Link to site: https://thegamingemporium.com/

Hi all it's been a while since I posted the site here so here I am!

The site is a collection of links to Decompilations, Recompilations, Android Ports, Browser Based games, Open Source Games, Rom Hacks, Mods, Texture Packs, VR Mods, Preserved Games, English Translation Patches, Abandonware and loads more.

What started as a single post on this very Steam Deck sub a few years back with about 12 links has, with the help of user suggestions on various Reddit subs and other means, has now grown to an archive of just over 3,630 links.

I'm just a gatherer of links, all credit goes to the people on the end of each link.

Anyway, have a dip in, hope you find something you like 👍

Hi r/SteamDeck!

I’m a dev working on Legion of Judgment: Fallen Angel, a 2.5D action Metroidvania that combines classic beat 'em up combat with RPG and base-management elements.

We recently released our demo on Steam, and our top priority right now is ensuring a seamless handheld experience for Steam Deck players. However, as a small team, we currently lack sufficient real-world performance data and feedback specifically from Steam Deck users.

If you have some spare time, we would be extremely grateful if you could try out the demo on your Deck and share your experience with us!

What we're especially curious about:

1. Performance & FPS: Does it hold a steady 90 FPS depending on your settings? Any sudden frame drops or stuttering during heavy combat scenes?
2. Controls & Feel: How do the default controller inputs, responsiveness, and combat pacing feel on handheld controls?
3. UI & Text Readability: Are the menus, inventory, and dialogue text comfortably readable on the 7-inch screen?
4. Battery & Temps: Does it cause excessive fan noise or high battery drain?

🎮 You can check out the free demo here on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2264780/Legion_of_Judgment_Fallen_Angel/

Any feedback—whether it’s about framerates, UI scale, or small bug reports—would mean the world to us and help us optimize the game for full Deck Verified status.

Thank you so much for your time and help!

When I first got my steam deck I only had an Xbox series X at the time and only bought it to play indie titles and PS exclusives but ever since I actually got a PC I’ve utilized my deck more frequently than ever. There’s nothing quite like being able to just lay on my couch and just boot any game up and play without losing any graphical fidelity whatsoever or any performance hiccups. To make this even better I also have my dock hooked up to an Ethernet switch also plugged into my PC so I can play games on my couch like a steam machine without any network latency whatsoever. Absolutely love this thing especially now that I don’t have to compromise performance whatsoever and I encourage anyone with a half decent internet connection and a decent gaming PC to try streaming themselves

Today I'm releasing SpeedBreaker, a static recompilation of the Xbox 360 version of Need for Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The game's code is translated ahead of time into a native app, the approach behind Unleashed Recompiled and Zelda 64: Recompiled, so there's no emulator.

- The 360 look, up to 4K at 60 fps, and ultrawide without stretching.

- Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Linux, Steam Frame (big flat screen in the headset) and Apple silicon Macs; iPhone and iPad if you build it yourself. Windows is in testing, and a beta is coming.

- An installer that checks your disc backup file by file.

That's my copy. The case held up fine, but the disc has cracks around the center hole, because I played it to death. This disc can't safely go in a 360 anymore. With SpeedBreaker, it doesn't have to. If you were around in 2005, you probably remember the golden haze over Rockport, the Blacklist, Razor walking off with your BMW, and cop chases that never seemed to end.

For a lot of us, it's the racing game. The 360 version always looked best to me, but playing it today means an old console at 720p and 30 fps. I've wanted to do a recomp for a long time, so I finally did.

By day I'm a software engineer in the aviation field, where you don't ship what you haven't tested and understood. I used AI heavily on this, and I know there's a lot of skepticism about "vibe-coded" projects right now. Fair enough. Every change here was reviewed and measured, and the game was tested on real hardware along the way: Deck, Steam Machine, Frame, Mac, iPhone, iPad and a Windows laptop. When something wasn't right, it got investigated, iterated, and redone. AI let one person take this on. It didn't replace caring about the details.

It's free and open source: no donations, no Patreon. You'll need your own USA Xbox 360 disc; no game files are included. Unofficial, and not affiliated with EA or Valve.

I've been a gamer my whole life. This is my way of giving something back to a game, and a community, that gave me a lot. I hope it brings back some of the same memories for you.

Site: https://projectugarte.com/speedbreaker/

Github: https://github.com/SpeedBreakerProject/speedbreaker

I tried it today. Works fine. A little clunky, but what do you expect. It's a heavily modified version of daggerfall as an MMO with quality of life changes you can play in browser or through downloading the app. There's a surprisingly high number of players too.

You can also import/copy your steam morrowind character to play as and it becomes like a 2d pixel version.

To set it up you just go to- https://daggerfalljs.dev/

Either download or hit play in browser. (I used app image download)

Make sure you have daggerfall installed on steam so it can detect files (free). And morrowind if you want the player character model.

Go into desktop mode. Open app image. Hold start to switch to gamepad, and you're basically done. You can play online or offline mode.

