How to enable netplay?

[Nailington]

Hello to the people here!

Me and a friend of mine saw that netplay was added (YAY), and so updated our version of EmulatorJS that we have. Upon updating we are unable to figure out how to turn on netplay; or if it is on, how to use it. I tried looking at the docs, but it hasn't been updated yet. I tried looking at your demo(s) and noticed only the netplay test game actually has it, and not the normal demo on the site, despite them being the same version. I even tried downloading the Mega Mountain game and uploading it to our version of the demo page with no luck, and then tried to add it as a "preloaded game" (where you click the blue Play Game button). Same outcome.

Is there anything we have to do to enable it on our end? Is there limitations on the systems and roms I can use with it? Thank you for any help!

[ethanaobrien]

There are 2 additional options you must set. The docs should be updated, you can view the netplay docs here - https://emulatorjs.org/docs4devs/Netplay.html let me know if you need any help. Thank you!

[ethanaobrien]

@Smevy the only thing required is nodejs. And just as https://emulatorjs.org/docs4devs/Netplay.html says, run npm install and then npm start

[Smevy]

I tried that but it seemed not to work when I cloned the respatory I typed npm install it it threw errors at me

[ethanaobrien]

It would be helpful if you provided those errors...

[Smevy]

I have it cloned already but after typing npm install I get these errors
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path C:\Users\Evanj/package.json
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Evanj\package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

all I know is that npm is not able to find a file if you need anymore I think I might beable to find a file
when I type npm run start same errors are given although I just found a package-lock.json in the directory
C:\Users\USERNAME\

[ethanaobrien]

You need to be in the same directory as the project.

[Smevy]

Thank you that fixed

[Smevy]

Wait actally when putting in the link for the javascript what link do I use or do I use the port