Not quite as standardized (or modern) as the Steam Deck hardware, but this plays pretty nicely under Proton on Linux on my rig that was close to cutting edge maybe 8-9 years ago. Or at least, I didn't notice any choppiness and the controls seemed responsive enough. I haven't spent any time with the arcade original so no idea what sort of lag may be present.Ms. Tea wrote:I just played about an hour on steam deck - Shin and arcade modes. It works perfectly fine, no issues whatsoever. Only weird thing about it is that you have to manually turn fullscreen on in the menu - it boots in "windowed" mode, and the scaling makes it slightly softer.
I haven't played with an arcade stick yet, just the steam deck's builtin controls, but feels perfectly fine to me so far. No lag issues that I can personally feel. And, well, it's Akai Katana and I love this game.
I noticed the sort of soft, fuzzy feel to the menus once I had switched it to fullscreen, too. There was a menu option for smoothing but that only seemed to apply to the game itself.
Now I need to spend some time looking into the actual gameplay systems. There are some strategy guides here and on Cave-STG, but they seem more geared towards people who already understand the basic mechanics.
It's complex at first glance but it works really well- Shin is definitley the most fun version of the game for me.
