Mario Kart 7 - Split Screen - Parsec Arcade

I made a custom desktop resolution and tried to make the instances of citra as neat as possible. This was basically the final test for recording/streaming. We had some good/trolly races lol. More info below.

This is actually easier to set up than it looks. Getting the local-play lobbies to load in is the most annoying part. Make 7 clones of your Citra install folder, To get each Citra to save different settings, make a User folder in each clone folder and that will make each Citra no longer link to the default appdata\roaming location. Copy over your nand to all 7 clone citra User directories. Open Parsec Soda and turn on all 8 gamepads. Open all 8 Citras, regenerate console ID for each one and config controls using a 2nd PC connecting in through Parsec. In Soda you can move the controller connected to each slot. So configure Citra 1, move the controller down a slot, configure Citra 2, move the controller down a slot, so on, etc (while pressing the buttons on the one gamepad connected to the 2nd PC, soda moves it to each x-input slot). Each Citra will remember which X-input slot that is supposed to control it, so if you relaunch all emulators from scratch, the controls will still be saved.

Getting kart to actually load a lobby is tricky. I set emulator speed to 40% for all emulators. I always launch all 8 knowing all 8 wont load in lobby. Whichever citras get communication error and drop, I disable those pads in Parsec Soda. So in this video, I launched 8 citras, and 6 loaded in so I rolled with it. Usually I get 3 or 4 each try that is why this is such a pain. I only got all 8 to work once and it was destroying my PC. Oh I forgot to mention, you need a fast rig to run multiple instances of Citra like this. I have 5900x rtx 3070.

Thanks for reading!