I just wanted to discuss the possibility of a new unique idea to more immerse the players in the sense that they are, infact, playing a pc game, not an emulator. I myself have an odd setup. I like all my Wii/gamecube games to acct as their own individual program. So I'll for instance, make a folder called "Super Smash. Bros Brawl", and I'll put the emulator in it with the iso. That emualtor is not used for any other game except smash bros. So essentially I have a bunch of Dolphin emulators in my game folders(one for each game). This also makes it easy when it comes to games that require different settings for compatibility, I don't have to change the settings back and forth. I use steam for all my games, and while I know its possible to use a batch file to launch dolphin directly into a game, and I hate having to launch the emulator, then launch the game(its like origin and uplay all over again ;P) It would be nice to have an option for each dolphin emulator to automatically launch into an Iso, without ever seeing the window(without the use of batch files). There should be a launcher exe, and in the regular dolphin client, configure the options for the game launcher. such as using fullscreen, and which iso to launch. It seems like it would be easy enough for the devs to do(but I should ask, and not just assume) so devs, what do you think? would this be in the realm of something youd be interested in doing? A way to individually launch games without ever touching the dolphin client?
Poll: Would you like a launcher exe to launch directly into games, without ever seeing the dolphin client? You do not have permission to vote in this poll. |
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Simplified Dolphin/Individual game launching.
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12-20-2013, 12:00 PM
Actually, some games supported by Dolphin bring the settings they need to work correctly (the corresponding game INI sets the configs automatically so you don´t have to touch them).
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12-20-2013, 12:08 PM
yea, but that is a minor reason why I would like this method...its just simplifying the process of llaunching games through things like steam...I dont want to launch dolphin through steam, THEN launch the game, I just want to launch from steam straight into the game.
(12-20-2013, 12:00 PM)DJBarry004 Wrote: Actually, some games supported by Dolphin bring the settings they need to work correctly (the corresponding game INI sets the configs automatically so you don´t have to touch them). 12-20-2013, 12:39 PM
Winchester7314 Wrote:It would be nice to have an option for each dolphin emulator to automatically launch into an Iso, without ever seeing the window(without the use of batch files). It's possible to easily do this in other non-Windows OSes. Most desktop environments in Linux will let menus (or icons themselves) directly execute commands without relying on scripts. So, in something like KDE, I can make an icon in Kickoff that will launch Dolphin with a specific game file, and all I have to do is click on the icon to go. If you can deal with having batch files on Windows, you can make a standard Windows shortcut to the batch file and then change the shortcut's icon. The idea behind your launcher.exe is actually pretty niche. A combination of the GUI or CLI usually addresses the bulk of Dolphin usage cases. Not a dev, nor can I speak for them, but I don't think something like that is on their radar. 12-20-2013, 02:29 PM
(12-20-2013, 12:39 PM)Shonumi Wrote: Most desktop environments in Linux will let menus (or icons themselves) directly execute commands without relying on scripts. So, in something like KDE, I can make an icon in Kickoff that will launch Dolphin with a specific game file, and all I have to do is click on the icon to go.you can do this with standard windows shortcuts 12-20-2013, 02:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-20-2013, 02:34 PM by Winchester7314.)
(12-20-2013, 02:29 PM)LPFaint99 Wrote:the problem is my basic purpose in this is for steam...there are several variables that go into my needs. I know you can do some of this with steam shortcuts, but the problem is, lets say for instance my hdd is dying and i need to change the games location, the second i do, i have to redo the entire shortcut method, for ALL the games i have in emulator form. This can get tiresome when you have almost 80 emulator games. I want a simplified way where i can literally just add the exe into steams library and be done with it. without having to launch the game from dolphins client either.(12-20-2013, 12:39 PM)Shonumi Wrote: Most desktop environments in Linux will let menus (or icons themselves) directly execute commands without relying on scripts. So, in something like KDE, I can make an icon in Kickoff that will launch Dolphin with a specific game file, and all I have to do is click on the icon to go.you can do this with standard windows shortcuts I guess really the simplest way would be to have an option to automatically load a specific iso image from the base folder of the emulator at startup. 12-20-2013, 02:39 PM
It sounds like you really don't want something that betters Dolphin as much as something that betters your specific situation. That's not abnormal, but don't expect developers to go out of your way for that. If you really want it done, the emulator is open source, and doing something like this shouldn't be all that hard.
12-20-2013, 02:42 PM
(12-20-2013, 02:39 PM)JMC47 Wrote: It sounds like you really don't want something that betters Dolphin as much as something that betters your specific situation. That's not abnormal, but don't expect developers to go out of your way for that. If you really want it done, the emulator is open source, and doing something like this shouldn't be all that hard.like i said before, I think it would be easy, but that is why i questioned it in my op. Im sure though there ar lots of emulator users who would love having each individual game setup to lanch quick and easy straight through steam, along with the rest of their pc games. But thats just wishfull thinking. LPFaint99 Wrote:you can do this with standard windows shortcuts I always thought you had to make the shortcut point to a file or folder? The only way I know that you can get a shortcut to execute CLI stuff is if that shortcut points to a batch file (which the OP wants to avoid?) The point was I didn't think you could do that in Windows without relying on batch files. Do tell if you know of a way that bypasses batch files. @Winchester7314 - How does Steam launch applications? XBMC, for example, accepts commands and does exactly what you want Steam to do (e.g. you put in something like "path\to\dolphin-emu.exe \e path\to\game", and it will launch Dolphin as if you'd entered in that bit into the CLI, but from a slick, unified interface). If you can do that with Steam, you shouldn't have any trouble running individual games in Steam. I'm fairly certain other users have done as much with Dolphin and Steam already (search the forums for threads). 12-20-2013, 03:11 PM
(12-20-2013, 03:05 PM)Shonumi Wrote:Yes thats how steam works, and yes I can launch individual games, I guess the main problem is it would be nice if dolphin itself could launch a set game automatically. Im trying to go directly from the steam shortcut to the game not steam shortcut-dolphin-game' Wrote:you can do this with standard windows shortcuts |
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