xpadder and game shortcut

[dreamer]

is there away to setup a pc game shortcut to launch with a xpadder profile out side of gameEX so i dont have set each of my games as its own emulator

[bkenobi]

You could use an AHK script to watch for certain processes (your games) and then when it sees them (or sees them end) it could call XPadder with the appropriate profile.

The other option is Pinnacle Profiler. I haven't used it, but it does change the mappings based on the game that it detects running. These two methods are basically the same. The only difference is that XPadder requires a script and PP is already set up to do this. I personally would go with the script just because I think it would use less resources, but I can't be sure about that.

[Stu1983]

Xpadder has command line options so why not have a batch file launch the profile then launch the game then when the game closes it can change the profile to something else

The command line options can be used with the command prompt, a batch file or a shortcut.

 "profile1" "profile2" "profile3" "shortcut.lnk" /M /C /?

- All options can be combined in any order.
- Switches (for example; /M) can be in upper or lower case.
- If filenames and/or paths include spaces then they must be enclosed in quotes.
- If no command line options are listed and this program is already running then the main window will restore or minimize.

"profile"
Starts this program and automatically opens the profile(s) onto each controller. If this program is already running then the profiles will be automatically opened.

- If no controllers are connected then the profile(s) will open when a controller is connected
- If only one profile is specified and more than one controller is connected then the selected controller will open the profile
- If more than one profile is specified and more than one controller is connected then the first profile will be opened by the first controller and so on
- If the profile extension is omitted it will be automatically added

"shortcut.lnk"
Starts this program (if it is not already running) and launches the shortcut.

- The shortcut must be a ".lnk" file and you must include the ".lnk" extension
- To launch an executable first create a shortcut to it and use the name of that shortcut
- Shortcuts will only launch when at least one controller is found, all controllers are connected and all profiles have successfully opened

/M
Starts this program minimized. If this program is already running it will be minimized if necessary.

/C
Closes this program if it is already running - if this program is not already running then it will not start.

/?
Displays this help window

Stu

[bkenobi]

Yup, that would work too. Depends on what games you are doing this for though. If it's for everything (including emulators), then it might be nice to have a script so you don't have to create a batch file for every rom. If it's just for PC games, then it doesn't make much difference, so whatever you know better!