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VERY cool. I wish you could make this work for steam deck (and friends) though.

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Why would you want this to work on a dedicated gaming device that can emulate the titles outright?

Have a look at Decky loader and Emudeck.

I guess it might be a nice way to distribute homebrew PS2 games in a platform agnostic way

but this is still an emulator! The platform agnostic way is to provide the emulator itself, not to embed the rom inside an emulator.

And can just port the emulator to wasm, and have people able to run their own roms. That would mean you're suddenly retroactively making all of those ps2 games platform agnostic.

This just makes one game playable, by artificially limiting the emulator to running this one game. If you're recreating a ps2 in software (which this project is), you should be able to run any game.

Can't get decky loader to work on my (Lenovo) steam deck

You can definitely still get PCSX2 working on it though, and it's fantastic. PS2 and PS3 games are among my favourite uses for handheld PCs.

What's a Lenovo Steamdeck?

From an ars technica review of the steam deck "friends", a portable device that is way ahead of the actual steam deck, specs wise, but since it runs plain unmodified windows is a pain in the ass to use as a portable :)

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/handheld/legion-go-s/83n6000g...

there's an actual sku of one lenovo handheld that officially runs SteamOS, i assume that's what GP is referring to

Ohh that's new. I stand corrected then.

You can install steam os (now even the Valve version) and that just works.

Power efficiency.

There is already a native Linux build (Vulkan through wgpu, SDL2 window, audio and gamepad support), so it can run on the Deck as a non-steam game, and the browser build should work in desktop mode too. Two things are missing, the native host still runs on one thread (the VU1 and GS threads only exist in the web host so far), and since i cant distribute anything built from a game, you currently have to convert your own ISO on a PC. Decks GPU is less than half of the laptop iGPU i test on, so 1x resolution is the realistic target for now.Please keep an eye on the repo update, i'll release the relevant update for u.

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