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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: johey on September 03, 2020, 06:40:56 AM

Title: Launch single game
Post by: johey on September 03, 2020, 06:40:56 AM

I'm new to Attract Mode. Have just configured it to run MAME as the one and only emulator.

Now I would like to add a few standalone games. Stepmania is one example. It is a game that is installed and can be started by launching StepMania.exe from its working directory.

Is it possible to do this with Attract Mode? If so, how?

Thanks in advance,

Title: Re: Launch single game
Post by: johey on September 03, 2020, 08:04:14 AM

I can reply to myself, because I managed to solve it. Simply by using CMD as the emulator and use .bat files as "roms". Each .bat file launches one game. In my case I created stepmania.bat as the only standalone game, but there will probably be more. Works awesomely.

Title: Re: Launch single game
Post by: hermine.potter on September 06, 2020, 06:49:11 AM

you can simply use shortcuts / links too.

right button on .exe > send shortcut to desktop > move it to a "main romfolder" > use .lnk as extension:

executable           cmd
args                 /c "[romfilename]"
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\windows_games\roms
romext               .lnk;.bat