Steam Big Picture and Dolphin

[Lucario]

for example

Code:

explorer.exe "C:\ \Programs\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe"

edit: I just created shortcut for SSBB in Steam Library and it works

Code:

"C:\ \Programs\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe" /e "D:\Mirrors\Nintendo Wii\RSBE01_Super_Smash_Bros_Brawl\RSBE01.wbfs"

Explorer.exe don't seem to be required... I tend to use it for .wpl .LNK in command line.

[avey]

I just googled it yesterday. Here is a nice guide how to get your games to show up in your steam list and big picture making them starteable as well. http://www.hunterdavis.com/2011/12/18/pro-tip-add-your-wii-games-to-your-steam-list/

I dont know about his weird pathnames without the "\". I just copied my paths from the file explorer in windows and pasted them.

[Soopah]

Quote:Code:
"C:\ \Programs\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe" /e "D:\Mirrors\Nintendo Wii\RSBE01_Super_Smash_Bros_Brawl\RSBE01.wbfs"
Explorer.exe don't seem to be required... I tend to use it for .wpl in command line.

Ok It did'nt work because I have spaces in my folder... and I surely make a mistake because that work with space now... too much beer last night

[Garteal]

As said by the gentlemen before. You have several options of adding shortcuts to Steam which will launch Dolphin with arguments to run a game with it.
Just so you know, Steam doesn't allow for custom icons anywhere except the Grid view. Hopefully they'll allow us to customize the icons too in Big Picture Mode.

First, you can create a shortcut file in Windows, point it to Dolphin and add it to Steam.
The downside here is that it'll use the Dolphin icon.

Another way to do it, at a cost of quite some disk space depending on how many copies you make, is to make copies of the Dolphin exe, change its icon with Resource Hacker and save it as a (game title).exe file. Add that to Steam, right-click the just added game in steam and hit properties. There you can add the "/e gamepath" arguments to the target.
Again, the downside is that each Dolphin exe is around 12mb's large, which'll quickly eat up your space if you make 100's of copies.

The last and final method, which I use, is to code yourself a launcher which you'll use as a bridge.
I simply replace the icon of the .exe with one that represents the game and add that to Steam with the proper arguments etc.
The exe's are pretty small. Should be around 9kb clean and around 100~150kb with custom icons.

So right now my library looks like this. I have more games, but this is just to show this example.
By the way, whenever Steam updates, you'll lose them.

[Epic Vegas]

I have a question about creating the .bat files.

If Dolphin is installed in C:\ Program Files & games are in C:\Documents\Games my BAT should look like.


CD "C:\Program Files\Dolphin"
"C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe" /e "C:\Documents\Games\R-Racing Evolution Gamecube.gcz" /b

Correct?

[Shonumi]

If you're using absolute paths (fullpath names with the drive name in it) the cd/dir command isn't necessary:

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe" /e "C:\Documents\Games\R-Racing Evolution Gamecube.gcz" /b

But yes, that's how you do it if your games are in a different directory than the Dolphin executable. But do try to keep Dolphin out of Program Files, unless you're fond of getting permission read/write issues, or you constantly use an admin account.

[Soopah]

yes, and no, this will create a folder ./Users/ in your .bat directory. unless you have set a path for your NAND in dolphin

you can create a shortcut to your batch file and change "Start In" to dolphin directory
with creating a shortcut, you can change the icon.

[sc5mu93]

I did something similar in Ubuntu, however, when launching from Steam specifically, Big Picture, I get HORRIBLE performance. A game that previously ran fullspeed is now a slide show. Launching from the non-big picture mode steam interface is not affected and games run fullspeed without issue.

Can anyone confirm if this Big Picture issue affects Windows also? Or is this isolated to 1) Linux or 2) me?

[BONKERS]

Just so you know. The Grid icons ARE what is used for Icons in Big Picture mode. Add a custom grid icon @ 460x215 and then test to see it.

It's a thing of beauty.

You can find many grids here
http://steambanners.booru.org/index.php

[sc5mu93]

(01-17-2013, 03:41 AM)sc5mu93 Wrote: I did something similar in Ubuntu, however, when launching from Steam specifically, Big Picture, I get HORRIBLE performance. A game that previously ran fullspeed is now a slide show. Launching from the non-big picture mode steam interface is not affected and games run fullspeed without issue.

Can anyone confirm if this Big Picture issue affects Windows also? Or is this isolated to 1) Linux or 2) me?

I picked up the AMD Catalyst Binary blob 13.1, which broke Big Picture. But the steam pushed an update to me last night, and now Big Picture works inconjunction with dolphin nicely (fullspeed). Sweet.