New to the steam deck here, when setting up Emudeck do you have a dedicated sd card for emulating? Also can you just hot swap sd cards? I bought a 1tb sd card but don’t want to dedicate the whole thing to emudeck
I don’t, as most older games are small enough in size. Ps3/wii-u games can get massive though (20gb for xenoblade x) , but I have very few from this era. Biggest ps2 games are like 8gb
Also you can hotswap the SD card but you still have to be careful when. If the device is in the middle of downloading game updates onto the card (which happens often) and you pull out the SD card you’ll have a problem. So while you generally can do it, just keep a careful eye that nothing is going on when you do it
I like to keep all emulation stuff on an SD card and everything else on the SSD. Makes it easy to transfer over roms & saves to a new deck or a new SD card if upgrading either. Emudeck also offers automatic cloud backups of the save folder which is very useful for having a persisting save file between devices & never losing saves again
New to the steam deck here, when setting up Emudeck do you have a dedicated sd card for emulating? Also can you just hot swap sd cards? I bought a 1tb sd card but don’t want to dedicate the whole thing to emudeck
I don’t, as most older games are small enough in size. Ps3/wii-u games can get massive though (20gb for xenoblade x) , but I have very few from this era. Biggest ps2 games are like 8gb
Also you can hotswap the SD card but you still have to be careful when. If the device is in the middle of downloading game updates onto the card (which happens often) and you pull out the SD card you’ll have a problem. So while you generally can do it, just keep a careful eye that nothing is going on when you do it
Sweet thank you! So can you run emudeck on a sd card with other games from the steam store etc?
I like to keep all emulation stuff on an SD card and everything else on the SSD. Makes it easy to transfer over roms & saves to a new deck or a new SD card if upgrading either. Emudeck also offers automatic cloud backups of the save folder which is very useful for having a persisting save file between devices & never losing saves again
You don’t have to use a SD card, and yes you can hotswap SD cards as well.
I bought a 512GB SD card solely for my emulation. I emulate everything from NES to Switch off the card and have had zero issues.
I would recommend using a SD card for it, but again, it is not required.