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Turns out that script doesn't work for demul because it refuses to actually launch the game until it's the focus window. But I found a workaround for it, if you open Demul.ini and change windowX, and windowY to a high number it will launch directly in to the game instead of showing the main window first. For example mine is: windowX = 9999 windowY = 9999 I think maybe this is the window location and because it's a high number it appears off screen, but I'm not sure.

After much trial and error I figured it out. Here's how I did it in case someone else finds it helpful. DetectHiddenWindows, On DetectHiddenText, On Run, Dolphin.exe "%1%" "%2%", , Hide Sleep 3000 WinShow, Dolphin WinActivate, Dolphin $Esc:: { WinActivate, LaunchBox Big Box Sleep, 100 Process, Close, Dolphin.exe ExitApp } Saved as dolphinlauncher.ahk and made in to dolphinlauncher.exe, with autohotkey, put in same directory as Dolphin.exe. In Launchbox make dolphin point to dolphinlauncher.exe, launch options "-b --exec=" with "no space before rom" checked. Nothing in the ahk section of launchbox. Works great, should be able to adapt it to other emulators pretty easily. Might need to adjust the sleep depending on how fast or slow your computer it.

I've probably tried them all :P Tried adjusting every setting I could find that could even possibly make a difference.

Yeah, I figure if there's a solution it's probably an autohotkey workaround thing. Maybe delaying focus for the window for x amount of time. But my autohotkey skills are not that strong and have no idea how to do that.

I'm trying to make my htpc as seamless as possible with little to no reminders that I'm actually in windows, and the extra windows when launching things is pretty annoying. In dolphin when I launch a game, I always see the main dolphin window for 1-3 seconds before the game launches and goes full screen. I would like to hide it if possible. I managed to hide the extra windows you see when closing the emulator with this in the autohotkey section of the emulator config: $Esc:: { WinActivate, LaunchBox Big Box Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} } but haven't been able to figure out a way to hide the window that pops up when you start a game. And in nullDC/demul it's a similar problem, it shows the main window of the emulator for a few seconds before it loads the game and maximizes. Anyone know of a solution for this?