Telling LB to automatically mount older Windows Games.

[Sandroace]

Is there any way to tell LB to automatically Mount older Windows based games similar to how it does it for MsDos? I have plenty older Windows games that require me to insert the CD in the drive to play and sadly many do not have NOCD fixes available. Independence Day is one such example. Would be nice if this were possible and if not a feature to possibly add in the future.

[proghodet]

You can use WincdEmu as an additional application, and mount your disc image through that.

https://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/tutorials/cmdline/

Edited April 18, 2022 by proghodet

[Sandroace]

9 hours ago, proghodet said:

You can use WincdEmu as an additional application, and mount your disc image through that.

https://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/tutorials/cmdline/

I use that already, I just rather not have multiple disks mounted(I’d rather not have to mount & dismount every game as I play them) and having to hide them so I don’t see them in my This PC folder. It just seems more convenient to have LB know where to look for the games respective ISO and automatically mount & dismount the drive. Again not sure if this is a possible feature to add in future updates but would be nice. 

[proghodet]

Edit your game in launchbox, find "Additional Apps" and add WincdEmu there with the correct parameters, probably something like C:\Program Files (x86)\WinCDEmu\batchmnt, with the path to your image file as the application command line parameter. Check the "automatically run before main application", checkbox.

You can add another app that launches after your game closes, which unmounts the image again, using the checkbox "automatically run after main application". I think that would be something like C:\Program Files (x86)\WinCDEmu\batchmnt, with /unmountall as the application command-line parameter.

[xevious1974]

17 hours ago, proghodet said:

Edit your game in launchbox, find "Additional Apps" and add WincdEmu there with the correct parameters, probably something like C:\Program Files (x86)\WinCDEmu\batchmnt, with the path to your image file as the application command line parameter. Check the "automatically run before main application", checkbox.

You can add another app that launches after your game closes, which unmounts the image again, using the checkbox "automatically run after main application". I think that would be something like C:\Program Files (x86)\WinCDEmu\batchmnt, with /unmountall as the application command-line parameter.

Yeah, I use this solution for FM-Towns, with Daemon lite and it works. There is a guide to FM-Towns here on the forum that handle that, maybe can be used to have more details.

[Sandroace]

22 hours ago, proghodet said:

Edit your game in launchbox, find "Additional Apps" and add WincdEmu there with the correct parameters, probably something like C:\Program Files (x86)\WinCDEmu\batchmnt, with the path to your image file as the application command line parameter. Check the "automatically run before main application", checkbox.

You can add another app that launches after your game closes, which unmounts the image again, using the checkbox "automatically run after main application". I think that would be something like C:\Program Files (x86)\WinCDEmu\batchmnt, with /unmountall as the application command-line parameter.

Thank You for that. I will definitely give this a shot.