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Has anyone figured out how to do online multiplayer emulators yet? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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So I don't really play many newer games, but I still want to play with friends online. Ive thought how awesome itd be to play some ps2 or n64 with a friend who's 500 miles away. But I cannot find anything that actually works (especially because I'm on Linux and theyre on windows)

Kind of surprised it doesn't exist because I'd pay decent money for that. Either one program that tunnels it for your specific emator, or specific emulators that have online built in...

And yes, I know its really hard to Implement this without lag. But people (nerds) are smart!

Edit: Clarification, I don't want to play games that had online or lan originally. I meant more games that are 2 or 4 player splitscreen play ,but online.

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[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s not the most secure but I just set up a port forward in my router to the device with the emulator on both sides of the connection. When you’re done playing make sure to remove/disable the port forward. You connect to the public IP and port of the other person. Shouldn’t be any different than making local lan play work at that point. Your latency is pretty much just whatever the transfer time is. This does require both of you to know how to set that up in your router and basic networking knowledge.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I meant more for games that may not have lan options, to more mimic 2 or 4 player in the same room. Or did I not understand

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The emulators software should handle that(gets the player 2-4 inputs from over the network). I play Tetris Attack with my sister sometimes ~2000 miles apart which is an old Super Nintendo game. No such thing as network play on that console.

The network features on the emulator should work locally or remotely. You just have some extra steps like I mentioned in my first comment to make it work remotely. If you have a spare device to run two emulators locally I’d start with getting it working in your own house before trying to walk a buddy through it remotely.