Post by: u/megas88
I know that I’m a week late as I have had my deck since last Wednesday but I really wanted to get a good handle on most of what it could do before I gushed about it.
I have been playing video games since I was 3 or 4. My first memory of one was being at sears with my mother and late father and they picked up a Super Nintendo that came with Mario Paint. I had a blast with that thing and everything I got to play on it.
I’ve had the NES, genesis, n64, many a gameboy from the original to the pocket to the color to both advanced/sp, the ds lite, ps1, ps2, xbox 360 and the last one being the wii. We don’t talk about the wii anymore. I’m ok with that lol.
When I first held a friend’s lcd deck, it immediately felt like the most comfortable thing I have ever held in my hands. It was so nice to hold. I tried portal thinking ya know, l’ll put it down in a few minutes cause I could never get into it. An hour later and everyone still playing the board game they were playing and the deck would not let me put it down. I have never enjoyed playing portal. I know others have but I never did. Dear god the controls, the trackpad oh god the trackpad and the screen. Everything just begged me to keep playing. I couldn’t stop enjoying myself.
Now I have my own 1tb oled deck with several accessories, almost all of which were somehow on sale before my deck arrived. I am addicted to using this thing. Playing games just to see if and how they run, tweaking performance and playing with deckyloader.
I am still figuring out emulation and will one day succeed at learning how to get my custom boot animation to not auto delete lol, but I am ridiculously satisfied with my purchase. I’m hoping to make a list of things I found for folks that are looking for a reference for things that weren’t obvious or didn’t necessarily have an easy search option. Like, I had no idea you needed to enable steam input to allow custom or community controller layouts. I just thought you simply selected and were good to go. Haven’t figured out how to delete a downloaded layout yet.
My current addictions are sonic frontiers now that I figured out how to get a good and solid frame rate but also slay the spire may be the easiest game I’ve picked up since the nes and snes days lol. Never have I enjoyed failing so much and climbing back up that damn spire!
Tetris effect in hdr is so jaw droppingly gorgeous I can’t even explain it! Spyro runs fairly well at medium and if I don’t mind 30fps, I can go all the way to ultra which is insane!
Having mega man battle network has brought me back to middle school and I gotta say I almost teared up a bit. Also, having a color profile that brings out more contrast in those collections is incredible!
I look forward to unlocking more of my deck’s true potential as I learn more and more. Of course now I am gonna try figuring out how to get surfshark to work so I can use it for stuff in desktop mode.
Overall, ridiculously happy. If you are deciding between anti glare vs glossy, don’t even worry about it. Pick which one you feel you want more. The antiglare screen looks just as nice as the glossy oleds I’m used to.
Happy to be part of the deck gang and looking forward to playing stuff I never felt inclined to play before and enjoy stuff I did even more.
megas88: I will say this. Don’t sweat having an lcd if the 90htz refresh rate is what draws your eye. When it applies, holy shit is it amazing but I have MAYBE 5 games that actually support it not counting the entire genesis collection as individual games. So don’t worry about not having that particular feature. It’s surprising how some games I absolutely would expect to run at 90fps, just don’t. Like freedom planet 2 runs flawlessly at 90fps but the first game is capped at 60.
As for tweaking? I messed with a different version of proton for the first time today to fix this extreme oversaturation on crosscode since I decided to see how it ran. 90fps and glorious but the thing about running it on an oled deck is that the version of proton is applying an hdr profile on an unsupported game from what I can tell. Running it on proton 7 seems to completely fix it. No complaints.
I will say all the other improvements the oled has are very noticeable. The better wifi, the more stable Bluetooth connections, the significantly more responsive touch screen, and the noise level of the fan are all better than what I’ve seen from the lcd deck.
That said, the lcd model is still an absolute wonderful device and if I had gone with it, I wouldn’t necessarily be willing to part with it because the experience on the deck is just that good. It’s just the oled with all its here and there improvements add up to an even nicer experience. I’m personally just happy they exist at all. Can’t wait to see what the future for the hardware and software holds. Maybe there will be a timeline where Ubisoft takes me out to dinner before bending me over to try and play Scott Pilgrim 😂