Comment on RetroDECK 0.7.4b - Released!
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 months agoOn the wiki, the “what is retrodeck” explains it, but it shines your familiar with similar software. It lists some Linux OSs geared towards emulation. I think if you want to get the gist of what it is, look at Batocera.
But yeah, it seems the general idea is it’s a frontend to put all the emulators in one UI.
ripcord@kbin.social 7 months ago
I wish one of these projects would bring in changes from some fork of emulation station I can't track down.
I had a handheld that came with some emuelec-based image. That in turn had some version of emulation station that was freaking AWESOME. Had way way more features, including the ability to configure a bunch of things like whether rewind support was enabled, etc. When I moved to the ES:DE one I thought it was a huge downgrade, then realized it's pretty much the main one everyone uses. I don't get why they haven't brought in these other features.
lazorne@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
We are trying to match that type of functionality inside the RetroDECK Configurator where we have toggles for rewind, save-on-exit etc. There is also big plans to expand the Configurators functions even more further then those ports.
ES-DE is only a general frontend that works on all OSes.
Projects like Batocera have their own version of Emulationstation, with a lot of integrated features. But that also requires you to replace your whole OS.
While our project can just be installed directly from flathub on Steam Deck or Linux Desktop.