Thanks for this explanation. Wish I knew before selling my Steam Deck LCD. I just moved the memory card and re-install EmuDeck thinking all backed up all my saves and roms in a separate folder. Didn't realize the saves were just shortcuts and unfortunately they were on the Steam Deck SSD :(
i got 2 sd cards and i want to use my old one on my steamdeck because of a switch game. Emudeck will not let me run yuzu or emulation station on this sd card but works fine on the other. will the save data be there on the old sd card? because i deleted emudeck and reinstalled it and my saves on the game were still there. every other games save was gone and I dont want to lose my saves on my new sd card, please help me if you can
Now if only I can find way emustation for emudeck to load game saves for ds and game boy color games I have I have Tried everything this video nothing works
It actually doesn't. All the emulators themselves are stored internally regardless of where you ask to install. All the ROMs and scraped media and all that stuff are on the SD card if that's where you chose to install.
Are there any utilities for Steamdeck / Linux that accurately show these target directories (so I can hard code the path of the saves), wherever it is? I am trying to sync windows / deck emulation saves using syncthing (which of course has issues with symlinks). Thankfully steam game saves are less complicated.. just finding where the saves are (for non cloud saves). I had used directory opus back in 2005 ( when I was a programmer) but that program is too expensive to repurchase. I did follow your emudeck setup video. Another great tutorial! By searching Reddit, I found some help (from 1 year ago) with emudeck and syncthing, but it’s far from perfect. Thanks… I always enjoy your informative Steamdeck videos.
Nothing beats directory opus. The reason it's expensive? Is because it's worth it. Especially in cases like this. They do have sales about once a year where you can get a good 35% off. And you might be able to get away with the light version versus the pro which would save you a ton of cash. I would suggest maybe taking the trial for a spin for 60 days and see if you could actually validate the purchase. Being able to see symlinks with directory opus over SSHFS is definitely one of the highest selling points of the product that I can imagine in a situations like what we have to do. I'll give it some thought if I can come up with any other better way to do it. Thanks for your viewership.
I already sold my previous Steam Deck, but I have the SD card that installed EmuDeck on. How do I get EmuDeck working on my new Steam Deck (when I get it)? I realize, that I won’t get all the save files, but it’s too late to do anything about that. Thank you!
When you get the new Deck, set it up completely. Get all the updates - do NOT insert the card until all of that is done. THEN, insert the card - make sure it comes up ok. Install EmuDeck - choosing the SD card as the destination. You will Retroarch based saves back - but anything "stand alone", is likely gone. Emulation Station should have all the media and metadata it had before.
Hey, just transferred my data from my old sd card to my new one and I’m having trouble finding my Yuzu save files. I don’t have access to windows right now, so I’m wondering if there is a way to find my old saves via Dolphin?
@@uncalledfour I think they may have changed this. Yuzu used to be stored internally, but it NOW looks like they were MOVED to SD card proper. Unfortunately, both my my decks are updated, so I know know where they USED to go :(
Every time my steam deck needs an update for a game it deletes and free downloads the entire game, and today my 1 TB steam deck OLED decided to delete all of my games off of the hard drive and reset itself. I only had 168 gigabytes left out of a terabyte. My home internet is non-existent and I have to go over to my brother's house to download these things. Please tell me there's something I can do for someone that bought a steam deck because they couldn't figure out their GPD Win 4 Window 11 for anything more than game pass.
I don't use Wi-Fi that often, and apparently I'm not saving to the cloud enough. But once it's downloaded it should be downloaded, and it shouldn't just disappear. I'm more sad now than frustrated. I'm worried it'll happen again next update.
@@mad-dog_gamer I've never once seen this behavior. Not once. And I've had a launch day steam deck and OLED steam deck and my wife's got a steam deck. None of us have seen that problem. I feel there is something else wrong
What a pain the ass. Why even have these symlinks on the SD card if they're just going to be referencing the Emudeck installation folders? I lost my Yuzu saves which was particularly painful because of my Metroid Dread progress... Was at 100% (all upgrades + powerups) and just had to beat the last boss... Rather infuriating.
