Playing Cuphead with Friends Locally Using Keyboards - A Solution?

Are you and your friend eager to play Cuphead together, but frustrated by the limitations of remote play when using keyboards? You're not alone! Many players have encountered this issue, where both keyboards input become shared when one player activates remote play. This problem can be particularly annoying when trying to play as different characters or achieve specific objectives.

To overcome this challenge, we need to find a way to allow Cuphead to recognize each keyboard as an external piece of hardware connected to the console. While there are workarounds available for some games, Cuphead seems to require a more straightforward solution. One possible approach is to implement a 'Use keyboard as controller' option that would enable us to register one or more local keyboards as different controllers for the game.

Unfortunately, I've tried using the '-multikeyboard' command in the game's 'Set Launch Options,' but it didn't work. This leaves us waiting for an update that addresses this issue. Ideally, we'd like Cuphead to be able to register the guest player's keyboard and mouse as their own instead of mine, or provide a more straightforward solution.

So, how can you and your friend both use your own keyboards respectively as player 1 and player 2 in games? For now, it seems that remote play requires at least one of the two players to use a controller instead of a keyboard. This limitation prevents us from playing together without compromising our gaming experience.

In summary, while there are potential workarounds for this issue, Cuphead's current limitations make it challenging for friends to play together using their own keyboards. We can only hope that future updates will address this problem and provide a more seamless gaming experience for keyboard enthusiasts.

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