Every Steam Deck Should Setup PS3 Emulator THIS WAY ! 

Note: 1: The RPCS3 Emulator updates on March 27th somehow broke the steam deck controller in gaming mode. Here is the Fix: Go to Steam Deck Desktop mode - open standalone RPCS3 Appimage - configuration - Pads - Under Play1 - change Handlers to Evdev then under devices it should show Microsoft -Xbox 360 Pad 0 - click save. that's all Now, the controller will work in both desktop mode & gaming mode. Also, make sure controller template layout is using Gampad with joystick trackpad in gaming mode. 2:if the HDD0 folder is missing. you can manually create hdd0 folder. go to rpcs3 emulator manage virtual files system - select dev_hdd0 tab then click + icon navigate to your PS3 Emulation folder - click choose. the hdd0 folder will be created for you.

Don't get me wrong, having standalone emulators is nice but.. Emudeck was precisely the reason why it exist that you don't have to deal to manually install and configure each emulator... Just click and go

I was thinking of going the standalone route and your simple guide has made up my mind. Thank you for the guide and I look forward to more great videos

I cannot thank you enough for making this awesome guide. I hope you can make more like this for other systems.

Heavenly Sword! What a throwback, my dad and I loved that game

You are AWESOME, thank you! The current version of RPCS3 has a regression in it that breaks some of the games I want to play. I'm able to use your solution to use an older RPCS3 appimage and finally able to play my games.

You are my personal hero!!

i have been looking for a video just like this very thorough please do the others!

Bro i love your videos you are the deck master

I don’t even have my steam deck yet and I already subscribed! Thank you for this video!

Was thinking of emulating some PS3 games and really didnt wanna deal with EMU deck, you sir are my hero right now!

Very informative

Great bro. This is what I wanted. Hope you have a similar video for Nintendo switch as well

Thanks for the tutorial. May have to do this. Want to replay Odin Sphere on the go.

nice guide raven!

Thank you buddy, I dont use steam os but this works perfect on my steam deck now. before it was laggy as f, now its algoods thanks to your content.

Just subbed, looking forward to a Gamecube & PS1 vid in the future.

I love this channel ❤️ thank you ED4T!!

I just got emudeck 2.2.17 and have no issues, I don't use emustation or Pegasus either, just the steam OS and it works great.

Agree, Emudeck is messed up now on my Steamdeck since latest updates.. just use standalones, awesome vid though..

Ed for President 😎 I'll probably download everything standalone in future, I prefer the more granular control I have over everything.

Very Nice, you just earn a subscriber. Thank you.👍

Dude that white steam deck is cleaaaannn! How did you do that? It doesn’t even look like a skin. Looks like an official Steam product. Did you take the whole thing apart and paint or something?

Wow this is great! I want to see this for Game Cube and 3DS next 🎉😊

If this makes the games run better I'm all for it. Gonna do this to my steam deck. Thanks

Thanks for the great guide as always Ed. Are there any hot keys for RPCS3 at all for the Deck? One of my games (NBA Jam - On Fire Edition runs super sped up and I am not sure how to correct this.

For me, the best setup currently is ES-DE + standalone emulators. I've made some box covers for games by myself, and everything looks and feels great. I'm using it on my PC, but Linux (SteamOS) should also work.

Thank you!

Thanks ! 👍

Lutris is by far the easiest way to add emulator games to your steam library but for some reason the ones that play through retroarch don't recognize controls in gamepad mode only in mouse and keyboard mode.

I'm moving to Vietnam and am so glad I can play my PS3 games with out dragging my PS3 across the world!

omg the all white SD is something, sure save to my hack list, n will try it on my SD. ps3 on the go haha

Thank you so much for this video very informative and explained. I was hoping to emulate GTA 5, have you tried and had issues with this game yet my friend?

im with you emudeck is worse every update now! Thx again M8!

Thank you !!! Emu deck was way too confusing 🫤 this is actually way better and a way better explanation given than anyone that tried to explain that horrible emu deck set up . This is gold thank you 🙏🏽

You can build all precompiled shaders (3rd option) 6:45 when you add a game or multiple, it will save you from having to do this when you launch a game 9:10 and 12:38

haven't had a problem with emudeck and I have all of my games launching from steam in game mode fine, got switch, ps2,ps3,xbox,gamecube,wii u

Through emu deck I’ve never been able to get skate 3 to run that well

Great step by step tutorial. Love your videos. I’m having some issues with getting my controller to work properly, if I select Steam Virtual Gamepad 1 under SDL, the Steam deck controller does not work in game. I have another selection under SDL named Steam Deck 1. If I select it, it works in game but then I get random on screen keyboard openings. I’m not sure what is going on. Any ideas?

