Couchlink 0.1.8 (alpha)

Couchlink 0.1.8: one controller no longer steers every copy.

Already on 0.1.4 or newer? Update from inside the app: the Update button next to the version, or Settings, General, Updates.

Windows: Couchlink-0.1.8-windows-x64.zip below. Unzip it anywhere and run couchlink.exe. Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit.

Linux (alpha): Couchlink-0.1.8-linux-x64.tar.gz below. Unpack it and run ./couchlink. Nothing changes on Linux in this version.

Fixed in 0.1.8

• Windows: with one player on a controller and another on keyboard and mouse, the controller moved both players in some games. Those games read controllers through Windows.Gaming.Input, which lists every controller on the PC. Each copy now gets only its own controller there too: Couchlink switches Windows.Gaming.Input and GameInput off in the copies, and the game falls back to XInput, where each copy already sees only its player's controller.
• If a controller still reaches two copies, turn off Steam Input for the game: in Steam, the game's Properties, Controller, "Disable Steam Input".

Good to know

• This is an alpha. Tell us how your games run on the Co-op Anything Discord; Settings, General, Logs has "Save full report" for when something breaks.
• Couchlink works with any installed copy of a game.
• A macOS build is in the works.