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Xenia Manager

Xenia Manager installs Xenia Canary, finds your Xbox 360 games and puts them in Steam, so a game starts from Steam, also in Game Mode. Use game files that you are entitled to use.

Install

Install it from the portal (the Gaming tab), or from a checkout of the repository:

bazzite-console/apps/xenia/install.sh                         # the app, its launcher, a menu entry and a Desktop icon
bazzite-console/apps/xenia/install.sh --no-desktop-shortcut   # without the Desktop icon
bazzite-console/apps/xenia/install.sh --uninstall             # remove it; --purge removes its settings and log too

The launcher is ~/.local/bin/ps5-xenia-manager; the app runs on the suite's shared Python environment.

Use it

The header shows the Xenia version, Your games (the games found) and those Available in Steam; Refresh reads everything again. Beside the title stands the app's state. Under the introduction, which links to Xenia's release notes and to this wiki, a row of pills does the setting up: Xenia Install and Xenia Uninstall. Two lines below the pills say where each stands, and then come three tabs: Your games, Settings and Log.

  • Xenia: Not installed. or Installed., with the button to use under it. The tooltip says which build is installed, or what Install takes, and when a newer build is out. When another build than the one pinned for this version of the app is installed, the tooltip and the log say so, and Install puts the pinned one in. Uninstall takes Xenia out again; its own folder, with its settings, saves and installed content, stays.
  • Game folder: the app looks for games in ~/Games/XBOX360, and in Games/XBOX360 on a USB drive or an SD card; nothing is chosen or browsed to.

Your games

Tick the games you want in Steam and press Update Steam: the app adds them to Steam as non-Steam games and takes out the ones you unticked. The games are in Steam's library under Non-Steam, on the desktop, in Big Picture Mode and in Game Mode alike. The app has no Play button: a game is started from Steam. Change Steam from Desktop Mode: in Game Mode Steam is the session itself and cannot close for the change. Steam artwork… takes a SteamGridDB API key, with which the app takes the pictures from SteamGridDB. Steam in the line under the table opens Steam's library, and Xenia settings opens Xenia's own window, for what the Settings tab does not set.

Settings

Xenia's settings that matter for playing, each written into Xenia's own settings file the moment you change it; Xenia reads it when it starts.

Log

Everything the app said and did, with the time. The same lines are in ~/.local/share/ps5-xenia-manager/ps5-xenia-manager.log, which turns over at 1 MB (the three older files are kept). install.sh --uninstall keeps it; --purge removes it.

Xenia is an experimental emulator; compatibility and performance vary by title and are not guaranteed on PlayStation 5 hardware running Bazzite. Its Linux build can have different compatibility from the Windows build.