DemulShooter Auto-Launcher 1.0.0

Automatically start DemulShooter when launching a game.

When launching a game, this will check for a valid DemulShooter emulator and associated ROM.  If found, DemulShooter will be started with the appropriate command line parameters for that emulator/ROM.

This reduces the need for customized Additional Apps, batch files or AutoHotkey scripts to run DemulShooter. (See Notes)

If you don't have a lightgun or have never setup DemulShooter, there's really nothing more to see here.

Requirements:

• LaunchBox v13.19 or newer
• DemulShooter installed and setup**
• The plugin file (RunDemulShooter.dll)
• "settings.txt" in the plugin's folder and edited/saved (see below)

**See DemulShooter documentation for setting it up and its supported emulators & ROMs.
    https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki

Installing and Using:

• Extract the contents of the zip file to the /Plugins/ folder
  • e.g.  D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\RunDemulShooter\RunDemulShooter.dll
• In that plugins folder, create a new "settings.txt" file.
  • In the file, add "demulshooter = full/path/to/DemulShooterFolder" (without quotes)
    • e.g.  demulshooter = E:\My LightGun Files\DemulShooter
  • The path can be a relative path to LaunchBox.
• Start LaunchBox
• (optional: Start QMamehook or MAME Hooker or your alternative Hook flavor of choice)
• Launch a valid DemulShooter emulator/game.

How it works - What it does
When a game is launched, the plugin will...

• Check the game's emulator against a list of supported emulators
• Check the game's ROM file against a list of supported games for that emulator
• Check if DemulShooter.exe (or DemulShooterX64.exe) is inadvertently already running and then kill the process
• Start DemulShooter.exe (or DemulShooterX64.exe) with the corresponding parameters
• If the game's emulator is TeknoParrotUI, -noinput will be added to the parameters
• System 357 games will also have -pname=rpcs3.exe added to the parameters

Examples:
Game:       Silent Hill: The Arcade
ROM file:  SilentHill.xml
Emulator: TeknoParrot
Launches: DemulShooter.exe -target=ttx -rom=sha -noinput

Game:      Ninja Assault (US)
ROM file:  ninjasltu.zip
Emulator: Flycast
Launches: DemulShooterX64.exe -target=flycast -rom=ninjasltu

Game:     Manic Panic Ghosts
ROM file: manicpnc.zip
Emulator: Demul
Launches: DemulShooter.exe -target=demul07a -rom=manicpnc

Game:      Razing Storm
ROM file:  RazingStorm.xml
Emulator: TeknoParrot
Launches: DemulShooterX64.exe -target=rpcs3 -rom=razstorm -pname=rpcs3.exe -noinput

Support emulators:

• Demul   (Demul 07a or newer)
• Model2 Emulator
  • emulator.exe
  • emulator_multicpu.exe
• Flycast
• TeknoParrot

Notes:

• TeknoParrot games must use TP as the emulator (TeknoParrotUI.exe) and the ROM must point to the game's xml file. 
  • The xml file must be named for the games ROM (as TP names them).
  • e.g. for Luigi's Mansion Arcade, "LuigisMansion.xml"
• Games that are standalone executables are not recognized by this plugin.
• When launching a game, a check is done to see if DemulShoorter is already running (e.g. if it didn't shut itself down from a previous launch). If it is, it will kill the existing process. This avoids the "Dude! You can't start DemulShoorter because it's already running".

Big special thanks to @magicray1028!!  Without Ray's support, guidance and testing, I most likely would have never created this.

As always, all thoughts, views, suggestions, comments are welcome.