Can't get netplay working

RetroArch General
#1

I’m running the Netplay version on my JXD S7300, and I’m trying to connect to another one. It seems to not like having the host IP addresses entered into both devices; it only seems to work when the client has a host IP entered. Anyway, the ports are the same, and both devices are connected to the same wifi network. When I start the emulator on the host (using SNES9X), it hangs until the other device loads the same rom. They connect for about two seconds, and then both get disconnected.

Anyone have any idea of what could be causing this? I’m new to this whole thing, so please be nice lol

#2

That’s an unofficial branch that isn’t really supported, but in addition to that, the netplay is/was very preliminary on android. It also only works on certain emulation cores, such as Snes9x. If your device is fast enough for that core, I recommend trying with it to verify that it actually works in the first place.

#3

I tried it with the Snes9x core, and it doesn’t work. I downloaded the actual SNES9x app, and netplay did work on my devices, so I can confirm that it is currently broken.

#4

As hunterk said, RetroidNetplay is not RetroArch and is not officially supported by the RA team… Also I think it hasn’t been updated for a while.

Also RetroArch’s netplay implementation may differ from S9X’s standalone implementation so it’s not a valid comparision