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Retrodeck support#236

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@pawndev pawndev commented May 30, 2026

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This is the continuation of #213

Next things to think of:

  • If grout is a component of retrodeck, needless to create a gamelist.xml in port for that ?
    • Surely we can omit this part
  • games downloaded and media in gamelist.xml in the roms folder doesn't seems to be read by retrodeck
    • because they does not go in the roms folder, but in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ES-DE/gamelists/{core}/ folder
    • make sur to not override something else (e.g. alternateEmulatore)
    • same for images/videos/etc, paths: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ES-DE/downloaded_media/{core}/{3dboxes, backcovers, covers, fanart, manuals, marquees, miximages, physicalmedia, screenshots, titlescreens, videos}
    • can we put absolute path in the gamelist.xml ?
    • the medias does not seems to appear in the gamelist.xml when scrapped from scrapper, not mandatory ? (only fields: path, name, desc, rating, releasedate, developer, publisher, genre players)
  • how to retrieved the path where the roms/saves/bios folders are ?
    • In the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/retrodeck/retrodeck.json there are many paths defined

Next things to do:

  • get paths from retrodeck.json
  • remove grout gamelist from port
  • Change grout log path
  • change gamelist path to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ES-DE/gamelists/{core}/
  • change medias downloaded (in the actual version, we can't download all, we need to choose which art to get)
  • do not fill all gamelist field like other ES cfw integration (cfw options on which field to allow, and not filled will be all ?)
  • Once AmberElec PR feat(CFW): added AmberELEC support with RG351V and Rg351P devices #234 is merged, get the relative path function for gamelist

Initial description:

Adds initial support for RetroDECK, so it can be added as a non-Steam game.
Feel free to request any change, especially if I forgot something.

This is a follow-up of this issue: #210.

EDIT: Added associated documentation.

EDIT2: Got inspired and added an automatic install script with media, so it looks nice in the Steam game library.

It currently looks fine on Bazzite, but I have an issue with nonsteam not detecting the Steam install on SteamOS. I'll investigate when I have a bit more free time.

@pawndev pawndev self-assigned this Jun 3, 2026
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Note: in RetroDECK users can move the folders, so better to read their location from the retrodeck config (json format).

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pawndev commented Jun 6, 2026

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Note: in RetroDECK users can move the folders, so better to read their location from the retrodeck config (json format).

Yep I already did the parsing of the config json in my local changes

@BrandonKowalski BrandonKowalski added this to the v5.0.0.0? milestone Jun 6, 2026
Parse the retrodeck.json file to handle properly all of the paths (bios, roms, etc.)
Handle gamelist that are not in the roms directories
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