Mario Kart DS 8 Player Splitscreen Multiplayer [4K 60FPS]

[@5fdpRetroGamer215]

I'm lucky enough to have five younger siblings to play it with, so there was six of us total playing Mario Kart DS in the car.

[@Not_Niall]

That’s basically a grand prix. Lucky you 🔥

[@LandonEmma]

I’m so jealous bro 😭 I didn’t have any siblings my age.

[@ShadowFeline]

You're lucky to have seven more players for this, and the fact that this doesn't lag.

[@cynni_]

being able to see this is...unreal

[@insidiousy]

This looks so fun!!! I've only ever gotten 2 others total to play MKDS with in the past, but this is the dream right here.

[@SebastianGMSFB]

In a round/curved monitor with a 5760×1080 screen resolution (for an aspect-ratio of 16:3, or 48:9, or 144:27), an 8-Player Split-Screen for Nintendo DS would be completely perfect, since those ultrawide monitors are 4× wider than 4:3 (which is the DS's exact aspect-ratio) screens, while having 2 screens (per system) doubles it to supporting 8×2 sub-screens and still no stretching nor leaving any blank bars on that screen! Truly mind-blowing if you ask me.

[@MarioManTV]

That's actually a really exciting prospect to me. After finding that 12 Mario Kart Wii instances at a 4:3 ratio fit perfectly into a 16:9 presentation, I've been interested in creating optimal layouts for a given screen (and finding screens best-suited to the challenge as well). My setup for this video actually uses a custom program I wrote to automatically find and use an optimal tiling to maximize screen real estate usage while keeping all instances the same size. The script should support a 16:3 display (really any display, arbitrarily) right out of the box, automatically finding and using that perfect layout. If interested, you can find the program here: github.com/SMarioMan/ArrangeInstances

[@destroyermcw626]

Dang you’re PC is strong and I do know all about this local wireless but the fact you got 8 without slowdowns is amazing my stuff is a low end😭 and yet I play Mario kart Wii and 8 Cemu and Deluxe multiplayer JUST fine.

[@thechume4683]

a dream come true

[@Gummybruz]

When will you do another race? I would like to participate

[@Snow-zv9ps]

does all players connect to the same wifi? or different wifi on same melon ds emualtor?, cuz i tried to play local mario party ds on the emulator the audio lags a little bit,and gameplay slowed a little,

[@MarioManTV]

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.

[@Snow-zv9ps]

@@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.

[@tavovargas9257]

Hi, awesome video!, btw how did you manage to not get lag while playing in local multiplayer?

[@MarioManTV]

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.

[@LandonEmma]

Dang your PC must be powerful

[@No_Sleepee]

How did you manage to record 8 players' worth of gameplay?

[@TayahTaylor-19]

Crazy, half brain dead and half envy

[@MarioManTV]

I ran this on MelonDS, which implemented proper local wireless emulation last year.

[@No_Sleepee]

@@MarioManTV this was all local? Nice job getting 7 other people! 😅

[@MarioManTV]

@@No_SleepeeIndeed. All local on one screen and one machine. I’ve managed 12 people in years past for Mario Kart Wii, and I’m hoping to run with 24 people some day for the Mario Kart Wii CTGP-R 24-player beta mod.

[@DrRobotnikPingas]

6 was the maximum I played with my small neighborhood

[@angelanapolithebluebuzzand5565]

How is there 2 Luigis? And why is Peach's Kart Blue?

[@MarioManTV]

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.

[@MekhiThatotherguy]

Wow I never seen anything like it

[@leobourn]

Hello friend ! How did you manage to do this? Do you run 8 emulators at the same time? Is this on the computer or in the video game? I use the DeSmuME emulator but I can't play against another player. Could you explain me ? There are always people here at home, we like to have fun, I have 8 controls. I'll wait, please. Thanks

[@MarioManTV]

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

[@leobourn]

@@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

[@MarioManTV]

@@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

[@leobourn]

@@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?

[@MarioManTV]

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

[@CopoZ]

How

[@MarioManTV]

At its core, I used melondDS local multiplayer emulation.

[@ImExistent405]

It's beautiful, however I only have 1 other DS and only 1 MKDS cartridge so :(

[@MrJpmaulicino]

quien gana

[@gdmrhotshot3731]

when u realize theyre all playing together

[@smooth99me]

I have one sibling (3 died)

[@幽靈-f2e]

I guess Player 4 was not familiar to this game