Steam Deck’s custom boot videos are getting very creative indeed Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Steam Deck’s custom boot videos are getting very creative indeed Think of them as the Deck's strapline News by CJ Wheeler News Reporter Published on Oct. 10, 2022 9 comments Owners of Valve's handheld PC Steam Deck have been fiddling about with creating and sharing their own ten-second animations for the machine's new custom boot video feature, implemented in a client update last week. Some pay homage to Valve and Steam, while others nod towards games in general, or even classic telly and film. I've had a rummage around to help give you some ideas, and found the batch below. Watch on YouTube I've always been a fan of handhelds. One of my favourite custom boots so far is this "handheld history" montage by KnightMD: Here's the epic #SteamDeck custom boot video I made from scratch, using Valve-made music from Portal 2. I called it "Handheld History". There's a version with the Vita too but I prefer this one with the DS. pic.twitter.com/R8biuJFDgD- KnightMD (@KnightMD1) September 30, 2022 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Who doesn't love a bit of ISS 64 and, by extension, its Peruvian bootleg Mundial Ronaldinho Soccer 64? Maple Gloom tweeted their custom boot vid created in honour of the 2020 meme: so, steam deck lets you do custom boot intros now, and um pic.twitter.com/KkkrmeGvFJ- maple gloom (@mplblm) October 8, 2022 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Dev Enrique Colinet's Steam Deck been personalised in fetching Gordon Freeman orange, which I guess also makes it look a little like one flavour of Nintendo's box-shaped sixth-gen console: Just wanted to show you my fully customized OrangeBox themed #SteamDeck, including the most perfect custom boot animation pic.twitter.com/WjC035ayPX- Enrique Colinet (@Baxayaun) October 9, 2022 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Other Deck owners have turned to the gogglebox for inspiration, even repurposing Futurama's intro for their custom boot video. Shut up and take my money, as Fry might say: Look at this custom boot animation I just downloaded for the Steam Deck! pic.twitter.com/4MWzsbKEfG- Captain Eggcellent (@CaptEggcellent) October 6, 2022 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Twitterer Everdraed may have won the custom boot video crown for their take on an old gag from The Simpsons, though. I respect the effort taken to edit sound clips of Gabe for this: ummm... you probably should ignore my steam deck boot vid pic.twitter.com/eVFfpwzdrJ- Everdraed (@Everdraed) October 9, 2022 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Those are all cool ways to start up your handheld, but Valve found themselves in a spot recently for another Deck-related video. The company uploaded a promo video last week to announce that reserving a Steam Deck was a thing of the past, along with the availability of the Deck's dock at last. Pretty quickly, it was noticed that the Steam Deck featured in the video had the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu on it. Valve took the video down and reuploaded it without the emulator in view. Oops. 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