Hosting

Soda Arcade

When you start Smash Soda for the first time, you will be asked to provide your login details for Soda Arcade. This is a new service by me that replaces Parsec's discontinued Arcade, but it's completely optional (you will then have to share your Parsec share link manually with people). You will not be able to set your room as Public Room until you have logged in to Soda Arcade.

You can create an account here, it's free and painless! https://soda-arcade.com/register

Settings

In the Hosting widget you can customize your room settings.

If hosting on Soda Arcade, the Game Name is required, otherwise you can leave this blank.

If hosting publically on Soda Arcade, you have 2 additional fields, Details and Poster Theme. Details is a small description displayed when somebody clicks your room listing. Poster Theme allows you to change the theme of how your room listing looks (which are modelled to look like posters).

Share Link is a link you can give to users over Discord or whatever, that will automatically connect them to your room if they have Parsec installed.

Guest Limit is the maximum number of users permitted to join your room.

Public Room will post your room to Soda Arcade when enabled.

Latency Limiter will automatically kick users whose latency exceeds the set value.

Hotseat: See https://github.com/MickeyUK/smash-soda/wiki/Hotseat

Kiosk Mode See https://github.com/MickeyUK/smash-soda/wiki/Kiosk-Mode

Overlay: See https://github.com/MickeyUK/smash-soda/wiki/Overlay

Hosting

To begin hosting, just click the big play button, and to stop hosting, click the big square button. Whilst your room is live you can change your room settings, and then click Update Settings to update your room details on both Parsec and Soda Arcade.