When you’ve needed to have your Steam Deck boot up with one thing over than the hand-held’s brand, a beta replace that is accessible to put in will allow you to try this.

By going to Settings > System > Steam Replace Channel > Beta, you possibly can set up this replace (opens in new tab) that additionally modifications the decision when related to an exterior show, saving you the effort of doing this as soon as your Steam Deck is plugged into one.

Enabling a distinct animation is a straightforward affair, the place you drop a video into ‘steamui/overrides/motion pictures/‘ when in Desktop mode, and as soon as the Steam Deck begins up, it can search for a video on this folder, and play it when the Deck subsequent boots up.

There’s already a Reddit thread (opens in new tab) that contains a bunch of movies that you could obtain and use on this listing, but it surely made us surprise what we might use ourselves.

Steam Spice

After all, with it being the 25th anniversary of the Spiceworld album (opens in new tab), you could wish to function the intro to one of many Spice Women’ songs, reminiscent of Who Do You Assume You Are. Seeing that boot up will surely boost your Steam Deck with each boot.

But you possibly can set up others such because the boot-up movies for gaming consoles from the previous. From PlayStation 1 to Xbox, there is a bunch you possibly can obtain from this hyperlink (opens in new tab) and place into the folder that Valve’s specified, and your Deck might play a mixture of these and Spice Women movies.

It speaks quite a bit about how Valve is keeping track of the group’s modern efforts, with YouTubers (opens in new tab) bringing out unofficial methods to do that beforehand. With this quantity of customization, it solely makes us surprise what else we’ll be capable to do by the point 2022 ends.