Retro Games on the STEAM DECK! | JMachen Game Card 

6:17 "I don't know what I thought this game was" - it's the best RPG ever made, fact! Definitely worth a play.

N64DD is the extremely shortly lived N64 Disc Drive

Not sure I'd be comfortable plugging in a memory card sent to me from some randomer. Even if it's for the steam deck.

Best emulation on display was your rendition of the speccy loading process XD

There are loads of free images from users to download exactly the same like this one if you are on a budget. 😊

Nice bit of kit that thanks Steve

Wow, that zx spectrum noise brought me back LOL🤘😆

Thanks so much for posting this. I realize I’m pretty late to the party but I picked one of these cards up a while back and forgot about it. Figured I’d give it a go and I wouldn’t have figured out how to run it if not for you. Thanks!!!

The problem with collections like these is that it is so often quantity over quality, and there are only a handful of games which are worthwhile. I think I prefer just having that handful and keep some space on the SD card.

Did you find the hidden game Rootkit Tycoon 😂

Steam Deck can emulate PS3 to varying degrees of success but the SD card slot isn't fast enough to support the emulator. Youll have a better time running it off the internal SSD

The PS3 emulation of watching a really slow upload and then an update, is amazingly accurate to a real PS3 the first time you feed it a game

Seems more like Plug and Pray to me.

Always add your own emulation software, apps and games yourself. The reason for my opinion is you can get multiple updated builds for your system and choose your own optimized games.

I bought one of these on sale apparently half asleep. Was scared to actually pop it in. This is all the help and info I needed. Ugh

A very nice fix!

Wii and the WiiU actually emulate great on the Steam Deck, and almost every game I've played works flawlessly. Hell, even most Switch games run great, so Nintendo emulation and the Deck are a match made in heaven.

Been using batocera over a year. Works great.

I am glad you were honest with yhe review on this. I was considering buying this but i will just do my own emudeck setup with games i want and know i will play. I hate that all these sellers are just loading these cards with tons of games that most people will not play. Pointless.

hahahahah the disc noises made my day

Welcome back

Love it. Took as long as a Spectrum to load!! 😂😂

I bought an SD card image off of ebay for a fiver a couple years back that had all that, all setup in a GUI and all I had to do was download it from a server, the image size was 32gb with 70,000 unique entries including MAME etc, even had the fruit machine I worked on as my first job doing my C&G Computers and Electronic Engineering as the college had a contract with JPM and my pet work on was Reel Crazy (seen in Only Fools and Horses Jolly Boys Outing at the halfway house) and I knew the machines patterns like my hand so always cleaned 'em out whenever I saw one hehehe

Could you tell me how did you get the sound to work?

I jus purchased it from aliexpress 512gb micro for 58 $ but when i get what do you think is it a good idea just do a back up and copy the micro on to the pc if anything happens and i can always buy a new sd card and just copy the files back ?

First time a PS3 game loads it has to compile shaders. They will then be saved and next load will be much faster. It's a bother, but in fairness, that is the case for many steam games as well. That's why you get pre-compiled shaders downloaded with steam games. To save on that time. The Steam Deck will emulate quite a few PS3 games well from SD card, with a long first startup time, and then much faster startup.

With Super Mario all-stars, did you just emulate an emulator on an emulator...?

Batocera is fun and you can have the OS scrape for all the images. it is just going to take a very long time

That Mario game that's what I always do killed first jump lol

i got this but i cant get the controls to work!! even tho i have mapped the controls, any suggestions?

So when I'm done using the sd card.. how do i go back to the regular deck menu

I found a website that makes the software on the SD card with all the games preloaded and I've downloaded it and I have a really nice 256 gig SD card that reads 130MB a second and the loading time for tomb raider for PlayStation was around 30 seconds and once I got into the game it was just fine this is also possibly a different build for the SD card but it was very possible that they just sent him the slow SD card as a review unit I have noticed though with switch games it's a bit demanding and takes like a minute and 30 seconds which is really long

Where can I get an ips screen for gba preferably a drop in one

Would you recommend those steam decks, my tablets on it way out, I only use my tablet for games and Google, so was looking at a steam deck as a replacement x

Does it have Sega Genesis Road Rash 1,2, and 3?

If I'm not mistaken, the most difficult N64 game to emulate is Star Wars Shadows of the Empire.

How does one exit out of a game? I see you pressing a lot of buttons? Thanks!

3:10 N64DD? I'll need to keep abreast of that, Steve!

the read speed from sdcard is to slow i think...hhmm what about,copying the complete sd card on external nvme via usbc?think,runs better. think about to order one of this... or did somebody know where i could download such complete image?

N64DD = Disk drive version, I believe. (I'm guessing though).

What are the gamecube games?

Can you not boot to USB, why would they use a slow method like SDCard?

I was hoping you would take apart the sd card and try to fix Tomb Raider...

The share file is blocked in red basically you cannot add roms because it says permissions denied , that's through desktop mode then look for sd card , also dosnt show all files if plugged into a laptop , so I'm confused how you'd add your own roms and delete the crap off you don't want ... anyone know ?

