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Has anyone figured out how to do online multiplayer emulators yet? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by 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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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

there's a very small and niche crowd that still plays MAME fighting games with MAME32k (through kaillera). Old, has syncing issues sometimes, need servers nearby, but when it works it's pretty fun. :)

There are some people that play 64 games on those same servers iirc. I think they used mupen + kaillera. I tried it a few times and the syncing issues were a drag (had to restart everything to resync), but with the mame thing you can discover servers near you and see what games are being hosted/played as well as the emulators and their versions.

edit: if anyone's interested, 0.64 was the popular version for classic fighting games.

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