Amilcar

Obviously later i'll combine them into one , Thanks Again

Thanks RedDog. I've taken your advice and yes, it's the right one. I've created a link folder with shortcuts to the HOG and am using them uncompressed. I had a bit of problems with artwork but earlier you had mentioned keep the names all the same. That did the trick. All's working 100%. I've learn't a lot through all this.Thanks. Time to hang up my gloves , enjoy what I've got and stop fighting for what i don't have. Pics of the final. Now it's just a matter of adding on others. Thanks

Quite right. I should not have used the name ISO. I failed dismally to try to get the games working in ISO so i abandoned the idea.Apologies. I got all the games all working with all the artwork by creating a folder with links to different games and that works 100%. So that's a plus for me. Like most people i also like to have my games in a compressed zip format so i decided to try that. So my idea was unzip the files to E:\temp and then run my batch file startgame.bat in that directory run the exe file which is supposed to be at e:\temp I stand corrected but the internal zip program in Gameex has two files, 7z.dll and 7za.exe which i think don't have any links to the 7-zip program that resides at C:\Program Files\7-Zip. the files alway get extracted to c:\users\Joe\local\temp\unzipped7-zip. I have sent a few pics that might help. Thanks.

If you don't succeed try, and try, and try again. Did that but to no avail. So unless some on this forum can help out. I accept defeat on using virtualdrive. So my whole reason for running ISO is so not to have thousands of small files all over the drive. And yes, these HOG have thousands of files per game. This led me to approach another way of zipping the game and sacrificing a couple of seconds of decompressing. OK, all good but now i hit a snag. The built in 7z on gameex decompresses the zipped files to c:\users\joedoe\appdata\local\temp\unzipped7-zip. So when i set my path on emulator setup to that location, when i run gameex it tell me there's an error .Obviously because that path don't exist until we run the game. I need to execute the startgame.bat at a location that already exists. Anyway of changing 7z to decompress to a fixed directory, or anyway around this.Hope i made sense. Thanks

I've been trying to add a sleep command but examples on the net not really helpful. Could you please post an example. So far what I've managed is to get the game going but gameex returns to selection page while the game is still running in the background. Phew. will get there. Not related to this, but while searching for clues , i came across one of your articles on using a folder with links to execute different games. That works great with a straight forward games. Got a few GOG games not zipped or ISO so I've got that working. But maybe you can guide me on how to setup the artwork. I have absolutely no idea because artwork looks at the name of the .exe file . In this case i'm using links. tried mapping the link file. That don't work . I'm stuck. Any way round this. Thanks

Hi RedDog, thanks for all the time taken on this but i just can't seem to get the game to completely run on the f:drive I've managed to get gameex to load the ISO to the virtual drive:F but cannot execute the game because each one has a different file name. So what i did was create an ISO with an added file called startgame.bat which then executes the main game. It does work because once the files are on the virtual drive and i run the bat file, the game runs. so the bat file being: eg: start darkromance7-themonsterwithin.exe. Obviously i'll change the name according to the game name. I just need to know where from the emulator setup i can execute that bat file.If its possible then all should work. I've tried it on launch before, after but don't work. Is this a way forward or maybe not. Thanks.

Thank you. I will do what you suggested and post my outcome. If all fails i can still run them, but directly off directories unzipped and no ISO's . Just means thousands of files all over the drive. i'll give it a bash. Thank you

Sure. here is. Thanks log.txt

Thank you for the reply. I'm running Windows 10 version 1909. Daemon tools does not support mounting on Windows 10. So thank you for DTLOADER. I'm using GameExArcade. Once the iso is mounted to the f: drive, the game name to be run is an .exe file. eg: Dark Romance 7- The Monster Within Collectors Edition.exe. Here are the required files. Hope this can help you to help me. Thanks. GameEx.ini

Good Day, my first time at forums. If i'm in wrong place, please redirect me.Thanks. I have a few games in iso format. Using DTLOADER i managed to create a F: drive with the game now on that drive. So manualy a can run the exe and the game works off the f: drive (Virtual drive) The problem is a don't know how the to execute the exe file on the f: drive to make the game work using the command line. Please advise Thanks