Comment on RomM (self-hosting emulation) releasing a significant update - 4.2
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Sounds like something that wouldn’t be too hard to do, given that Plex (and others like it) exists. The difference is, Plex is streaming.
So with a good network, you can just send the game and do the emulation client side, and sync the save and other data back to the server. With a powerful enough host, you can handle the emulation on the host machine and just stream the video, with the client streaming the controls back, but this wouldn’t be good for a lot of games (too much latency). Same issue as GeForce NOW. Good if you’re near their CDN; otherwise, useless.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Look into Moonlight… or GeForce Now (and Google Stadia for the five minutes before Google realized it was a good product and killed it). Game steraming is more than solved.
And, in hindsight, it really makes a lot of sense. The vast majority of the cost is video streaming and… youtube and twitch exist. All that is left is sending what amounts to text back and forth since controller inputs aren’t actually that complex.