Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Other emulators (like Project64 and DeSmuME) allow you to launch a game directly if you associate the game's file extension to the program EXE.

In layman's terms, I mean this (using DeSmuME as an example):

1) Double click on Game.NDS
2) Windows asks what program to open it with
3) You select "DeSmuME"
4) The game then starts up right away.
5) Now whenever you double-click a .NDS file, it'll load automatically.


This however doesn't work in Dolphin at all - it doesn't even load Dolphin properly! (most programs that this doesn't work with will at least open the program). This was tested with Dolphin r7590.

you can use dolphin via command line...
just write a batch

(assoziation a iso with dolphin is just.... nevermind)

And how many users nowadays know how to use command line?

(I myself know how, but due to its abstractness I can never remember commands since I'm very spacial-oriented, therefore I tend to stick with GUIs)


And ISO? Come on man, GCZ is where it's at.

good... if you had asked what a command line is... i would had answered: let me google that for you

it was a trolling trap
and you avoided it
http://lolpics.se/pics/1071.jpg

Haha, I actually grew up with DOS and Windows 3.1, but for the same reason I stuck with Windows rather than DOS. The only commands I seem to not ever forget are "dir" "cd" and "[driveletter]:", so I can at least navigate around and run programs... but that's it.

it's possible to do, but you'll have to read some posts

http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread...ssociation

http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread...9#pid32829

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/sou...ail?r=3760

reason for this is that dolphin depends on the cwd and by double clicking an iso you would (usually) not be in dolphins folder

So in order to associate files with Dolphin, you essentially have to disable portable mode?

That's strange, because other emulators like DeSmuME are completely portable, but don't have this issue...

yes as of the current svn code it is necessary to have a single file in %appdata%

changing the registry ( ie adding a file association ) breaks portability in the sense that you leave a trace of the program :p

I'll commit a better solution somewhat soon, no one ever complains about it so I never thought about it

EDIT: Commit as of r7593, try it out