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This refers to different game modes than regular local multiplayer. Some consoles and systems offered during their lifetime options to connect to the internet (or similar services) to play against other people online.

While [[Preservation_projects#Private_Platform_Servers|most of these servers went defunct]], some of them are (or were) still up and the <abbr title="see #Hardware features and peripherals of each dedicated console/system page">emulators were developed far enough to be able to interface with the actual official servers</abbr>. The others had [[Preservation_projects#Private_Platform_Servers|replacement servers]], that could host both real hardware players and PC emulator users. However in many cases emulator users were banned over cheating or concerns that emulation lag gave them unfair advantage (which is the case with Wiimfi's project, and some of its associated game mods that took it a step further to prevent the game from running on emulators).