Retroarch, which means pretty much almost every emulator.
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I thought this didnt work anymore ? Someone had also mentioned using steam play and making the emulator a game in your library but that no longer works.
Dolphin can handle networking. Theres a special version of Dolphin called Karphin for Kirby's Air Ride specifically and a nodded iso that gives each player their own screen as well as some other cool hacks for match settings.
I was playing online multiplayer on zsnes over 20 years ago. I would be really surprised if most emulators didn't support it these days.
If we consider the ineffably marvelous titles of prior ~2010...
The following are third-party alternatives that emulate aspects of GameSpy services and might be used to enable online functionality in some games.
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.
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
FightCade.
Fightcade is good for some of that
I know some n64 emulators support net play as well
Not so sure about ps2
Definitely a thing. Dolphin has support for netplay, and Melee in particular has a great rollback implementation in Slippi. Fightcade for classic fighting games, mainly arcade.
Feels like it should be widespread across emulators, but I guess I've only really happened across it in that handful of cases.
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.
All VNC into the same box?