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HTPC Steam & Emulators

Bazzite HTPC at 192.168.1.86. See htpc-bazzite-proton for Proton game compatibility details.

Hardware

  • CPU: Intel Core i7-6800K, RAM: 32 GB, GPU: AMD Radeon RX 570
  • TV: LG webOS at 192.168.1.75 (HDMI)
  • OS: Bazzite 44 (Fedora-based, immutable OSTree, bazzite-deck variant)

Gamepads — 8BitDo Ultimate (2 dongles)

Critical: both 8BitDo Ultimate dongles (2dc8:3106) must be on separate physical USB ports, not sharing a USB hub. If both share the Huasheng USB2.0 HUB on port 006, the second dongle fails to enumerate (#Ifs=0 Cfg#=0) and creates no /dev/input/js.

Working USB layout:

  • Port 005 (direct xHCI, no hub) → 8BitDo #1 (E417D8D87F0C)
  • Port 006 → Hub Port 001 → 8BitDo #2 (E417D8C197E4)
  • Port 006 → Hub Port 004 → Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver

Symptoms of wrong layout: lsusb shows both but second has #Ifs=0; only one /dev/input/js; Steam sees one controller.

Rules

  • Game save paths: managed per-emulator; see emulator config in Bazzite
  • Gamepad config: stored in Steam controller profiles, backed up to ~/controller-profiles/
  • Steam shortcuts for non-Steam Windows games: use Proton Experimental

Save Locations (approximate)

System Path
Steam ~/.steam/steam/userdata/
RetroArch ~/.var/app/org.libretro.RetroArch/config/retroarch/saves/