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Magmalord236 OP t1_jb6pl5x wrote

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Yeah but how do you emulate it and what does emulation do? I’ve heard it’s good but I swear I heard somewhere that it was illegal, but I’m probably wrong about that

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Geekfest_84 t1_jb6qipr wrote

There's lots of different ways to emulate games on a steam deck, but there's one thats more popular than most. Emu deck. Regarding legality, there is questionable ethics behind it. There's no problem if you already own the games you want to emulate, for example games on old consoles. The problem stems from emulating games you don't own. That's definitely a grey area. It's Best you do some of your own research on that one.

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Magmalord236 OP t1_jb6s9b9 wrote

So what is emulating games meant to do? Forgive me, I don’t have a pc or anything, they’re too expensive for me

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Geekfest_84 t1_jb6t1ru wrote

Don't worry about the emulatioj for now. Why not have a look on the steam website and have a look to see if a deck is available where you live? There you can also browse the 1000's upon 1000's of games that are available. Most of them will work fine on a steam deck. A few won't. Protondb is a good website to check and see if the games you want to play have been tested on the steam deck and how well they play.

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Magmalord236 OP t1_jb6tzdu wrote

It says the cheapest one is 400 for the 64gb memory, how far do you think 64gb would get me, and is there a space for an sd card?

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Geekfest_84 t1_jb6ui6d wrote

Yes it can take sd cards. 64GB isn't a lot, but if you play indie games then it'll hold a fair few. AAA Games like assassins creed valhalla are 150GB in size so won't fit on the internal memory. You can upgrade the internal memory in the future though, but you'll need access to a pc to do it. Or you could obviously ask someone to do it for you.

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Magmalord236 OP t1_jb6ur0i wrote

I think you could just put in a 512gb micro sd without a pc right, or am I thinking wrong, I’m fine with using a micro sd

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Geekfest_84 t1_jb6vb1n wrote

Your thinking right, you don't need a pc to put an sd card in 👍 the pc bit only applies if you want to upgrade the internal memory (the ssd) to something a bit bigger in the future.

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