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If you have a SteamDeck, it's built in to the setup for EmulationStation. You can just enter your Retro Achievements username and password and it will automatic

If you have a SteamDeck, it's built in to the setup for EmulationStation. You can just enter your Retro Achievements username and password and it will automatically be hooked up for all emulators (It's case sensitive though, as warning. Didn't work for me until I updated it to match the case). Then when you launch a game, if it recognizes the game (seems to be based on checksums and not the name itself, renaming didn't seem to help for the games I had it didn't recognize) and achievements are set up for the game, you'll see a banner appear that says the game name, icon, and '0 out of X achievements' and you're golden. Really breathed new life into retro games for me. Now it's not just me playing many games for like 5-15 minutes an moving on, I try harder to complete the games now. Already gotten much farther in some NES games than I ever bothered to before, likely because of these achievements. One minor downside though, is you have to be online while doing the achievement for it to be recorded, there's no syncing after the fact. So if you're bringing your SteamDeck somewhere, either make sure you're online or play a game that doesn't have these achievements implemented yet (still quite a few games that don't still, including all Gamecube and Wii games) if you care about getting them.

beebeepka 3y ago
I fail to see the relevance of the deck here
- baq 3y ago
  The deck is the god tier emulator platform: standard homogenous hardware including a standard set of gaming controls but still a normal PC running a desktop OS. People joke it’s a better Switch than the Switch. So… not sure why you’re surprised.
  - beebeepka 3y ago
    That person made it sound like this is deck specific thing, which it isn't. It's not even a steam thing. You can play emulators on all sorts of computer devices hooked to TVs. Nothing stopping you from having corded or wireless joypads and controllers. Obviously that's not a replacement for mobile gaming. Well, I am just saying the opposite is also true. You can get your achievements.
    - cableshaft 3y ago
      No of course it's not a SteamDeck specific thing, hence why I started my post with "If you have a SteamDeck". As in, hey, if this interests you and you have a SteamDeck (or are considering getting one), here's some things I found useful. That being said, I had no idea RetroAchievements even existed until I bought a SteamDeck, went through the EmulationStation setup, and got to the setup screen that was like "Hook up RetroAchievements?" and I went..."you can DO that? Holy shit!" I've had emulators on my PC for years and didn't even know this was possible, as nothing ever let me know it existed before then. Also while I've had emulation on other portable platforms over the years (and bought some dedicated hardware), I haven't had any portable hardware just work for emulation and work for such a wide variety of platforms as the SteamDeck. I didn't even buy the SteamDeck with that in mind originally, and just a few weeks prior to getting it I was screwing around trying to get my old Vita set up for emulation with frustrating results (had to keep reinstalling something, never seemed to take), and then I checked it out on SteamDeck, and now I use it for emulation more than for playing my Steam library.
      - beebeepka 3y ago
        "if you have deck you can do all this cool stuff that has nothing to do with it" It's great that you and many others are happy with your device. Nothing wrong with that. I do object to this sort of marketing like promotion, though.

beebeepka 3y ago

I fail to see the relevance of the deck here

baq 3y ago
The deck is the god tier emulator platform: standard homogenous hardware including a standard set of gaming controls but still a normal PC running a desktop OS. People joke it’s a better Switch than the Switch. So… not sure why you’re surprised.
- beebeepka 3y ago
  That person made it sound like this is deck specific thing, which it isn't. It's not even a steam thing. You can play emulators on all sorts of computer devices hooked to TVs. Nothing stopping you from having corded or wireless joypads and controllers. Obviously that's not a replacement for mobile gaming. Well, I am just saying the opposite is also true. You can get your achievements.
  - cableshaft 3y ago
    No of course it's not a SteamDeck specific thing, hence why I started my post with "If you have a SteamDeck". As in, hey, if this interests you and you have a SteamDeck (or are considering getting one), here's some things I found useful. That being said, I had no idea RetroAchievements even existed until I bought a SteamDeck, went through the EmulationStation setup, and got to the setup screen that was like "Hook up RetroAchievements?" and I went..."you can DO that? Holy shit!" I've had emulators on my PC for years and didn't even know this was possible, as nothing ever let me know it existed before then. Also while I've had emulation on other portable platforms over the years (and bought some dedicated hardware), I haven't had any portable hardware just work for emulation and work for such a wide variety of platforms as the SteamDeck. I didn't even buy the SteamDeck with that in mind originally, and just a few weeks prior to getting it I was screwing around trying to get my old Vita set up for emulation with frustrating results (had to keep reinstalling something, never seemed to take), and then I checked it out on SteamDeck, and now I use it for emulation more than for playing my Steam library.
    - beebeepka 3y ago
      "if you have deck you can do all this cool stuff that has nothing to do with it" It's great that you and many others are happy with your device. Nothing wrong with that. I do object to this sort of marketing like promotion, though.