WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.520 i'm not kidding when i say that this video could be gone tomorrow nintendo's 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:09.920 unleashed their army of lawyers for less than all i've done 00:00:07.279 --> 00:00:12.880 but i managed to smuggle it out here 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:17.920 this is what they don't want you to see hey what are you doing 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:28.000 nintendo games on the steam deck it's more likely than you think nintendo 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:32.000 would never do it in fact they took down videos from smaller youtubers for just 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:35.040 showing it but as much as they'd like to do the same to 00:00:34.239 --> 00:00:43.280 me everything you're about to see is perfectly above board and has obvious 00:00:40.239 --> 00:00:45.040 benefits to you the nintendo gamer like 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:48.239 saving you the trouble of packing your switch and game cards whenever you go 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:53.360 out and i'll save you the trouble of not having to listen to this sponsor segue 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:57.600 by giving it to you anyway kiwiko kiwiko sends out crepes that contain hands-on 00:00:55.199 --> 00:01:01.600 projects for kids and teens to help develop creativity confidence and 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:05.960 problem-solving skills learn more at the end of the video or at the link down 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:05.960 below 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:19.680 before we get to the how-to let's have a look at the experience 00:01:17.119 --> 00:01:24.240 my steam library's got a bunch of switch games just chilling in it including all 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:28.640 of the artwork and if i launch one it just loads up like any other game just 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:35.759 there we go i even get playtime stats it does take a little bit longer than usual 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:39.840 because it has to load shaders and stuff but once it's done 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:44.400 well you'll see or maybe you won't because nintendo is famously litigious 00:01:42.479 --> 00:01:48.399 and we may or may not actually show this on youtube 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:51.520 mario kart 8. all right that's not a ah one thing about the steam deck a is not 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:56.560 a in terms of the switch because if you look at the switch a is in fact the 00:01:54.640 --> 00:02:00.560 right hand side all right let's just do a grand prix let's just do it at the 50 00:01:58.479 --> 00:02:04.880 cc because i'm a games journalist i mean so far everything seems very smooth and 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:09.280 that's honestly been my experience with pretty much every game that i've played 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:12.560 yeah check that out a little bit of a stutter there 00:02:10.640 --> 00:02:15.520 i mean it looks like mario kart and it plays like mario kart in fact it plays 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:21.120 better than you would typically be able to play with mario kart on the 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:24.319 standard switch because you've got way better sticks 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:28.800 i'm not the best person in the world at mario kart this is basically 60 FPS if 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:34.959 it's dropping it's dropping very seldomly the input lag seems pretty good 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:37.280 too all right let's uh let's pop out of 00:02:34.959 --> 00:02:39.360 mario kart 8 deluxe here let's try 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:42.959 uh smash let's do it now i will freely 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:49.680 admit that if i'm bad at mario kart i am 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.879 very bad at smash okay so there's some 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:54.720 uh shader compilation lag there 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:58.800 oh a lot of shader compilation like this is stuff that'll happen basically the 00:02:56.160 --> 00:03:02.560 first time after the shader is compiled you basically don't have to worry about 00:03:00.239 --> 00:03:07.760 it anymore as you can see it is now pretty solid in terms of frame rate up 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:10.159 and the chain the stage changed again so 00:03:07.760 --> 00:03:14.480 that uh that threw a wrench in that but yeah as you can see it 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:19.519 picks right up and now it's actually very good i actually have no idea what 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:22.480 this item is it's like a 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:25.760 weird version of the fire flower from smash 64. 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:30.640 well i mean i didn't win that that was bad but you know the actual 00:03:28.959 --> 00:03:35.840 performance is pretty good at least after the shaders are finished compiling 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:39.599 sorry all these clips are blurred we believe that fair use protects gameplay 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:44.000 footage for the purposes of creating reviews and tutorials 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:47.920 but nintendo believes otherwise and has proven to be aggressively litigious 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:52.480 about third-party exhibition of their games and has repeatedly misused the 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:56.159 dmca to punish third parties when they feel that they're being harmed in some 00:03:54.239 --> 00:04:00.959 other way even if there is no law against whatever you're doing nothing is 00:03:58.239 --> 00:04:05.200 blurred over on Floatplane.com of course by this point i'm sure you've got some 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:09.120 questions like really bother if i'm still using a handheld anyway valve's 00:04:07.519 --> 00:04:13.760 steam deck is way bulkier 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:18.560 to carry and it has less battery life than the switch but 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:22.880 it's tough to deny that a full pc is a more versatile device so if i wanted to 00:04:20.799 --> 00:04:26.960 carry just one handheld this is my only real option this isn't 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:31.360 to say that the steam deck is a superior console i mean for one it lacks switch 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:35.199 grade motion controls and hd rumble i just want to avoid packing two handhelds 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:39.040 for travel once i finally get my steam deck this one is 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:43.919 minuses that you can plainly see now if you're with me so far your next question 00:04:41.919 --> 00:04:47.280 has to be how do i get this 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:52.320 into this one word jailbreak here's a list of 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:57.600 everything we'll need to get going and while most of it is free the big one 00:04:54.880 --> 00:05:02.240 that's not and might be hard to find is a jail broken or jail breakable switch 00:05:00.479 --> 00:05:05.840 there's a great write-up by aaron donald over on alpher with a listing of serial 00:05:03.919 --> 00:05:09.840 number ranges that you can use to figure out if your switch is modable but the tl 00:05:07.840 --> 00:05:13.919 dr is that any switch purchased within about the first year or so should work 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:18.800 just fine it just so happens that the switch i borrowed from one of our new 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:22.080 hires is a very early serial number the 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:24.479 other big piece of hardware is 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:28.160 the rcm jig you can get one like this on amazon for about five dollars which we 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:31.919 will link below but what these are doing at the end of the day is simply jumping 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:35.680 some pins on the right joy-con rail to place it in recovery mode here are some 00:05:33.919 --> 00:05:39.919 other methods if you're inclined to hack a spare joy-con an old one that's got 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:44.080 stick drift is a good candidate since this will definitely void the joy-con's 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:48.400 warranty a fair warning by the way if you go any further i wouldn't recommend 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:51.120 connecting your switch to wi-fi maybe this is the excuse you've been waiting 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:54.639 for to pick up a switch lighter OLED for daily driving i'll be using this 00:05:52.880 --> 00:05:58.479 excellent guide by the nintendo homebrew discord server and you can find download 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:01.840 links for everything there as well once you've got a hackable switch and the jig 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:05.600 go ahead and power off the console and slide the jig into place at the very 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:09.039 bottom of the right joy-con rail hold the volume up button while pressing 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:13.520 power and you should see a blank screen with no backlight congratulations you're 00:06:11.919 --> 00:06:17.600 in recovery mode that's actually a good thing if not power off and try again it 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:22.080 might help to take a sip from a water bottle from ltdstore.com soon to be 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:26.000 available in chung is 64 ounces although this video might be down by the time 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:30.319 that's true now launch the app on your pc mac or Android host device or perhaps 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:34.000 you might even use the steam deck here and plug in the usb cable before we can 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:37.680 proceed with a full jailbreak we'll first need to partition our sd card 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:41.039 using tegra explorer so make sure you've made a backup of anything you have on 00:06:39.440 --> 00:06:44.639 the sd card select the tegra explorer payload and 00:06:42.960 --> 00:06:48.880 send it to launch it on the switch select partition the sd then fat32 plus 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:53.600 mu mmc once it's done select reboot to rcm and 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:57.680 eject the sd card insert the sd card into your host device and copy these 00:06:55.360 --> 00:07:00.800 files to the sd card not all the stuff that's listed in the guide is strictly 00:06:59.280 --> 00:07:05.520 necessary for what we're doing today but the bootloader hekate gold leaf 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:09.520 atmosphere dbi and lockpick are non-negotiable move the sd card back 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:14.639 into the switch and inject the hekate payload using the switch's touch screen 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:17.120 select mumc and then create once that finishes 00:07:28.960 --> 00:07:34.479 and down and the power button to select we're specifically after the sysnand so 00:07:33.039 --> 00:07:38.319 select that and it should dump out to the sd card under the switch folder 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:43.199 we'll copy these into the emulator's keys folder later now we can launch 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:47.199 custom firmware go back into recovery mode and inject tecate again go to 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:50.479 launch then atmosphere damn you are now 00:07:48.880 --> 00:07:54.639 in custom firmware 00:07:51.919 --> 00:07:58.400 which you can verify in settings now we can launch the homebrew menu by holding 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:02.639 r and launching a game that's currently installed the first thing we need to do 00:08:00.479 --> 00:08:06.879 is dump the system files needed by a few games by going to gold leaf and then 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:11.599 explore content go to console memory system and then copy all of the items 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:18.080 there into the sd card exit gold leaf now it's finally time to dump some games 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:20.560 launch dbi choose run mtp responder then 00:08:18.080 --> 00:08:24.400 plug the switch into your computer bam look at that 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:28.960 you've got your sd card your installed games your saves and your game card 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:32.800 that's everything backing up is as simple as copying the files though you 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:36.719 don't need both the trimmed and not trimmed files from your game card 00:08:34.640 --> 00:08:40.479 trimmed should be fine unless you want a perfect backup including the garbage 00:08:38.479 --> 00:08:45.360 data that fills the unused space on the card with our keys in the games all we 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:50.160 need now is emulation software i'll say upfront that switch emulation isn't 00:08:47.680 --> 00:08:54.399 perfect yet but many games do run just fine installing one of the two available 00:08:51.920 --> 00:08:58.399 switch emulators yuzu or ryujinx is pretty straightforward but both require 00:08:56.640 --> 00:09:02.480 that the deck be in desktop mode to configure first open up the discover 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:05.519 store to grab them from flathub we'll use yuzu as an example here you don't 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:10.000 need to disable the read-only file system for this just fyi 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:14.640 once downloaded open