Project Tempest Launcher

[nxmehta]

A few people have posted about not being able to run Project Tempest from GameEx because it doesn't take command line arguments. Therefore, you can't tell it to load up a ROM from GameEx (you have to manually point to and open the ROM via the GUI).

To fix this problem I created a wrapper for Project Tempest that will allow you to pass in a ROM file from the command line.

To install simply put ptlauncher.exe (attached in this post) in the same directory as the Project Tempest executable (PT.exe). To configure in GameEx, set the working path to the directory where ptlauncher.exe and PT.exe reside. Then configure the command line as:

ptlauncher.exe "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]"

Finally, you'll have to set the Zip/7-Zip/GoodMerge feature to 'Yes' as Project Tempest doesn't support compressed ROM files. Hence this will only work for registered GameEx users.

Let me know if everything works ok. I created the launcher with AutoIt which I've never used before (this was a good startup exercise for learning AutoIt, which is incredibly easy). It should give you sensible error messages if you don't use it properly. However, the timing of the keystrokes sent to PT may be off for some people's machines, so we'll see how it works for everyone.

ptlauncher.zip

[fRequEnCy]

Good job. Timing shouldn't be off if you scripted correctly. Just be careful with your coding. If you need help then let me know. Also you could script it to use zip files as well for users who aren't registered users.

[stigt]

Works perfect for me...thank you for this little addon.

Cheers,

Arjen

[Beaps73]

Works a treat, thanks