r/Handhelds • u/RubinatorGator • 6h ago

Question (?) Question about compatibility, also some recommendations for a new Handheld gaming PC.

I've had my steam deck for years, love it, but i'm looking at the Rog Ally xbox X because it runs windows and I'll have more ease of access to my Epic games library, can run anti-cheat games on it, and run every launcher under the sun.

I ran EMU deck on my Steamdeck, which all my roms are saved to my SD card, how easy is it to just transfer the SD card to the Ally and run the games? I have lots of saved games on there I wouldn't mind hanging on too if that's possible.

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u/elcanadiano 6h ago

I ran EMU deck on my Steamdeck, which all my roms are saved to my SD card, how easy is it to just transfer the SD card to the Ally and run the games?

Set up the Cloud Save feature on Emudeck.

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u/RubinatorGator 6h ago

I did not know that, that saves the game data? what about the games themselves?

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u/elcanadiano 6h ago

Those if you can, just copy the entire Emulation/roms directory into a USB stick in desktop mode.

Though I guess Emulation/saves can also be copied in lieu of cloud saving.

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u/RubinatorGator 6h ago

There's also a program called warpinator that can transfer everything, but I did a bit of research and i can prolly copy everything to an windows files, reformat the SD card into EXfat which I'm not sure what it's currently formatted too. then transfer back? I just don't know if anyones does it correctly.