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Yes, better than on the Switch. (now I'm awaiting legal action from Nintendo)
by WithinReason 3y ago
Yes, better than on the Switch.
(now I'm awaiting legal action from Nintendo)
- progbits 3y agoBetter how? The detachable joycon with accelerometer control are a mechanic in some games (eg. Zelda crossbow aim). I would imagine this would be worse experience on steam deck.
- just2043 3y agoSteamdeck also has a gyro for this kind of mechanic.
- darkteflon 3y agoBy the by, I recently switched to using a Dualsense as my SD external controller and found that the gyro controls make for an excellent desktop and M+K game controller. Surprised I didn’t think to check earlier.
- c-hendricks 3y agoFYI this has been possible since the DS4.
- mplewis 3y agoYou can play them at a higher resolution and frame rate than Switch supports. Steam Deck supports accelerometer control as well.
- progbits 3y agoHuh, TIL. Thanks!
- faaarmer 3y agoIn some cases. In other cases they run worse on Steam Deck, notably Tears of the Kingdom.
- al_borland 3y agoThat's a pretty big asterisk. BotW and TotK account for about 90% of my Switch game time.
- prophesi 3y agoAt this point, there's a TotK optimizer you can find that even has a preset specifically for the Steam Deck.
- WithinReason 3y agoNo, the SteamDeck gyro works too
- climb_stealth 3y agoBetter as in much better framerate with no performance drops. At least that's what I've heard. Pretty much all the games I have played allowed to disable the motion controls. I think it counts towards accessibility. Personally I really dislike the whole motion control aspect so always turn them off. Zelda included. I'm sure there are other tradeoffs as well. But would love it see what it's like on an emulator. Or maybe not, it might make running games on the original hardware feel terrible :)
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> Pretty much all the games I have played allowed to disable the motion controls. I think it counts towards accessibility. I think motion control is the only option for Pokemon Let's Go.
- beardedmoose 3y agoThat has not been my experience with switch games on the Steam Deck. Anytime shaders are loaded the FPS seems to stutter which in the newer Mario game is like every few seconds at first and it gets better the longer you play. I still prefer the switch for switch games myself.
- esskay 3y agoI've tried a few and it does very much seem to depend on the game. Some run better, some run worse. Most are about equal.
- rbits 3y agoNot in my experience. Definitely performance drops on the Deck. And even when it's running well, shader caches or whatever can make it stutter. Still very cool to be able to have all my games on one device though, even if it doesn't run as well.
- StimDeck 3y agoCurious if you are running with or without mods.
- darkteflon 3y agoAfaik you need to own a modded Switch to get the necessary keys, though. That’s a big outlay, if you can even find one - they’re rare as hens teeth. Edit: Awesome - great to know!
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoYou do not need a Switch at all, unless you're trying to somehow skirt the legality issues.
- sudosysgen 3y agoYou can find the keys online.
- nicolas_17 3y agoAnd that is the illegal part, rather than the development of the emulator...
- tonmoy 3y agoClearly not according to Nintendo
- johnnyanmac 3y agoThe moment they find a BIOS source they'll be taken out too. But the internet is a game of cat and mouse.
- Natsu 3y agoSo it's like the 09F9 1102 thing all over again? I think I still have most of the key memorized from back then.
- WithinReason 3y agoYes, if you want to do it legally.
- bassiek 3y agoBoss music start playing
- _cenw 3y agoI found it funny that Linus of LMG endorsed this setup not because it is better, but because Yuzu doesn't hold your savegames hostage. If you don't know: you can't backup saves, they get written to NAND, not the SD card. you can however buy cloud backup, but only for games that don't opt out. Truly a problem of Nintendo's own petty making if even switch owners with a legitimate copy prefer to not run on their hardware.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoIf you have a hacked console (paperclip with a 1st year console, modchip with later ones), you can back up your saves using a homebrew app (checkpoint) if you remember to do it regularly. You can also copy the saves off the console (or the emulated NAND you're supposed to create when hacking it) by running a different app (TegraExplorer) right from the bootloader. I had to do this when I messed up an update and my system wouldn't boot, but I hadn't backed up my saves in months. I do wonder if anyone's attempted to get nintendo to respond to a subject access request in the EU to get their saves from their cloud service.
- j5155 3y ago…and if you have a hacked console, you can easily and legally(!) just dump your ROMs and emulate as well.
- Cu3PO42 3y agoI didn't want to run CFW, so I have actually written a tool to back up and decrypt all saves in a single click given any vulnerable Switch in RCM Mode. It's been really quite useful.
- StimDeck 3y agoAnd you’re planning to create a GitHub gist later to share it right?
- johnkizer 3y agoThe savegame situation was part of what made me less interested in my Switch over time - I just didn't want to invest much time in any long-term games where I couldn't actually back up the savegames in any direct way. Now it gets pulled out every now and then when the kids want to play Club House Games or Mario Party.
- dclowd9901 3y agoGet out of here. Seriously? I’ve been playing older system games pretty well on it but switch felt like it would be too much a load.
- ThatMedicIsASpy 3y agoEmu Deck is the quickest way to set up emulation. The rest requires google. Not all games are stable/playable/without glitches. Mario Galaxy Wii + HD texture packs look like its from 2025 compared to the re-release on the Switch.
- dclowd9901 3y agoGot this set up and I have to say I am really stunned by how good it emulates switch.
- myko 3y agoNot really better than the Switch generally, but it's pretty cool
- ShamelessC 3y ago> better than on the Switch That simply isn’t true. Downvotes don't make the statement magically more true.
- spoiler 3y agoI played BotW on my friend's Switch, and loved it, but didn't really wanna buy another console. So I went through the tribulations of setting it up on the Deck (pro tip: use EmuDeck, I didn't know about it back then). I don't know about better, but for me it felt the same as the Switch! The only slight confusion thing was button labeling, but it's quick to get used to. I'd also say the slightly bigger screen is nicer.
- ShamelessC 3y agoI'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying it isn't universally better on every game the Switch can play. In fact, many games simply won't run. But yes, you can (and should!) run the popular titles such as Mario Odyssey and BotW/TotK.
- nox101 3y agoAre 100% of features supported? Tilt sensor? Amiibo support? 2-8 controllers with motion camera, tilt sensor, internal speaker, and vibration?
- ranguna 3y agoI'm not 100% sure tilt is supported out of the box, and amibo for sure is not unless you have a dongle or something. But I'm not sure why this is so surprising, the steam deck is a Linux PC.
- WithinReason 3y agoAmiibos are supported (virtually), not sure about the rest
- jetbooster 3y agoI can confirm a PS4 controller tilt sensor works with yuzu, so fundamentally it's possible, not sure a plugin for parsing the steamdeck tilt sensor exists though