Super Smash Bros. Melee. The game I will cherish to time indefinite. I won’t spend this article on my fascinations with this game (although I may do that in a separate post); let’s get right to the point. Let’s get this game set up on your Linux machine (and maybe your Steam Deck?) so you can start playing the game online with others…with rollback netcode! The process really isn’t that complicated, but this guide should give you some tips on how to get the best experience.

The Ryujinx team has assured us that, despite February being a short 28 days, they paid back an “avalanche of improvements, fixes, additions and ongoing project work.” First thing’s up is Vulkan progress. Check out the video below for a comparison of single-threaded SPIR-V (the shader language for Vulkan) on Super Mario Odyssey vs. multi-threaded: Implementing this obviously wasn’t easy, but looking at the results, it seems the effort really paid off.