Retro Library update - SteamOS
Hello everyone!
I've added a new feature, now when you launch a game from your Retro Library a Steam entry will be created in your home so you can keep playing that game later without having to enter your Retro Library again.
This will only happen with the last launched game, please tell me if it would be interesting to keep all launched games in your Home and not only the last one.
I think this is a really neat feature that gets us closer to having a really automated console like experience for retro gaming. It gives us the simplicity and cleanliness of EmulationStation with the integration of SteamRomManager but without the hassle of configuration.
To get the latest release open EmuDeck and reinstall Retro Library to get this update.
PS: Windows port coming soon!
Comments (26)
oi
I freaking love this. It makes it feel like Steam now offers emulation. lol
I have only generating database please be patient and nothing on my rog ally with bazzite :)
The idea is good, yes, but now I have the case when I start a game, let's say "Donkey Kong Country", the artwork is missing on the home screen, if I set it manually with SteamGridDB, and then start another game via RetroLibrary, the artwork of Donkey Kong Country remains
this is still an early beta, a lot of stuff will improve / change as I keep developing it
Maybe having an option in the future to set “Last game” “last 3 games” “every game launched” would fit most use cases
Still not working on Bazzite OS also RL showing 1.2.0 even after I remove it and install it again
I have a big pile of stuff to check on bazzite, not gonna lie
Still not sure where this retro library thing can be acquired from, there's no documentation of it.
EmuDeck app, SteamOS only
- how to turn off retro library after having turned it off? If I change my mind about using retro library - opening a game from retro library launches the game immediately instead of first showing the pre launch screen - need a favorites tab in the retro library - I noticed that if I fix artwork, then the game gets saved in my normal library under non-steam games
1 you can delete the plugin from the Decky settings 2 that’s normal 3 I agree, I’ll add it in the future 4 that’s should be unrelated, I’ll take a look though
I like having all games
WOW! I look forward to test It as soon as I'm back home!
I try to install Retro Library under windows. It asks me for a Sudo password. Which I never sat. Is there default password for that. However when I click Install Retro Library a popup appears “Success! Retro Library Installed” but in Steam Big Picture mode nothing changes. Roms are still mixed up. Can somebody help?
There’s no windows version available yet, it will be soon though
May I suggest an implementation of a filtering or something that may take I have a bunch of duplicate entries when it comes to CD based games that have Bin/Cue/M3U so we can only have 1 entry?
Yeah, that’s planned for the future
I would like to have the last 5 or 10 games played as an option. Not all games as it would get cluttered.
Or at least an option to select it...
This is obviously more work but. What about a “number of recently played games to keep in steam” slider where I can put 1 or 10
good idea!
When you say "retro library", do you mean esde? Does this mean that if I play something on esde then after playing it, an entry gets created on the home row of steam big picture?
Nope. RetroLibrary is a Decky plugin.
Would you be able to, when searching for the game to scrape artwork for, add a feature where you can choose from multiple options? Sometimes when scraping, games share a name and it picks the wrong game or it just automatically chooses the wrong game?
this is already implemented, just press X when a game is highlighted