@Darkuni have you made a video on that ? As for emulators I will make the installation on the SD card directly I guess I think you made a video on that, Any update on that or does it still hold up ?
Dolphin does tells you if your files are symlink look at the icon on the folder. If you right click it and go into propierties it says Points to: /foobar/ The nature of symlink files is because in the case of retroarch is that its using a flatpak package and it does not have rights to the sd card so it can only store on the main ssd drive. Hope you edit the video.
What, exactly, would you suggest I edit? The information is still correct. The save files are not on the SD card which is what we're going for. We need people to realize that moving the SD card isn't enough.
@@DragonProtector this seems to be working just fine, however you need the mtp plugin for decky and enable DRD for USB in bios, however then you cant use boot from usb and some usb flash drives wont work until you switch back to XHCI from DRD, imho not worth it, i just copy whatever i need to a flash drive and move it to the deck this way
emudeck uninstaller: we will stick your games and saves into a zip
emudeck actually: "dump it"
several hundred hours- gone, reduced to atoms
thanks for the video, really stumped me when the saves worked on the melonds but not the emudeck hub but this fixed it
Thanks for this explanation. Wish I knew before selling my Steam Deck LCD. I just moved the memory card and re-install EmuDeck thinking all backed up all my saves and roms in a separate folder. Didn't realize the saves were just shortcuts and unfortunately they were on the Steam Deck SSD :(
It is very common mis-information going around - I correct people at least a few times a month on Reddit. Sorry you lost your stuff :(
i got 2 sd cards and i want to use my old one on my steamdeck because of a switch game. Emudeck will not let me run yuzu or emulation station on this sd card but works fine on the other. will the save data be there on the old sd card? because i deleted emudeck and reinstalled it and my saves on the game were still there. every other games save was gone and I dont want to lose my saves on my new sd card, please help me if you can
First, I don't recommend swapping SD cards for emulation. Yuzu saves, like so many others, are stored internally - NOT on the SD card.
Thank you for the video!
Now if only I can find way emustation for emudeck to load game saves for ds and game boy color games I have I have Tried everything this video nothing works
Hop on our discord and lets see if we can help you.
Is there a way to have emulation station on the internal storage and roms on the SD card? Emudeck seems to bundle everything together in one location.
It actually doesn't. All the emulators themselves are stored internally regardless of where you ask to install. All the ROMs and scraped media and all that stuff are on the SD card if that's where you chose to install.
Are there any utilities for Steamdeck / Linux that accurately show these target directories (so I can hard code the path of the saves), wherever it is?
I am trying to sync windows / deck emulation saves using syncthing (which of course has issues with symlinks).
Thankfully steam game saves are less complicated.. just finding where the saves are (for non cloud saves).
I had used directory opus back in 2005 ( when I was a programmer) but that program is too expensive to repurchase.
I did follow your emudeck setup video. Another great tutorial!
By searching Reddit, I found some help (from 1 year ago) with emudeck and syncthing, but it’s far from perfect.
Thanks… I always enjoy your informative Steamdeck videos.
Nothing beats directory opus. The reason it's expensive? Is because it's worth it. Especially in cases like this. They do have sales about once a year where you can get a good 35% off. And you might be able to get away with the light version versus the pro which would save you a ton of cash. I would suggest maybe taking the trial for a spin for 60 days and see if you could actually validate the purchase. Being able to see symlinks with directory opus over SSHFS is definitely one of the highest selling points of the product that I can imagine in a situations like what we have to do.
I'll give it some thought if I can come up with any other better way to do it. Thanks for your viewership.
I already sold my previous Steam Deck, but I have the SD card that installed EmuDeck on. How do I get EmuDeck working on my new Steam Deck (when I get it)? I realize, that I won’t get all the save files, but it’s too late to do anything about that. Thank you!
When you get the new Deck, set it up completely. Get all the updates - do NOT insert the card until all of that is done. THEN, insert the card - make sure it comes up ok. Install EmuDeck - choosing the SD card as the destination. You will Retroarch based saves back - but anything "stand alone", is likely gone. Emulation Station should have all the media and metadata it had before.
