2nd player control doesn’t work in ZNES 1.42 using netplay

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Although the question is more technic- and not game-content-related I hope that someone here might help with this issue:

We are 2 players who tried to play a ROM over ZSNES 1.42 on two different machines using the Netplay Function.

We have no problems to connect our computers to each other using netplay, when he (Player #1) starts as a server and I (Player#2) connect to his computer as a client using his IP address.

We also got the game running on both our machines:

Player#1 starts the game and via netplay Player#2 can see the same screen as P#1 with audio, video and P#1's navigation on the screen. After starting the game in 2 Player Mode, P#1 is able to navigate through game menus, move the character etc. but P#2 can't move, navigate or do anything inside the game using the keyboard settings that he configured.

P#2 will be able to pause the game, change his configs and restart the game again in the emu but input via keyboard seems to be ignored for most in-game commands. Sometimes, when the game is restarted one key might work for p#2, but all the others which were set in the P#2 input configs are still ignored.

Here are the specifications of our systems and which settings we already tried:

Player#1

  • acts as netplay server

  • Windows 7 – 32-bit

  • ZSNES 1.42

  • playing with Gamepad

  • Config Input#1: Keyboard/Joystick

  • COnfig Input#2: None (no key set for any control)

Player#2

  • acts as netplay client

  • Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS or Windows 7 -32 bit

  • ZSNES 1.42 (in Ubuntu and in Windows)

  • playing with keyboard

  • Config Input#1: None (no key set for any control)

  • Config Input#2: Keyboard/Joystick

We first assumed that the differing OS of our machines would be a problem but running the game under Ubuntu or under Windows for P#2 results in the very same problem.

Do you have any ideas for this?
Thanks in advance!

Best Answer

Easy. Both players using Netplay should be configuring their Port 1. Netplay will assume the config you want to use for your netplay session will be Port 1 no matter which player you end up being.

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