. I chose the 250gb with case, and the notification said stock would be ready in May.

Well I completely read that wrong because I received it in the mail yesterday. Very excited to finally lay on the couch and game. I was only mildly disappointed in the touchscreen lag for the keyboard. And my first game I played glitched out when I accidentally used the touchscreen instead of the controls.

[Andalusian girls]

the gods smile upon you, they literally just updated the touchscreen keyboard in the latest SteamOS beta, runs a million times better now. go to settings---->system and hit beta under system update channel

[Jaybar]

I think I did that last night but haven't used the keyboard since, so that's wonderful news!

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1...LMBZM6jjGPz9Rw
https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1...LMBZM6jjGPz9Rw

[Corrderio]

Welp, guess I'm going to sit through this dumpster fire of a show

[Cantih]

I mean, the awards are meh, but you don't watch it for those anyway.
You watch it for the announcements/premiers. Like the superbowl commercials.

[Corrderio]

Pretty much why I just wait for the next morning for the cliffnotes

[Tyrath]

I mean you can always just turn it on and then no watch it lol

[Tomiko]

For anyone interested in this, it's currently 10% off until the 23rd.

https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1636412184027860992

[6souls]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/16/2...rumble-lawsuit

Valve is being sued by a patent troll.

Immersion — the haptic feedback company that’s purchased, developed, or otherwise accumulated so many patents on rumble tech that almost every major tech company has licensed or settled out of court — is now accusing Valve of infringing its patents with the Steam Deck handheld, the Valve Index VR platform, its SteamVR software, and Half-Life: Alyx among other titles. There’s no mention of Valve’s long-gone Steam Controller, which also used lots of haptic feedback.

Immersion is asking for damages, royalties, and an injunction against Valve “from deploying, operating, maintaining, testing, and using the Accused Handheld Instrumentalities and Accused VR Instrumentalities”.

Sony and Microsoft both license Immersion’s patent portfolio, following lawsuits and settlements. Apple, Google, Motorola and Fitbit settled as well. Meta is currently in the middle of its own Immersion lawsuit, filed a year ago. Nintendo seemingly escaped a suit, perhaps due to its own development of Rumble Pak tech for the Nintendo 64, but it also licenses Immersion tech now.

[6souls]

OLED Model - November 16th - $549


https://www.steamdeck.com/en/oled | https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Larger hdr oled screen
20-30% more battery life
Easier to take apart
Nicer case with the terabyte premium models
Wi-Fi 6e
Better thermals (bigger fan)
Slightly better touch responsiveness and haptics
Dedicated Bluetooth antenna for better connection to other devices
Some other minor updates to hardware (no significant performance changes)
90hz screen
A bit lighter
Bluetooth 5.3

The previous version has now been dropped to $399

[Zealot]

Ugh I already bought the best version of the old one and now they're making a better best version??

[Andalusian girls]

exact same. might be worth yeeting the old one on ebay and grabbing the upgrade

[Tyrath]

Ugh I already bought the best version of the old one and now they're making a better best version??

New to PC gaming?

[Melena]

Just got my Steam Deck Oled LE. Besides EmuDeck, any other good software to toss on here?

[Krandor]

In the past I would have said something like Decky (for loading plugins) but Valve has done a very good job of integrating a lot of the stuff it's good for into the base OS.

If you want to play with mods like through Nexus/Vortex you have to jump through some hoops.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/c...ll_nexus_mods/
https://github.com/pikdum/steam-deck