Version 5 for 2022!

   

coming soon.... TERMINAL LAUNCH V

  

Welcome to the final version of TERMINAL LAUNCH V.  After working on this for over 2yrs, I think I have this the way I want it (and hope you like it as well). TLV was designed with speed in mind: 

 

Select Console -> Select Game -> PLAY!!!

 

While there are many many nice "looking" frontends out there, lets face it, the main purpose it to centralize your console/games in one spot to play. Some frontends are so elaborate, that they come off more like a STEAM emulator. I myself, know what game I want to play and it's name. I did not need fancy images, or long descriptions. Why? Because I already have most the games, and prefer to just play them on the PC.

Will there be other updates for TLV? A resounding YES.  Being old-school from the BBS days, I liked the look of some of the systems, so you find in the sparse images, influences of some of the menus.

Version 0.0.38b is fully functional, I just have not migrated it to v1.0.0, only because I am still tweaking it, and there are a few other things I would like. Most of it is cosmetic, layout mainly.

Feel free to comment on what else you would like to see. Enjoy!!

UPDATE AUG 8,2022

Due to a HD crash and massive loss of files, all backup for TL, only went up to u0.0.35b, So u0.0.40b is actually a clean up, and change to  FROM 0.0.39b. 

NOTE: Update on app is still shows "u0.0.36", New update u0.0.041 will fix this, as well as u0.0.41 will have a ini editor now!! YEAH!!

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Example TL.INI File

Terminal Launch TL.INI file example

In case your are new to Terminal Launcher, or just want a quick setup. Here is a sample TL.INI file needed for T.L. to run.  If I get enough request, I will write in an editor. Currently you have to build this by hand. 

THIS IS FOR T.L.V ONLY!!

 ;format
;Order of list is critical!!!
;
;[xxx]        Abbreviated (lowercase) for consoles in brackets.
;TITLE        Long name for system
;PATH        Path to the rom games Backslash REQUIRED!
;EXT        Extension(s) associated with rom games (comma delimited)
;EMU        Full path to Emulator used to launch game, including executable
;PARAMS        Any parameters used with the above emulator.

;the rest is self explanitory
;trailing backslash required
;asterix for ext required
[3ds]
title=3DS
path=D:\EMU Romz\3ds\
ext=*.3ds,*.cia
emu=D:\EMU Launchers\3ds\nightly-mingw\citra-qt.exe
params=

[snes]
title=Super Entertainment Nintendo System
path= D:\EMU Romz\SNES\
ext=*.sfc
emu=D:\EMU Launchers\snes\snes9x-x64.exe
params=

[ps1]
title=Sony Playstation 1
path= D:\EMU Romz\ps1\
ext=*.iso,*.bin,*.bin.ecm
emu=D:\EMU Launchers\ePSXe205\ePSXe.exe
params=-nogui -loadbin

[ps2]
title=Sony Playstation 2
path= D:\EMU Romz\ps2\
ext=*.iso
emu=D:\EMU Launchers\ps2\pcsx2.exe
params=--nogui

[wii]
title=Wii
path= D:\EMU Romz\wii\
ext=*.elf,dol,*.gcm,*.iso,*.wbfs,*.ciso,*.gcz,*.wad
emu=D:\EMU Launchers\ps2\dolphin.exe
params=/b /e

 Suggested Directory Layout

My suggested directory structure for ALL launchers. I find this works best if you are testing different launchers out, this way no matter which one you use, you will not have to shuffle your consoles and roms around:

Drive

    |

    +----EMU Consoles

             + --- Snes

                     +---- snes.exe and other files 

             + --- PS2

                     +---- ps2.exe and other files 

    +----EMU Roms

 

             + --- Snes

                     +---- snes game collection

             + --- PS2

                     +---- ps2 game collection