I was recently trying to get some of the 4 player local games I have to work remotely… Some have native multiplayer but with limitations (castle crashers only lets two local and two remote players play) bople battle only allows one local player in remote multi player mode.

However for both the above I was able to get remote play together working which basically let me map the remote player to a controller and play the game in local mode.

This however only worked on these games, I THINK they are linux native… Games that didn’t work / provide no controller mapping for remote play together Streets of rage 4, TMNT Redders revenge did not work. These games show support for remote play together in the steam library but I suspect the limitation is on the steam deck?

Anyone else have experience with Remote Play Together on the steam deck? It is nice as the remote party doesn’t need a copy of the game and as noted gets around some of the multi player limits of some games.

Any suggestions? Alternatives? Tweaks?

  • ag10n@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Remote play together and steams controller management are two separate things.

    RPT creates a tunnel to make everyone appear in the same session.

    For controllers, especially in Linux check that you have the correct settings enabled eg. Enable PlayStation/nintendo support vs the default Xbox emulation.

    I’ve personally never had any issues with RPT and controller settings after checking the controller is setup properly in Steam.

  • PunkiBas@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ve played shredders revenge on my deck with 4 players via remote play together and had no issues whatsoever.

    Each player was using he’s own controller to play. What was your problem exactly?

    You have to use the Remote play together interface to map the player controllers to the local controllers 1 through 4, but that’s it.

    • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      How exactly did you start remote play together with Shredders revenge? In some games it is part of the in game invite option, for others I have tried just triggering it from the steam menu while the game is running as I didn’t see a native option. For shedders revenge when I triggered it from the menu none of the controllers appeared for mapping.

      • PunkiBas@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I played it while connected to my screen, I seem to recall that in desktop mode, friends window, right click a friend and start steam play together, all while the the game is running.

        • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          You game in desktop mode? I can give it a shot, but performance always seems kind of wonky in desktop mode when outputting to my TV

          • PunkiBas@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            I sometimes connect my steam deck to a computer screen with keyboard and mouse to play, yes.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If it’s specifically disabled just for steam deck, you can usually disable stuff like that by setting the launch command to be SteamDeck=0 %command%

    You might also want to try this this project designed to let you do steam remote play together in any game. It has an appimage file in the release section, but without trying it out I’m not sure what steps you might have to take to get it working in game mode.