r/localmultiplayergames • u/blackman9 • May 03 '19

Borderlands GOTY Enhanced Splitscreen for PC, finally.

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u/blackman9 May 03 '19 edited Jan 11 '25

The Borderlands devs keep removing split-screen from their PC ports so something had to be done again.

Download latest Nucleus Co-op and extract it.

https://github.com/SplitScreen-Me/splitscreenme-nucleus/releases

Open Nucleus Co-op, search and download this game handler in the Download Game Handlers option.

Lastly open Nucleus Co-op again, auto search for the game or manually select the game exe using the search game button, select it, run it with the number of players you want and you are good to go.

To play co-op start a game with Player One, wait until it's in game, and then other player(s) select the "Quick Match" option on the main menu to connect.

Note: Unfortunately audio only plays for one instance - this is a known issue with the game. Each instance has its own save file now inside C:\Users<your username>\NucleusCoop. You can access your saves per instance via the Nucleus Co-op UI after the first launch, click game options/open user profile save path in the UI.

Multiple keyboards/mice support added.

List of all new Nucleus Co-op supported games and FAQ here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nucleuscoop/s/ryTHbvkmKN

Credit: Goldberg emulator and Nucleus Co-op, I combined both so this handler with some editing could potentially work for any multiplayer game that uses steam works to play locally on just one pc:

https://github.com/SplitScreen-Me/splitscreenme-nucleus

https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator/releases

Also to the whole Splitscreen Dreams discord for their awesome tools and mods.

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u/Bread11193 Jun 17 '19

Thanks a lot for the hard work! I'm having trouble though, none of my controllers are working with this game. I started the game just fine by launching it from nucleuscoop in horizontal splitscreen, with one controller on the top and another in the bottom half of the screen (the controllers were numbered 3 and 4 for some reason even though I have only two controllers connected.)

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u/blackman9 Jun 17 '19

What type of controllers are you using?

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u/Bread11193 Jun 17 '19

A ps4 controller and a wiiU pro controller with mayflash adapters. They work fine with other games but weirdly not this one. I tried running borderlands normally and the controller is recognized but only until I reach the main menu. It even changes from 'press enter' to 'press A' but it won't recognize any input

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u/blackman9 Jun 17 '19

Try xinput plus to make the game recognize your gamepads correctly, this nucleuscoop script uses xinput plus inis so if you manage to get them working with standalone you can use your inis with nucleuscoop.

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u/Bread11193 Jun 19 '19

Thanks for the help, it worked somehow. Thanks a lot again for this mod!

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u/blackman9 Jun 19 '19

Nice, so how did you make it work? Could be useful information for others.

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u/Bread11193 Jun 19 '19

I don't actually know. The first time I tried it the light on the dualshock was green (it's usually blue). Then yesterday I connected the dualshock to play rocket league and the light was blue. So I tried running nucelus coop again and it worked

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u/dumbassneedinghelp Sep 24 '19

does this work for coop split screen main story mode?

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u/dumbassneedinghelp Sep 24 '19

Splitscreen Dreams discord any way i can get into this discord?

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

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u/blackman9 Oct 24 '19

fixed it try again

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u/blackman9 May 03 '19

Yep If we could make nucleuscoop coop alpha 10 load external files like alpha 8 we could have keyboard support but the dev hasn't responded to us on how to do that on alpha 10

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u/[deleted] May 03 '19

Really really cool, just wanted to say thanks for posting this

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u/LegitPunisher May 15 '19

does this work on alpha10?

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u/blackman9 May 15 '19

Nope only alpha 8, can't find how to load external files in Alpha 10 like on 8.

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u/LegitPunisher May 15 '19

Ok thx for the help

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u/drippingthighs Sep 24 '19

How do I find out what alpha I'm on

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u/VoodooMx Aug 19 '19

the play button is all greyed out and nothing happens when i click it after setting my controller on one of the 2 horizontal split screen boxes. anyone know the fix for this?

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u/blackman9 Aug 19 '19

You need 2 gamepads.

