Excited to have bought the steam deck during the sale! I was planning on grabbing a dock and micro sd card and I noticed there were a bunch of accessories and customizations people could do with this thing. Was wondering if there were anything the community loved in particular?
I don’t have any extra hardware, but I’d like to recommend Emudeck. This tool helps to set up all the emulators
A usb c multiport, or usb c to usb adapter for external drives or keyboard/mouse, and a right angle usb c adapter. I’d also get a screen cover for it. Software wise, I’d recommend cryutilities, decky, protonup-qt, flatseal, Heroic Launcher, ProtonTricks, Lutris, Warpinator, Bottles, and Corekeyboard
I haven’t done it yet, but my understanding is the hall-effect joystick swap-out is one of the most game changing mods. The dead zone on the stock joysticks is very noticeable, although gyro aim fixes makes it pretty much a non-issue for me personally.
oo TIL swapping for hall effect sensors will also resolve stick drift concerns 👀 that does sound like a game changer
FYI it does involve a small amount of soldering if you want the cap touch areas of the sticks to work. Still a very accessible mod but slightly more challenging than it may first appear.
They released new hall effect joysticks that drive require soldering and work with both stick types.
