I’m not talking about the situation where Steam delisted Dolphin from the store, but what I’m experiencing may be related to that. I believe Steam might be blacklisting Dolphin even when added as a non-Steam game. It sounds crazy but hear me out. I try adding it to Steam to make use of launch options and Proton. The issue is, it straight up removes the non-Steam Dolphin I added from my library. I have experienced this 2 times now: First, adding the official linux package (Arch extra repo) as a non-Steam game, which shows up as an entry automatically under /bin. I noticed after I left Steam for a while and came back, the entry for the game was greyed out as well as all options, directories, launch options. It’s as if I went in there and removed it all but I definitely never did. I wrote it off as a bug, used another method and moved on.

Second time was today. I am attempted to manually add the exe version of Primehack which involves a version of Dolphin. I added this exe as a non-Steam game, and got it running for a while. Exactly the same as last time, when I left Steam and came back a while later, Dolphin is gone! Now this perplexes me because I have other games added as a non-Steam game and they stay working fine, using the exact same methods I used Dolphin. And I experience it on both the linux version, and with Proton. Can’t be a coincidence. Could someone else try to replicate this? Download dolphin, add it to Steam as a non-Steam game, and see how it behaves after you relaunch Steam.

  • hopeisforpresidents@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hey, OP, I have just tried it with the dolphin-emu package and the latest Windows executable, restarted steam and rebooted my PC, the entry is still there.

    What version of Steam are you using, flatpak or the one from the arch repo? I’m using the repo version and it seems fine.

  • Due-Ad-7308@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Eager to try and recreate.

    When you do this each time, usually how long is it before Dolphin removes itself?

    For those unaware Nintendo is on an absolute legal warpath against anyone playing titles not currently sold at full price on their eShop. Even people with physical copies are getting royally screwed over (see the Melee scene).

  • matterchoar@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I can confirm this. I use the appimage for dolphin created by lucasmz1, I added it as a non steam game and after restarting Steam the entry becomes empty. But strangely, if i click play on the blank entry, it still opens. I also installed dolphin-emu (arch/endeavour) to check and same thing, added to Steam, Dolphin disappears when you leave the window or restart Steam. Very strange

    • Due-Ad-7308@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This is pretty wild.

      If this can’t be recreated on Windows I think it means that Valve just cast a really really wide net (all Steam Linux installs) to ensure nobody posts cool videos of the Steam Deck launching Windows games from their UI.