Both commands will fail because the --exec argument takes what's in the quotes and looks for a file of that name. "H:\" is not a file; it's the root directory of your DVD drive. "H:\*.*" isn't a file either; the --exec command won't parse wildcards. Use the exact file path to the ISO file:
Code:
dolphin.exe --exec="H:\Some_Game_File.iso"
Just a random guess (my Windows knowledge is a bit rusty
) : try --exec=\\.\H:
(11-04-2012, 10:24 AM)delroth Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think we support playing directly on an optical media. You could try using a path like \\.\PhysicalDriveN (with N the number corresponding to your DVD drive), but that will most likely be slow and might not work at all.
Yo, like the OP said it is actually supported and from checking the source I can tell you that it's expected to work from the --exec parameter, too. The parameter should be a return value of GetLogicalDriveStrings (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364975%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ) H:\ should be fine, but apparently the escape sequences are necessary indeed.
Hi,
I've tried --exec="
\\.\H:", didn't work.
Will try --exec=
\\.\H:
But, you won't contredict me, that this isn't a common way to specify a reader.
All other emu have a command line switch to specify easily the cd rom to boot, that don't exists on dolphin.
Can a such switch be implemented in a future release of the emu?
Anyway, for the moment if --exec=
\\.\H: works, it's ok for me
Rgds,
(11-06-2012, 07:04 PM)anonyme-x22 Wrote: [ -> ]Hi,
I've tried --exec="\\.\H:", didn't work.
Will try --exec=\\.\H:
Again, I don't think either of those will work because
they're not ISO files, you're telling Dolphin to look at a directory. For all it knows, there could be multiple ISO files at that location, and it's not going to guess which one you want played. You have to give it the name of a specific file.
Hi,
Still no command line for dvd drive boot with real disc ?
Thanks in advance,
Rgds,
It should work if you write an ISO to a DVD (as a plain file that you can see in a file browser, not actually writing the image to the DVD).
As I stated over a year ago something like "H:\path_to_specific_file.iso" should work when using the --exec parameter. But you never mentioned if you even tried that.
ISO file will allow you to load game from DVD.
If you burned the ISO directly or using a retail disk that won't work