I’ve been working relentlessly on getting this Decky loader plugin ready for submission to the Decky Store. It has been submitted for testing now. It will still take a while for the review process and after that I’m sure there will be a lot more to be done once people start using it.
In the mean time you can find the latest build here: https://github.com/ebenbruyns/junkstore/releases
Going forward builds released here will be much simpler to install. If you have developer mode enabled you can just navigate to that section in the settings menu and give it a URL to the zip file:
https://github.com/ebenbruyns/junkstore/releases/download/Beta-0.5/Junk-Store.zip
Once installed you have to install the dependencies from the About section in the plugin. This will install a flatpak for the legendary launcher. This is not the official flatpak, but one is coming and I will switch to the official one, when it’s available.
This will bring epic games into the steam UI, you can login, browse, install and play these games now. It uses the built in configuration for proton selection. At the moment it defaults to the first available version of proton, so if that’s an old version you might want to double check it before running a game for the first time.
In the About section of the plugin you will find functionality to download custom backends, at the moment I have only got my personal test rig available for that, but it will allow you to mess around with the dosbox configuration UI, should you chose to do so. Just remember to install dependencies from the About section as this requires dosbox-staging at the moment. If the feedback is positive on the dosbox functions I’ll add other versions and forks of dosbox to this as well and functionality to select different forks/versions per game.
I’d appreciate if there’s a few adventurous people around who would be willing to test this and log issues on github here: https://github.com/ebenbruyns/junkstore/issues
There’s a lot more that this plugin can do and if the feedback is positive I’d like to do many of those things with it.
Let me know what you think in the comments, give this an up-vote if you like it. I’ve been working on this with relatively little feedback which always makes it hard to know if you’re on the right track.
you will have to edit the download function in scripts/junk-store.sh to add a game install path, not something I’ve looked into yet but there’s plans around this and creating a ui for that