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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: wboy on October 07, 2004, 09:29:37 am

Title: GameLauncher config for those who may benefit using batch files to launch games!
Post by: wboy on October 07, 2004, 09:29:37 am

For those you that struggle to configure GameLauncher 0.9.8, the following download may be of interest.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~wboy/byoac/generic.zip (http://members.iinet.net.au/~wboy/byoac/generic.zip) 3kb

The zip file contains a "generic" config (.cfg, .map & .rom file) that I made to allow you to use independant batch files to launch the selected emulator/game.

This effectively allows you to use one menu/config to launch to an unlimited number of emulators, PC games or anything else you can script with a batch file (e.g. shutdown the PC).

Simply download the attached zip and extract the contents into your current glaunch directory.

It will create a "generic" subdirectory containing a few sample batch files, and also extract the generic.cfg, .map & .rom file into your existing "config" subdirectory.

Edit your glaunch.cfg to include the generic config within the "emulators =" setting
e.g. emulators = generic

Also take a look at the config\generic.cfg file for more comments within.

The config simply uses the batch file command CALL (another batch file and return - in this case glaunch's runit.bat call the specified batch script) as the "executable".  e.g. executable = call

The config works regardless of the directory path glaunch exists on your PC, as the directory is configured as "c:.\generic", pointing to the recently extracted "generic" subdirectory under your current/a.k.a. glaunch directory.  Obviously you need to change this if the glaunch directory does not reside on C:

Have quickly tested this on XP, Win98 and DOS all appears to work as expected and without a flaw!