Running Windows Games with .exe Files Nested in Game Directory?

bushidounohana

Hello friends!

I am playing around with running my Windows games in Batocera with some success. Single folder games (that is, a game with a single folder that does not contain any nested folders) are pretty easy, while games with even a single nested folder is doable via the DIR= command in the game’s autorun.cmd file. So for example, for GOG’s version of Streets of Rage 4, my autorun.cmd looks like this—

DIR=x64.gog

CMD=SOR4.exe

This points to the SOR4.exe which is nested within my Streets of Rage 4.pc directory as such:

/userdata/roms/windows/Streets of Rage 4.pc/x64.gog/SOR4.exe

Still with me? Where I get tripped up is when the .exe file is nested within more than one folder, like this—

/userdata/roms/windows/Witcher 3.pc/bin/x64/witcher3.exe

I’m unclear how to indicate the nested folders with the DIR= command. I’ve tired the following—

DIR=bin/x64

DIR=/bin/x64

DIR=/userdata/roms/windows/Witcher 3.pc/bin/x64/

… and several variations of each omitting the slashes pre-and-post path.

I’m sure this is relatively easy and a simple syntax mistake on my part, as I have confirmed that the .exe loads without issue when I delete the autorun.cmd file and navigate to the .exe manually when attempting to load the game.

So, dearest friends, what should my DIR= command look like to make this magic happen?

Atari

For Windows, is it not backslash instead of forward-slash? ie. \ instead of /

Aynshe

Hi,

For me this one DIR=bin/x64 should work, for my part I have games where I wrote like this DIR=./X64 instead of DIR=x64 and the games are running.
Maybe just that Witcher 3 does not work on your machine, because if I understand correctly from your side you manage to execute SOR4 from GOG which at my place does not work.

The only SOR4 version that worked with my machine was the 1st release of the game, I did not crash it less than two weeks ago with an update that I wanted to test and since then I have not arrived to execute it (return to the batocera interface, without error code).

I have a GTX680 with an i7 3770k running batocera v32.

Salut,

Pour moi, celui-ci DIR=bin/x64 devrait fonctionner, pour ma part j’ai des jeux ou j’avais écrit comme ceci DIR=./x64 à la place de DIR=x64 et le jeux s’exécute.
Peut être simplement que Witcher 3 ne fonctionne pas sur votre machine, car si je comprend bien de votre côté vous arrivez à exécuter SOR4 de GOG qui chez moi ne fonctionne pas.

La seul version SOR4 qui fonctionnait avec ma machine c’était la 1er release du jeu, je l’ai pas erreur écrasé il y a moins de deux semaine avec une mise à jour que j’ai voulu tester et depuis je n’arrive plus à l’exécuter (retour à l’interface batocera, sans code erreur).

J’ai une GTX680 avec un i7 3770k sous batocera v32.

bushidounohana

Thank you both! Oddly enough, the following worked—

DIR=./bin/x64

So the addition was the period prior to the path. Thanks again, hope this helps others!

Aynshe

Hi,
i just figured out my problem to run street of rage 4 gog… my autorun.cmd file needed to be converted to UNIX(LF).

I checked the other games that work well, it turns out that I have autorun in window (CRLF) and others in UNIX (LF).

I will later check the games that I have put aside that did not work.. maybe the problem comes from the file for some.