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Has anyone figured out how to do online multiplayer emulators yet? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours 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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[–] DasKibby@fedinsfw.app 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

https://parsec.app/ works great for that usecase, one person runs the emu, the other just streams the screen. supports controllers and inputs are pretty fast in my experience.

if the host is windows or mac it just works, getting a linux host to work is more fiddly, but any os works great as a client

[–] mortalblade@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago

i tried this with a friend once for a modern game that he didn't own and it worked surprisingly well. First thing that came to mind.