I just got a steam deck and i installed emudeck. Its great but i got to admit I'm not a huge fan of how it connects to the internet and runs scripts to set things up and keeps stuff updated. I'm sure its really not a big deal, but I just like the idea of the emulators being self contained

Best step by step videos! I used your videos for installing the EmuDeck version a year ago. I am getting so many errors recently after their updates. But one more question, should I uninstall RPCS3 from Emudeck? Will it cause errors/issues having both at the same time? Thanks a lot for your tutorials!

Wonder if you can make a tutorial for yuzu citra and dolphin (specifically for the wii) stand alone as well

What's the games like as I know not every game will work. Need a good powerful pc for that

I haven't used emudeck since i put windows on my steam deck. Now i have the tech toy tinkerers emulation station setup and it works great.

Do all ps3 games work ok using this method? I tried to get motorstorm to work but there is big time lag

Note: if the HDD0 folder is missing. you can manually create hdd0 folder. go to rpcs3 emulator manage virtual files system - select dev_hdd0 tab then click + icon navigate to your PS3 Emulation folder - click choose. the hdd0 folder will be created for you.

I am refusing to update Emudeck stuff, since it already works great AND it still has Yuzu stuff on it in case I need it

Could you also possibly please make a tutorial for extracting already existing emulators on Emudeck and making standalone? Reason: Yuzu :(

good tutorial but i have a problem, when you show the new folders that were added in the PS3 Emulation folder, on my screen i am missing the games folder and dev_hdd0 folder.

Can make video for cemu please ? For some reason I cannot find the shader cache folder and all my cemu games are running horribly

This new emu deck update has made everything confusing, half the stuff has seemed to disappeared

Is it still ok to do PS2 via Emudeck after the update, or should I go the standalone route for PS2 as well?

White steam deck is oled or lcd looks more beautiful than the orgianl now

I wish I could have my oled swapped all white like that

HELP This guide is absolutely fantastic, I followed step by step. Game loads up, by none of the buttons seem to work at all, I went to pads and selection what you said. But I tried two games and none of the buttons worked at all. Any ideas? Thanks 😊

We also need a native way to install 3 more emulators starting with NW, NS, N3 "ahem ahem". I know its very risky but is there any guide I can follow? Looking forward to remove EmuDeck from my system. I still have my old Y installed. Have not updated the EmuDeck after the incidence.

How about god of war 3? I manage to run 1+2 had remaster ver , but 3 can’t run well on deck

I still want fight night to work on steam deck.

How does WWE 2k14 play on the steam deck? trying to play it on my mac using this emulator but the slow down during the gameplay kind of ruins the expireince. The game works perfect other wise. WOnder if performance is better on the steamdeck, if so ill buy it

Anybody got skate 3 setting running good in career mode I have 60 fps free play

Done all this but steam deck controller not working in desktop mode, pressing X brings up the on screen keyboard? What's up with this?

when my steam deck arrive i want to play Splatterhouse & Rambo The Video game on Steam Deck..but performance was so bad on Emudeck before this..i give up..i don't know if this standalone PS3 apps can perform that 2 game at least 30fps 😢

When I load the game from steam OS, the controls won’t work, but when I play in desktop mode the controls work, but when I press “B” it interacts as if I’m minimizing the game.

On the ps3 game shortcut in gaming mode. The controller is not working. But in desktop mode the controller works fine. Any help?

Does it play good? Because emudeck will not let me play final fantasy 13 on it? All messed up

I get the point you're tryna get to, however EmuDeck just clears all the clutter and packages PS3, PS2, XBOX and more emulators into one.

I'm having issue with the controls. My rpcs3 shows 2 devices when i select SDL on pads menu, steam deck 1 and steam virtual gamepad 1. On desktop mode it can only work with steam deck 1 device, not the virtual controller one. But on game mode, neither of those work. Any suggestion on how to fix this?

@ED4T Hi bro, how can i use saves states on rpcs3 (like pcsx2) Im using steam deck and follow this guide, but i dont know how to save game😢

На Ryzen 7 7840H есть поддержка AVX-512 , сколько там FPS, при игре через RPCS3? в Killzone 2 ? Тестировал кто? 7840H ведь даже мощнее , чем i7 11800H.

None of my games are adding and I can’t figure out how to convert them to iso format. Any ifeas

Before I would just launch a gamecube game in gaming mode and it would launch, but NOW when I launch a gamecube game it goes to the dolphin menu and I have to select the game though the dolphin menu. It never did that until now.... Any tips?

