More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the Steam Deck

Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by Hamuko on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:11AM (#36586955)

I've clocked over 100 hours of playtime on mine since buying one in January. It's great. I've especially used it for reading visual novels.

(Unfortunately Valve broke the per-platform playtime reporting that SteamDB had, so I can only say that I've played for at least 105 hours.)

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by washadjeffmad on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:06PM (#36589486)

Have you done any ie- PC-98 emulation? I've been debating whether to just host a VM dedicated to that and remote in or try running natively on the deck.

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by Hamuko on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:56PM (#36591126)

Nope, sorry.

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by sersi on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:48PM (#36591726)

oh if you try, can you report back as a reply to this? I'm very curious myself...

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by washadjeffmad on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:59PM (#36661144)

just arrived and generically set up for emu. any titles you're interested in?

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by bluepod4 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:47AM (#36596399)

> I've especially used it for reading visual novels.

I bet you have. wink

Lol

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by Hamuko on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:32AM (#36596909)

Steam definitely has porn games but publishers usually need to cut the actual R18 content from Steam releases of eroge. For some games, you can restore those removed parts with either official or fan patches, but those usually require you to run some kind of an installer executable. And since applying patches is such a pain in the neck in a Wine environment, the Steam Deck actually makes for kind of a bad device for eroge/nukige.

I need to apply a translation patch to my Steam copy of CHAOS;HEAD NOAH, but running the installer on the Steam Deck seems like a massive pain. I think I need to try to just copy over the patched game directory from my Windows PC to my Steam Deck to get it done without losing my sanity and installing a bunch of crap on the Steam Deck.

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by bluepod4 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:34PM (#36604978)

Interesting, I didn’t know that. I haven’t played one of those games in at least two decades lol. But while on Steam, I did click on a “gameplay” video for some popular game recently, and the gameplay definitely looked very graphic to me. Not that I’m opposed to it lol.

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by Hamuko on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:18AM (#36613753)

I think the issue with cloud saves is that developers are pretty free to use them as they wish, and some of them wish to use them in craptastic ways.

I spent a couple of hours diagnosing why I couldn't get save files for a particular VN sync via the cloud between my Steam Deck and my gaming PC. Turns out that they implemented cloud saves so that Steam syncs the cloud saves to Location A on the file system, and when the game boots up, it checks if there's a save file in Location B, it loads that, and if there isn't, it copies the save file from Location A to Location B and then loads it. The end result was that all of my Steam Deck saves were on my gaming PC immediately after I installed the game on my gaming PC, but neither device ever refreshed the saves because the actual save location was different from the cloud sync location, and there was no mechanism to override local saves with cloud saves.

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