Would it be possible to wrangle enough Hexbears together to get some Outbreak games going?
I've been playing Outbreak, the semi-forgotten online PS2 co-op Resident Evil spinoff with friends recently and I've had a great time, but it'd be fun to play the games with others as well, especially now that I have some idea of what I'm supposed to be doing.
They're free, have low requirements (pretty much any semi-decent computer made in the last decade should run PCSX2 just fine) and you won't need to worry about exposing your Steam/Xbox/PSN/Nintendo username as you'd just be using a free Outbreak fan server account + an ingame alias and the game allows you to set up 3 different aliases per account.
There'd be no need for voice chat either if you want to have the classic PS2 Outbreak experience and rely on the ingame ad-lib system
You'd need
PCSX2 (Windows, Linux, Mac), XBSX2, (On Xboxes with dev mode unlocked) a PS2 or a fat PS3
Patched Japanese roms of Outbreak File 1 and 2 (easy to find)
Memory card files with the required online settings files ( also easy to find)
I love that game, but unfortunately I only play PS2 on my handhelds these days, and I don’t think Aethersx2 supports multiplayer online. I hope you find a good crew though, make sure to take screenshots!
I think I saw someone mention somewhere that the Xbox port of PCSX2 works with online games including the Outbreak fan server, so maybe the Android version does too? 🤔
Edit: Looked into it and netplay was never implemented. It does indeed work on XBSX2 though, according to this post