Category: SteamDeck
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SteamDeck Internal Screen Undetected
A strange thing happened recently where my son’s SteamDeck was not detecting the internal screen. I tried all the usual, “hold the power button down for 30 seconds” bit and even tried my touchscreen fix routine, all without any success. This was exceedingly irritating as I am not sure what even caused this to happen.…
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Steam’s New Family Share | A Digital Dream Come True
Valve has been doing a GREAT job of making gaming better. Their push to be the primer, customer focused, gaming platform is obvious by every release of the Steam Client and update to the SteamDeck. This is about how they have taken another step to make family gaming time even better. Background One of the…
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Building a SteamDeck Resource
As I have been enjoying this well-built, hand held computer / gaming console, I have had to do some problem solving to get things to work. I am building a resource that, I hope will be beneficial to more than just me. it is something I do refer back to from time to time but…
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Restoring SteamDeck Unresponsive Touchscreen
I recently had an issue with my SteamDeck where the touch screen would not respond to any input. Rebooting, even turning off and back on didn’t seem to solve the issue. I was a bit worried. Had my new favorite hand-held console broken? Did one of my kids do something nasty to it? What could…
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SteamDeck | RetroArch and mGBA for Trading Pokémon
I bought the SteamDeck for a number of reasons. One such reason was to turn it into a portable retro gaming station. I know there are a lot of other options out there to do this task but this one was the most economical and already had Linux installed on it. That meant, very little…
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Project Killswitch Travel Case Review | SteamDeck
Seems like I’ve been doing a lot of SteamDeck writing lately. It’s well overdue. I have a backlog of things that I need to clear out that are all partially done. My experience of Project Killswitch by dbrand is one of those items. I received it, after I purchased my JSAUX case and am really…
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Super Mario World Widescreen on the SteamDeck
The SteamDeck is a great retro gaming platform. I have loaded it up with many of my retro games and one of my favorites to play on it is Super Mario World but in a widescreen format. I have seen this done elsewhere but wanted to do this for myself. After a few tries, I…
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JSAUX Screen Protector for the SteamDeck
Originally I was going to make a video of applying a screen protector to the SteamDeck but… why? It’s not like it would be all that interesting and would probably be another turd of a video so just a blathering is just as well. The production time for writing something out is far, far less…
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JSAUX Advanced Dock and Protective Shell for the SteamDeck | Review
The SteamDeck might be my favorite electronic gadget, off-the-shelf device I have purchased, possibly ever. The newness has long worn off but the amount of use has maintained or perhaps expanded as it has moved into the home theater arena as well. One drawback of being a fairly early adopter of the Steam Deck was…
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Fortnite on the SteamDeck | With Xbox Cloud Gaming
It is true, you can indeed play Fortnite on the SteamDeck and it is not so difficult to make happen. It does require a moderately stable Internet connection and of course, like anything online, your results may vary. There are many other guides out there, I know, I have read many of them and decided…