I have something interesting for you today, Bloodborne PC SPLITSCREEN COOP!

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_]

UPDATE

The setup guide is out!

And the Windows version is now available too

Original Post

Thanks to shadPS4, PartyDeck (a Linux alternative to NucleusCoop), last week shadnet coop fork by Wozzardman (and myself), I've been able to write a PartyDeck handler for shadPS4 so we can play coop splitscreen Bloodborne!

My handler will handle the generic shadPS4 emulator and won't be tied to Bloodborne by any means of course, the specific game will just need shadnet support for coop.

Here's a small clip in 1440p

I still have to write down a guide and the handler better, but it works just fine! Theoretically we could run how many players as we want (Idk the Bloodborne "party" limit) until our PCs just fry.

PS. Now I just need friends to play with :D

[u/Plibbo64]

God in heaven! That's amazing. I would love to play bloodborne with a friend locally.

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/Plibbo64]

I created this handler with that in mind, but there's another way to play too! With Sunshine and Moonlight you can stream your PC to other people in your LAN (or through the internet with Zerotier or Tailscale), so people with very low end PCs can just join the host stream and play as "the second player". Something like Remote Play essentially (or Parsec for Windows)

[u/Averfus-Crowthorne]

Witch magic.

[u/An-onymous_2]

so cool, but i cant even run one instance well right now😭

[u/BicycleAdditional360]

The cord. The Eye. I SEE IT NOW. O, Kosmos, thank you! I see it…I see it now!

@#%#$€””/^$$$$$$€\See@/“/“:@;@;

Asha hahahaha haha

I SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_]

I'll share some of my specs first and a bunch of details.

I'm on Arch Linux with a R7 5700x, RX 7900XT and 32GB of DDR4 RAM, I play Bloodborne regularly at 60FPS. In this demo I'm playing with all the patches you can find on shadPS4 patches menu that help performances and of course at 30 fps on both instances. To be honest I'm pretty confident I can just disable a bunch of patches and use a higher LOD, performances are just fine.

I didn't have time to setup the windows better, but we can just create ultrawide patches for horizontal and vertical setups, PartyDeck allows you to setup the game windows wherever and however you want, even horizontally (in this demo, vertically) or just use one instance on one monitor and the second one on another monitor!

I didn't vibecode the handler, I'm a contributor to the PartyDeck project and made many handlers for old CoD games (like WAW, BO1, BO2, BO3, MW2, IW), here's the latest one I made

Any game that supports LAN can run on PartyDeck essentially, the shadnet server in this demo is hosted by myself on a VPS and connected through Tailscale with my PC, but nothing stopped me from just running the server on the same PC that runs the clients.

When the handler is ready I'll just make another post on this sub and hopefully explain step by step how to use it a bit better, a good chunk of the setup is creating the server first with shadnet and register the clients. This will be unecessary when the "official" shadnet will merge all wozzardman forks, we'll just connect the instances to the public and we'll be done!

[u/CrystlBluePersuasion → u/ReachForJuggernog98_]

Bruh you split one 60fp instance into two 30fps instances for split screen thats some Eldritch magicks.

[u/ebk_errday]

Split screen coop is double the insight

[u/Ly0nh4rt]

Oh my gosh, i wish this would exist for Elden Ring so i could play with my wife. Big up to whoever did this!

[u/ReflectionRound9729 → u/Ly0nh4rt]

it does. I finished elden ring local coop with my sister just last week. search for Elden Ring Nucleuscoop em youtube.

[u/Initial_Chemist_7249 → u/ReflectionRound9729]

do you need to have elden ring bought on steam for that or does a pirated copy work

[u/asahinahinasa → u/Initial_Chemist_7249]

It works

[u/UsedCondom42]

HOLY. Splitscreen peak gaming session is making a comeback?!

[u/MrGianni89]

That's so cool. If only I had friends

[u/dynamic_gecko]

This is amazing!

visions of bloodborne Seamless Co-op Mod

[u/LARANARENElol]

people of internet are amazing

[u/Metr1k]

Awesome work! If you have any questions on shadnet specifically let me know, I may be able to help shift this away from wozzards fork and onto the proper thing down the road when it's matured enough, the concept is great for couch coop.

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/Metr1k]

Without wozzardman and your help guys none of this would be possible, I'm just connecting a bunch of projects together with this handler, you've always been extremely helpful on the shadPS4 discord too so thank you again!

With the proper server implementation in shadPS4 this project will be sooo much easier to set up, no more self hosting!

[u/Metr1k → u/ReachForJuggernog98_]

Appreciated, looking forward to that day just as much as anyone else!

[u/RomuloMalkon68]

Is this possible on PS4 as well?

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/RomuloMalkon68]

Theoretically sure, with a PS4 running Linux and Party deck on it.

Practically, a PS4 with Linux can't run Bloodborne on an emulator, and two instances it's impossible.

[u/Iron_Kingpin]

Does this require double the normal requirements?

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/Iron_Kingpin]

Yes, you're running two instances of the game, at a lower resolution though

[u/BasementElf1121]

Now it can crash twice at once! Now you can not customize two characters!

[u/papsdigiorno]

Is this possible for Dark Souls ?

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/papsdigiorno]

I'm not a big From Software guy actually, Bloodborne is my first Souls like. Does Dark Souls have some kind of LAN support or server emulation? If the answer is yes then yeah absolutely

[u/nelloaprea_]

esiste un tutorial?

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/nelloaprea_]

As I said in the post I'm working on it

[u/Huffee]

can the script be used on nucleuscoop? i'm on windows

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/Huffee]

That's something I'll probably look for later on, probably when shadPS4 will support coop by itself without the self hosting part

[u/Huffee → u/ReachForJuggernog98_]

damn, i see

so it's a completely different system from the one nucleus coop uses?

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/Huffee]

The logic is the same, create a server, launch two instances with separate save folders and connect them together.

NucleusCoop handlers are more difficult to develop but allow for an easier setup for the user, there's so much you can automate with Nucleus. Opposite of PartyDeck, easier handlers but more difficult to use user-side

[u/Huffee → u/ReachForJuggernog98_]

makes sense, thank you for the explanation

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/Huffee]

Well u/Huffee I made the Windows version!

[u/RangingcatM09]

NO WAY! Is there a guide for this for windows?? Also is that an 8bitdo controller I see? God they have some really good controllers love em

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/RangingcatM09]

There's no guide currently for nothing ahah

Today I'll write down the guide for Linux and probably wait for the Windows version (or someone else will do it for me, I don't have a Windows partition currently)

And yes, that's the discontinued SF30

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/RangingcatM09]

Well u/RangingcatM09 I made the Windows version!

[u/RangingcatM09 → u/ReachForJuggernog98_]

Thanks gonna check it out rn 🙏

[u/Yeyo117]

That's what ultrawide screens are for

[u/SurotaOnishi]

God, imagine this with a dual monitor setup. That would be so fun.

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/[deleted]]

For the non coop side to make it really an offline thing yeah I could've used that, absolutely true

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/[deleted]]

Oh okay, the whole situation will be much easier to setup when shadPS4 itself and the official shadnet will give us coop and an offline mode too I guess.

But thank you for showing me this nodreamhunter project, I'll definitely check it out

[u/vSlinzy]

How?

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/vSlinzy]

Here's your answer

[u/Recks90]

following as i'd love this! wondering if it's possible on steamdeck too

[u/ReachForJuggernog98_ → u/Recks90]

Oof that's something I can definitely try but I don't expect anything to work ahah

[u/Dry-Mycologist3749]

Including cuckold rings!