Automatically send {F11} keystroke after emu launch

[Pyrometheous]

I've been looking around the autohotkey area, and I can't find a command that'll wait 1 second, then send the {F11} keystroke. I'm basically trying to get BSNES to startup in fullscreen. At first I was trying Higan, but I couldn't find any way to get that to launch in fullscreen, so now I'm trying to get BSNES to go fullscreen right after the game launches. I've also tried FEleven but I can't find a good way of executing that along with BSNES and loading the ROM. Although, this would all be much easier if there was a command line parameter that would just toggle fullscreen at launch. Please let me know if you've been able to get this to work.

[fromlostdays]

I haven't used Higan in a long long time but are you sure there isn't an option in the emulator to open fullscreen? This seems like an unnecessary workaround

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[fromlostdays]

Alternately, you could use the bsnes core in retroarch, which will launch fullscreen.

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[Pyrometheous]

1 hour ago, fromlostdays said:

I haven't used Higan in a long long time but are you sure there isn't an option in the emulator to open fullscreen? This seems like an unnecessary workaround

Not one that I can find at least

1 hour ago, fromlostdays said:

Alternately, you could use the bsnes core in retroarch, which will launch fullscreen.

I've always shied away from retroarch (except on my vita), the interface just turns me off, although I suppose that with launchbox, there won't be much to do in retroarch aside from the initial setup.

[Charco]

I agree, once it's up and running you don't have to mess with it really. I'd recommend using @lordmonkus guide here:

 

[SentaiBrad]

We also have a lot of RetroArch tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6pTDaHeAz-WMcNURVPU-1xLN_TVpT3FB

Otherwise, the easiest route is to find out if Higan standalone has Command Line commands.

 

[Retro808]

Have to chime in and agree on the retroarch option. I used to shy away from it as well and use a lot of standalones. With Launchbox once you have Retroarch set up for your specific cores Retroarch is out of sight out of mind. 

[Pyrometheous]

I'll have to give it a go. By chance, does retroarch work with hidef texture packs for N64 titles? Or is that just project 64 with the rice video plugin?

[Zombeaver]

Re: the original question, this should do it:

Sleep, 1000
SendInput {F11}

[Pyrometheous]

13 minutes ago, Zombeaver said:

Re: the original question, this should do it:

Sleep, 1000
SendInput {F11}

I'm trying this when I get home. Thank you so much!

[Pyrometheous]

4 hours ago, Zombeaver said:

Re: the original question, this should do it:

Sleep, 1000
SendInput {F11}

that didn't work... :-(

[Zombeaver]

Try 

#NoEnv

Sleep, 1000
SetKeyDelay, -1, 110
Send {F11}
Return

[Pyrometheous]

Also not working, hmm... by chance does AutoHotKey script need to specify an application to press {F11} on? Or should it just work? When I was looking through the guide and the send commands I think I saw something about that, but I don't remember exactly what it was, I couldn't get it to work though.

[Zombeaver]

It should just work. Maybe try increasing the delay - it could be it's going off before the emulator actually comes up. 1000 = 1 second so try 2000 or 3000.

[Zombeaver]

That exact script is working for me, for a different emulator but it's doing exactly what I'm telling it.

[Lordmonkus]

It worked for me after setting the delay to 3000, using Higan 1.01.

[Pyrometheous]

Clearly I'm doing something wrong here. So I went ahead and recorded it

Can you observe where I'm doing something wrong?

[Lordmonkus]

It might be a case of the emulator doesn't like it. I will grab BSnes v0.88 like you are using in your video to test out.

[Lordmonkus]

I couldn't even get version 0.88 to load a rom through Launchbox because of the way that emulator wants you to add your games to its own "roms folder".

I would suggest getting a newer Higan build or using Retroarch unless you really have some oddball specific reason for using BSnes v0.88.

[Zombeaver]

Yeah it seems to be some issue with BSnes itself. It definitely works for RA.