Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: MohandevirI was able to rip my whole Wii library from my old scratched DVD's.

Got any tips on good tools for that? Does it require anything special hardware-wise? (I think there was some console platform where there was a specific model of DVD drive that would be able to properly read them, but I don't remember details.)

https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/ripping-games/?nocr=true

Personally, that's what I followed. I used my Wii and an SD card to setup the Homebrew channel. Once it's done, I copied the content of the USB Loader GX zip file to an external drive (Fat32 partition), launched it via the Homebrew channel entry and began to install my games on the external drive (inserting the DVD into to Wii will prompt an options menu, just choose install). After that, I added Priiloader to my Wii (same as USB Loader GX) and configured it to boot directly into USB Loader GX, so that I may start my games from the external drive... The DVD drive on my Wii is doing some really disturbing noises and it destroyed a couple of my DVDs already. From that point, I recuperated the .wfs files of each games, from that external drive and put them on my Steam Deck (Emudeck). Dolphin can read them as is, even if broken in multiple files (Fat32's 4gb max). The final touch is to configure the controller layouts per game (in Dolphin). There are good tutorials for that if you google it.

Edit: With a simple udev rule addition and a Dolphin USB passthrough for the Portal, I was able to play Skylanders: Spyro's adventures/Giants/Swap Force on my Steam Deck... I connected our Swap Force portal to my usb hub and it got recognized.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DolphinEmulator/comments/k12x1o/skylanders_portal_on_linux/

Seriously, for all games, the visual upgrade over standard Wii graphics completely justifies it (Gamescope FSR, I tested it on my Holiso install on the PC that's connected to my 1080p TV).

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: zgilletThis is why I like having and Xbox Series S as a side console as well as a gaming PC and a Deck. Any of these BS jump-through-hoops games usually are on Game Pass, and I'll just bypass all this and play them there.

Doing similar with GeForce Now. This said, the few Ubisoft games I have and played (AC Origin, AC Odyssey and Immortals: Phoenix Rising), I bought them on sale and never found the energy to finish them... They all feel... Souless? ... Empty? ... Like trying too hard? I can't put the finger on it... I've been spoiled by Witcher 3 and God of War, I guess. The only EA or Ubisoft game that I might miss, if ever a launcher issue lingers on, is Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (EA).

GeForce Now ... I really struggled with their setup (no copy/paste, didn't remember the steam account, ...).

And filling in my paswords without copy/paste is essentially impossible, especially since I do not have am english keyboard.

Maybe it got better in the past year, but I decided to buy a gaming rig since I could not find an adequate streaming service. My connection with 250 mbit fibre would be good enough depending on the servers location (preferrably central europe).

I don't have that password issue since it's probably better when it's run on an Nvidia Shield or Android box (GeForce app), like I do. It remembers all accounts, it even permits family share. But yeah, I understand what you mean.

It's just a personal choice of mine. I prefer to stick with Steam (saves carrying over to any device).

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"The new BigPicture mode has been made the default one"

Meaning it's now the Steam Deck UI for desktop users too?

Edit: Yep! Just confirmed it. Performances are still abysmal, on Nvidia gpu.

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Quoting: zgilletThis is why I like having and Xbox Series S as a side console as well as a gaming PC and a Deck. Any of these BS jump-through-hoops games usually are on Game Pass, and I'll just bypass all this and play them there.

Doing similar with GeForce Now. This said, the few Ubisoft games I have and played (AC Origin, AC Odyssey and Immortals: Phoenix Rising), I bought them on sale and never found the energy to finish them... They all feel... Souless? ... Empty? ... Like trying too hard? I can't put the finger on it... I've been spoiled by Witcher 3 and God of War, I guess. The only EA or Ubisoft game that I might miss, if ever a launcher issue lingers on, is Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (EA).

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Witcher 3... CP2077... God of War... Horizon Zero Dawn... Hades... Stardew Valley... All on my Steam Deck.

Lately I've been doing a lot of emulation. I was able to rip my whole Wii library from my old scratched DVD's. I was even able to rip games that wouldn't start anymore in a traditional way.

I'm currently into another Witcher 3 run, because of Next-Gen... I really like the new graphics and FSR2, but content wise... Found the CP2077 easter egg and the Netflix gear set (not really hard).

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Because they want your data! Anti-piracy measure? Because Steam permits offline play? It's become even more annoying than DRM (launcher in a launcher).

Edit: Thank you Ubisoft for not taking the time to test against Proton and make sure Valve doesn't have the time to make the corrections, before updating!

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Boulder Dash! OMG!... Lol!

Used to play this game on an Apple IIE!

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I had the God of War issue, but I reduced the graphic preset to standard/30fps and the issue was gone, if I remember correctly. I tought Proton may have problems with some graphic settings, at higher levels... It made me remember of LotRO, with wine, many years ago. Trying to run the game at ultra resulted in crashes in less than 15 mins of play, back then.

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Surprise! Surprise!

*End of sarcasm*

Smells like EAC to me... Will they enable proton? That's what they could do. Atm, they don't have anti-cheat measures... Unless Proton support crashes the game, enabling it with EAC can't be worst than statu quo...

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Quoting: drlamb

Quoting: setzer22

Sorry for the confusion. I was saying the Stadia controller would benefit from removable batteries. I agree with you.

As long as I can recharge them with a USB cable, I'd be pretty fine with that.

This said, the Stadia controller rumble works in Dolphin emulator. Niiice! ... To have.

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