@@Darkuni Awesome! Thank you. I greatly appreciate the help!
Hey, just transferred my data from my old sd card to my new one and I’m having trouble finding my Yuzu save files. I don’t have access to windows right now, so I’m wondering if there is a way to find my old saves via Dolphin?
YUZU saves are stored internally. They should still be there. They are not on the SD card. Never have been.
@@Darkuni right. I get that. How do I find where those save files are located using something like Dolphin?
lol just blew past the actual issue
@@uncalledfour I think they may have changed this. Yuzu used to be stored internally, but it NOW looks like they were MOVED to SD card proper. Unfortunately, both my my decks are updated, so I know know where they USED to go :(
yup now if I could figure out how to get emustation to work instead of the emulators themselves.
Is it possible for you to find out where the Nintendo switch saves are? I still can't find them
Depends on the emulator being used.
@@Darkuni I ended up finding my saves!
Every time my steam deck needs an update for a game it deletes and free downloads the entire game, and today my 1 TB steam deck OLED decided to delete all of my games off of the hard drive and reset itself. I only had 168 gigabytes left out of a terabyte. My home internet is non-existent and I have to go over to my brother's house to download these things. Please tell me there's something I can do for someone that bought a steam deck because they couldn't figure out their GPD Win 4 Window 11 for anything more than game pass.
I have never once seen this behavior on any of my three steam decks. What are you doing to your Deck that isn't "out of the box"?
I don't use Wi-Fi that often, and apparently I'm not saving to the cloud enough. But once it's downloaded it should be downloaded, and it shouldn't just disappear. I'm more sad now than frustrated. I'm worried it'll happen again next update.
@@mad-dog_gamer I've never once seen this behavior. Not once. And I've had a launch day steam deck and OLED steam deck and my wife's got a steam deck. None of us have seen that problem. I feel there is something else wrong
What a pain the ass. Why even have these symlinks on the SD card if they're just going to be referencing the Emudeck installation folders?
I lost my Yuzu saves which was particularly painful because of my Metroid Dread progress... Was at 100% (all upgrades + powerups) and just had to beat the last boss... Rather infuriating.
Yeah, not sure what they were going for here ... but forewarned is forearmed ...
What a weird way to store our saves….
Have you found the solution for the save files ?
Solution for what? Sorry, I am not following...
@@Darkuni sorry I meant found a way to move the directory for the save file to SD card
@@keepitshort4208 You would essentially have to reverse symlink everything. Fortunately, none of the emulators I use are stored internally
@Darkuni have you made a video on that ?
As for emulators I will make the installation on the SD card directly I guess I think you made a video on that, Any update on that or does it still hold up ?
doesn't the emudeck software bypass all this work :0
You mean, their export and import tools? Yes .. yes they do.
Sorry I know this might not go here, but I'm just so frustrated.
Dolphin does tells you if your files are symlink look at the icon on the folder. If you right click it and go into propierties it says Points to: /foobar/ The nature of symlink files is because in the case of retroarch is that its using a flatpak package and it does not have rights to the sd card so it can only store on the main ssd drive. Hope you edit the video.
What, exactly, would you suggest I edit? The information is still correct. The save files are not on the SD card which is what we're going for. We need people to realize that moving the SD card isn't enough.
wait we can mount our steam deck to windows??!!!!
theres a deckyplugin for mtp. dont know if theres an easier way, didnt try it
interesting. But isnt linux format not readable by windows?@@Minsekt
@@DragonProtector this seems to be working just fine, however you need the mtp plugin for decky and enable DRD for USB in bios, however then you cant use boot from usb and some usb flash drives wont work until you switch back to XHCI from DRD, imho not worth it, i just copy whatever i need to a flash drive and move it to the deck this way
It's a PC. Ever heard of a PC connecting to an other PC? You can use an application like WinSCP and SSH
lol i just did the bios change from drd to xhci. All my devices worked fine. Guess I was lucky. hmmm.@@Minsekt