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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
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It’s me, or there’s an Evercade VS on top of the table? Curious if it’s on all versions of the game, or just in this physical edition for Evercade.
rgalex@lemmy.worldto
Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•What is general practice for installing games from outside Steam?
10·3 years agoHeroic is a client for GOG and Epic Launcher, so if I install a game from there, I use Heroic.
Lutris is more generic, and has specific script installers per game, so I use Lutris as a fallback if the game is from somewhere else, or the game does not correctly work with Heroic.
Then, as a third fallback, I try to install the game with Wine directly, then add it a shortcut on Steam to benefit from Proton through Steam. In the above cases (Heroic and Lutris), they would be using their own packaged version of Wine/Proton, so it’s worth to try it before giving up.

What I like about it is that I don’t need to delve into second hand shopping to get some old classic games.
I’ve always wanted to get into getting retro games, and I would get different consoles, but as a matter of money and space I’ve found it difficult unless I get into only one system, and I find the evercade as a compromise for getting a variety of collections from different systems.
Of course, emulating ROMs would give almost the same experience, but the physical releases with their little manual got me.