Steam Deck’s free update finally lets me use the Spice Girls as a boot-up video

Spice up your Deck

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If you’ve wanted to have yourSteam Deckboot up with something over than the handheld’s logo, a beta update that’s available to install will let you do that.

By going toSettings > System >SteamUpdate Channel > Beta, you can install thisupdatethat also changes the resolution when connected to an external display, saving you the hassle of doing this once yourSteamDeck is plugged into one.

Enabling a different animation is a simple affair, where you drop a video into ‘steamui/overrides/movies/’ when in Desktop mode, and once the Steam Deck starts up, it will look for a video in this folder, and play it when the Deck next boots up.

There’s already aReddit threadthat features a bunch of videos that you can download and use in this directory, but it made us wonder what we could use ourselves.

Steam Spice

Of course, with it being the 25th anniversary of theSpiceworld album, you may want to feature the intro to one of the Spice Girls' songs, such as Who Do You Think You Are. Seeing that boot up would certainlyspiceup your Steam Deck with every boot.

Yet you could install others such as the boot-up videos for gaming consoles from the past. FromPlayStation 1toXbox, there’s a bunch you candownload from this linkand place into the folder that Valve’s specified, and your Deck could play a mix of these and Spice Girls videos.

It speaks a lot about how Valve is keeping an eye on the community’s innovative efforts, withYouTubersbringing out unofficial ways to do this previously. With this amount of customization, it only makes us wonder what else we’ll be able to do by the time 2022 ends.

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Daryl had been freelancing for 3 years before joining TechRadar, now reporting on everything software-related. In his spare time, he’s written a book, ‘The Making of Tomb Raider’. His second book, ‘50 Years of Boss Fights’, came out in 2024, with a third book coming in 2025. He also has a newsletter called ‘Springboard’. He’s usually found playing games old and new on his Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, and MacBook Pro. If you have a story about an updated app, one that’s about to launch, or just anything Software-related, drop him a line.

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