yuzu and it will complain that there aren't any keys 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:19.120 we have a solution to that go to file then open user folder see that keys 00:09:17.040 --> 00:09:22.320 folder in there copy those keys from earlier into there and while you're at 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:26.080 it copy the system folder we backed up with gold leaf into the nand folder then 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.959 restart the emulator from here there's a few options we 00:09:27.680 --> 00:09:33.040 should configure for the emulator starting with disabling this setting 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:37.120 which would make exiting from the deck ui frustrating next in controls we want 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:41.519 to emulate a switch pro controller and make sure that the emulator itself is 00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:44.399 using our steam virtual gamepad which should automatically map everything 00:09:42.959 --> 00:09:49.200 correctly for us then in graphics we should make sure 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:53.600 that we're set to 1x native resolution and running borderless windowed mode for 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:58.080 later then under advanced make sure fast GPU time is enabled you can disable it 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:02.399 per game later but i found that you generally get better performance with it 00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:06.640 on finally set full screen under view then on the bottom strip you'll see some 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:10.240 options click on docked to change it to handheld for better battery life and 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:13.360 performance since we only have a 720p class screen anyway go ahead and copy 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:18.959 over the games you backed up from your switch to an easy to remember folder like your downloads and point the 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:22.640 emulator to it yes switch games try running one here to 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:26.079 make sure everything works and don't worry it's normal for a minor stuttering 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:29.680 to happen during load screens or when shaders are compiling for the first time 00:10:27.839 --> 00:10:34.959 they'll either go away soon or happen when they're least likely to be problematic now it's time to integrate 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:38.800 all of this into steam while still in desktop mode open up discover and look 00:10:36.800 --> 00:10:43.360 for steam rom manager install that and fire it up under community presets type 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:46.240 yuzu and choose the flat pack version it'll automatically set everything up 00:10:44.640 --> 00:10:50.560 for you except for your roms folder which you'll have to set to where you copied your games earlier click save and 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:55.440 then test to make sure that the games show up with that done go to the settings page 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:59.279 and select your steam directory this will be here under home 00:10:57.040 --> 00:11:04.480 finally go to the preview page and click on generate app list if all looks good 00:11:02.079 --> 00:11:09.200 click save app list now log out and go back into your library on the main deck 00:11:06.079 --> 00:11:11.600 ui check it out in the non-steam games 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:14.800 list there's all your steam games you can even use this for other console 00:11:13.040 --> 00:11:18.399 emulators too now there are some drawbacks to this approach like you're 00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:22.640 not able to use nintendo's online services which could be a deal breaker 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:26.640 for you to be clear you can play multiplayer games but only via local 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:31.440 play or via local wireless through ryujinx's ldn build which is a bit 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:34.959 tougher to set up on the steam deck by actually quite a lot that's a tough pill 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:38.880 to swallow for some after all of those hoops you already have to jump through 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:42.320 there are also benefits though like easy backups of saved games without nintendo 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:45.839 online i mean i'll certainly sleep better knowing that a lost switch 00:11:43.760 --> 00:11:49.680 doesn't mean hours of lost game progress and while the first generation steam 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:53.600 deck with modern emulators doesn't offer any performance advantages over a real 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:57.120 switch that will change in the future and you could expect to run games at 00:11:55.120 --> 00:12:01.760 higher frame rates or resolutions or even with experimental mods on better 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:05.920 hardware and nothing we're doing here is in my opinion immoral or unethical for 00:12:03.920 --> 00:12:09.519 those who are concerned about the damage that piracy does to game developers you 00:12:07.920 --> 00:12:13.040 can rest easy knowing that we didn't download any roms or firmware from the 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:17.440 internet and we didn't circumvent any protections we got the games and keys to 00:12:15.040 --> 00:12:21.040 decrypt them fair and square from our own device using its own firmware 00:12:19.839 --> 00:12:24.880 recovery mode that matters legally even if it is a 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:29.519 little less clear-cut than the aacs decryption keys leaked back in the day 00:12:26.959 --> 00:12:33.600 but why is this so contentious that nintendo fans will call you a bad person 00:12:32.079 --> 00:12:37.279 for doing it well i already talked a little bit about how 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:40.560 nintendo is right to fair piracy in our previous legal emulation video 00:12:38.959 --> 00:12:44.959 especially now that there's a similarly priced handheld that can also run nearly 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:49.519 every pc game ever and the back catalogs of nearly every historical console with 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:53.680 that being said if you don't turn around and distribute the keys or roms in our 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:57.839 opinion you haven't done anything wrong nintendo of course doesn't seem to care 00:12:55.680 --> 00:13:01.600 they went so far as issuing a dmca takedown of the fox's video showing the 00:12:59.920 --> 00:13:05.519 steam deck running switch games despite him neither showing nor suggesting where 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:08.800 to get the rom files i guess now we'll see if they have the appetite to pick a 00:13:06.959 --> 00:13:12.079 fight with a bigger fish doing a full guide you can probably 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