Netplay help

[UberLumby]

I was curious if there was a way to view the netplay lobby list on retropie. I was trying to netplay with a friend and I tried hosting and he tried hosting and both times the client failed to join. When I tried to manually type in his IP in retroarch and save the game core the game would crash after reloading.
He is using the image I created so I know we are on the same versions emulators and roms.
All the guides for retropie netplay seem really out of date so I'm also wondering if there is any updated guides. We exchanged the correct IPs used in those guides as well we both failed to join whenever one of us would host the client would fail.

[UberLumby]

It says compatible content found when I see his host in netplay lobby but when I click on it, it says couldn't find a suitable core or content load manually. When I'm in the same core and content already lol

[mitu]

You may be experiencing this issue, since both Netplay clients are running RetroPie. There's a workaround available, but not a definitive resolution yet.

[UberLumby]

@mitu said in Netplay help:

You may be experiencing this issue, since both Netplay clients are running RetroPie. There's a workaround available, but not a definitive resolution yet.

That is exactly my problem thanks! I'll read into this. I was also thinking maybe installing hamachi on both mine and my friends retropie would work. I used to use hamachi back in the day for diablo 2 lans over the internet

Problem is I'm not the best with linux commands so installing that would be hard for me Haha

[mitu]

@UberLumby The issue is not related to network connectivity, installing Hamachi would not help in this case.

[UberLumby]

@mitu said in Netplay help:

@UberLumby The issue is not related to network connectivity, installing Hamachi would not help in this case.

Yeah I got side tracked the end of the thread they start talking about network issues and I was hoping it wasn't 2 issues I'm getting just the 1. I'll try it later. Thanks again you've been a major help multiple times

[UberLumby]

From what I gather this is what I need to do

There is a workaround for this, just by adding the cores to the location where RetroArch expects them:

copy the core .info file(s) from https://github.com/libretro/libretro-core-info to $HOME/.config/retroarch/cores
symlink the core .so file to the same location - for instance fceumm:
ln -s /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-fceumm/fceumm_libretro.so

Where are the .info and .so files located on my retropie? So I can copy and paste them all to the retroarch core folder

[mitu]

@UberLumby said in Netplay help:

Where are the .info and .so files located on my retropie? So I can copy and paste them all to the retroarch core folder

There are no .info files - as said, you need to download them. As for where are they located - each one has it's own folder under /opt/retropie/libretrocores.

[saccublenda]

@UberLumby You can follow the instructions here.

[UberLumby]

@saccublenda said in Netplay help:

@UberLumby You can follow the instructions here.

Thank you
"Create a symbolic link to the RetroArch core you want to use for netplay in the directory where the core info file was stored, for example
ln -s /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-fceumm/fceumm_libretro.so $HOME/.config/retroarch/cores"
This confused me a bit but I think I understand this creates a link to the existing .So I was copying and pasting them into the retroarch cores folder last night lol ops...