Emulation on the Steam Deck is already getting way more convenient

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When the Steam Deck launched back in February I was already excited about it as an emulation device. I spent hours of my testing time playing games like Metroid Prime and Persona 3 on the Deck after setting up retro console emulators, which was only a little fiddly (the biggest inconvenience was having to use a trackpad to mouse around interfaces that were really built for desktops). It wasn't bad if you already knew your way around the emulators, but it was definitely more work to launch your emulated games than anything in your Steam library.

Now just over a month into the Steam Deck's life, emulation has become considerably easier to set up—my emulated games now live in my Steam library side-by-side with my PC games, and I can launch them with a single click.

A number of tools have popped up recently to make emulation configuration easier on the Steam Deck, but the one I used to streamline my setup was EmuDeck, which lured me in with its dead simple five step setup. Could it really be that easy? Actually, yeah, pretty much. 

EmuDeck does a few things. It installs another application, Steam Rom Manager, which can automatically download cover art for your games and add them to your Steam library so that they're easily accessible. It also automatically installs a range of emulators and then configures them with controller keybinds and other settings. I especially like that it sets up some universal hotkeys like saving/loading a game state that I'd otherwise have to do in every emulator.

Launching a retro game is now as simple for me as pressing the 'A' button on it in the SteamOS interface. The emulator launches straight into that game without me even having to see the emulator interface.

EmuDeck has been such a hit that