Splitscreen hack

[BozoDel]

http://youtu.be/owBfU44NuGI

Don't get too excited, though, it has lots of issues. I'll post details and instructions tomorrow. The video came out a bit dark, and got even darker after the upload, I hope it's not a big problem.

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Update:

So, here's the deal. I managed to make this hack work around a year ago, back when I was making some splitscreen gameplay videos. So I intended to make a decent, longer video, with friends and shit, but I got involved in other things and forgot about it. But I really had to share this with you guys.

The tutorial was made in October, 2013, but a few things have changed since then, so instead of carefully rewriting the whole thing, I'll just write comments in italics. Since it's too big to fit in a single post, I'm putting it up in my Dropbox (notice that I use a free account, with daily bandwidth limits). I hereby declare it to the public domain, so you may use it as you please.




Edit: crap, looks like my video got reported as spam. Will look into it. Fixed (I hope). There, after having my video blocked again and being ignored by a dev, I just went back to youtube.

[LysleShields]

This sounds very interesting.  Would like to see that video.  YouTube?

[BozoDel]

Nah, I moved away from youtube, don't like it. Tune still has bugs, but it's improving. I think my video was automatically reported as spam (it had 0 views), maybe cause I didn't write a description, maybe I put too many tags.

Anyway, I reuploaded it and replaced the link. Since I was at it, I tried to brighten the video a little bit, but it was too little, I guess.

[LysleShields]

Thanks for uploading the video.  It's cool seeing four screens going.  But I was even more intrigued by the use of the four controllers. What type of work did you do to make the hack?

[BozoDel]

it's all detailed in the tutorial, but basically it's accomplished by using leanstick and xdotool (those are Linux tools, but there should be Windows equivalents). leanstick is able to execute a command whenever a gamepad key is pushed, so I use it to execute xdotool, which in its turn can send keypresses to individual windows.

[LysleShields]

Cool.  That's certainly simple enough and a good way to do it.

[BozoDel]

The video is on youtube now.

[LysleShields]

I'm confused.  Is this the same video as before (see top of thread).

[BozoDel]

Yes, the very same. I was having trouble with tune.pk, so I uploaded it to youtube and changed the link in the first post. Sorry it took so long.