Adding non-steam or other launcher PC games.

[PedgeJameson]

I have a folder full of installed games that were not installed vis launchers. How do I browse and add them?

TYVM

[launchretrogirl2562]

if they are all windows/PC-games then Add a Windows platform. (Cause I already have a Windows platform...for testing reasons I called mine WindowsTest)

Then goto Tools -> Import -> Rom Files -> Single Platform

Then in the next screen click on 'Add Files'

In Windows Explorer go to the main folder which holds all your games.
Lets say it's D:\Launchbox\Games\Windows

In Windows explorer in the search box type *.exe

This gives you all the executables.
Now you can browse through the list of all executables and just CTRL and Leftclick and select each exe you want to add to your list of imports.

When you finished CTRL and leftclicking and selecting all exes...just click on 'Open'

In the next screens just click next till it shows you the screen of files to Import.

Keep clicking next.
For Platform choose 'Windows'

For Emulator -> Leave that blank cause an exe doesn't need an emulator to run

Keep click next till you get to the screen where it asks where to move or copy.
You can just leave the games where they are so choose the last option.

In the next screen where it asks to specify custom options I always select the following

Force importing duplicate games and 'Use folder names instead of Rom Files'

Click next...and now u will arrive at the 'Ready to Import' screen.
Cause in the earlier screen u selected 'Use folder names' it will take the name of the folder where the exe was in as the name of the game.

This mostly works without u having the need to make any corrections, but sometimes a game will be another folder deeper.
Like for instance in my example 'Zombie Driver'...which is in a deeper folder.

For those cases you need to manually change the name of the game from where it says now 'bin',...to the actual name of the game.

So put your mouse over that title field, click it and change the name of the game

 

And thats it. CLICK ON FINISH....and you are good to go

 

Edited Friday at 02:48 PM by launchretrogirl2562

[launchretrogirl2562]

@PedgeJameson : had a chance to test it?