How to Fix the Steam Deck Controller to Work with Cemu?
I can show you how to setup the emulator CEMU so that it works with the Steam Deck buttons, dpad, and thumbsticks.
Written Tutorial
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https://steamdeckexplained.com/steam-...
Mentioned Links
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EmuDeck Install Guide - • Easy Steam Deck EmuDeck Guide | How t...
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Summary
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If you've had difficulty getting CEMU up and working with the Steam Deck, then you're not alone. Even when we install it through the EmuDeck toolkit, which is supposed to do all of the configuration work for us, sometimes things just aren't done properly and the emulator won't detect button presses or thumbstick movement when you first open it up.
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So today I'll be showing you how to get CEMU setup properly on the Steam Deck so that it works with our built-in gamepad here.
This video assumes you already have CEMU installed. I used EmuDeck to install it on my Steam Deck here, but you could do this manually if you'd like. I'll leave a link to my EmuDeck video
The first thing we're going to do here is reboot over into Desktop Mode. This is required because CEMU seems to be saving settings hen you close the Settings box. And we're unable to see this while using the Deck UI. Maybe in future updates this will be changed but for now, let's just head into Desktop Mode.
Let's go ahead and open up Steam and then open up Cemu from there.
If you haven't added CEMU as a non-Steam game then now is the time to do so. We want it to leverage the built-in controller feature of Steam.
So you'll want to click the controller icon over here.
Now view the layout to make sure everything seems correct.
I also recommend clicking onto this section here.
And then picking the EmuDeck CEMU template. There are even some community layouts you can experiment with if you'd like.
Just make sure that when you view it, your buttons are assigned where you want them to be.
You could even pause this screen here and mirror this configuration on your own Steam Deck from the Edit Layout section.
With that done, we're going to launch CEMU from Steam while it is in Desktop Mode.
Then we're going to click the Options menu up here.
So that we can bring up the Input Settings window for CEMU.
Now you need to check the Emulated Controller box here and make sure the Wii U Gamepad option is selected.
With this done, I recommend checking to see if the buttons here automatically populate. If they don't, you can manually assign them yourself.
I have seen guides suggest that you change the option in the Controller field to the one labeled xinput.
However, that hasn't been needed in my situation.
So I'll leave this set to DSUController here, but if you have issues getting it working on your Steam Deck, try changing it to xinput instead.
Now you will need to save this setup as a profile here, so click the save button after you have given it a name.
Now we can press X on this window here and CEMU will finally save these settings for us.
We'll close out of CEMU from here as well.
And then reboot from Desktop Mode and back into Gaming Mode.
Go ahead and load up CEMU from your non-Steam game library so you can test everything out.