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Ommmm I know that is why I got a steam deck? I love video games that don’t force you to buy a super expensive gaming rig.
I don’t really fuck with emulation though I want to (dunno where to get roms honestly) but there are so many banger indie games out there that barely use any resources to run, and honestly simpler graphics is almost always better for gameplay, development, and even aesthetics because it forces developers to adopt a style with their simplified vision of reality instead of just making things look super realistic.
I hate modern strategy games where the map is super pretty and 3D but impossible to read and all the menus are animated with tiny little buttons and hard to read text against textured parchment backgrounds…. it is clear as day that giving those game developers a more powerful computer to develop on was actually a catastrophic mistake in terms of UI readability.
Vimm's Lair is the best site I know of for roms.
If you want to do emulation on steam deck I recommend using RetroArch. Here's a brief guide on setting it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbr0a6b1qHI
https://www.emudeck.com
Makes setting up emulation on the deck super easy