Anyone ever use the netplay feature of an emulator?

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I remember one time getting Goldeneye 64 to work with a friend, but it was local WLAN. I see all these emulators with the feature, but I wonder... where do people wanting to play together meet up?
 
My friends and I managed to play Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, and some Fate/Stay Night Fighting game, using PPSSPP and Gameranger. And, that's about it really.
 
My friends and I managed to play Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, and some Fate/Stay Night Fighting game, using PPSSPP and Gameranger. And, that's about it really.
That seems to sum it up. Hopefully someone chimes in with a big discord group or somesuch. Hey, maybe we could start one here? Not like we're lacking the skills, tools or interest.
 
I remember a few threads that talked about it like this one https://retrogametalk.com/threads/netplay.3906/#post-57602
That's pretty close to what we did with the local hosting. I know emulators like Dolphin and PCSX2 have netplay with server support. Sometimes I see people playing games, but usually I don't like the game or it's password protected. I wish we had a place here where all of us badasses could link up in emulators we have repo games for.
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There are usually discord servers for these kinds of things where people look for other people to play online.
I'd say RPCS3 probably has the best support for this feature, it's as easy as making an account and just going online on the game you want to play. No port forwarding, no 2 hour set up, and the best part is they have a site listing all the games people are playing online live. Usually Tekken Tag 2 breaks the 100 mark and I've seen it go to 150-160 active players. It's honestly pretty impressive that over 100 people on this world would decide to get on an old PS3 fighting game almost daily. It's a pretty nice community.
The 3DS emulators also support a very similar feature where you make an account and just play. I used to play the crap out of Smash 3DS with my friends like that (I was too poor to afford a Switch at the time, but eventually got one and Ultimate) and we also played a lot of Mario Kart, some Tri Force Heroes and I personally went on a lot of people's towns in ACNL on the old Citra.
PPSSPP has been a nightmare to set up though, and I just gave up entirely. I know years ago literally maybe 10 years or more, I managed to get on PPSSPP MHFU online. No damn idea how I did it, considering nothing works now.
Oh and forgot to mention Slippy and Dolphin, those are extremely easy to set up too and I've played a lot of Brawl on there.
 
First time I played netplay was with ZSNES 1.36, because newer versions had removed it due to some incompatibility issues or other shit. I was playing Seiken Densetsu 2 (mandatory game to netplay imho lol) with a friend from Germany and it was hilarious. We were using dial-up connections and we got so many desyncs that I was seeing my partner acting awkward while she was looking at what I was doing and asked me: are you crazy? what are you doing? lol. Ohhh, good old times...
 
I used too play on Kailera or whatever it's called. Played nes games on it. River city Ransom, Bomberman, Contra Force etc.
 

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