Yep, totally fine and safe :)

No glaring issues!

You might have to reinstall a plugin, but I’ve only seen that issue literally once. It only happens if that plugin is dependent on being on the beta channel.

Once you switch back to stable, just restart your Steam Deck and it’ll be good to go!

No data loss or anything awful. But if it helps, I’ll check in with my friend on Decky and get his confirmation before you do :)

Here’s my tip (being friends with the Decky team, and having reported on them/interviewed them for a long time now!)

When you install Decky, stay on the stable branch.

When there is a update for the Steam Deck, wait a few hours until Decky have their update, install that first.

Every single complaint about Decky is totally fixed with these two dead-simple actions.

Then grab SteamGridDB and change all your game art (that’s my fav plugin!)

Interesting.

Is this dragoonDorise’s work? I interviewed them a few years back, and chatted again a couple weeks ago, hoping to write a feature article on the hardware, but that was a no-go.

They were interested in having me write an article on the EmuDeck Android app, but then just kinda ghosted me

Oh what a lovely thing to see, this is my article!

I’ve still got a couple other PSP articles on the go (it has become an obsession of mine)

Primary of which is my attempts to get an interview with someone from the original hardware design team. I’ve chatted a couple times to him, but the momentum seems to have stalled a little (though I’m not giving up on that idea!), I really want to share that story.

I’ve also chatted to one of the developers of Daxter, who said he’s not at all interested in a interview, since he has well and truly moved on. But he did show me a preproduction PSP the team got to work on Daxter, and he kept!

Added it to the side-bar of recommended communities on c/games :)

PCSX2 has pretty low requirements, and finding a totally legal ‘backup .ISO’ is very easy if you want to emulate it :)

Luckily the entire soundtrack album is hosted on Internet Archive! 25 songs, and 992.3mb in total (FLAC)

https://archive.org/details/need-for-speed-underground-2-original-soundtrack

It always ends up being between NFSU2 and Midnight Club 3 for people, I find!

It is crazy how these two always get the votes!

I’m curating my ROMs as I type this

GameCube performed so beautifully, you won’t regret it for a second! And if you have any GCN game recommendations for me, send them over!

Thank you Coelacanth!!!

I don’t think I play enough retro games to warrant owning one of these

The joke is that 90% of the people who buy these don’t either! They just spend all their time setting things up ‘just so’, setting up new front-ends, tweaking settings, scraping covers then curating ROMs lists :P

Some Vita titles are working a dream, but you’re right…it needs time and care to get it to what we’re used to on other systems! I just reviewed the Anbernic RG Vita Pro a week or so ago, and some of those games ran so well. First time I’d ever played Gravity Rush and I’m now obsessed!

Oh you made the right choice! I’ve had a few black handhelds I have reviewed, but I have long since started asking for other colors. The black (at least with glass fronts) smudge and fingerprint soooooo much

Your 16bit colors are much nicer!

Thank you so much!

Glad you enjoyed it :)

I’ll let Utkarsh know that it is GameNative you’ve been enjoying the most on there!

I’ve been thoroughly loving my PSP game library on mine :)

The size is wonderful. Having the same screen size as the Switch Lite, but being AMOLED and 120Hz means it is ‘the’ way to enjoy Switch games. Still, if you wait and keep an eye on the second-hand market as time goes by! The RP5 is also absolutely adored by the public and I have seen multiple posts on a few social media spaces where people get them at great prices when second-hand!

The crazy thing to me is how much I love this device. I was sent a Odin 3 Max to review toward the end of last year, which is by all metrics a far, far more powerful and capable handheld. But using them side-by-side, Retroid just nails that ‘fun’ feeling and aesthetic that the more mature designs and looks miss (if that makes any sense?!)

It is truly a lovely handheld, and you’d know that with the G2! My friend from Retroid told me they do hope to bring them back, one day, but who knows how that’ll go with current market conditions :(

^ That sparkling color in the front glass front is just perfection!!!

Which color G2 did you opt for?

That was me!

Using Vita3K to install a custom theme (it links you to the theme site) I opted for the Gravity Rush one. Having played so much of this game on there, I can say I am a big fan!