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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: ^F117^ on June 10, 2020, 05:40:12 AM

Title: Exit from PC game
Post by: ^F117^ on June 10, 2020, 05:40:12 AM

After launching a pc game, it's not possible to return on the frontend with the exit hotkey.. I need some args?

# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.1
#
executable           cmd
args                    /c "[romfilename]"
rompath              D:\Attract Mode\Emulatori\Pc Games\Rom
romext               .lnk
exit_hotkey          U
artwork    flyer           
artwork    marquee         
artwork    snap            D:\Attract Mode\scraper\Pc\Snap
artwork    wheel           D:\Attract Mode\scraper\Pc\Wheel

Title: Re: Exit from PC game
Post by: hermine.potter on June 12, 2020, 12:44:48 AM

to exit a PC game by external button, depends on the game itself.
the game has to support it.
some games blocks or does not recognize any external input (anti cheat / anti bot system).
so you need to test this:

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on windows, you can kill all windows processes this way (excluding specific tasks/processes):

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taskkill /F /FI "USERNAME eq %username%" /FI "IMAGENAME ne explorer.exe" /FI "IMAGENAME ne dwm.exe" /FI "IMAGENAME ne cmd.exe" /FI "IMAGENAME ne notepad.exe"
explorer.exe and dwm.exe are better excluded.
cmd.exe for this project too.
notepad.exe is an example, to exclude an specific task

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Next step is recognizing an external input.
Try this hybrid solution with Autoit script (an batch enclosed):

goto your AM folder (where attract.exe is). Create and compile this autoit script (for example : Killall.exe)

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#include <Misc.au3>

While 1

; 55 = U key
If _IsPressed ("55") Then
Sleep(300)
FileDelete(@TempDir & "\cmd.bat")
FileWrite(@TempDir & "\cmd.bat", "@echo off" & @CRLF & 'taskkill /F /IM attract.exe' & @CRLF & 'taskkill /F /FI "USERNAME eq %username%" /FI "IMAGENAME ne explorer.exe" /FI "IMAGENAME ne dwm.exe" /FI "IMAGENAME ne cmd.exe"' & @CRLF & 'cd "C:\attract"' & @CRLF & 'start /MAX attract.exe')
Run(@TempDir & "\cmd.bat")
Exit
EndIf
WEnd
Create this config in AM:

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executable           cmd
args                 /c start Killall.exe & "[romfilename]"
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\PC Games\ROMS
romext               .lnk

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If you start a file from AM, Killall.exe starts too.

If you press U on keyboard:
a file cmd.bat is created in TEMP folder
all processes are killed (except: explorer.exe, dwm.exe, cmd.exe)
C:\attract\attract.exe starts