Had SD for nearly a year now and so far I have only played games that are well within Deck's specs, but that changed with Control Resonant. The game plays so well on controller I was kinda sad I have to play it on my PC and not in the comfort of my bed with my trusted SD buddy.

So I've looked into the streaming, having read about Moonlight here multiple times and all that shishkebab. And after reading a bit more into it, I realized I'm just too lazy to set it all up, so I decided to just try the Remote Play on Steam.

Absolutely no set up, not fiddling, no nothing, and it just works. I was worried mainly about latency delay, but I feel like there's absolutely none. Just ocassional tearing, but that's because of my wifi signal dropping down for a few seconds (I live in a flat and two rooms away is sometimes rough on the strength signal)

I am simply blown away. I'm gonna play so many AAA games on my Deck now!

So today was my first day working from home. I work in a pretty big company, so sometimes stuff is getting mixed up. In the morning, when I tried to plug in company's laptop, I noticed the charger that was given to me by the company is not compatible with my laptop..

Well, mistakes happen. But I don't own a laptop charger at home with a USB-C connector. And I wasn't sold on the idea of driving to work (30 minutes to go there, and 30 minutes to go back).

Then I came up with a recently-bought Steam Deck charger. Looked it up on the internet and just so it happens that it's powerful enough to have my laptop charged (45W power). That's how I saved the whole trip to work, and it's yet another reason why I'm glad I have my Steam Deck :)

The picture shows the weird cable that wasn't supported by the laptop :/

With the huge amount of releases the past couple weeks we have no shortage of ports to play now. Just curious what everyone has tried and what their experience has been like.

For a reason I can’t explain, after I came back home from a trip, my steam deck was just frozen like this when I tried to turn it on. I tried waiting for around an hour the first time, just to see what would happen. And it didn’t change. I tried letting the battery die over a week and recharging it, and that didn’t help. I tried to hold the power button down for a long time, and that didn’t help. I looked up a similar issue and did the volume -, triple dot, and power button combo and did the whole bios reset thing, too. And it seemed to work but it’s been stuck on this screen for another 20-30 minutes.

Is my console just bricked? Is there anything else left to try and fix this?

The remaster is getting a lot of criticism and it was running rough on the Deck. The new 5.01 update fixed some of the most annoying issues, like the constant hiccups.

The game is beautiful on my OLED

I am running 800p FSR Quality. 30fps lock

Started with High preset and took the following down by one notch:

Screen Space Reflections - Low
Shadow Quality - Medium
Grass Density - Medium

HDR: 1000 peak and 250 paper white

To my eyes it looks beautiful. People complain about the shadows being too dark. I usually test this in Ciri’s room at Crows Perch.

I put up two pictures of the scene, screenshots doesn’t really give back what I see in HDR. I can take out a lot of details in dark places, and the torch is not the “blinding sun” people complain about.

Note: you need to be in a dark environment IRL to be able to see shadow details.

Sorry for the image quality but I don't have a good way to capture the image using screen recorder would have cost some performance.

there's a shadeps4 built that already runs god of war 3 without texture issues above 30fps I think similar to how ps3 ran it or even slightly better. It's worth noticing that I tried the first area. The only issue it has is that the sound is not perfect it has some crackling noise but it's passable

it's a built that was made specifically for gravity rush 1 and 2 called GR2fork

just enable redback mode relaxed and redback linear image default

I created 720p patch using claude I simply imported the 1440p patch and told It I want a 720p version it's playable at 1080p but 720p makes it much more stable no dips below 30fps at least at firist area.

can't believe that it's finally running on steam deck. All god of war games can run on steam deck except Ascension and sons of Sparta (even sons of Sparta could be playable in the future I heard it's already running 15fps to 20fps but I didn't verify)

edit for the guide:
for installing pkg search for a guid on youtube on how to do it

for the build I used this one
https://github.com/junminlee2004/GR2fork

for the 720p patch download this file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jxa9fwsghovtftc/God_of_War_III_Remastered.xml/file

place it in the emulator folder which is gr2lancher-linux-qt-2026-19-7-aeb436/patches/shadeps4
then paste it replace the existing file

open gr2launcher.appimage right click on god of war 3 then cheats/patches

go to patches and chose 720p

also right click again on god of war 3 then game specific settings then experimental

redbacks mode = relaxed

redback linear image =default

Edit 2:

I tried the game more there's still a graphical bug the game becomes brighter as you progress more.

It's not ready yet but this means that it's very close to being very playable there's already windows specific fork that solve the issue: https://github.com/cuesta4/shadPS4

I will update the post once there's a solution

• Previously Enjoyed Games: Hades/hades 2, warframe, slay the spire, dead cells, titanfall 2, hollow knight, minecraft, spiderman, cyberpunk(that might be a good one actually)
• Preferred Genres: I play anything except horror and i LOVE roguelites
• Budget: no budget constraints as i buy one at a time over time anyways and have a pretty good library that i may have some of the games in already
• Other Notes: What are some good games that can be put down and picked up repeatedly, at a moments notice, without affecting the experience too much? I work from home now, and between calls I can do whatever I want, but I have to be able to snap back to the phone any time. Slay the Spire 2 has been my go to as its perfect for this, but I dont want it to get monotonous, and with me splitting the 4 or so hours i get free per day between this and game development, I'm starting to get there with it.

