/vr/, my friends and I love the original version of Worms. When we all lived in the same town, we'd play the Sega Saturn version for hours at a time, and now we very much want to find a way to play that version online. It seems this version of Worms was released on the PS1, Saturn, and DOS, and which version we use does not matter to me. Unfortunately, none have online multiplayer support, so what would be the best way to go about this?

I've looked into online multiplayer support for PS1 and Saturn emulators, but none of them seem reliable. We've tried Retroarch but could never establish a connection. Another issue is that both versions do not support multiple controllers - everyone controls the game through controller 1, which I wouldn't know how to accommodate in an emulator. Is there a simple solution here I'm overlooking? Linux support would be preferable but not required.

If we can't find a suitable emulator, we were thinking of using a central server (or one of our computers) which would run the emulator or DOSBox and stream the footage to Twitch, while everyone would have a connection to the server allowing them to deliver input. Is there a way to do this? I'm most familiar with Ubuntu servers, but I'd be willing to learn a new system if something else would work better for this.

Are there any other ideas to make this work I haven't thought of?