What are RetroDECK experimental features?
The main function of the experimental features is for the RetroDECK team to do some light testing in the stable environment.
Experimental features are a showcase of what proof-of-concepts we are trying out.
All these features are just conceptual, and we hope them release ready in a later major update or scrap them if they don't work out.
๐ Backup before testing! ๐
These features can make you lose all data including ROMS
, BIOS
and Scraped Data
etc...
We recommend that you don't run any cooker builds on your main gaming machine as you daily usage of RetroDECK.
How do I take a backup?
Backup your /retrodeck/
and its content and /.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/
.
You could copy the entire folders to a secure location or for a quick test you could just rename both of the folders into something else.
Then RetroDECK will think it's a fresh install.
Example of renaming:
OLDnet.retrodeck.retrodeck/
OLDretrodeck/
How do I enable experimental features?
From CLI run:
flatpak run net.retrodeck.retrodeck uuddlrlrstart
The Developer Options Menu
should show up inside the Configurator.