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After a long time trying to play Steam games on my android handheld, I found the best way (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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You do need a laptop, but Moonlight is the best way to go about it that ive found. Install sunshine on your machine, put Moonlight onto your android device, and link the two.

Emable upnp forwarding, and youre golden! Ive been sitting at my hangout spot playing this and that for the last hour, and even with mosou games, they work well!

Gamehub is the runner up if you dont have access to WiFi. That installs the game locally, but not everything runs well.

I know theres a few of you with emulation handhelds, so wanted to pass this on cause im fucking thrilled!

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[–] Inui@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Curious to know what you mean by emulation not being as good as Windows? Is that mainly for newer stuff like the PS4 emulator? I ask because I don't really have any issues with stuff like PCSX2, Dolphin, way older stuff, etc on my desktop (which runs Bazzite) and most modern phones are powerful enough to run anywhere from the PSX to the Wii, so I can't imagine the Steam Deck specs are holding things back.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's not specs but imo it's programs that aren't as polished and missing settings and frontend programs to organize libraries the like.

I have a shared partition on my handheld - one part windows, one part Bazzite, and a large partition shared between them. I dumped ROMs in there and a while back, I was trying to set up the main directory for the files but the emulator browser absolutely would not permit me access outside of the Bazzite home drive to point to the shared partition.

I probably could have found a workaround or done something in the terminal if I was good enough at it but after banging my head against that wall for quite a long time and not finding any terminal commands that I could copy-paste which someone else found fixed the problem, I just gave up.

Of course this isn't likely to be an issue for the average user but there's often a noticeable lack of polish and function with Linux options.

~~Still love the car tho!~~ Still love the distro tho! (/semi-ironic)

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Resist the urge to diagnose. Resist the urge to diagnose. Resist the urge...

Is the emulator installed through flatpak and it therefore doesn't have access to it?

RESIST.

Is the shared partition available at some mount point, or could you mount it through the file manager and then open probably /run/media/[username]/

NO. STOP.

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[–] Inui@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Flatpak was my thought also and needing to give it access with Flatseal.

Was the same with my network shares, which I also had to enter into fstab so they had a permanent mount point and stopped changing directories on reboot. Otherwise my emulators would ask me where my games are every time. Most people can do this with Gnome Disks on Bazzite without needing to actually modify fatab directly.

Second thought was that Bazzite is straight up disallowing people to use NTFS partitions because so many people complain to them about issues with it when they already say they don't support it. They're adding a banner that shows whenever one gets mounted though, so that'd be more obvious.