@lazorne I started with emudeck and it worked for what I needed so I’ve never even tried retrodeck… Am I missing out on things I should care about? I dunno…
EmuDeck is terrible for emulation developers and makes their life harder. The developers at PCSX2 absolutely despise it because they used to have different defaults and they received bug reports due to that.
RetroDECK has explicit rules against contacting upstream projects for support issues, and those rules have always been in place.
Our support is internal, and if we discover something that appears to be an upstream bug, we report it directly to the upstream team not through a user proxy.
We have been very vocal about this policy within our community.
It’s also important to remind users that RetroDECK doesn’t make the games run; the built‑in emulators, engines, and systems do. Therefore, we encourage our users to donate to those upstream projects rather than to us.
@lazorne I started with emudeck and it worked for what I needed so I’ve never even tried retrodeck… Am I missing out on things I should care about? I dunno…
EmuDeck is terrible for emulation developers and makes their life harder. The developers at PCSX2 absolutely despise it because they used to have different defaults and they received bug reports due to that.
All I can do is speak for ourselves.
RetroDECK has explicit rules against contacting upstream projects for support issues, and those rules have always been in place.
Our support is internal, and if we discover something that appears to be an upstream bug, we report it directly to the upstream team not through a user proxy.
We have been very vocal about this policy within our community.
It’s also important to remind users that RetroDECK doesn’t make the games run; the built‑in emulators, engines, and systems do. Therefore, we encourage our users to donate to those upstream projects rather than to us.
It’s ultimately your decision, but I’d recommend waiting for the next update…
Since the current stable release is already seven months old (thanks to the rewrite).
One advantage of RetroDECK is its isolation: everything lives in a single location, making installation and removal quite easy.
EmuDeck provides features that we don’t, and vice versa. The two projects have other goals and visions from each other.