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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/anchifomu on 2024-10-10 03:38:13+00:00.

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so. i just wanna start by saying this will be a very long post. ty to anyone who reads it all and if anyone important (to the steam decks production) or higher up in steam reads this then also thank you. i doubt they will or will care enough to but ik sometimes ppl higher up do read their reddits so maybe. now story time.

around 2 years ago in around early to mid 2022 i got very ill (chrons disease). i had been hospitalised and the like with chrons many times since my diagnosis over 10 years ago now. however my surgery was iffy and stuff happened and i wasnt doing well. i ended up in intensive care. i had been eyeing up a steam deck for a litlle while as a thing for emulation and as new tech it just seemed cool. my mum agreed to me getting it as a early birthday present and using my bday money id get later for it (ordering it then back in march/april or so even though my bday was june).

at the time i felt it was a bit expensive (but much cheaper than windows equivalent machines). decided its fine and i deserve a treat regardless. i ended up being in hospital for a year,having multiple surgeries and almost dying on several occassions. throughout the entire admission of stay my steam deck kept me a little sane by being able to play games offline and then sometimes using a vpn to get around hospital wifi restrictions to play steam games in hospital with my friends online.

the steam deck had become something to help me through hospital boredom and kept me sane during a very bad time in my life. now i end up in hospital every so often (probably a week or 2 every 2 months) still (including as i write this lol) and i use the steam deck every time i am and have been in hospital since i bought it. at home i have a full gaming rig (though its not the MOST powerful its a good mid spec pc) which is also why i initially hesitated buying a steam deck wondering how much i'd actually use the thing and if it would be worth (100000% was btw if anyone was jw)

so if anyone reads this who helped make,develop,actively works on or anything of the sort with the steam deck even people like cryo or the deckmate guy who helped with other stuff and qol things. thank you from the bottom of my heart. this machine has kept me mentally sane and has been a godsend with all my health stuff and hospital stuff being how it is. even now my health is uncertain but i remain hopeful and sane. i think without the steam deck i would have been mentally much worse off (not great normally either but this thing makes it a lot better) and i also woild have not enjoyed my fav hobby or been able to pass time if it wasnt for this thing. so again ty everyone and anyone who made and makes any of the syeam decks stuff possible.

i know im just one person and i know that pretty much noone will probably read this post but i just wanted to say ty to anyone and everyone kncluding the general community aswell. also if anybody read all that thank you aswell. i basically just wanted to write a love letter for this machine. i love this thing

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/ManhattanTime on 2024-10-09 16:32:46+00:00.

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Just picked this up three days ago. It's incredible fun.

What I've found is that I've spent about 95% of my time in Desktop Mode. I didn't know Linux at all and it's been a blast learning it. I spend tons of time in Dolphin File Manager and it was downright comical following some of the tutorials. "Simply right click on the title bar and...." and I'm like, how the hell do you right click? So that's a Google search. Continue on with that about 1000 times and now I'm functionally literate in it.

I've spent the majority of the time gathering up all the 25-30 year old abandonware games I played in my youth and making them work. Very few just worked perfectly the first time. I've spent hours on Emudeck and Steam Rom Manager and the various emulators (RPCS3, Xenia, MAME) and it's been so much fun tweaking it all to make it work.

I've successfully been able to make every single one work now and the feeling of accomplishment if pretty high.

The thing I didn't understand is that I wouldn't spend any time playing any of them. Basically boot them up, verify the play for a few minutes, exit out and set up the next one.

I used to play House of the Dead 2 for hours on my old Sega Dreamcast back in the day. Once I had it all emulated perfectly I went through the first mission. Man, it's bad. Boring. Outdated. Probably will never open it up again but I doubt I'll delete it.

So I guess now I'll start using the Steam Gaming Mode portion - you know, the thing we buy these for. Nostalgia is great, but for me personally it's not long-lasting. So much better stuff out there now.

But hey, the Steamdeck is awesome. Glad I have it.

Edit: I failed to give a shoutout to Dark Uni. He's an older guy like me and the way he explains things in his YouTube tutorials just jells with me well. So easy to follow. I highly recommend anybody with a brand new SteamDeck to follow his Dolphin Setup Tips and Tricks video. It's the best video I've seen on it. I cannot tell you how many times I've used the "Copy to Inactive Split View" and uncluttered left-hand panel side. Once that file system is set up correctly with this recommendations the file transfers and hundreds of edits you'll make to the files system are a breeze. It's a must-do before anything else.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Less-Blueberry-8617 on 2024-10-09 14:55:10+00:00.

