Host and Join 3+ Players Issue


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Jenkinz

Posted on 08-01-25 04:06 AM

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Hello! Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this with any other games, I'm playing Dragon Quest IX using MelonDS. We have been able to play using local multiplayer with Parsec on one computer with multiple instances, this has been working great. I thought about taking it to the next step and seeing if we could play with separate computers on the same local network with the new multiplayer Host and Join feature. This works but with a slight issue. We can only have 2 players connect together at the same time.

For example: P1 opens their world, P2 joins fine without any issues, P3 can have few different issues. They either 1. keeps getting a communication error, 2. gets stuck infinitely loading on the "connecting to X players world" screen, or 3. in the off chance that they do connect, its almost like P3 overwrites P2 in the game and they "become" P2. If the third scenario occurs, a number of things happen to the person who was originally P2. I discovered quite a few other issues which I can go into more detail if needed but I feel they are all a result of whatever the root cause is. The only difference in this example compared to the Parsec setup is that we are using the Host and Join feature. When using Parsec, having multiple instances of the emulator removes the need for us to use the Host and Join feature.

What looks like is going on is that the person who is considered the "Host" or P1 is able to have multiple people join their room but P2 and P3 are being shown as the same person within the game. This could be something with the game, but when both P2 and P3 open their world and P1 searches, the list only shows one world and the names of P2 and P3 swap over top of one another every couple of seconds. Again, I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this with any other games, just wanted to share. I can post screenshots if needed of what is happening on my end, its really bizarre. I have not tried adding a fourth person as I assume the same issue would occur to P4 as with P3.

Also, if there is a better place to post issues that I think are bugs, let me know so I can post this to the proper people. Love the emulator, its been a blast being able to play with friends on my favorite game!

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