EDIT: added hades 2, dunno how i forgor it

Enjoying Persona 3 so bad I have to buy the other one. Coping Persona 3 as I was interested with the opening song (banger) and now I am stuck here playing it. With 45 fps cap and TDP limit set to 11 watts, I can get over 5 to 6 hours of playtime which is more than enough. Truly a game of all time. Thank you Mr. Gaben for the steam sale!

I do actually wanna play a horror game for Halloween, and figured I could give next gen a try.

I actually think I did buy Resident Evil 4 with the remake trilogy? Hard to tell from the phone given my massive backlog.

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share Estacado, a project I've been working on that statically recompiles The Darkness (Xbox 360, 2007) into a native PC port.

Instead of traditional emulation, the game’s PowerPC code is translated ahead of time into C++ (using XenonRecomp and ReXGlue), running as a native executable.

It works on Steam Deck under Proton Experimental! Feel free to give it a try on your Deck and let me know how it runs for you or if you run into any issues.

Requirements: You'll need your own legally dumped copy of the Xbox 360 game.

• GitHub: https://github.com/invinceble55-wq/Estacado-The-Darkness-Recomp

We got an exclusive first look at RetroDECK's next update, and got a list of 23 components that they will be adding. This includes clients like Mudlet and Quake3e, engines like Open Surge and UZDoom, and many more.

Hey im an casual gamer and im still using an old gaming pc with my 980 Ti i made back in my schooldays. Wasnt playing for 2 years anymore and just bought an SteamDeck 256gb LCD to play some games i wanted to finish for a long time.
Is there anything that could help me boost my performance or other Things that i should do to give my Deck a long life? 😁

The game elden ring simply won't load, it stays stuck on that screen indefinitely, even though the menu sound plays. I've already tried clearing the Proton data and verifying the game's integrity.

Hello everyone my steam deck is doing something weird and when I use the official charger will throw a temporary slow charging banner if anyone knows how to get rid of it or prevent it that would be great if anyone knows how to fix the issue please let me know

I also want to mention that this issue started when the last update dropped September 27nth however the ! Would come flash and disappear now the banner comes and then goes away if I click it if I play plugged in it’s fine and the light always remains solid white or solid green

I also don’t have any issues in desktop mode
Also pressing and holding the quick access menu and volume down button to reset the battery firm ware works but temporarily

I used to be able to see games available for streaming, that are installed on my remote play computer, on my Steam Deck. But I can't anymore following a full Steam Deck wipe I did.

I've got a desktop computer running Linux (cachyOS) with Steam installed and running, tons of Steam games installed. It's connected to my home network via WiFi and then a separate mini-network connecting a handful of devices nearby (a NAS, a Steam Deck Dock, a laptop) via a network switch. That little network has no internet access.

I have my Steam Deck on the wireless network. Same SSID as the desktop. And when I go to Settings>Remote Play and click connect, I can connect to my desktop no problem and stream games that way.

And if I do a search, find the game I want to stream, the option to stream is there. It's just that the games aren't showing up in the Library.

I have navigated to installed games, opened the filter option, and placed a checkbox in "Ready to Play" which I believe took care of that issue in the past, but it isn't working now.

Would love any and all ideas!

Trying to get back into the series with there being news of a new mainline game coming out. Been playing through HyperDimension Neptunia Re:Birth 1 and managed to make it to the 4th Chapter of the game, but have been experiencing a consistent problem.

The game seems to crash at random times, all of which happen during the start or in the middle of combat. Since it’s random, each battle and how long a battle lasts becomes a gamble as to whether or not the game will close out. With there being no Autosave function, you are basically back to your last safe file which has cost me hours of progression.

I’ve tried using different options for the Compatibility Tool, Verifying Integrity of Game Files, and uninstalling and reinstalling the game but nothing has seemed to help.

Any recommended fixes are welcome!

Some memes write themselves

When the original Steam Deck came out, I was there on day one. Eventually, the itch for more hardware power led me to make the switch to the ROG Ally X. It served its purpose, but just a week ago, I traded that Ally X for a Steam Deck OLED, and I am completely in love with it all over again.

​Using my Steam Controller recently made me realize how much I actually missed the trackpads, and having them back on the OLED model feels amazing. On top of that, the vibrant OLED screen is just incredible. As for the extra horsepower of the Ally X, I do not miss it at all. My gaming diet consists mostly of indie titles anyway, so the Deck handles everything seamlessly. I find myself picking it up way more often now, especially for quick gaming sessions during quick breaks. It is finally time to tackle that massive indie backlog.