• General questions:
  • What is the scope of this project?
  • Do you include any games, firmware or BIOS?
  • Can you at least point me towards where I can get them?
  • Why are games call ROMs?
  • What is sudo?
  • Retrodeck is a flatpak, what is it?
  • What is RetroDECK cooker?
  • Why the name cooker? 🍲
  • Updates, feature requests and more devices/OS questions:
  • Will you support the general Linux desktop and not only the Steam Deck?
  • Will you support other SteamOS or Linux handheld gaming devices with flatpak support?
  • Will you support Windows or Windows based devices like the ROG Ally?
  • Will you support MacOS?
  • Will you support Android/IOS?
  • Will you implement X/Y/Z emulator?
  • Will you implement none emulator software inside of RetroDECK like Batocera?
  • When does the next version of RetroDECK come out?
  • When does the version after the upcoming version come out?
  • When does the version 1.0 of RetroDECK come out?
  • Documentation questions
  • I see ~ refereed in documentation and examples, what does it mean?
  • I see SA refereed in documentation about emulators what does it mean?
  • I see CLI refereed in documentation what does it mean?
  • Other Emulation Solutions questions:
  • Are you related to EmuDeck?
  • So what's the difference between RetroDECK and EmuDeck?
  • Can I install RetroDECK if I have EmuDeck already?
  • Are you related anyway to Batocera?
  • Batocera or EmuDeck or RetroDECK I still don't get it?
  • What is your relationship with EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE)?
  • RetroDECK usage questions:
  • Can I launch RetroDECK from inside of the Steam Decks gamemode?
  • Do I have to partition or format my disk/sdcard to install RetroDECK?
  • Can I move the ROMs folder to another place?
  • Is there a way to reset RetroDECK?
  • How do I uninstall RetroDECK?
  • Does uninstalling RetroDECK remove my roms, bios and saves?
  • Where can I find the logfiles?
  • Can I add a single game to my Steam Library or with Steam Rom Manager?
  • If I installed RetroDECK from outside of discover, do I need to uninstall the application to update?
  • After installing RetroDECK manually, Discover is not opening or giving me some errors?
  • General emulation & games questions:
  • What emulators and software is included in RetroDECK?
  • How can I set another default emulator?
  • Game X/Y/Z is not working or showing black screen
  • PS2 games are not working or buggy in the RetroArch Core.
  • I configured RetroArch but the configuration was not saved.
  • Will you support Lightguns (Sinden, Gun4IR, Samco etc...)?
  • Steam Deck emulation questions:
  • XBOX games are slow on the Steam Deck
  • The games are stuck at 30FPS on the Steam Deck!
  • Fast forwarding is slow on the Steam Deck!
  • Theme questions:
  • How can I add more themes?
  • How do you switch between themes inside of RetroDECK?
  • "Why does the theme I am using not work?" or "Why does the layout look broken?" (black screen with blue text)?
  • Why does the theme layout look squished?
  • Scraping questions
  • Can I manually add custom game images/videos/media for games that I can not scrape?
  • Manually copying game media files
  • Where is my scraped data?
  • I got some weird error message about quota after scraping!
  • I got some weird error message about about server or service!
  • The scraping is too slow!
  • My systems storage ran out after scraping!
  • But I still want them!
  • Can I move the downloaded_media folder?