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Author Topic: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!  (Read 15583 times)

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Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« on: February 06, 2007, 12:19:17 am »
hey guys I already got the no cd crack for HOTD3. But it won't let me launch the game from the exe it makes me launch from an annoying launcher!  Anyone know is there something in the registry that I can change to let me play this game without going through the launcher each time.  I have it running from mamewah.  Both HOTD2 and HOTD3 get ran from there PC shortcut, but it is dumb to have to use mouse/trackball to click on play game to get the game to run.

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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2007, 12:39:18 pm »
Your running the exe hod3launch.exe from the games root dir You need to run  C:\hod3\exe\hod3pc.exe

I use gameex for my FE but it shouldnt matter, if you run ths file it skips the launcher screen
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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2007, 01:08:27 pm »
I tried that a couple of times last night, but it said the game must be run from the launcher?  How did you get yours to run from the hod3pc.exe?

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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2007, 02:45:16 pm »
Did you get it to just load the game when you doubleclick on hod3pc.exe.  Mine does not do this.  Maybe I need to look for another nocd crack that would also get rid of the must be ran from the game launcher message?  Any help?

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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2007, 06:18:40 pm »
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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2007, 10:09:35 pm »
perhaps there is a line you can change in the exec?  not sure about the exact thing to do but i read about something similar for quake 4.  the games fun though just wish i had a gun for it.  if i can dig out my copy ill give it a try.
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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2007, 11:40:57 pm »
I hate to say it but you should have really searched the forum for the issue.  I had this issue come and go with a resolution not even a week ago...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=34956.0

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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2007, 11:52:56 pm »
You said it takes a while to load the firs time around.  Is that a one time thing, or the first time you load it does it just take long to load.  Also after I make the ahk file, do I make it into an exe file, then make a shortcut to the exe.  Because MAMEwah will do lnk shortcuts to get PC Games to roll.

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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2007, 12:38:23 am »
Yeah for me it seems the first time I run it after any PC startup it takes a few seconds to load and then its good.  After that point any opening of it is as smooth as silk...

And yes... create a shortcut link to the ahk-exe.  I've also heard of people skipping the exe altogether and just linking to the ahk, but that's just how I did it..

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Re: Just got House of the Dead 3 for PC, but the launcher blows!
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2007, 06:16:13 pm »
Thanks man made the ahk before I went into work.  I will convert it to a exe tonight and all will be good.