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.
This is so cool. I am using Heroic and I don’t have cloud saves, and I cannot use Steam Community templates for controller schemes. Would or could those be added for this? Appreciate your work!
steam community templates might work, cloud saves, don’t know it’s dependent on legendary (which heroic uses too). If enough people motivate me I’ll have a crack to see what can be done around this.
What is the advantage of this over Heroic Games Launcher?
for one it can do more than heroic does with the right scripts, I’ve got dos and win 3x games running through this. It’s extensible so if you can script it, it can do it.
But as far as epic games only… it’s probably still lacking a bit…
I just got it up and running, so here’s first impressions and feedback. Installation was simple, just about 5/10 mins in total. UI looks great, super clean. Game installation process seems great but I only had time to try one small game (celeste). For some reason I had 4 Celeste shortcuts show up in Steam. Deleted 3. None had artwork (don’t know if that’s a feature yet), but I just used SteamGridDB plugin. On launching it took too long so I rebooted. Same thing again, but after changing to Proton Experimental, it booted after a minute. Second boot was very fast.
Basically, it seems great even now. I will test in more but in current state, seems at least useable and useful to me. I never touched my Epic games, but will do now.
Yeah I consider it still to be beta quality, thank you for your kind words around the UI, I’ve had a bit of help but generally I’m terrible at UI.
If you can figure out the steps that causes the duplicate short cut creation I can try to solve that issue - it’s not the best solution at the moment but it’s not a simple problem either. I do not do anything around artwork, the steamgriddb plugin is the way to go, I will talk to the steamgriddb guy about potentially integration and automatically do something around this.
This sounds like the plugin I’ve always wanted and potentially the definitive decky plugin. Is it possible to play games that update frequently like rocket league?
just having a look at the legendary switches you could call it with install --update-only passing the game name to it from the get-epic-args.sh script in ./scripts to do an update - obviously you wont get a nice UI progress bar etc.
The more I think about it the more I think an “actions” type menu on the game details page would be useful for stuff like this.