How to tell which game is running? (from another program)

[yhk]

As title

Specifically, I want to use autohotkey to load another autohotkey script when a specific game is running.
I am ready to use window 10's API via DllCalls.

And how to tell where in the memory is the game running. Currently, I use a memory search for the gameID in memory when the script is loaded which is not efficient.

[Helios]

You can't really. The best you can do is pull the GameID.

[yhk]

Well, I have the "background" AHK script pulling the Dolphin process every few seconds.

Would it be possible to program (in further updates) a few fixed locations in the Dolphin process as pointers to the game ID and the memory location where the games is running from (for cheats implementations)?

Or at least show some info on the title bar, status bar or as some window's visible/hidden text? AHK can pull those info with ease relatively.

[JosJuice]

We do have an API for reading the emulated memory (and the game ID is in a fixed location in there), but it isn't supported on Windows right now.

[yhk]

Thanks for the info. Hope that will be supported in Windows eventually.

Showing the gameID or game title/iso name on the title bar/status bar should be easy across the platforms. Or so I think...

[JosJuice]

Yes, it wouldn't be hard to show that in the title bar. I don't know if people want to add it, though.

[Helios]

It would involve modifying every game we have a gameINI for to move the title to an actual entry instead a comment because I don't like the idea of making a hacky little parser to get the title out of the first line comment =/

This is also assuming that we ship gameini with every single game. I don't believe we do.

[JosJuice]

It would involve modifying every game we have a gameINI for to move the title to an actual entry instead a comment because I don't like the idea of making a hacky little parser to get the title out of the first line comment =/

This is also assuming that we ship gameini with every single game. I don't believe we do.

That's not necessary – we can read the title in the same way as the game list does. The titles in the game INIs aren't correct all the time anyway.

[Helios]

Oh right, I forgot about that