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Is the OLED Steam Deck worth it?

Thinking of picking one up. I'd use it to play comfy non-AAA games in bed for snuggle time :marseyneet:

I've been playing on my laptop but the ergonomics suck and its a pain in the butt :marseypain:

I also travel a fair bit and it would be great to soy out in business class :marseysoyswitch:

All the internet reviews seem kinda astroturfed so I'll ask the most reliable people I can think of: The socially inept r-slurs of rdrama :dramatardlove::dramatardlove::dramatardlove:

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1. Do you already own a steam deck? If yes, then: no, that would be r-slurred. If no, then proceed to question 2.

2. Are you poor? If yes, then: no, that would be r-slurred. If no, then proceed to question 3.

3. Do you accept that you will use this item almost exclusively to emulate games from your childhood, that are now free to download on the internet, and only occasionally play recent releases? If yes, then: obviously you should buy the highest spec version available to maximize the emulation power you can get out of it.

I got mine a year or so ago (before the OLED version), and it's pretty comfy for what I expect it to do.

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To confirm: I should be able to install dolphin and project64 on this bad boy?

Because that sounds heckin' neat-o :soyjakyell:

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Out of the box, the highest-spec version that existed before the one you're thinking of buying can emulate every 1player game released on any console up thru the end of the PS2 era via emu deck. A couple, like Gran Turismo 3// or Shadow of the Colossus just need about 5 min of messing with basic settings to also work flawlessly.

With more effort, some folks have gotten most of MGS4 to run at 30-40fps on that same hardware.

And aside from emulating, mine runs, for example: RDR2, the Resident Evil 2 remake, and MGSV without breaking a sweat. I mostly use it to replay LucasArts point & click games from the early 90s tho :marseyshrug:

Also, know going in that there's no support for Easy Anti-Cheat, so you can't play most pvp multiplayer games, even though the hardware can run them.

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Thanks king :marseygivecrown:

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If you need a ROM site I reccomend Vimms Lair:

https://vimm.net/

Very reliable, but it does have a “cooldown” between downloads.

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