OpenBor Windows 10 Tutorial

[aztha]

Hi, guys.

First, i'm french sorry, i try in english xD.

What you need ?

- OpenBor emulator. releases

-OpenBor games in .pak files. 

Extract Openbor where you want, for me it's on drive D:\ , inside create a new folder " Games"

 In D:\OpenBor\Games\ paste all your .pak files.

In D:\OpenBor\Paks\ you must have nothing it's important.

Create a new .txt file in D:\OpenBor\ and paste this :

 

##################
@echo off
del D:\OpenBOR\Paks\* /Q
copy %1 D:\OpenBOR\Paks\
OpenBOR.exe
exit
##################

save and rename the new.txt as OPENBORSTART.BAT

Thanks to kurzih.

 

In Launchbox, add new emulator "OpenBor" with path D:\OpenBOR\OPENBORSTART.BAT. Tick hide console. In associed Platform write OpenBor with default tick.

Import rom from D:\OpenBor\Games in launchbox. Platform OpenBor. Emulator OpenBor. Choose your media.

Launch a game like Beat of rage, press enter and use the arrows to go inside video option for fullscreen.

With my bartop i use xinmotek dual arcade:

 to set my controller for all games: go to control options and remap player 1 and player 2.

Until you are check all settings, go to system options settings options and finally save settings to default.cfg.

Quit game and launch another games, controler is already remap and you are in fullscreen.

bye.

Edit: you can add autohotkey script in launchbox and close game.

 

 

 

Edited October 27, 2020 by aztha

[xLulox]

Got it to work as it follows :

del "D:\YOURPATH\OpenBOR\Paks\*" /Q
copy %1 "D:\YOURPATH\OpenBOR\Paks\
OpenBOR.exe
exit

Basically what it does is to clear the pak directory and copy the .pak file game to the folder so it can be executed . It is  made this way because OpenBOR only reads the first  .pak file of the D:\YOURPATH\OpenBOR\Paks\ directory, 

[Partiesplayin]

Hello i can not get it to work. I put all my packs in a sperate game folder did the bat file and also setup launchbox as instructed . But when i launch a game from launchbox it is not moved to the paks folder to be played

[JoeViking245]

7 hours ago, Partiesplayin said:

Hello i can not get it to work. I put all my packs in a sperate game folder did the bat file and also setup launchbox as instructed . But when i launch a game from launchbox it is not moved to the paks folder to be played

On the 2nd line add some quotes and see if it now works.  

del "D:\YOURPATH\OpenBOR\Paks\*" /Q
copy "%1" "D:\YOURPATH\OpenBOR\Paks\"
OpenBOR.exe
exit

 

[Partiesplayin]

That did it, adding the quotes was the issue. Thank you

[Brisio67]

On 12/16/2022 at 1:36 PM, JoeViking245 said:

On the 2nd line add some quotes and see if it now works.  

del "D:\YOURPATH\OpenBOR\Paks\*" /Q
copy "%1" "D:\YOURPATH\OpenBOR\Paks\"
OpenBOR.exe
exit

 

👍

[Brisio67]

Work perfect

[totoro]

Can you recommend a default controlling scheme for xbox gamepads when all buttons need to be mapped and which works for all games?

Normally I would use the facebuttons, but sometimes there a too many actions...

attack

attack 2

attack 3

attack 4

jump

special

block

I'd like to create a standard for every game and copy/rename the config files, as I don't want to go through every game/options menu.