A Steam Deck Was Turned Into a Game Boy
Submitted 22 hours ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
https://steamdeckhq.com/news/a-steam-deck-was-turned-into-a-game-boy/
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sundray@lemmus.org 18 hours ago
atrielienz@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ghostbuster’s II throwback!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Steam Boy
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Gabe Boy
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
Honestly I’m so sick of it being called the “GabeCube”, partly because it’s too close to GameCube phonetically that it actually sounds pretty much identical to GameCube in most cases, but moreso because it’s the result of the hard work of so many talented and passionate engineers at Valve, it feels really disrespectful to call it after the businessman who funded it.
It’s an amusing pun, I enjoyed hearing/reading it the first time. Second time onwards it’s just annoying.
chocrates@piefed.world 22 hours ago
I wonder if you can buy these as replacement parts instead of having to buy a full steam deck. Really cool
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
It uses a Steam Deck motherboard, which isn’t available as a replacement part, so you’d have to have a full deck. It might be a good option for steam decks with a broken screen though, since that part is completely replaced.
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Except the screen doesn’t work (yet)
Telorand@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
Yep, and I bet you could find those on eBay or similar second-hand sale sites.
Telorand@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
Love the execution, though the loss of the second thumbstick would be a bit painful for certain titles. I’m fortunate to own the original Steam Controller, and using a trackpad as the right thumbstick is not great.
Still, this would be great as an emulation machine or any game that allows mouse and controller input at the same time!
almost1337@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Yeah, no second stick would be rough… but it would be ideal for PSP emulation!
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
I recoiled reading the title but seeing the form factor in action it does seem awesome!
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 19 hours ago
Ok this is really cool
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Maybe in the future a smaller version of a Steam Deck could be possible, based on ARM, as ARM is more energy efficient and smaller. Valve is supporting FEX (an x86-64 to ARM64 emulator / translator) and the Steam Frame is based on ARM that can play your Steam library too. I would love to have a small Steam Boy thing. :-) In fact I would be even happy if its weaker than the Steam Deck!
And if VALVE is not doing this, some other company might using SteamOS. But not in this economy.
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Thats basically gamehub on android. There’s other forks of it that arent as shitty but I still don’t really intend on using it outside of checking up on progress every now and then. I think gamehub is gamesir the company that locks their switch emulator based off stolen code, and requiring physically for you to use one of their controllers. So I don’t like the idea of them in general, even ignoring the privacy issues.
But I do hope that steam os becomes popular for this. If I understand it correctly the frame is going to run off arch64 and use a combo of android, and fex translation layers so it will be extreamly versatile. Right now one of the closes things I experienced is Ubuntu touch, but you have to do everything in libertine containers and even native Linux apps don’t always work well, along with waydroid.
The progress with fex is already impressive and if it matures anything like proton did, it might be just as simple. I can throw a pirated Photoshop 1.6 cs or something into bottles with proton ge and it works. Sure might not be the version anyone wants anymore but I can say “we have Photoshop” now.
Even if people don’t use steam is directly I think there will be community made projects that essentially just bundle in almost the same experience using the same tools valve is using. Kinda like how bazzite or cachyos make it easy to have a steam deck experience out of the box and focuses on more gaming specific utilities that the steam deck comes bundled with.
And its not going to be good right away. Proton kind of sucked when the the first steam decks where released. It has to be out there and start getting put through the paces, people need to be making reports on protondb, etc. When I got a q2 steam deck it was pretty much only the indie games and native Linux games that worked fine. Outside of that it didnt work or there was actual fiddling you had to do, and protonGE was more nessisary to use over proton.
The hardest part is everyone needs universal hardware. The os would have to be made for a few select phones, because with these bundles of translation layers like gamehub its a lot of tweaking and toggling on and off stuff that you don’t always fully know what it does or understand why you need it. Sometimes you have a shitty processor so you have to toggle a different series of settings to get them to work with your hardware, and the experience isnt always going to be the same.
Skyline969@piefed.ca 19 hours ago
This is gonna be a deeeeeeep cut but this reminds me of the Game Grrl from ladyada way back in the day.
joenforcer@midwest.social 19 hours ago
Face buttons in wrong configuration for a Nintendo system. Immersion ruined.
cyclonedusk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
HRT for gaming handhelds be like
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 22 hours ago
A trackpad on a gameboy like device is a cool idea
SatyrSack@quokk.au 14 hours ago
Why? No game is going to make use of it. Would you remap it to face buttons or something?
I guess if you used the device to emulate PS1 games or the like, that could come in handy to act as a joystick or something. Or if it had a Steam Deck-like desktop mode.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Sometimes you just gotta build something just to see if you can, not because of any inherent utilitarian value. Having a trackpad built into a Gameboy is cool, I don’t have to use the d-pad to parse menus if I don’t want to, I can also use it like a joystick.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
PS Vita had a touchpad on the back, you could use it similarly.