I suppose that if they are no game patch it's because the game do not have one

What to do when it says another instance of rpcs3 is running and how to fix it on steam deck

Hey man, I’ve been following your videos to try and get skate 3 working on my steam deck using the ps3 emulator. I followed your instructions on how to patch my iso file and download it on to my steam deck. I also put it on rpcs3 exactly the way you did. Everything seems right, but when I run the game, it loads for a second then eventually says “The ps3 emulator has likely crashed, you can close it”. Any ideas on how to fix this. Thanks!

is skate 3 playable with this standalone rpcs3? because in emudeck they dont play good :( in your video what settings to play skate flawless like that?

I personally like "Batocera" on a separate SD card.

Does the emulation from the standalone ps3 emulator work better or smoother?

Did you try twisted metal for ps3? how does it run now?

The game when I move it to steam is just called example.desktop and won’t load what do I do about that

Please upload tutorial for adding cheats to pcsx2 via emudeck?

Keep showed me *no bootable content* Even i drop iso to games file as i follow your instruction How to solve it ,please help and thanks

I have everything installed all my files and firmware are correctly installed as well but when I put the roms in the roms folder i open the emulator up and nothing shows on my deck. The emulator starts up fine.

I did everything but for some reason when i launch the game in gaming mode then the controls stop working. I have it set to SDL and it says Steam virtual keyboard but its still not working. Anyone know any fixes?

what is the problem with emudeck?

How do u have your hard disc drive read successfully? Mine has a pass lock and the steam can't seems to be able to open it and input password

Hi Ed, how do you get the ps3 games to display full screen on the deck ?

agree on the new emudeck updates , total garbage now, spent hours fixing steam rom manager , imagine making a tool to ease up emulators install only for it to become so trash that it's easier to setup all manually, sheesh.

I was extremely frustrated after the last major emudeck update however .. What it did do was force me to manually go and sort out yuzu so now i know i will always have yuzu available to me But to give credit to the emudeck team,the last update has fixed quite a few things within emulator updates and controller setups as well as add more emulators like model 2 and 3 Yes,agreed that when the update came out neither model 2 or 3 even worked and steam rom manager was broken but its all fixed now and actually yuzu is re enabled but you still need to supply the yuzu appimage which isnt too difficult to find Now on topic of standalone emulators ... You do realise that emudeck DOES install all of these emulators as a stand alone application And within steam rom manager,you can scrape them as an entire folder onto your steam deck library and then run the emulators directly,and at least most if not all legwork is done for you,you dont actually need to run emulation station unless you want to And as far is losing these emulators go,well just go into the installed directory for emudeck and copy them all to your sd card I simply wish there was a more safe and secure way of actually updating emudeck,currently it seems far too easy to just click or touch the screen when running the app in decktop mode and accidentally updating,you get very little warning,the english prompts and instructions often dont make much sense either For instance,i knew a major update came out,i ran emudeck because i wanted to add games and use steam rom manager,by the time i launched emudeck,i hit the update button that appeared by mistake They need to add an option to turn off updates entirely so you can wait for issues to be ironed out,you simply dont get much of a warning,i also think the last big update felt like a temptation for many with the lure of new emulators not realising yuzu would be disabled For me,it updated and broke soo many things that i was forced to reinstall everything and that is where i lost yuzu so its no wonder than some of us are a bit pissed off,emudeck may make things easier for us but alot of hard work still goes into setting up games and artwork,controller set ups and game saves only to lose it all with an update This is not to say that i dont appreciate emudeck,i value it highly and i think the folks behind it are brillian

hi may i seek your comment, which of roy ally or steam deck ole is better to play ps3 games???

I use Retrodeck, it's easy and runs fine.

in gaming mode any ps3 game ,I get a frozen screen , it works fine in desktop mode

Can u pls help me, my game shows up in steam rom manager but doesnt show up in the emulator folder i have to search and add it on the mainscreen . It was working before the update

Setting up binds can be pretty tedious.

Ps2 next?

Do the Wii U next please 😊

Hey Ed! I have Skate 3 i downloaded onto my steam deck and it came as a dec.iso file so i transferred it back to my pc to use 7zip to extract it and then moved that file back to my steamdeck and dropped the file into the PS3 Emulation Games folder but it still doesnt show up on RPCS3 what did i do wrong?

Failed to create shortcut?

How do I add custom game patches?

i did everything, but when i launch a game from gaming mode my steam deck controls wont work, only if i launch from desktop mode it works. Any thoughts on how to fix?

How the hell did you get a white steam deck?