FF Goal and Emulator Question

Posted by Glen on Oct. 20, 2010, 8:59 a.m.

So, I'm a big fan of FF and I have a new goal. At the moment I'm downloading FF 1-12 and the emulators to play them. I'm going to go through them all and beat them one by one. Just so I can say that I played them all. Can't be a fan unless you've been there done that.

I have a question about emulators though. Think there's a way to make a game + emulator work on a disk? Like an auto start? Have the emulator auto start and play the game? It would be nice to be able to have my collection of Final Fantasy games all on disks and be able to just pop them into a cd drive and play. Some of the games have different emulators because the first few were on the NES, SNES, PS1, and PS2. I'd like to have the emulator on the disk and run off of it.

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Glen 14 years, 1 month ago

Wish I could set up the autorun file to run like a script:

autorun("game.nes,"emulator.exe");

Starts up the nes file by opening it with the emulator. That's kinda what im looking to do. Don't know any commands for that though.

PY 14 years, 1 month ago

or you could just pass the path to the .nes to the emulator when you run it?

Glen 14 years, 1 month ago

How would I do that? My current autorun file:

[autorun]

open=FF1.nes

icon= icon.ico

Would I add something to the open area stating that I want it to go through the emulator ex: emulator.exe?

PY 14 years, 1 month ago

yeah, pretty much. Stick a relative path to the emulator before that FF1.nes

Glen 14 years, 1 month ago

like this: open=emulator.exe/FF1.nes

Not sure how I would set it up…

PY 14 years, 1 month ago

no. If the emulator is under \Emu\lator\NES.exe, you'd do

open=\Emu\lator\NES.exe FF1.nes

iirc, anyway.

Glen 14 years, 1 month ago

well i tried

open=emulator.exe FF1.nes

It opened the emulator and then an error popped up saying file could not be found. I'm assumming it meant the .nes file. They're both in the same directory.

Kaz 14 years, 1 month ago

Maybe you need the whole path of the nes file?

PY 14 years, 1 month ago

I actually don't know what the cwd of an autorunning application is, so give it the full path (Well, hopefully you can omit the drive letter. Maybe not, though)

Infinity_Plus 14 years, 1 month ago

I would assume it means the .NES file as well, since the emulator opens :P I've been trying to look into this, but no dice as of yet. I only have one site that was even remotely helpful: http://autorun.moonvalley.com/autoruninf.htm