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What emulator do you use for GBA games? mGBA is a appimage if you download it from Emudeck but the flathub version isn't good in gaming mode? So what would you recommend instead?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you install Retroarch with emudeck and use that frontend to play GBA instead?

[–] Temporalin 1 points 1 year ago

That's how I do it in Deck and Switch, and even in the desktop PC. It's the easiest way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I just use whatever emudeck has by default, I don't worry about stuff like packaging formats

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Retroarch for everything that it will run well. Mgba on retroarch for sure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't like Retroarch or rather I don't want to l learn it since it's a bit complicated

[–] Temporalin 1 points 1 year ago

It's not that complicated, and EmuDeck takes care of it for you anyways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For everything old school I use retroarch, I basically only play up to ps2 anyway, that way I get my playtimes added up on retroarch if that's something you care about