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How do people feel about Retrodeck vs Emudeck? Should I just pick one and go with it?
Personally, I prefer RetroDeck... you should definitely pick only one, trying to run both at the same time will probably cause you to rage quit from sanity, lol.
RetroDeck removing / freezing the version of Switch emulators made it a no go for me. EmuDeck may not auto install/update any Switch emulators anymore, but it provides a channel for me to install them myself and benefit from the auto configurations / ES-DE integrations.
So they're a goodie fucking two shoes.
Thanks for the heads up.
I took another look, and it looks like they've gotten around to changing over to Ryubing from Ryujinx. At the time I previously checked RetroDeck out they had Ryujinx declared legacy while Ryubing was going strong.
But there remains no support for Citron/Eden/etc.
Yeah that's no good chief.
I'll be sticking with EmuDeck. Again, thanks for the heads up.
It's obvious they're afraid of supporting shut down project in any way even if the user wants it.
That's okay, we can use something else
I prefer RetroDeck, plus they are close friends with the RomM team, hopefully we'll see an integration soon™.
I’m not an advanced user, bit the fact that retrodeck was a Flatpak I could easily install on my Steam Deck without installing Deckyloader was a big plus.
@lazorne I started with emudeck and it worked for what I needed so I've never even tried retrodeck... Am I missing out on things I should care about? I dunno..
It’s ultimately your decision, but I’d recommend waiting for the next update...
Since the current stable release is already seven months old (thanks to the rewrite).
One advantage of RetroDECK is its isolation: everything lives in a single location, making installation and removal quite easy.
EmuDeck provides features that we don’t, and vice versa. The two projects have other goals and visions from each other.
EmuDeck is terrible for emulation developers and makes their life harder. The developers at PCSX2 absolutely despise it because they used to have different defaults and they received bug reports due to that.
All I can do is speak for ourselves.
RetroDECK has explicit rules against contacting upstream projects for support issues, and those rules have always been in place.
Our support is internal, and if we discover something that appears to be an upstream bug, we report it directly to the upstream team not through a user proxy.
We have been very vocal about this policy within our community.
It’s also important to remind users that RetroDECK doesn’t make the games run; the built‑in emulators, engines, and systems do. Therefore, we encourage our users to donate to those upstream projects rather than to us.