I have the TB version

That's why i put mine on an SSD. akl that waiting. It's ok co's i have 2 steamdecks anyway and a ROG ally. You should have downloaded your own. easy to get with all the box art scraped and even vaudio/ideo previews next to the box art.I mean what did you expect from ali express lol.

Does twilight princess work?

I really need a 4tb option.

Took me ages to do my own build using emudeck so i can see why people want this and at that price point it is a no brainer.

Well you have to boot from it lol. I am currently extracting a 1 terabyte batocera image to whack on my 2nd steamdecks 1 terabyte SSd as a dedicated batocera Steamdeck. No ali express or selling of my soul needed.

I don't trust that SD card not to be full of malware, spyware, viruses, etc.

Retro. Games. On. The. Steam. Deck. ! J. Machen game. Card

lazy and smart I know cover art does not take up a lot of space but it adds up when your game count gets up there

There aren't many Wii games or PlayStation 3 games not because this can't emulate them but because of the file size and you have a small sd card

This is a step above those stupid little hard drives that you buy that just have the games and emulators on them for a computer. But it also comes with its own bag of potential problems. Not every seller is going to be using a reliable SD card. You put a hundred hours into the games on it and next thing you know boom the nand flash goes bad. Or the controller goes bad. Regardless, on a micro SD card you're not fixing that.

Naomi???? Means can emulate initial D games...

I think you'd be better off searching for games and downloading them. I mean, that memory card could have a virus or anything on it?

It's not that it's hard for the steam deck to emulate Wii or GameCube... It's that the more advanced that the CD-ROM game is the more data it takes up.. if a person wanted they could take a 1tb sd card and put nothing but wii games on it

Having spent more hours than I care to admit trying to get my Snes mini set up using Halkchi to do what this card does I thought I'd be sold by your assessment of this card, but I'm not really. 1. The more I actually try this 'retro gaming experience' the more I find myself underwhelmed by the games after all the effort to get them installed and working. 2. Lack of box art is really lame. Doing that after the fact through Hakchi is a faff. I think in the end, instead of a mass import, I'm going to selectively find the 5-10 games of the available systems worth playing and import them singly or in small batches. I hard wired an SD card adapter internally to the mini and with a 128gb card could go nuts. But I think actually, going quality over quantity a 64 or even 32gb will suffice. Still, I've now got a bunch of games to delete and start again. But I think the end result will be worth it

you would be playing a snooker game. play jimmy whites snooker on genesis.

I like your phone

Bro, you definitely need to play Crono Trigger! Especially if you like parasite Eve and Final Fantasy!

i think i might have had a stroke when he said contra 3 sucks.... like a real stroke.

just use emudeck...

WHY WOULD YOU NOT TRY TWILIGHT PRINCESS?

Is there any command and conquer games on the ps1 @StezStix Fix

More 'boot N play'

Curated collections > Full rom sets

Your an amazing gamer, the problem is that you only chose the stupid games

upload the image someware

I would figure the steam deck could run retro games. Considering it runs steam games............

micro SD card should not be used for 7th gen console gaming via an emulator. The data transfer is not ideal.

džamaki?

Retroarch

I can not figure out how to simply back out of a game I've tried every damn combination of buttons there is including what it looks like he presses the steam and start button.

DID THIS FOOL PUT SD IN WITHOUT BEING OFF?

That listing was all sorts of wrong..... Steamdeck is Linux powered and not windows😤 I like to play the original games tho, love my retro collection.

You're gonna got copyrighted for that offspring music. :(

20% battery used trying to start a game...

And it's 101% legally okay! Buy one and get one for your dead uncle for free!!!

Botocera works great, but Emudeck on the steam is even better. Its also alot better to do it yourself and create the launcher on your own

Letttttttssssss gooooooo!

Say it with me. STOP👏BUYING👏ROMS👏

Awesome none of the big games i want are on there.

No Philips CDI games? What a disappointment!

I don't mind piracy at all, but even for me these sellers are taking the p!$$ lol.

about the best I have seen Batoceta run on anything.... such a shame.

youre a brave man sticking a random SD card from china into a computer connected to your home network

🫡👍🇸🇪

Full of spy ware did you say straight out of China 🤣

I'm not convinced just buying a card full of stolen games from China is the best idea

Hey Steve. I love all of your videos. But Please.... Don't support people downloading games for free and selling them for a profit. This is blatant illegal selling of IP's. Just do the work yourself, it's extremely easy to emulate just about anything these days.

All these videos on emulation.. I think I'll just avoid all of it and stick to my steam library and remasters of old games.

That’s a lot of pirated software, eh?

Yeah not worth it’s not hard too make one.

Looks like a ripoff. A 256 SD Card shouldn't cost nearly that much and the Batocera image with games can be downloaded for free from a website run by arcade punks...

emudeck isbetter

to be fair the ps3 would have booted it just as slow :D

This is exactly why I don’t like emulation. It’s not perfect. Original hardware works best. The only emulation i excuse is mame.

pirating ROMs because you don't wanna pay for some 40 year old game is one thing. buying pirated ROMs though is just stupid...