DemulShooter Auto-Launcher

[JoeViking245]

DemulShooter Auto-Launcher

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Automatically start DemulShooter when launching a game.

When launching a game, this will check for a valid DemulShooter emulator and associated ROM.  If found, DemulShooter will be started with the appropriate command line parameters for that emulator/ROM.

This reduces the need for customized Additional Apps, batch files or AutoHotkey scripts to run DemulShooter. (See Notes)

 

If you don't have a lightgun or have never setup DemulShooter, there's really nothing more to see here.

 

Requirements:

• LaunchBox v13.19 or newer
• DemulShooter installed and setup**
• The plugin file (RunDemulShooter.dll)
• "settings.txt" in the plugin's folder and edited/saved (see below)

**See DemulShooter documentation for setting it up and its supported emulators & ROMs.
    https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki

Installing and Using:

• Extract the contents of the zip file to the /Plugins/ folder
  • e.g.  D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\RunDemulShooter\RunDemulShooter.dll
• In that plugins folder, create a new "settings.txt" file.
  • In the file, add "demulshooter = full/path/to/DemulShooterFolder" (without quotes)
    • e.g.  demulshooter = E:\My LightGun Files\DemulShooter
  • The path can be a relative path to LaunchBox.
• Start LaunchBox
• (optional: Start QMamehook or MAME Hooker or your alternative Hook flavor of choice)
• Launch a valid DemulShooter emulator/game.

How it works - What it does
When a game is launched, the plugin will...

• Check the game's emulator against a list of supported emulators
• Check the game's ROM file against a list of supported games for that emulator
• Check if DemulShooter.exe (or DemulShooterX64.exe) is inadvertently already running and then kill the process
• Start DemulShooter.exe (or DemulShooterX64.exe) with the corresponding parameters
• If the game's emulator is TeknoParrotUI, -noinput will be added to the parameters
• System 357 games will also have -pname=rpcs3.exe added to the parameters

Examples:
Game:       Silent Hill: The Arcade
ROM file:  SilentHill.xml
Emulator: TeknoParrot
Launches: DemulShooter.exe -target=ttx -rom=sha -noinput

Game:      Ninja Assault (US)
ROM file:  ninjasltu.zip
Emulator: Flycast
Launches: DemulShooterX64.exe -target=flycast -rom=ninjasltu

Game:     Manic Panic Ghosts
ROM file: manicpnc.zip
Emulator: Demul
Launches: DemulShooter.exe -target=demul07a -rom=manicpnc

Game:      Razing Storm
ROM file:  RazingStorm.xml
Emulator: TeknoParrot
Launches: DemulShooterX64.exe -target=rpcs3 -rom=razstorm -pname=rpcs3.exe -noinput

Support emulators:

• Demul   (Demul 07a or newer)
• Model2 Emulator
  • emulator.exe
  • emulator_multicpu.exe
• Flycast
• TeknoParrot

Notes:

• TeknoParrot games must use TP as the emulator (TeknoParrotUI.exe) and the ROM must point to the game's xml file. 
  • The xml file must be named for the games ROM (as TP names them).
  • e.g. for Luigi's Mansion Arcade, "LuigisMansion.xml"
• Games that are standalone executables are not recognized by this plugin.
• When launching a game, a check is done to see if DemulShoorter is already running (e.g. if it didn't shut itself down from a previous launch). If it is, it will kill the existing process. This avoids the "Dude! You can't start DemulShoorter because it's already running".

 

As always, all thoughts, views, suggestions, comments are welcome.

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• Submitter
  JoeViking245
• Submitted
  04/02/2026
• Category
  Third-party Apps and Plugins