Post by @ishambard@cupoftea.social

2026-09-26 20:02 UTC

So, for whatever reason, Emulation Station stopped loading on my #SteamDeck I did just about EVERYTHING under the sun. Restarted the Deck Updated the Deck Updated Emulation Station Reinstalled Emulation Station Messed about with all different kinds of settings. Changed the boot target Went through EmuDeck to completely rebuild the front end and Emulator settings. Turns out... It would seem. That the default Compatibility mode that had been working since I first started using Emulation Station decided it wasn't going to work anymore... Changing the Compatibility from Default to Proton Stable seemed to fix it. This took me about 2 hours to "fix"

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@Judeau@mas.to 2026-09-26 20:23

@ishambard@cupoftea.social That can be so frustrating. I have had similar things happen and every time I have to remind myself that I should expect these things because the Steam Deck is a computer... not a game system... Even though it REALLY looks like a game system. 😂 I'm sorry you had to waste 2 hours but I'm glad you found a fix. 👍

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@ishambard@cupoftea.social 2026-09-26 22:15

Just to give a final update on this. Emulation Station when booted up in Gaming Mode on my Steam Deck no longer functions properly. PS2 Games load up fine, but everything else doesn't. As mentioned, this is exclusive to Gaming Mode, works fine on Desktop mode. Individual emulators on Gaming Mode are working fine, and after messing around with EmuDeck again I got Steam ROM manager updated again, though that has some quirks that I find annoying (Some games can't be found, or pull through icons/names that are not related. Multi-disk games don't differentiate between disks). I liked Emulation Station, it was a nice, clean front-end, making it easier to go through the libraries i have now created. I was hoping to start playing a certain 3DO game tonight, but it is now 11:15pm and I am too annoyed about the entire thing to play anything right now... I might try again tomorrow, going a little scorched earth on the entire thing. But, at least things are "working" currently. #SteamDeck

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