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🎮 DuckStation PS1 Emulator Dev May Drop Linux Support After AUR Frustrations

「 Arch users repeatedly ignored official guidelines, preferring instead to use unofficial, often broken packages, and subsequently directing complaints to him rather than the package maintainers 」

linuxiac.com/duckstation-ps1-e

DuckStation PS1 Emulator Dev May Drop Linux Support After AUR Frustrations
Linuxiac · DuckStation PS1 Emulator Dev May Drop Linux Support After AUR FrustrationsAfter repeated complaints from Arch users, the DuckStation PS1 emulator dev removed the PKGBUILD and is considering dropping Linux support altogether.
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My hypothesis worked.

I wiped Eden's .local & .config & storage data on the Steam Deck. Copied the .local & storage data over from the Bazzite HTPC. Now both machines have matching Eden user profile IDs and sync to the same ID on Nextcloud.

Though it sunk in to me that it's only a one-way cloud backup to Nextcloud from either device. Actually syncing between devices costs $48/year. That's a tough proposition.

Finally managed to get Emudeck CloudSync working with Nextcloud between my Steam Deck & Bazzite on my HTPC.

Gotta bang on it for a bit to try and get Nintendo Switch user profiles the same on both machines.

I think I need to totally wipe the Eden install on one machine, then sync the NAND data over from the other. Then do the new-user setup from scratch (hopefully inheriting the save & profile data I synced over)

Here's the article I was working on today, and the first I've written for The Register in a hot minute: a look at a new, generated-from-actual-1980s-hardware, 1.5-million-strong test suite for the Intel 286 and compatibles.

In 2025. Yes. Emulator devs are a different breed, I tell you, and we're all the richer for 'em.

theregister.com/2025/07/21/int

The Register · Vintage computing boffin releases expansive Intel 286 test suiteBy Gareth Halfacree

APS3E is a PS3 emulator for Android. Right now, it doesn't support vibration feedback on the phone. Like, having in-game vibration events sent to the phone's vibrator. So every time there's an update, I check for it.

Does this one vibrate?

*loads Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2 and powers up* Are you feelin' it, Mr. Crabs? Are you feelin' it, Mr. Crabs? ... Nope. I feel nothing. I am void. I am oblivion!

Will this update do it for me? *Loads DBZ Raging Blast 2* Are you feelin' it now, Mr. Crabs? Huh? Feelin' the vibes? Nope. Still nothing.

Lol. I'll give it a few more months. It is the only PS3 emulator for Android that has an in-game screen TalkBack can focus on and describe, so that's why I use it over RPCSx. Also RPCSX doesn't even expose the game list to TalkBack so I have to suspend it and poke around like a blind man and hope I touched the right game. :)

Hey, it works! No more reaching under the control panel when switching between 4-way games like Pac-Man, and 8-way games like The Simpsons!

Drilled 4 new mounting holes under the control panel to replace my old OMNI2 (Sanwa JLW) joystick with a new Sanwa JLF. Replaced the "Select" button I had mapped to Enter (and never used) with the 4-way / 8-way toggle duo-button. Rearranged some wiring... And it's good to go!

Highly recommend this bad boy!

thunderstickstudio.com/product

Now to get it all scripted up so it automatically switches modes when launching the game. (Will be a little extra effort, because their Linux support software assumes Debian/Retropie, and I'm on Arch/Manjaro).

Also, now that I have one LED button, am I going to be a lunatic and light this whole thing up now? (maybe just the 4 admin buttons)