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Exactly as the title states. I tried to play Cod Cold War on my steam deck. 4 years later, I'm actually trying to grind for the dark aether camo and because I spend a lot of time away from my laptop which I usually play Cold War on, I wanted it on my steam deck so that I can grind for camos at pretty much anytime I want. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that Cold War was incompatible with steamOS. I uninstalled the game quickly after the game basically shut itself down and just played a quick game of zombies on my laptop as I usually do. Wake up this morning, my morning classes for college were canceled so I decided to hop on my laptop to play some Cold War only to find out I got banned. I submitted an appeal and hopefully I get unbanned and this is something most of y'all probably already know but do NOT try to play the newer Cod games on Steam Deck unless you have Windows installed or else you just wasted like $60 if you can't get unbanned

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So, I've done this before. For a little while I was posting these...curated posts on different sub-reddits. I've done them for r/SteamDeckHQ and r/JunkStore before, but considering the recent (and welcomed) changes, I thought I might try sharing something here too!

My passion, despite being way too young for it, are the old-old gaming blogs of the middle to late '000's. And the websites around in the same time - before the articles were all clickbait, and when these articles felt personal.

So, as a heads-up, all of this is my own personal opinion, my own takes on what is happening, and the games I'm most interested in sharing! I like to focus on the GOG and Epic Games' side of Steam Deck gaming, as they are far less covered than Steam! Let's get started!

GOG/Epic Games on the Steam Deck:

If you're not aware (I'm sure 99% of us here are, but there are always people who miss these things!), we as gamers are regularly given free PC games, in the form of codes to redeem. Epic Games gives one or two games per week (we've been lucky the last 6 weeks or so, with a solid two-per-week!), and the GOG codes come from an active Amazon Prime subscription - the have Prime Gaming, which gives a lot of GOG codes.

All you need is a Prime account for the GOG codes (given each week) and a Epic Games account for their weekly games!

GOG NEWS:

Alien: Isolation

The world's best (okay, my fav at least!) sci-fi horror game, Alien: Isolation has turned 10 years old! My fav little fact about when Creative Assembly got the okay to make this game, they got unprecedented access to all of the behind-the-scenes material of the lore of Alien.

They were given access to 20th Century Fox's archives - "around three terabytes of behind-the-scenes-archive material from the first movie", which allowed them to craft what I like to think of as the most accurate depiction of a film's world in a game.

The result of all that studying?

Perfection. Retro-futurist perfection. And oh-so-very authentic.

Alien: Isolation recently surged back up the charts thanks to the excellent Alien Romulus. It has the benefit of playing at the highest settings and looking fantastic (did you know the agreed best version of the game is actually the Android port? For performance and graphics? I found that odd)

It's also currently on steep sale on GOG and Steam. On GOG it is 7,49 Euro, and 7,01 on Steam for the Alien: Isolation Collection which includes:

• Alien: Isolation (full game)
• Alien: Isolation Corporate Lockdown (the first expansion pack, introducing 3 new maps for Survivor Mode)
• Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable (play as the original crew of the Nostromo - play as Dallas, Ripley or Parker, and find a way to isolate the Alien hunting them)
• Alien: Isolation - Last Survivor (as Ellen Ripley, it's up to you to complete the 'last mission' on board the Nostromo...get to the escape shuttle!)
• Alien: Isolation - Lost Contact (more for the 'salvage mode'
• Alien: Isolation - Safe Haven (salvage mode)
• Alien: Isolation - Trauma (more maps for salvage mode)
• Alien: Isolation - The Trigger ('Can you make Sevastopol safe? You've been given a box of explosives and the locations to set them. All you need to do now is pull the trigger...and stay alive')

It's hard to argue with that value. If you're a super-scardey-cat like I am? Use a mod to change the behavior of the Alien. I know, it's negating the entire point of the whole game, but...I just kinda liked exploring the phsyical world they built - it made me feel like I got to live inside the sets of the first film ❤️

Top Wishlisted Games on GOG - For the Previous 30 Days

1. Resident Evil 2
2. Resident Evil Bundle (newly re-released/re-made original PC games)
3. Baldur's Gate 3
4. Starcom: Unknown Spaces
5. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty DLC
6. Space Marine
7. Hollow Body
8. Fallout 4 (Game of The Year ed.)
9. Broken Sword: Shadow of The Templars Reforged

Why are there a top 9? And not a top 10? That...I really do not know.

