First of all, being new to the community and to RetroArch as a whole, I’d like to thank maister and Squarepusher for creating such an awesome emulation suite. I find the idea of one program to house all emulation platforms to be absolutely genius. With all of the features it serves up beyond that, it’s just amazing!
As for my question, after finding and configuring RetroArch, a few online friends and I decided to give gauntlet IV on Genesis a shot on 4 player. We found quickly that only 2 players could play. We then attempted to at least have the other 2 spectate which also could not work. We thought it may be the emulator core so we switched to SNES9X and gave Super Bomberman 3 a shot, finding that it was not the core after all.
My real question is whether or not there are plans to add 3 and 4-player netplay to RetroArch. I realize that this would be far more difficult code if possible at all to implement; however I am curious, especially since an N64 emulator is being added to the cores. I was also wondering if I was doing something wrong or if you just cannot have a third and/or fourth person spectating.
As a second question I also wonder if netplay setup could be added into RGUI (if it’s not there and I’m just oblivious) as I’m not really a fan of Phoenix. Being a longtime Windows user, I don’t like having extra tasks running that aren’t necessary. We all know how that can affect Windows performance. Given everything that is in RGUI, I think that with netplay added to it, there would be no need for Phoenix other than the updater.