SteamLauncher
A LaunchBox/BigBox plugin designed to allow games and/or roms to be easily launched through Steam. (by lahma0)
Ice
Application to automatically add ROMs to Steam (by scottrice)
| SteamLauncher | Ice | |
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| 4 | 4 | |
| 28 | 833 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.3 | 0.0 | |
| 9 months ago | about 3 years ago | |
| C# | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
SteamLauncher
Posts with mentions or reviews of SteamLauncher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-21.
- Steam controller setup and launchbox
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To get all these controllers to to play nice with each other on one pc took 5 seperate retroarch installs running independent from one another, usb hub with switches, wii u adapter, and a fancy frontend to tie all this mess together, haha. But without RetroArch...this would not be possible at all
I use the SteamLauncher plugin for Launchbox, because Steam is excellent for controller configs, and Retroarch sucks at it.
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I made a proof of concept for running Epic Store Games from Steam Deck UI
You could look at using steam api interface IClientShortcuts instead of editing the shortcut file so steam doesnt need to be restarted. You can add/remove nonsteam games instantly etc. For example SteamLauncher plugin (c#) (https://github.com/lahma0/SteamLauncher) for LaunchBox does this. (Do note it does things a bit differently and uses one hidden shortcut for all games but you could create one for each game of course)
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Steam > Big Box > Dolphin Issue
However, there is the excellent Big Box plugin SteamLauncher that you may be into. All the benefits of Steam's controller customization and social stuff while using Launchbox's... uh, launcher.
Ice
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ice.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-26.
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Is there a frontend like RetroArch, but that allows me to use my own emulators?
Sure, but it will be much better with Ice.
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Planning to use the Steam Deck for emulation? Then you need to know about Steam ROM Manager
I used to use Ice for this very purpose on my old HTPC -- https://github.com/scottrice/Ice, but it appears to be a dead project. Glad to see this!
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I made a proof of concept for running Epic Store Games from Steam Deck UI
https://github.com/scottrice/Ice Interesting project adds roms into Steam and downloads metadata. I believe it's able to parse and edit the shortcuts.vdf file to add the games into steam itself.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SteamLauncher and Ice you can also consider the following projects:
steam-buddy - A web interface for managing Steam remotely
PrimeHack-Updater - An Updater for PrimeHack
GameHub - All your games in one place
ice - All-in-one solution for creating networked applications with RPC, pub/sub, server deployment, and more.
HeroicGamesLauncher - A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.
RetroPie-joystick-selection - A script to let the user choose the controllers for RetroArch players 1-4
nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application
legendary - Legendary - A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher
steam_shortcuts_sync - Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library [Moved to: https://github.com/PhilipK/BoilR]
libretro-dolphin-launcher - Launch Dolphin from RetroArch/libretro
SteamLauncher vs steam-buddy
Ice vs PrimeHack-Updater
SteamLauncher vs GameHub
Ice vs steam-buddy
SteamLauncher vs ice
Ice vs HeroicGamesLauncher
SteamLauncher vs RetroPie-joystick-selection
Ice vs nativefier
SteamLauncher vs HeroicGamesLauncher
Ice vs legendary
Ice vs steam_shortcuts_sync
Ice vs libretro-dolphin-launcher