" including lengthy review processes"

The Decky team makes sure plug-ins are safe by testing things themselves, how terrible. They just added more to their review team too. Again, these are humans who are reviewing plug-ins themselves

“prohibiting AI use in plugin creation”

False. As it stands, devs submitting to Decky have to tick that “Generative AI was NOT used to write a majority of the code I am submitting.” which means that it can be used to assist. They asked the community some time ago what to do with AI going forward, and this was their result

“and disagreements between plugin creators on Discord.”

Oh right, that asshole from like two years ago who was a racist jerk in the Decky Discord? The one who also got banned from the r/SteamDeck sub-reddit, Decky’s and two others soon after for promoting his slop so aggressively and behaving like a baby? I love how this writer phrases it like it is a regular thing. Sensationalist crap.

…feel free to use DeckyHub if you want something vibe coded with Claude. I wouldn’t trust anything unverified being installed onto your Deck.

https://gardinerbryant.com/author/dash/

In that case, have at it!

And thank you so much, what a kind comment to find :)

Hello there, original writer of the article, and the posts here.

I’ve been contributing to the fediverse for years now. Not only am I on Lemmy every single day, I’m on Mastodon. Gardiner (my partner in the site, he and run it together!) is well known for his support of the fediverse. Every video he makes goes to subscribeto.me

I explained elsewhere in this post why I share my posts as I do, but maybe just do a quick scroll through my profile here. You’ll see years of me sharing to this space.

Karma farmers gonna farm.

What exactly do you think I will do with this karma?

Check up a couple comments, I’ve replied!

:)

At the moment, I don’t think there’s any one option which is better than the other. GameNative has been on the scene for some time now, so the benefit is months upon months of refinement! DroidDeck however has only been around for a little over one month now. Their team has a ton of experience with similar projects, but as a whole this one is quite new.

The interesting thing (to me at least) is that the Retroid Pocket Duo which I reviewed not so long ago wouldn’t work at all with GameNative, but would work a dream with DroidDeck.

• Both projects make use of AI to assist, but DroidDeck more-so than GameNative.
• I use both, because as it stands each can work when one won’t
• GameNative has a couple handheld manufacturers paying attention and working with them for native builds for specific devices, while DroidDeck hasn’t got that

I think while they’re similar, they do different things. GN focuses on making the games themselves playable while DroidDeck gives you the entire Steam interface.

P.S. I also just uploaded the massive complete chats record with the members of DroidDeck to my NeoCities page, if you wanted to read all about their work. It is a long read though!

https://handheldhideout.neocities.org/articles/droiddeck-the-complete-team-interview.html

Oh no problems!

I just shared an article (the full interview of my questions and answers with the DroidDeck team, which I turned into that feature article on our site!) which is on my NeoCities site, by cross-posting to three communities here. From what I see though it is the exact same issue again, just with a different method.

I think this is in fact a Fediverse issue, and not how I’ve been sharing articles to communities here. I’m sorry!

There’s a few cross folk in here, whose comments (I can’t pretend don’t hurt a bit!) do disagree. I’ll just have to have a think how I share on here going forward. The last thing I want to do is annoy anyone, but it takes a user all of 2 seconds to click on my profile here and see I’m deeply invested in the fediverse and have been on Lemmy for years now.

I appreciate your comment, thank you for saying so!

Oh gosh, I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to give that impression!!!

Thankfully if there’s a group of devs who I would consider the least likely to buy into that side of things, it is the RetroDECK team :)

To me, cross-posting your own posts is a sign of an overinflated sense of self-importance.

When I see a comment like yours, I just wonder why I bother sharing my articles here.

Oh my Gosh. Okay, this is me!

One creator I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse is Gardiner Bryant as his content is really enjoyable.

First off, thank you so much! Really appreciate you enjoying the articles we put out :) One think I might emphasize here though is that so far as the site goes, Gardiner and I are partners! This is one of my articles though (so I’m to blame for this appearing so often in your feed). In fact I’m 99.99% sure Gardiner doesn’t actually share his articles on Lemmy at all.

Sadly he ´s the target of my post as he shares his content on many different communities that I follow.

(And I’m ‘she’!)

I’m sorry it appears like this. It used to annoy me back when I was regularly on Reddit, when a post was cross-posted to a different community I’d have to follow that link, read their description of the post, then follow the link then go back a few steps to start/join the discussion in that community. Since joining Lemmy and sharing here (it has been a long time!) I just went against that grain and posted in the communities it was relevant to, to give each community a space to chat about it.

I had no idea your app was showing it this way, or that how I was doing this was annoying anyone. I’ll just go back to the age old cross-post method instead, going forward. Interesting that your app shows it this way, the one I use seems to do that for me.

Sorry to annoy you! It won’t happen going forward :)

Remind me to reply to this in the morning! I’m just about to go to sleep :)

https://gardinerbryant.com/droiddeck-is-bringing-the-real-steam-experience-to-android/

Not to dilute the point of your post, but I interviewed each team member then wrote this feature article on DroidDeck, if you’re interested :)

Oh how fun, you shared the same comment on two posts. Here’s the same reply I left on your other one:

Hi there!

I’m the author. Not only have I chatted to Voices, but I did an AMA with Dodi, organized the same with FitGirl (which didn’t actually happen), and even chatted to Empress. Which…wasn’t very fun. I’ve interviewed KaOs and also the gentleman behind Ghost eShop for jailbroken Switches. This is just to say I know the scene, and I know the people.

Denuvo has been almost universally cracked since the start of this year, author sounds pretty out of date to be talking as if this is a recent development.

Seems there was about 20 games released this year with Denuvo. Voices has changed the scene a lot, but he can only do so much. Now he’s using A.I. to help with his process this is speeding up a ton, but he cannot possibly keep up with ‘demand’ as it were. I found four he’s done, for 2026 releases:

• Resident Evil Requiem (February 2026)
• PRAGMATA (April 2026)
• LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (May 2026)
• 007 First Light (May 2026)

It certainly hasn’t been “universally cracked”. It will get quicker, but it is still an effort. One game every two weeks or so at the moment.

universally cracked

This is not only a stretch, it isn’t true. The fun thing is that he has cracked 2026’s build, and then their updated build, then a day one release. From a technical POV, it is super interesting to see.

How did I know you’d be mentioning RomM :P

One day you might have time!!!

Thank you! I’m glad there is this strong core group of projects and devs who both support and love the Steam Deck, so long after release!

If you’re curious to hear more from the teams, I’ve interviewed all except Unifideck (some many times!) over the last few years. You can find those by filtering with my author link on the site, or with this tag:

https://gardinerbryant.com/tag/developer-interview/

If you ever run into an issue (you won’t now though, that’s for sure), feel free to message me on here. I’m always happy to help!

Yep, totally fine and safe :)

No glaring issues!

You might have to reinstall a plugin, but I’ve only seen that issue literally once. It only happens if that plugin is dependent on being on the beta channel.

Once you switch back to stable, just restart your Steam Deck and it’ll be good to go!

No data loss or anything awful. But if it helps, I’ll check in with my friend on Decky and get his confirmation before you do :)

Here’s my tip (being friends with the Decky team, and having reported on them/interviewed them for a long time now!)

When you install Decky, stay on the stable branch.

When there is a update for the Steam Deck, wait a few hours until Decky have their update, install that first.

Every single complaint about Decky is totally fixed with these two dead-simple actions.

Then grab SteamGridDB and change all your game art (that’s my fav plugin!)