So, like many folks my friend and I bought Super Mario Party thinking we could play the Online Minigame mode with two players local, one player remote. For anyone who doesn't know, this is not the case - the online mode is limited one player per console. That is to say, for my wife, me, and my friend who lives in another state to play simultaneously, we'd need three consoles.
We really wanted to play the main mode anyways, the board game mode, which is local multiplayer only. I don't have a homebrew enabled Switch, but if there are any applications that'd allow me to use Parsec in a meaningful way (such as perhaps having the JoyCon connected to PC with xOutput, connecting the PC to Parsec and streaming the PC to Switch with NoMachine???) https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-streaming-your-pc-games-to-switch-no-latency.502508/, I'd consider exploiting my console.
My friend has a Titan 1 capture card, and there are guides such as this one for getting Parsec working with Switch games, but the trouble is
1.) I'm pretty sure that with the Titan/Parsec setup, I can only stream ONE input device to him at a time, meaning that I don't think my wife could be our second player unless we could somehow count the button inputs of two controllers as one, then "split them up" into two on the end of the host.
2.) Some Mario Party games require gyro controls. If there were no way around this, that wouldn't be the end of the world - 3 of the 4 players would be human, and most of the main mode's minigames don't use gyro, so letting the one NPC win minigames occasionally would still be more fun than not playing the game at all. But if there were some way to stream our tilt input to him, obviously that'd be ideal.
3.) The only controller that Mario Party will accept is a Joycon - no pro controller. I believe the software the Titan 1 comes with translates the guest's input to an Xbox controller, then maps to a Switch pro controller, or something like that.
Obviously this is all a huge shot in the dark and is probably not possible. We'd probably be better off just Parsecing an older Mario Party game. And what's more is I'm sure y'all don't have much to work with seeing as how I don't even know much about the way any of this works (parsec, the titan etc), but just on the off chance anybody has any hot ideas, perhaps it'll justify me wasting space with a new thread? Anyway thanks much all, whether or not this post sparks any conversation I always appreciate the folks here on gbatemp.
We really wanted to play the main mode anyways, the board game mode, which is local multiplayer only. I don't have a homebrew enabled Switch, but if there are any applications that'd allow me to use Parsec in a meaningful way (such as perhaps having the JoyCon connected to PC with xOutput, connecting the PC to Parsec and streaming the PC to Switch with NoMachine???) https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-streaming-your-pc-games-to-switch-no-latency.502508/, I'd consider exploiting my console.
My friend has a Titan 1 capture card, and there are guides such as this one for getting Parsec working with Switch games, but the trouble is
1.) I'm pretty sure that with the Titan/Parsec setup, I can only stream ONE input device to him at a time, meaning that I don't think my wife could be our second player unless we could somehow count the button inputs of two controllers as one, then "split them up" into two on the end of the host.
2.) Some Mario Party games require gyro controls. If there were no way around this, that wouldn't be the end of the world - 3 of the 4 players would be human, and most of the main mode's minigames don't use gyro, so letting the one NPC win minigames occasionally would still be more fun than not playing the game at all. But if there were some way to stream our tilt input to him, obviously that'd be ideal.
3.) The only controller that Mario Party will accept is a Joycon - no pro controller. I believe the software the Titan 1 comes with translates the guest's input to an Xbox controller, then maps to a Switch pro controller, or something like that.
Obviously this is all a huge shot in the dark and is probably not possible. We'd probably be better off just Parsecing an older Mario Party game. And what's more is I'm sure y'all don't have much to work with seeing as how I don't even know much about the way any of this works (parsec, the titan etc), but just on the off chance anybody has any hot ideas, perhaps it'll justify me wasting space with a new thread? Anyway thanks much all, whether or not this post sparks any conversation I always appreciate the folks here on gbatemp.
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