Hello, /vr/
Ever since this board's conception, I've been meaning to get you guys to play emulated through netplay with varying degrees of success. I'm glad to see that nowadays there are sporadic threads here and there, but most of them have been shortlived, and rarely have we gotten enough people to play 4-5 player games like Mario Party 2 or Super Bomberman 5. And what I've noticed is that people tend to rely on someone else who has their ports open, rather than learning how to open them themselves.
The purpose of this thread is for me to teach you how to do it, so that maybe someday netplay threads aren't actually just the same 2-3 guys talking to each other waiting for a random newcomer. Please bear in mind that there is no standardized way to do so, as every router has it's very own interface. But I'll try my best to answer each of your questions and guide you through it.
Feel free to join me (us?) over at #/vr/_Netplay in
http://www.rizon.net/chat for general questions, setting up a game with someone else or just to chat.
This wasn't written beforehand so bare with me while I slowly redact this.