EmuDeck ROG Ally Emulation Guide

Here is a EmuDeck ROG Ally emulation guide to get all emulators set up on your ASUS ROG Ally with the proper configuration, bezels, hotkeys, performance fixes and more.EmuDeck is a collection of scripts that allows you to autoconfigure your ROG Ally, it creates your roms directory structure and downloads all of the needed Emulators for you along with the best configurations for each of them.

Disclaimer

EmuDeck on Windows is currently only available for early access members on Patreon, you can join here for $3.95.

Note:If you pay for one month of early access on patreon you don’t need to keep the subscription for future early access updates.

EmuDeck ROG Ally Emulation Guide

• After signing up to the EmuDeck Patreon, you want download the latest .exe file from here.
• Find the .exe file you downloaded, run and install it.
• After the installation is complete a Login into Patreon screen will pop up, log in with your Patreon information.
  
• After logging in, you want to copy your token code and paste it in the empty token box to confirm your account.
  
• Now it’s time to set up your device, choose Custom Mode. If you choose Easy Mode you can always customize your options later in the settings. I’m going to select Custom Mode.
  
• Next you want to select what drive you want your ROM directory to be on.
  
• Next you want to select the ASUS ROG Ally.
  
• Next you want to select every Emulator to be installed and configured.
  

  

  

• If you want to enable Auto Save for these specific emulators click On.
  
• If you want to enable Retro Achievements you can enter you login information here.
  
• The next options are all user preference, select what you desire. They can always be changed afterwards.
  

  

  

  

• Select your EmulationStation theme.
  

• • Your overview screen will show displaying all your configurations you have selected, click finish to begin the installation.
    

    

    

  • Next you will have the option to enable cloud saves to sync between devices you run EmuDeck on.
    

    

    

• Now you want to drag your roms into their proper folder. Open up the drive you installed Emudeck on, open the Emulation folder, open the roms folder and start putting your roms into their proper folder.
  
• Next you want to place all the bios files for the Emulators that need one in the bios folder inside your Emulation folder. You can learn more about what Emulator needs a bios on the EmuDeck wiki page here. You can find all bios files with a simple google search.

Updating Emulators in EmuDeck

• Inside EmuDeck go to Manage Emulators, select the Emulator you want to update and then click reinstall/update..
  

  

  

  

Steam Rom Manager On The ROG Ally

Steam ROM Manager is a super flexible tool for adding non-Steam games to Steam in bulk and managing their artwork assets and controller templates.

• After placing your Roms and Bios in their proper folder, Make sure Steam is completely closed. Open up EmuDeck again and click Launch under Steam Rom Manager.
  
• Parsers let’s you toggle which emulators/games you want added to your Steam Library. Make sure to toggle EmulationStationDE. After toggling what you want in your Steam Library, click preview.
  
• Click Parse to scan all the roms in your library and download artwork for each game. The emulators and games you toggled should show. You can edit artwork here or in Steam afterwards. Click Save to Steam and wait for the Done message to appear in the top right corner. You can exit Steam Rom Manager.
  

  

  

• Restart the Steam app and you will see your Roms/Emulators in your Steam Library.
  

  

  

EmulationStation

EmulationStation is a graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard!

• Open up Steam, find and launch EmulationStation-DE.
• All your roms will be categorized by system.
  

  

  

• You can scrape artwork for your roms. Press the menu button, click scraper, select your systems, go back and click start. Depending on how many roms you have this may take a while.
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Add EmulationStation to Armoury Crate SE

• Inside Amoury Crate press the Add button at the top right.
• Press LB or RB to bring up the file explorer and search for the directory of the emulationstation.exe it should be in the C drive Users folder.
  
• Press Done and it should look like this.
  

Controller Issues

If you’re having issues with the Ally on some emulators, open the Command Center and switch your Control Mode to Gamepad.