Help setting up splitscreen play?

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Tairetsu
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Help setting up splitscreen play?

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Hi! bit of a newie with this, I've been trying to find a way to play Doom on splitscreen with some friends and this source ports seemed like really the only possible way to do it with more than 2 players at the same time, but I've been having a bit of problem setting it up.

For one thing I can't figure out how to map joystick buttons to game actions other than movement, but more importantly, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to activate the splitscreen mode, if it's even possible in the newest version of the project, I'm not sure where I should write the "-splitscreen" command, clearly not on the command line, but the EDGE2.txt file doesn't seem to be it either, so I was hoping some of you guys could help me out with this :) thanks in advance.

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Re: Help setting up splitscreen play?

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Starting with "-splitscreen" in the command line should start a game with two-players -- you will need to start a normal game, then it should be in multiplayer mode =)

2.1.0 Test2 recently rectified this by having a functional Multiplayer menu in-game, to start a splitscreen game from...I will release it tomorrow, I promise =) ^^

In the meantime, using the command line parameter should work just fine!
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Re: Help setting up splitscreen play?

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I'm not really sure where that command should be tho :roll: If I try to type into the command line while ingame it doesn't recognize it as a command no matter how I spell it, and the only other ideas I had was to try and put it on the edge2.txt file or the config file, but neither of them seemed to do the trick either :(

Regardless, it's not an urgent matter, so I'll wait for the newer release to come out, no rush :)

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Just create a shortcut to the executable, and in the target path, which should look like:

"C:\blahblah\3DGE\3DGE.exe"

You would change it like this:

"C:\blahblah\3DGE\3DGE.exe" -splitscreen

Starting it from that shortcut will give the desired result ;)
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Re: Help setting up splitscreen play?

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Oh! danm it, I feel really dumb now :P It didn't even ocurred to me...it worked :) is there any way to put it up to 3 or more players? I imagine we can connect trough LAN and play with 2 people in each computer.

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