EGM Top 200 Games (incubus158's project)

[incubus158]

I recently was reading my February EGM magazine and it game me a cool idea for a gameex emulator entry. I always enjoy coming up with new "filters" or "queries" in gameex and I made this up so everyone can set it up on their machines too.

I basically created two hundred autohotkey scripts and a gameex map file that will run the top 200 games of all time.

In order to set it up, first define the system emulator you wnt to use inside the individual text files (IE Change !nintendo_exe.txt and !nintendo_roms.txt with where yours are located). Once that is done, you should click

on the "!1Run Me after checking all the emulator paths (verifies All Roms).ahk". This will read into your rom configuration and will verify whether or not the game will run when the EXE is called. This is very helpful to the success of this project and makes everyones life a lot easier. If you find that a rom is missing (which you probably will especially in the PSX), you can either:

-Edit the original AHK file with your new name and recompile. (You will have to rename it to the way I did with underscores and a 4 digit number)

-You can simply make a copy of the game and rename it to what the program wants it to be (in GOOD format)

This project took me about a week to do (COMPLETE WITH RENAMED SCREENSHOTS) and I was able to have such a quick turn around by creating AHK scripts that basically create other AHK scripts and also append code to the verify roms AHK. If you want to create your own favorites list compilation, you can use this methodology too.

I realize that I could have simply made a favorites list, but wheres the fun in that? I dont even think that is distributable?

Hopefully this inspires others to post their projects on gameex and not just gameex.ini configs. I cant wait for nights project to come out (Of which I am assisting in too)!

Also keep other project ideas alive by posting regularly. Here I have uploaded screenshots to all game manuals to accompany the PDFs Having sweet organized gameex projects just make our systems that much more pimp! (HMM, NOW ONLY IF THESE MESSAGE BOARDS WERE SETUP IN A HIERARCHY COULD I EASILY FIND ALL GAMEEX SUPPORTING PROJECTS... TOM CAN WE EVER GET THIS?)

I have another huge project involving DOS games that I will unveil soon with full configurations and full screenshots of two thousand DOS games.

More to come!

HERE IT IS!!!

Please let me know of any successes or failures. Like Tom, all I want is a few people to use it and a couple of thank you's or something if you like the setup.

Example INI:

Enabled=True
STARTPAGENAME=EGM Top 200 Games of Their Time
TITLETEXT=Top 200
StartPageLogo=!egm-top200
ROMFilter=
RomsInFolders=True
RomPath=E:\Games\[Greatest Games Of All Time]
SnapPath=E:\Games\[Greatest Games Of All Time]\snap
WorkingPath=E:\Games\[Greatest Games Of All Time]\
MapKeys=
WaitBeforeKeys=
SendKeys=
ReplaceDash=True
ReplaceUnder=True
Capitals=True
RemoveBrackets=False
ShowDesktop=True
Debug=False
MAPFile=E:\Games\[Greatest Games Of All Time]\!1greatest_games.map
AlsoLaunch=
Command=[RomFile]
OLDatZip=
TitlePath=
BoxPath=
LaunchBefore=
LaunchAfter=
CartPath=

PS - You will notice that I didnt/wasnt able to create the entire list to its integrity because of some systems that are unemulated. So I just inserted some of my favorite games. :-D

Edit:

Another note, please bear in mind that I use Process.exe to kill the emulator whne ESCAPE is pressed. Since gameex is tracking the EXE that runs the game. I never made it configurable to kill specific emulators. I hard coded it.

Here are the emulators that will be killed:

Nestopia.exe - NES

Project64.exe - N64

Stella.exe - Atari

ePSXe.exe - PSX

zsnesw.exe - SNES

gens.exe -Genesis

VisualBoyAdvance.exe - GBA, GB and GBC