I just bought a deck yesterday. Now you’re telling me I can play my Gamecube games on it? Brain melts
GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Oka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You could before as well. Check out EmuDeck.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And Switch. And anything Retroarch supports.
The Steam Deck is amazing.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’ve been playing my 3DS, Wii, WiiU, Gamecube, and PS2 titles on it.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Finally, whoever has been maintaining the current one hasn’t let us have RetroAchievement support last I checked
Persi@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Nothing will change in that sense.
There is already support for retroachievents, if you don’t see it you’re most likely on the stable branch.
Retroachievents only work on the dev builds, which are available on flatpak-beta. The readme has some instructions in case you need them.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I thought Nintendo shut that down? Or was that just Switch emulation?
thejevans@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They sued one specific switch emulator.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And the 3DS emulator that the same team also created!
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That was just the Yuzu/Citra team. Main reason they got in trouble (from what I understand) is that they were making money off of it, specifically people had to subscribe to their patreon to get Tears of the Kingdom optimized builds, when the only copy of TotK available was an illegal pre-release one.
There were some more things like messages they sent that were incriminating, but that was the biggest thing afaik.
jerb@lemmy.croc.pw 2 weeks ago
For what it’s worth, that bit about Patreon isn’t true. There were fixed builds before release, but they were third party ones unaffiliated with the Yuzu devs.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For anybody confused – or I guess for anybody who wants Dolphin as a Flatpak immediately – Dolphin is already available on Flathub, it just currently isn’t verified. It’s packaged by a third party.
Honestly it’s great to see more first party support for Flatpaks/Flathub. Compliments to the Dolphin team, it’s probably the most impressive emulator I’ve ever used.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Dolphin is such a well fleshed out emulation monster that I’m consistently disappointed with other emulators that don’t let me tweak things quite to the same degree. I can’t tell if it’s just the nature of Nintendo’s console architecture from that era, or if there simply isn’t the same degree of effort/priority put into exposing those kinds of features in other emulators.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And yet despite the options, it’s not overwhelming like a lot of other highly-configurable software often is. They’ve done such an amazing job.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Huh, that’s super weird. I never realized the Steam flatpak wasn’t official.