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Once my collection looked right on the big TV I wanted the same in my hands, so this is the Steam Deck side of my LaunchBox 4K CRT Build. It runs on your PC and sends your LaunchBox games over your home network to EmuDeck on the Deck, every system on a lighter version of the same old TV it gets on the big screen. It's on GitHub: shu2600/shus-steam-deck-crt-build It finds EmuDeck whether it's on the internal drive or the SD card and shows you what'll fit, you pick all games, just your playlist games or none per system, and each one gets the Mega Bezel Standard version of its PC look (including any you picked yourself) so it's easy on the battery. Any shader packs the Deck's missing it grabs itself from their official pages, your covers, 3D boxes and logos go across into ES-DE, and your LaunchBox favourites turn up in Steam with box art. Step by step: Wi-Fi or Ethernet, keeping it awake and turning on SSH. Every system with its size, against the Deck's free space. No games or BIOS included, downloaded or linked, bring your own. You need the PC build done first and EmuDeck on the Deck. Download the ZIP from GitHub and double-click setup_deck.bat on your PC. Update 23 Oct (v1.1): had ChatGPT go through the code and fixed what it found... the wizard tells you now if a step fails instead of saying "All done", two different games with the same file name both get sent (the second used to get left behind), and the Steam favourites only touch the shortcuts they made, your own ones stay how you had them. I'm an old school web developer and coder, and I love AI... this is me using it to build what I'd have built anyway, just a lot faster. How it's made: I built this with Anima, my own AI setup. It's a hive mind of AI agents that all share one brain, a memory I've been building for months. Anima writes and tests the code with me and can call a council of other AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and more) to pick holes in it. I steer it, check what it does and run it on my own Deck first... there's a lot more Anima can do, more on that soon. Still early days, so what breaks on your Deck? Built by Shu and Anima · shuhq.com Like it? Support me on Patreon · Buy me a coffee

Cheers, I hope people find it useful. If you've got a big 4K TV, check out the PC version too: Shu's LaunchBox 4K CRT Build. Bizarrely, your avatar is the home screen on my phone 😄

Thanks @launchretrogirl2562, that's exactly the idea: the work's done once and everyone gets it. Got A Steam Deck? The Deck version now has its own thread: Shu's Steam Deck CRT Build.

Same Atari 2600 frame, what the emulator draws vs the same frame on Duimon's 70s HMV telly at 4K. I've spent the last few weeks getting my LaunchBox looking right on the big 4K TV, every system on a telly or monitor from its own era, arcade games in proper cabinets, all the artwork filled in... took me days by hand, so I've turned it into a free setup wizard anyone can run. It's on GitHub: shu2600/shus-launchbox-4k-crt-build You point it at your own folders and it builds the LaunchBox library for you, works out which folder is which system, grabs Mega Bezel and Duimon's TV packs from their own pages, then shows one of your own games on every TV so you pick the look by clicking a picture rather than guessing preset names. It fills in covers, screenshots, 3D boxes, playlists and icons from free sources (LaunchBox DB, libretro, ArcadeDB), sets up MAME's cabinet art if you've got Lights Out, the realistic set or the Bezel Project, and there's a light mode for laptops and older cards. Fine to run again too, your favourites and play history stay put. Pick a look using one of your own games on every TV. Tick your systems, it finds your folders for you. No games or BIOS included, downloaded or linked, bring your own. Download the ZIP from GitHub and double-click setup.bat, if you haven't got Python it'll offer to install it. Update 23 Oct (v1.2): your favourites always go top of the playlists now, cos Mr. Do! deserves better than its rating... there's a new Top 100 list per system (the arcade one's built from the Arcade Museum's lists, more systems coming) and a new step that fills in the art the others missed, it found 610 covers and 283 screenshots on my own library. Update 22 Oct (v1.1): had the code reviewed and fixed a couple of things, the wizard tells you now if a step fails instead of saying "All done", and if a drive isn't plugged in it won't empty that system in LaunchBox. I'm an old school web developer and coder, and I love AI... this is me using it to build what I'd have built anyway, just a lot faster. How it's made: I built this with Anima, my own AI setup. It's a hive mind of AI agents that all share one brain, a memory I've been building for months. Anima writes and tests the code with me and can call a council of other AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and more) to pick holes in it, ChatGPT's review is where the v1.1 fixes came from. I steer it, check what it does and run it all on my own setup first, 15,000+ games across 33 systems, so it gets a proper workout... there's a lot more Anima can do, more on that soon. None of this works without Duimon, HyperspaceMadness, TheNamec, Mr. RetroLust and everyone in the credits. Still early days, so what breaks on your setup? Built by Shu and Anima · shuhq.com Like it? Support me on Patreon · Buy me a coffee