PC games in Dragon King

[Teknique]

Hi all,

Im trying to figure out how I can set up a 'PC games' directory inside DK so I am able to click to an executable from inside DK.  If anyone has a suggestion or a link to specific info on how to do it would be great!  I have searched the DK doc files already and think it has something to do with setting up the template.cfg file to do this... then incorporating it into my dirs.ini ?  Im really quite a noob at this type of thing though so any suggestions would be quite helpful!

Thanks

Marc

[Howard_Casto]

Step #1

Download izaram's dat maker from my website.  

Add add the paths to your pc games.

Set the extension to "exe", the Description to "PC Games", the  Emulator Name to "PC" and the filename "PC.dat"

When it's finished copy it to the list generator/dats folder...


Step #2

In the cfgs folder copy the template.cfg and rename it to "PC.cfg" Leave the emulator exe and path blank and set the extension to ".exe" Turn on send rom path and turn off send exit keys.  Ignore all other settings.

Step #3

Open up the dirs.ini in root folder and add all of the paths to your pc games in the roms entry, with a ";" dividing each entry.  For example:

roms=g:\roms\mame\;e:\halo\;e:\doom3\

Optionally you can do the same thing for the aw directories.

Step #4

Below that in the startvd section add a virtual path that looks like this:

[path]
logo=
caption=PC Games
useclones=0
searchstrings:5=PC
filters:
[/path]


Step #5

Fire up dk and select "Generate Gamelist" in the cfg menu.  Go to the bathroom or something and when you come back your pc games should show up in a list by themselves.


Btw since you are a super newb and this particular setup is a little tricky I held your hand a little.  The true answer is to read the online docs, particularly the adding to the masterlist and adding emus section.  


Btw the naming of the stuff I used isn't rigid or anything, it's just the names of related files have to match so I just gave you some to avoid confusion.  

If the games don't launch properly let me know, I haven't tested pc support in sometime and it may be broken.  It's easily fixed though.  The games WILL at least show up though if you follow the instructions I gave you.  

Hope that helps,

HAC

[Teknique]

thanks Howard!

I appreciate the in-depth guide.  I guess I knew the general theory I needed, but as in chess, I just couldn't make the logical jumps one needs to get to the end result.

Great FE btw.  Quite effortless to set up (to this point)

Thanks again

MC

[Teknique]

Ok Howard, got the game to show up in the list but as you suggested might happen, golden tee (pc) did not want to execute from the FE.

Id be quite appreciative if ya had that fix for me

(edit)

My  Laz.log says the following:

 gtgolf -keyx 16

if this helps at all.

(edit)

Thanks

MC

[Howard_Casto]

You didn't read my instructions.... look at step #2.... by the output your getting send rom paths is turned off (should be on)  and send exit keys is on (should be off)

[Teknique]

Looking at my PC.cfg, I foolishly gave a direct path to golden tee instead of leaving it blank as you said to do.  That was my first snafu.  
Ok cleared that up, looks like everything SHOULD be working fine, the log even points directly to the path that the game is at:

From Log...

 C:\progra~1\golden~1\gtgolf.exe

However it still does not execute, just kinda hangs a second then returns control of the FE back to me.


What else did I miss?  :p

MC

[Howard_Casto]

like i said....  the pc launch code may be broken... i'll have to look into it.  sorry


in the meantime, try making the emulator "start"  with no.exe on the end.... that might do it

[Teknique]

No problem at least I understand how to do it.  Thanks again for the assist and  I'll keep up-to-date on the Dk site.

MC



   

[Howard_Casto]

Thank you for you patience.... I reworked the launch code this morning specifically for pc games.  From now on if you leave the emulator exe name blank the fe will automatically set the working directory to the "rom" and simply try to execute the rom instead of a exe.  

So you modfiy your setup slightly... turn off send rom path.  

I'll post a new exe within the week.  


thank you for giving me feedback, it really helps to fix bugs.  

[Teknique]

Great!  thanks for the heads up- I plan on utilizing most functionality in DK so you will probably hear from me again!

Thx,
MC