That girl who plays Steam Deck and writes about gaming + Linux a lot
Speaking of Gameboy on the Steam Deck, have you seen this effort of the GBOperator?
I feel like you’ll enjoy that link!
Sadly the price of Japanese consoles went up a heap over Covid, though you can still get some amazing deals with proxy bidding and buying services, if you take your time!
Drat! I had users complain last time about Boost. It has to be the amount of images / GIF inclusion I have in these, but using Thunder and Jerboa, I see zero slow-down, so it has to be specific to Boost!
The Switch can be a hard one to say. If you get the last release (the ‘Early Access’) of Yuzu, and you use the GreemDev build of Ryujinx he maintains now (he was a Dev of Ryujinx proper, before it closed shop) - then you’ll be totally fine.
Even tricky games such as ToTK have dedicated mod packs like this one known as the optimizer (which is amazing at making ToTK play really well!) which greatly improve performance, heck I even wrote my own mods to make it play well.
I had a vast Switch collection before my Steam Deck, which I then sold because I emulated it all on the Deck so well.
Then you’ll find titles like BoTW which play far, far better through Cemu. Cemu emulates Wii U games, and Breath of The Wild on the Steam Deck is perfection - high FPS, higher resultion, mods, you can even tweak how much or how little cell shading you have, or fog on the landscape. It is the single best way to play BoTW.
In the end, I’d recommend a Steam Deck. You get:
My biggest two issues I’ve found on specific Switch games has been Tears, which doesn’t run perfectly (but is playable) and Metroid Prime Remaster (there is a literally fraction split-second load time at each door)
I’d recommend the Steam Deck, because it can do so much more. If you have specific questions, you can reach me on Matrix if you’d like!
I did the same long ago, but I did go back to reddit. I wish I’d learned my lesson at the time -__-
Removing the messages option and instead replacing it with their stupid DM chat system, even for modmail
Stating that later this year they’re going to introduce walled off paid sub-reddit
That live stream nonsense they had a couple of years back
Their A.I. answers integration
Censoring users who mention ‘eat the rich’ and the name Luigi
No longer allowing moderators of their own sub-reddit to change a sub’s status to NSFW (after the protests, obv), now requires admin to do this for them if the deem it appropriate
…who’d have guessed that these decisions were shit. Not the community who told them each time, again and again, right?
Fuck you, Reddit
I enjoyed my time there immensely. I loved fostering a community, and helping people, I wrote guides and news posts, I helped other users via messages and overall felt like it was a nice place.
But over time Reddit got greedy, and for me to do the work for free (moderate), and then provide their content for free (my posts)…with how they treated us and will continue to?
My time is better spent on the fediverse. Here and Mastodon. I’m far happier here now.
Their other plan is removing their established messages system and sunsetting it completely over the next 3 months. Instead every message including modmail will be done with their horrendous instant chat system - those stupid DMs they have there.
I left moderating some significant subs back when with the 3rd party app protests, but did return to Reddit after that to start my own.
But now, since early December I’m done-done.
My account has been deleted (as with Discord), and I’m all in on the fediverse. Seeing the proposed changes (the concept of a paid sub that Spez is so adament about?), I just had enough. And the more news of Reddit I see, the happier I am I did.
Most of my daily time now is spent on Mastodon, but I am here every few days trying to share a post or two.
Ironically I felt like I had to leave a few out, I found so many interesting custom consoles lately!
Thanks for saying so!
I used to share these so very often on Reddit, esp on my own sub-reddit there…and it’s honestly the one thing I missed about being there. I’m very glad I remembered about Lemmy and re-joined here, because it’s been so much fun finding a (mostly) willing audience for this kind of post again!
I’m trying to force myself to write these only one per week, but so far the majority were only 3 or 4 days between each. I’m sticking around :)
As with each of these I post, I am just amazed that what I stumble over, save and share here in these posts is as interesting to others as it is to me!
Thank you for reading through and having fun :)
Oh thank you!!!
I just use Jerboa and the desktop site, and don’t notice any issue on either method. It could be your app?
To be fair I have a lot of images in there too, so that may have some impact for your app?
I keep meaning to play Museum!
I haven’t ever been too picky with FPS when playing on the Steam Deck, so I’m not the best to ask. They have optimized it far more than the first KCD. And to me? It ran beautifully.
I had zero issues with it.
Here is the link to ProtonDB’s page for KCD II. Its a good way to see what a bunch of users have experienced, and the settings they’ve recommended!