Launching via .bat file / showing specific clones?

[StuMcBill]

Hi, a couple of questions. 
 

1. is there anyway I can start a game via a .bat file? I’m looking to run Demul and TeknoParrot to play some lightgun games, and running a couple of .exe files prior to running (demulshooter and mouse fixes) prior to running helps greatly. 
 

2. Is there anyway I can set specific MAME clones to show as individual games? I don’t want every clone ever showing, but I’d kinda like to have all the Street Fighter 2 clones & bootlegs showing individually? I know I can right click on the game and choose a bootleg.

 

Thanks. 

[neil9000]

5 minutes ago, StuMcBill said:

Hi, a couple of questions. 
 

1. is there anyway I can start a game via a .bat file? I’m looking to run Demul and TeknoParrot to play some lightgun games, and running a couple of .exe files prior to running (demulshooter and mouse fixes) prior to running helps greatly. 
 

2. Is there anyway I can set specific MAME clones to show as individual games? I don’t want every clone ever showing, but I’d kinda like to have all the Street Fighter 2 clones & bootlegs showing individually? I know I can right click on the game and choose a bootleg.

 

Thanks. 

1. Yes, just create the bat and tell it to launch your two programs and to pass the rom, then add that bat as the rom to Launchbox. You could also add your two programs as "Additional Apps" to the specific games you want.

2. Yes, you can right click on games and choose Edit/Expand selected games.

[StuMcBill]

1 hour ago, neil9000 said:

1. Yes, just create the bat and tell it to launch your two programs and to pass the rom, then add that bat as the rom to Launchbox. You could also add your two programs as "Additional Apps" to the specific games you want.

2. Yes, you can right click on games and choose Edit/Expand selected games.

I’ve just expanded Street Fighter 2 : The World Warrior, assuming that all the Roms would be named accordingly (or have different artwork), however, that doesn’t seem to be the case and I now have about 50 Street Fighter 2 : The World Warrior instances, all with the same name and artwork! 😂

Presume this is a one way thing? I can’t unexpand them? 

[JoeViking245]

2 minutes ago, StuMcBill said:

Presume this is a one way thing? I can’t unexpand them? 

Select all the games in question (click on one, press and hold Ctrl and then click the others), then right-click and instead of clicking Expand..., click Combine...