Had to share with somebody lol.

Mostly just doing old ps1 games for now. Gotta say i'm incredibly impressed with how out of the box things just work. I had to do a couple extra driver installs (steam controller) but it even had those right in the advanced menu.

I will say something i've noticed is that every now and then emulationstation just hangs and i can't get anything to respond in any way on controller or keyboard. have to yank power when it happens. Looks like last entry in messages pre-reboot is about the steam controller though so i may just blame that and switch it out.

Hilariously figuring out conversion of gameshark cheats to retroarchs PCSX-ReARMed was harder than everything else combined.

Finally had to just manually find one of the values i cared about to see what was missing (apparently all the xenogears cheats use 'cheat##_address_bit_position = "255"' instead of 0, who knew...)

not sure if @eadmaster is on lemmy too but i nabbed their script from an older reddit post that pointed at https://github.com/eadmaster/dotfiles/blob/main/bin/chtnative2retroarch.py and added a couple line change for bit position which got it all sorted.