[Feature Request] Splitscreen multiplayer tool about agora HOT 5 OPEN

Here is a list of games supported by Lutris:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nucleuscoop/comments/fjdqid/list_of_new_supported_games_and_faq/

With so many supported games and strong community support, choosing Nucleus Coop over an original implementation for Lutris might be a good idea. One could also develop a compatible solution instead.

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+1

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It may be possible to achieve such a thing with containers. Valve is also working in that direction and we do have the Asgard project that can run old Loki games in Docker.
I'm going to move this to Agora for now because I don't think this is something that would be implemented in the client.
Actually, if someone wants to play around with Asgard and see if it's possible to have a proof of concept on an old Linux game, that would be a huge step in the right direction.

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Another way might be to use firejail. Excerpt from its man-page:

   --private-home=file,directory
        Build a new user home in a temporary filesystem,  and  copy  the
        files and directories in the list in the new home. All modifica‐
        tions are discarded when the sandbox is closed.

         Example:
         $ firejail --private-home=.mozilla firefox

I think that a lot of configuration specific to each game would be required for things such as proper window size, resolution and aspect ratio as well as controller support, if desired. How these things can be configured depends on the game, some require ini edits while others work with command line arguments and there are some where resizing the windows is enough so they adjust resolution and aspect ratio automatically.

This is why I suggested to make a solution that is compatible with NucleusCoop scripts, to benefit from all the work the community has already done.

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I have plans for a project that would allow such things like local splitscreen multiplayer.
It's still a draft and there is no proof of concept at the moment but I am thinking about possible solutions.

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