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)
- An obsrv account
Here is a tutorial video that goes over the setup process (for Windows). The memory cards mentioned above are linked in the description. Instead of patching the Japanese roms into English yourself, you can find them pre-patched on 💿Romance
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