By all accounts on ProtonDB, Halo: The Master Chief Collection works just fine despite being ranked as Unsupported, with the caveat that the game's Easy Anti-Cheat doesn't work on Deck/Linux and therefore online multiplayer doesn't work.

-Deozaan (August 30, 2022, 11:26 AM)

Thanks for this! I'd wanted to get it, but passed when I saw unsupported.

-wraith808 (August 30, 2022, 01:01 PM)

I just remembered that I did have to boot into Desktop mode and delete an EAC-related file before it would work, but other than that I didn't need to set any custom compatibility options or do other tinkering:

For the game to work at all, you need to move or remove this file: "steamapps/common/Halo The Master Chief Collection/easyanticheat/easyanticheat_x64.so" Then launch using the "Play Halo: MCC Anti-Cheat Disabled (Mods and Limited Services)" option.

-https://www.protondb.com/app/976730#7mf8VPh6e7

-Deozaan (August 30, 2022, 03:36 PM)

FYI Halo: MCC has been upgraded from Unsupported to Playable.

Linux Mint seems pretty good to me.

What kind of emulated games are you running?

-wraith808 (March 28, 2023, 02:59 PM)

Short answer:

I've done a bit here and there with games/consoles dating back to the 80s all the way up to "current-gen" (Nintendo Switch) games. My incentive to install CryoUtilities was mostly to help with performance in Switch games (some of which perform rather poorly on the Switch itself).

Long answer:

Honestly, I haven't spent a lot of time playing many different emulated games. 😅 But I've spent a lot of time copying files over and getting them set up to look nice on the Deck's UI so I can play them in the future, should the desire ever arise. 🤓

I think that's more due to how I tend to play games. When I play a game that I like, I tend to go all-in and play it to death until I've done everything I want to do in it. Then when I'm finished I usually don't touch it again. Multiplayer games are a different story, since how often and for how long I play them also depends on the whims of the other players. But for single player experiences, what I described usually holds true.

But I'm also starting to get old, and looking back on the past ~35 years of my gaming experience I've started feeling nostalgic for some games I really enjoyed "back in the day" and thinking I'd like to play some of them again. I also discovered RetroAchievements a few months before I got the Deck. I thought I mentioned it earlier in this thread, but a cursory forum search isn't showing me any results. Basically, RetroAchievements are community-created achievements made for games/consoles from before achievements were a thing. So with a free account and a compatible emulator, you can earn achievements for a variety of retro games/consoles from decades past. Here's a link to my RetroAchievements profile. Any games on my profile with 5 or fewer achievements earned (which are most of them) are games that I only booted up to the title screen or played for a few minutes to see how they ran.

So even though I'm feeling nostalgic enough to play some games again that I've already played through before, the way I play games hasn't really changed. And with RetroAchievements giving me more to do in the games that I might have ordinarily done with them in the past, I'm still working on a couple of emulated games I started in October (because they were "spooky") but have less interest in playing now that Halloween is over. But because I haven't finished them yet I haven't really given myself permission to start other retro emulated games. In the meantime, I still have a backlog of PC games I want to play and I keep coming across free giveaways or cheap sales for new games that either get added to the backlog or pique my interest enough that they skip the queue and I start playing them right away.

So when I'm playing games, there's a good chance I'm not playing an emulated game. And when I'm playing an emulated game, it's probably the same one I started a while ago. Which means I'm not spending a lot of quality time playing a variety of emulated games. I think there have been only about 10 emulated titles that I've spent over an hour with on with the Deck so far.

However, as I mentioned earlier, I do occasionally boot up games for just a few minutes to see how they run on the Deck. I've done that with quite a few (many of which would not register on my RetroAchievements profile due to being for an unsupported console or the game itself just not having any achievements created for it). It has been mostly games for Nintendo consoles, including the Nintendo Switch. But I've also spent a little time with other non-Nintendo consoles as far back as the Mattel Intellivision^w and as recent as the PlayStation 3. Nothing for Xbox, though, since I've never owned any of them.

It's fun being able to play some older titles--especially multiplayer ones--on the TV without having to pull out the consoles, games, and controllers from storage.

And honestly, though I prefer having physical copies of console games for the feeling of full ownership, using/playing digital copies is so much more convenient than having to have a bunch of discs or cartridges handy and get up and swap them out any time I want to play a different game. And I really like having full control over my save data and being able to easily back it up, which hasn't traditionally been an easy/accessible thing to do on consoles. So even though I actually have a Nintendo Switch connected to my TV, I've copied my save data and dumped the game files from the cartridges and I prefer to play the games using the Deck if they run well enough on it.