I’ve been working on and off on a guide in my free time. To answer your question, they are indeed separate windows. I wrote a Windows program that removes the window “decorations” (title bar, drop shadows, etc.) and auto-arranges the windows for me. github.com/SMarioMan/ArrangeInstances

@ Many thanks for your response and sharing your programs for windows arrangement, Server preset etc. I am looking forward towards your guide.

This video uses DWC server emulator in an Ubuntu VM running on VMWare. You can use a copy of my working server image here: github.com/SMarioMan/wii-online-server The LAN mod should now work on emulator if you use a recent enough version of Dolphin, but you cannot use multiple emulator instances on one machine in this case, because they all try to use the same port to communicate. There is some DNS configuration needed to make this work. I cover how to do this in Windows in the VM repo’s README. Performance is virtually flawless if you have good enough hardware. When I used an Intel Core i7-6700K, there was a lot of slowdown with 12 players. With my current AMD Ryzen 5900X, there’s barely a hitch even with 12 players. Best of luck with your efforts to make this more stable for your own setup!

You can lay them out however you please. If you have multiple monitors, there’s nothing stopping you from splitting them up that way too. Each instance gets its own window, ultimately. Since I’m using my own personal online server, even LAN across multiple machines is possible.

@@MarioManTV ah, gotcha. That said I presume virtual LAN linking is a no go then? How much does it cost to run your own server?

@@Mugen_YG So I’m using a fan-made recreation of Nintendo’s official online servers to do this. I run it in a VM on the same machine as the rest of these copies of the game, but you could technically run it wherever you want. LAN tunneling would work, as would port forwarding it onto the public Internet. Since it’s all on one machine though, I’ve never needed it to go further than my own LAN. If you want to try it yourself, I supply a prebuilt VM for download here: github.com/SMarioMan/wii-online-server

@@MarioManTV 🙏🏾 thanks a lot for the insight, whenever I get the time I'll test it out. A Mario kart LAN party with the bros has always been a dream of mine.

Nintendo launched their new console nintendo switch 2 and it has a new mario kart that has 24 races

I agree with you. The heavy compression is functionally a low pass filter, cutting off the higher frequencies and giving the voice a more boyish tone. For me, this was just a quick experiment to see what voice clones could offer for dialog restorations and enhancements, and I think this technique is quite promising. I wonder if there are other games in this situation, where we have lots of uncompressed audio to train a voice clone, but also lots of older, highly compressed dialog to enhance. I haven’t turned up much.

MelonDS multiplayer can still be a bit hit and miss between games. I’ve found that fiddling with the data reception timeout can help at times. All of this was done via the local Wi-Fi feature added in MelonDS 0.9.5. It’s also possible your PC isn’t strong enough for it. My setup here uses a Ryzen 9 5900X and an RTX 3070 Ti. This is overkill, but a highly multithreaded CPU definitely helps out here.

@@MarioManTV my pc should be overkill , my cpu is same as yours and gpu 4070 ti , but i think the wifi will play the main role for its to be less lagging in the audio and gameplay,maybe future update of the emulator will help as well.

Default settings in MelonDS work great if you have the hardware to handle it. I ran this on a Ryzen 9 5900X and an RTX 3070 Ti. That hardware is honestly overkill for this task, even with the internal resolution bump I used here.

As soon as I find the people and the venue to make it happen, I’ll be sure to do so. I’ve reached a point where the logistics of coordinating people has gotten more complex than the technical challenges to put the setup together.

This video was recorded at actual speed, so yes, this did lag. I’ve since upgraded my CPU, which has smoothed this over completely, as seen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXmVdIqVrL99lZY

I set this up using MelonDS, which added local multiplayer support a couple of years ago.

@@MarioManTV Thank you friend. I just downloaded MelonDS here and it worked. But how did you manage to bring the screens together so that the name of the emulator does not appear at the top and also where the file, system and config are located. Thanks

@@leobourn I removed the window frames and positioned the instances using a custom tool I wrote: github.com/SMarioMan/ArrangeInstances Unfortunately, this doesn’t remove the menu bar because of the way melonDS renders it. To remove it, I made a custom build of melonDS to toggle it with a hotkey: github.com/SMarioMan/melonDS

@@MarioManTV I understand in parts. How can I implement this in my MelonDS? Or would it be possible for me to download your version with this modification already made?

@@leobourn Here's a release of the custom build I use, which includes the executable: github.com/SMarioMan/melonDS/releases/

CTGP-R got support after Dolphin added accurate cache write-back emulation. There’s a guide to set things up on the Dolphin blog: dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/02/12/dolphin-progress-report-december-2022-january-2023/ There’s a LAN mod that works on real hardware (and USB Loader) as well as emulator: wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/LAN_Multiplayer For all of my multiplayer videos, I actually don’t use the LAN mod, as it only started working on emulator last year when I identified and fixed an inconsistency in Dolphin’s HLE networking. Instead, I use a custom server VM I put together: github.com/SMarioMan/wii-online-server/releases/latest/ There is no way I am aware of to bypass disc authentication for CTGP-R on a real console.

@@TheNorthFisher A 31 player LAN is really impressive too! I’ve figured out the technical side here, but the logistics of organizing a 24 player meetup honestly intimidates me.

@MarioManTV im still willing to donate to help setup 16-24 players at once. I was able to get it working with 12 but on a virtual network. Not sire if that is how you did it?

There aren’t any character restrictions in multiplayer, so clones are always possible. Peach has a blue kart because, once you get far enough into the game, you’re allowed to use any kart with any character.

Online races have a 30 second timeout after the winner crosses the finish line to prevent stallers from ruining the game. This may have looked weird because of the timer desyncs.

Dolphin does most of the work here. If you want to run multiple copies of the game on a single machine, you’ll need to set up virtual TAP adapters and bridge them. The guide for that is maintained here: wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Broadband_Adapter

@@MarioManTV thank you.

I put this together using a variety of guides and tools, some of which I even made myself to streamline the process. I have had plans to make a comprehensive guide for a long time now, but the work hasn’t been completed yet.

In this video, I created an OBS layout and used the full screen projector to display it all to players. This adds too much latency for my taste, so these days I use a piece of software I wrote myself that uses the Windows API to remove window decorations, resize, and reposition each instance automatically, in tandem with Buttery Taskbar 2 to hide the Windows taskbar completely. This solution is also way more flexible, supporting lots of games and making it easy to optimize the layout for an arbitrary number of windows. OBS requires setting up each arrangement by hand. My tool: github.com/SMarioMan/ArrangeInstances Buttery Taskbar 2: github.com/LuisThiamNye/ButteryTaskbar2

For 12 player, this is fairly straightforward. Install Dolphin on each Steam Deck, set up and run a matchmaking server VM on another local machine (github.com/SMarioMan/wii-online-server/releases ), find and enable the No-SSL cheat for the game to connect to your server, override the DNS settings of each Steam Deck to go to your custom server, and they should all connect online. It’s a slight rework of this guide, but for emulator: github.com/barronwaffles/dwc_network_server_emulator/wiki#nintendo-wiiwii-u-configuration

As an alternative, there is a LAN mod that should work without any custom server work: wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/LAN_Multiplayer