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Has anyone figured out how to do online multiplayer emulators yet? (sh.itjust.works)
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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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[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

I had a friend trick Steam into streaming the Dolphin emulator through remote play and me and a few people played Mario Kart Wii splitscreen. The lag wasn't too bad even tho I was connecting from the UK and my friend lives in NJ, USA.

They were hosting on Windows, but I was able to connect fine through Steam on Linux.

They did it by downloading a free game called Crashphalt then going into the directory and replacing the exe with Dolphin.exe renamed to match the original games exe. Then Dolphin should launch when you try to play Crashphalt through Steam along with remote play settings in the Steam overlay.

No clue how you'd do this on Linux yet sadly.