PC Game ISO's

[Astronot]

Gameex is turning out to be one of the best pieces of software I've seen in a few years. Seriously, thanks for it!

Now, here's the challenge:

I have a kid's pc set up with 25 or so kids games. Most of the kids games are stored as iso's because they either don't actually install or they just install shortcuts. Currently, I have shortcuts for every game, but all the shortcuts do is mount the game image; auto-run takes care of the rest.

I think Gameex will be a perfect front-end to this pc to organize the kids' games and movies, etc and to limit the amount of damage they can cause to the OS.

My first thought was to make an emulator entry with all of the shortcuts, but most of the games' autorun starts a launcher, which may not work out very well.

What do you think would be the best way? A separate entry for each game, with d-tools mounting in the run-before entries? Something else?

Thanks!

Astro

[Brian Hoffman]

Gameex is turning out to be one of the best pieces of software I've seen in a few years. Seriously, thanks for it!

Now, here's the challenge:

I have a kid's pc set up with 25 or so kids games. Most of the kids games are stored as iso's because they either don't actually install or they just install shortcuts. Currently, I have shortcuts for every game, but all the shortcuts do is mount the game image; auto-run takes care of the rest.

I think Gameex will be a perfect front-end to this pc to organize the kids' games and movies, etc and to limit the amount of damage they can cause to the OS.

My first thought was to make an emulator entry with all of the shortcuts, but most of the games' autorun starts a launcher, which may not work out very well.

What do you think would be the best way? A separate entry for each game, with d-tools mounting in the run-before entries? Something else?

Thanks!

Astro

Well you have two ways about doing this the first is. Create a folder and place all you shortcuts in the folder. Set gameex to use this as the WORKINGPATH and set the ROMFILTER to *.LNK and the command to just "[ROMPATH]/[ROMFILE]" this way it will only launch the LNK. Set show desktop to true. And have the kids click ok on the launcher.

Seconldy you can take it a step further and Install AUTOHOTKEY. With this you can create a script that say when BLUES CLUES LAUNCHER is open click LAUNCH FULL SCREEN.

This way when you open the program the script will do the launcher part and keep the kids away from the settings.

This will also give gameex a cleaner look.

At least this is what I do for the pc games I have.

[bkenobi]

You play Blues Clues too?!

I thought I was the only one

[Brian Hoffman]

You play Blues Clues too?!

I thought I was the only one

hahahaha

Well it sounded good.

[Stu1983]

You might want to take a look at http://www.gamecopyworld.com or http://www.megagames.com/gcracks.html for a NoCD fix for your PC games and that may save you any bother using Daemon tools to mount and unmount images... not sure if it's ok to mention about NoCDs cracks here? I reckon it should be ok as Astronot has the origional CDs anyway so it's not promoting piracy but feel free to remove the links if need be

@Brian Hoffman... glad to see I got you hooked on AHK

Stu

[Brian Hoffman]

You might want to take a look at http://www.gamecopyworld.com or http://www.megagames.com/gcracks.html for a NoCD fix for your PC games and that may save you any bother using Daemon tools to mount and unmount images... not sure if it's ok to mention about NoCDs cracks here? I reckon it should be ok as Astronot has the origional CDs anyway so it's not promoting piracy but feel free to remove the links if need be

@Brian Hoffman... glad to see I got you hooked on AHK

Stu

I was going to mention getting a no cd crack. He didn't ask for anything to do with making it not require the cd. And Gameex does support checking CD/DVD for required files.. But it will save him a bunch of space on his HD

I think it was more the loaders for the game that he wanted to bypass..Whick AHK works very well and I have you to thank for pointing it out.

Now I can play Melty Blood seemlessly with my cab.

Posting links to sites with cracks is walking a very fine line.. I'd have probably suggested doing a google search for NO CD CRACK game.exe

We will see what happens....You might be able to get away with it as long as they dont have cracks for gameex (that would piss tom off)

I'd remove them just to be safe.

I wonder if the topic creator got it all sorted?

Take care buddy.

[Astronot]

I was going to mention getting a no cd crack. He didn't ask for anything to do with making it not require the cd. And Gameex does support checking CD/DVD for required files.. But it will save him a bunch of space on his HD

I think it was more the loaders for the game that he wanted to bypass..Whick AHK works very well and I have you to thank for pointing it out.

Now I can play Melty Blood seemlessly with my cab.

Posting links to sites with cracks is walking a very fine line.. I'd have probably suggested doing a google search for NO CD CRACK game.exe

We will see what happens....You might be able to get away with it as long as they dont have cracks for gameex (that would piss tom off)

I'd remove them just to be safe.

I wonder if the topic creator got it all sorted?

Take care buddy.

I'd remove them too.

Blue's Clues et al aren't worth making a nocd for. Also, like I said, most of these games don't even really install - they run from the cd, which is where all the data is kept. I'm going to first try the shortcut/show desktop suggestion. If that doesn't work, I will need to make an entry for each game, set a mount command to run before, and drill down to their actual executables (where available) to bypass the launchers. That would suck, because there's 30 or so

Thanks for all the responses!