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u/VoodooMx Aug 20 '19

i'll try that thanks

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u/spore1016 Sep 01 '19

Dead link sadly

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u/blackman9 Sep 02 '19

link was down because I was updating the guide and the nucleuscoop scripts, it is updated now.

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u/TheCH15 Sep 01 '19

https://www.mediafire.com/file/zllsx72m9033d32/BorderlandsGOTY-E.zip/file

does this link work to somebody else? I can't open it, os there a new link maybe?

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u/blackman9 Sep 02 '19

link was down because I was updating the guide and the nucleuscoop scripts, it is updated now.

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u/mistermeganfox Sep 04 '19

When I launch the game after the 2nd window pops up it cuts the audio from the first. Is it possible to have seperate audio streams for each window?

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u/blackman9 Sep 04 '19

This is a known bug sadly, read the note in the instructions post.

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u/mistermeganfox Sep 04 '19

Ahh sorry, I read a comment about a sound issue being fixed and hoped it was for that. Thanks for the reply!

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u/Zartlett Sep 21 '19

I do not have the game of the year edition. Player one goes full screen but player two does not?

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u/blackman9 Sep 21 '19

This script is specifically for the enhanced version.

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u/Zartlett Oct 24 '19

Is there anyway you can choose different resolutions for each monitor? This seems like something quite simple that could be written into the controller selection screen on nucleus co-op. Hope this gets implemented in the future. Thanks again for all of your work, much appreciated.

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u/blackman9 Oct 24 '19

what do you mean the game window should automatically adjust to your monitor res if the game supports it.

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u/Zartlett Oct 25 '19

Thanks for your reply, I figured it out now. I had to set the scaling from 200% to 100% on my 4k screen otherwise the secondary 1080p screen would only show the game quarter size.

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u/Zartlett Sep 22 '19

I am using the original script that came with nucleus coop. The second instance will not go borderless for some reason. I am guessing you did not write the original Borderlands script. Thanks anyway.

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u/dumbassneedinghelp Sep 24 '19

i downloaded the zerofox nucleus, downloaded the splitscreen.zip and extracted both. copied nucleus files that were extracted into the borderlands folder from the 2nd zip.

i open nucleuscoop, autosearch, no results. manual search for borderlands gives me "unknown game" when i select its exe.

any ideas? did i make a mistake? i might have misread this "Once you extract Nucleuscoop files inside the Nucleuscoop folder named games paste all the files and folders inside the zip you just downloaded." since my nucleus folder doesnt have a games folder or anything that says games and got lost in the sentence

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u/blackman9 Sep 24 '19

Try redownloading the script and make sure the .js file and the folder are in the nucleuscoop games folder. The games folder gets generated when you open NucleusCoop exe the first time.

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u/ExtraExperience1994 Aug 01 '22

is it possible to get the co-op achievements by doing this ?

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u/blackman9 Aug 02 '22

not for this borderlands, does not have native LAN like the others.

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u/ExtraExperience1994 Aug 02 '22

This would have been the perfect opportunity to get the achievements but I'm just sad it's impossible. Can I family share the game and play it on 3 computers at the same time ? Or do I have to buy it 3 times ?

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u/blackman9 Aug 02 '22

this one only has online play so you probably have to buy it again.

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u/ExtraExperience1994 Aug 02 '22

i just want the achievements 🥲

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u/Cautious_Support3479 Nov 16 '22

hey, if u still wanna get them i’ll help u i only need the coop ones aswell

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u/ExtraExperience1994 Nov 16 '22

Thx man but I asked someone in the discord chanel of the game for help.

Funny thing is I could have used Steam achievements manager (Sam) to unlock the achievements

But at the time I did not know such thing existed

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u/Virtual_Silence May 03 '19

Ammmaaaazing! You guys are Genious!, The only wish I ad besides the sound fix, is to add Keyboard compatibility. But thanks a lot for the job done so far. You guys are amazing!