Horizon Zero Dawn - the GOG version and DRM

I'm sure you all spotted this recently but it is note-worthy. In a sad move, Sony has decided that when they release the new remaster of this ancient game (2017 -__-) they will not allow you to buy the old version of HZD

What is the difference? Well, Sony now requires a PSN account creation and sign-in, in order to play. So the new game version (remastered, and their also give you a non-remastered version with it - though that too requires the PSN) gives you no option.

Horizon's previous version was delisted from Epic, and Steam, but the one store-front you can still access the non-PSN-y version?

That's right, it's GOG. Still there, still up, and still unaffected. This is clearly all timed to coincide with the LEGO Horizon game's launch in a few weeks' time, and...just sad and underhanded. This PSN requirement means it is not playable for just over 180 countries around the world.

Another sad reminder on how gaming in 2024 is decidedly not consumer-friendly

Buy it from GOG, support the one platform which is consumer-friendly and dedicates their platform to not having DRM of any kind.

GOG Exclusives:

It might surprise you to know (or maybe not?) that there are games, or more specifically games and then specific versions of those games, which are only available on GOG.

I spent some time buying, downloading, installing and testing at least some of them, but the ones which interested me boiled down to:

• SWAT 4: Gold Edition
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy
• Stranglehold
• The Saboteur
• Warhammer 40,000: Fire Team
• Silent Hill 4: The Room
• And more besides

I'm going to continue to try them out, and maybe next week (if there's enough interest in this one?) then I can come back with screenshots and settings and update on what works best to play them on the Steam Deck :)

GOG Games which have been updated (or released) in the last 48 hours

GOG Game Updates in the last 24 hours:

This won't be too detail-rich, but I thought I might put up a few games which caught my eye on being updated today.

• Resident Evil 3 (2024) - updated!
• Kynseed (2018) - updated!
• RoboCop: Rogue City (2023) - updated!
• TerraScape (2023) - updated!
• Coromon (2020) - updated!
• Wildermyth (2019) - updated!
• Endless Sky (2015!!!) - updated!
• Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp (2020) - updated!
• Dead Season (2024) - a new released game!
• The Blackwell Legacy (2006) - updated-ish

GOG Sales:

The GOG Autumn Sale just wrapped up a few hours ago, with a lot of games being given their highest discount ever on GOG (I picked up Firewatch!)

My pick of the lot of them I see still on sale though (as there is still games on steep discount!) is Breathedge (sitting at 'very positive' on Steam for All Reviews - 12,742).

"Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage."

In the opening of this one I plugged a gap in my broken ship's wall with a chicken, then plugged the chicken's butt with a wad of chewing gum. To create an air-tight seal. So...it's a different one.

Last Month's Free Games:

And while they're no longer available, if you are new to the free games you can claim, I have a handy list here of the ones Prime Gaming and Epic Games made available, and where you got the codes from:

(a great month!)

OTHER NEWS:

A user on Mastodon has created and shared this (and given me permission to share it further, with his name being credited!)

If you're a Doctor Who, and Steam Deck fan, they made this desktop wallpaper for you!:

Rob Vincent 🎙️ @[Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.town](mailto:Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.town)

I made an appropriate desktop image for a certain handheld computer of mine which runs a certain operating system. (Art by John Ridgway from Issue 6 of the #DoctorWho comic "Prisoners of Time.")

EmuDeck:

EmuDeck has had a bit of trouble before in the past with their updates. Earlier this year when Nintendo took down Yuzu (or at least...stopped it being developed, it very much still functions perfectly fine even now - even with newer titles) EmuDeck's subsequent update made many versions cras...

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Original Title: Hey guys! I've got x=(aa+cos(v/2)*sin(u)-sin(v/2)sin(2u))*cos(v) y=(aa+cos(v/2)*sin(u)-sin(v/2)sin(2u))*sin(v) z=sin(v/2)*sin(u)+cos(v/2)sin(2u) games I've played an hour or less. Anything I should really try?

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Good little handheld game “Gris” is only $1.50 rn down from $15

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