[Discussion] My "No Tinker" list of PS3 and Switch emulated games that work *almost perfectly (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Polo421@lemm.ee to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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I've done a ton of testing trying to find PS2 , GameCube and PS3 era sports games. Most of the PS2 and GameCube stuff works just fine but I wanted to pass on what I've seen on PS3 and Switch. All of these games work perfect (IMO) right out of the box and no tinkering is required to get great video and audio. Feel free to add your own personal perfect "no tinker" games in the comments below. I'd love to see more sports games suggested, I'm especially missing a good baseball and American football game 😄

PS3:

The Bigs 2
College Hoops 2K8
NBA 2K9
NBA Jam
Skate.
Tekken 6
Virtua Tennis 4
Fifa 08
PES 08

Switch:

Layton's Mystery Journey
Mario Kart 8
Metroid Dread
Phoenix Wright
Super Mario 3D + Bowser's Fury
Tony Hawk 1+2
Hades
Rayman Legends

PS2:

ESPN 2k5
Fight Night Round 3
God of War II
NCAA Football 06
Tiger Woods 2005
NHL 2002

GameCube:

NBA Street 2
NFL Street
SSX3
Super Mario Strikers

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[-] LazerFX@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

I've updated the Deck to 'main' release channel 3.5, though technically that's "tinkering", but - it makes a much wider list of things work really, really well. Currently playing through XenoBlade Chronicles and Breath of the Wild (Switch versions) and both seem to play really, really well. I don't have the framerate display on, I've not tweaked power settings or anything, I just run them...

The SMT improvements I believe are in the 3.5 main-branch release, so that's probably why... seems to work well.

[-] Polo421@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Wait so you are saying you are on the preview channel? All I see is stable, beta and then preview. Thanks in advance.

[-] Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

There's a setting (under developer options I think) to show advance update channels. Once you've turned it on, you can choose different update levels for both Steam OS and the steam client. The most cutting edge version of SteamOS is main, which will put you on 3.5. This has several advantages (including better shader handling and SMT being worth using in emulated games).

However, updating to the bleeding edge software update is not without downsides. Expect things to break fairly often. I tried the main update channel for awhile, decided too much was broken, and then found that something else that was broken was downgrading back to stable or beta. I ended up being stuck for awhile until the next update came out, at which point I was able to successfully downgrade. So proceed with caution.

[-] Polo421@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Whoa! Yeah that might be a little too scary for me.

[-] LazerFX@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

That's the one - thanks, I'd forgotten where it was and didn't read your comment before putting mine in place

[-] LazerFX@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

If you go into the developer settings area (Can't remember what it's called) you can turn on extra development sources, in which case you can trunk-level daily updates.

[-] hydroel@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thank you for the list! I've been wanting to try out Metroid Dread, it seems really fun and fitting for the Deck.

Did you encounter any issues playing Super Mario Galaxy on Dolphin? I expected it to work well enough, but every session longer than 30min would make the game stutter heavily (audio was noticeable first, but soon everything was stuttering, including inputs which made the game unplayable), and I had to reboot the game or the Deck for it to work properly again. I don't know if that's an issue with the Deck, Dolphin, the game or my config (not that it is anything special) but I've been holding off more recent emulation because of that.

[-] Polo421@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah I think I remember trying it and having issues. I just moved on without trying any fixes.

[-] phi1997@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I think Super Mario Galaxy needs tinkering even if there are no issues running it because of how heavily it uses the pointer

[-] hydroel@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The configuration needs to be adapted a bit otherwise the game is a pain to play, like having the pointer accelerometer constantly active. What kinds of tinkering are you talking about?

[-] phi1997@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly the sort you mentioned. The game was not designed for a standard controller, so tinkering with the controls is required

[-] hydroel@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Oh, sure, I think that tweak is only on the EmuDeck settings for SMG. That doesn't help much with performance, unfortunately.

[-] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago

Lollipop Chainsaw PS3 doesn't run too badly.

[-] Polo421@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I looked up some vids on that and promptly put it on my list 😄

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

For switch i have also tried

subnautica (save gets corrupted but its a port issue, can be fixed by clearing the cells cache)

stardew valley

Mario strikers battle league

Fez

[-] hydroel@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Except for Mario Strikers, all those games have PC ports that run really well on the Deck. What's the advantage of running them on a Switch emulator?

[-] yuriy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

🏴‍☠️⚓

[-] hydroel@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I don't see why anyone would rather pirate a Switch game than using a PC crack, especially for Fez and and Stardew Valley which both have GOG versions.

[-] yuriy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

same, i just can’t think of any other reason. most all the good multiplayer switch games have crossplay anyway, don’t they?

[-] Polo421@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I've actually seen some people say the switch roms can have bigger text which I really appreciate (bad old eyes). Also, I have bought all the games on switch so I don't feel bad downloading a modern rom I already own.

[-] Polo421@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting, I'll have to checkout Strikers.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I think I've put more time into Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate on my Deck than I did on Switch a few years ago.

[-] chanunnaki@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Ridge racer 7 works well

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