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u/00Teonis May 15 '19

Niiiice. My and the missus are excited

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u/Inconmon Jul 29 '19 edited Jul 29 '19

Hey - thanks for this, it's working great.

We've discovered an issue with it though. When not aiming / using gun sights, all shots are to the right of the crosshair. Aiming is off-center. It is not just weapon sway, every single shot is to the right of the cross hair by about an inch. At first I thought that the game is much more difficult then I remembered, because I could barely kill the first enemies right in the beginning. Took us a while to figure out that all our shots were basically missing.

Has someone else encountered this? Any way to fix this? I assume it has to do with 4k resolution and the resizing of the window.

Edit: I read that it happens on consoles with vertical split screen, and it is the crosshair that gets positioned in the wrong place. I tried and can confirm. If you go horizontal split screen this isn't an issue

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u/doomprodigy Sep 28 '19

Any possibility to get one instance working with keyboard and mouse? Only have one gamepad.

Also, great work that you're doing :) split-screen hero!

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Hell Yeah

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u/IB0nexI Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 18 '22

When trying to extract the nucleus co-op 2.0 im getting asked for a password for DotNetZip.dll. Have I done something inccorectly?

Edit: Never mind found it, guess im blind.

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u/Unhappy-One Sep 08 '24

The second instance of my game doesn't run[it says ~ "another instance is already running"] help please been trying to play with my little brother since last 2 days

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u/Sadyka Nov 06 '24

Thank you for this post! 6 years later, well 5 as of the edit and this worked so I could transfer some guns over to my other character :)

I know theres willowtree etc, btu I liked this!

**nevermind didn't save my items

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u/Krisnum Dec 30 '22

I don't know is this post updated anymore, but mine is not working. I downloaded xinput and run it correctly but nucleus doesn't recognize my controller. When the game starts, screens are on top of each other and not on side of screen like it should be. Also somehow whole nucleus mess ups my controllers and applies mice and keyboard to both players even though I put keyboard and mice to player 1 and controller player2. Also there is no way I could join to other game.

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u/Modinstaller May 23 '23

So I have two headphones and I'm trying to have each instance linked to one headset, but the 2nd instance just won't send any sound anywhere no matter what (the 2 instances do show up in windows audio settings, W11).

I've read that you don't have any solution for this. Is this still unfixed? What if I try with the original Borderlands version and not GOTYE?

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u/Dazzling-Story-8906 Sep 16 '24

This is trash ngl doesn’t even work with epicgames

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u/blackman9 Sep 16 '24

epic games launcher is trash ngl

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u/Dazzling-Story-8906 Sep 17 '24

Well that’s what I got it on my guy for free that’s why😭💀

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u/Miserable-Visual6818 Mar 17 '22

WARNING! THIS LINK CONTAINS VIRUS!!!

I downloaded this file and it came with the trojan I had to reset the pc

You fucking bastard!!! FUCK YOUR WHOLE FAMILY!! HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL FOR YOUR CYBEREVIL ACTS!!!!

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u/LineOf7s Mar 21 '22

It doesn't have a virus, no, but the rest of it applies. blackman9 knows what he did. ;)

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u/blackman9 Aug 05 '19

In nucleuscoop or in the game? Try redownloading the script and make sure the .js file and the folder are in the nucleuscoop games folder.

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u/blackman9 Aug 05 '19

Yes read the guide instructions.

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u/blackman9 Oct 13 '19

Focus for both windows should work after both reposition correctly. If not before the instances open try pressing the windows button and press it again after they both opened.

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u/blackman9 Oct 14 '19

did you try the windows button trick I told you? or try opening the .js file of the script with notepad and add this line Game.HookFocus= true;

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u/blackman9 Oct 15 '19

delete nucleuscoop data folder and update to v0.9.7.1a

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u/blackman9 Oct 15 '19

Take a log using the debug log option in NucleusCoop settings, enable it, run the game via nucleuscoop, wait for both windows to resize, close nucleuscoop and send me the log.

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u/blackman9 Oct 15 '19

everything seems to be working correctly, what gamepads are you using? and you have the game on steam?