Game Launcher
 

Hi,

i created a game launcher for all those sf and sr7 games.
This will launch the game with a single (double) click

GGL

default extraction location is c:\ or modify the ini files

readme file included;
source code is included;
exe file is included; if you don't trust me, delete exe and compile it yourself with autoit v3

credits; many thanks to the creators of these wonderfull programs

let me know what you think...

Nice Prog. But i would be very happy for D-Tools Support.

By the way, would you mind if i add it to my page alban.copybase.ch

alban

off course not but perhaps you should try the newer version...

GGLv.2

Endly A Clean Soft For Sf3 Thank You!!!!
 

I just wanna say THANK YOU! For your little soft (not that little)

Actually i was doing all the tricks separately to make the GT Legends start!
But Now its all in 1 click.
The best thing is that you can make your own setup parametres depending on the protection.

Again Thank You! :)

Me Again.....
 

Just want think i'like to say!
To make work this little trick.... You definitely have to Execute the sfcure and reboot before you actually install the game!

Just for those who were still trying!
Enjoy this great simulation game!

well that's true although i forgot to mention it in the readme.....
tnx monster23

ggl. File deleted?
 

please be so kind and repost the ggl file.(deleted!?)thx

not really, guess it's a rapid share problem (try again or wait 20Sec)
GGL

please help!
 

sorry to ask you again for help.but could you explain me step by step what i have to do to get the game running?TIA(and thanks a lot to repost the file) :D

Well it's not that hard;
1. Download ggl and extract to c:\ (this will create a map GGL)
2. go to c:\ggl\Cfg templates\ and copy the right template ini to g:\ggl
Rename the ini file to something more meaningfull like TmSunrise.INI
(!!should always be INI)
3. Edit the inifile
Fill in all the parameters
Exe, workingdir and ProcessWaitClose can be found in the original game shortcut. ProcessWaitClose is most likely the exe file of the game.
All the other parameters depend on the security but it's pretty straight forward
4. Save Ini
----------------------this was the configuration of 1 game-------------
5. Start Global Game Launcher.EXE
6. Choose game you want to play and hit the Launch button.

If you're expirience more difficulties (spelling??), please be more precies.

hope it helps

I'm still trying to disable the autoplay on the mounted cd but its not that simple, it seems.

I found serveral links on the net but most of them refer to regsetting like NoDriveTypeAutoRun but you have to reboot. I don't want to reboot :mad:

Is there anyone how has a COMMANDLINE program (or program WITHOUT GUI) that will do the trick?
I know its possible cause Tweak UI can do it, Alcohol can do this but only if you mount from within alcohol not explorer and offcourse for al the xp pro users; gpedit.msc (all without rebooting). I tried to automate the gpedit-method with registry.pol + gpupdate.exe but that **** doesn't seem to work....... :eek:

So i'm looking for a program WITHOUT interface (eg commandline) that lets me enable/disable the autoplay/autorun (and this for win2000, xp home and pro (i know, i'm asking alot))

Any help would be appreciated,
Jannick

just reboot, its gonna take what 2-3 mins for windows to load up again, hardly a crisis, and it'll take much longer sitting here waiting for an answer, to disable autoplay when u put a cd in just hold down the shift+ctrl key on the left side of the keyboard.. not sure if ctrl is needed, i usually do both

im launching a game, don't want to restart.
Try press shift in a program/script. Tried it; ain't easy, need for new thread. I've created a program that presses shift for 20 sec but i just don't know to which screen i should send it. Ain't explorer.exe....

okey im sort of a newbie so...

I have a copy of the game Gt legends but with that cd I cant start the game with..

anywho..

I dont know which ini is right... can someone post their INI file that runs Gt Legend so I can see?

and also this... "2. go to c:\ggl\Cfg templates\ and copy the right template ini to g:\ggl"

copy it where? g:\ggl?? g:drive how do i copy it there or is it a missprint?
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is this right?

[AutoLaunch]
GameName=Gtlegends
Security=SF
Exe=D:\GTL\GTL.exe
ExeWorkingDir=D:\GTL\
ProcessWaitClose=GTL.exe

[Alcohol]
Image=D:\Documents and Settings\TimmY\Skrivbord\gt\itw-gtl

[SF]
Sfn=C:\GGL\sfn\SFNightmare.exe
SfnNode=1
SfnCD=1
SfnATA=0
SfnCh2=0
SfCureStart=C:\GGL\SF Anti File System Blocker\!start.bat
SfCureStop=C:\GGL\SF Anti File System Blocker\!stop.bat



thx

you're right, it ought to spell "c:\ggl" instead of "g:\ggl"
and as for gt legends;
you copied the right template but change security to "SF > 3.5" instead of "SF"
(doesn't matter really BUT keep in mind that you need to UNPLUG your power cable of your cd-devices!!!)
if this doesn't work; try changing SfnAta to 1 of SfnCh2 to 1.....
keep us informed...

okey i tried to do what you told..

changed security to "SF > 3.5" is that the only thing in my INI that is wrong? no other changes?

and then tried to change SfnAta to 1 or SfnCh2 to 1 but that didnt help.

it tells me in red that I should disconnect cable in red.. and I have done it..
when pressing Launch I get an Error window,

it says: Line 0 (File "D:\GGL\GLobal Game Launcher.exe"):
Run($Sfn)
Error: Unable to execute the external program
Cant find the source or searchway



what to do...

That error means that it can't launch sfn. From what i can see; you installed ggl on your d:\ but in your ini-file, the path to sfn is c:\.....
so move d:\ggl to c:\ggl or change path to sfn in ini-file

btw: i noticed that key Image of section Alcohol should be D:\Documents and Settings\TimmY\Skrivbord\gt\itw-gtl.mdf

had the same problem. reading through what your doing in the ini really helps... :)
got it to start everything including the game but i still have the problem that sf gives me a hard time. it scans for 3/4 minutes and then says wrong cdkey eventhough the key is good... Ive posted in a sumalr thread but noone was able to help yet... :(

Nice tool anyway!!! Thx

jannick could I have your Messenger ?
only got one more problem.. same as holden..

that is what happends when u copy the game to... u gotta have the orginal cd in your drive for it to work...

its starts to load.. reading disc.. reading disc... then error, u have the wrong disc or cd key..

I mean I have the original Disc that I bought but I want this to work :)

System Error .1 Not correct function
 

I have an AMD64 CPU and used the sfcure01.sys provided in sfcure03_x64.zip from itwins.

When starting sfcure the following error occurs: "System Error 1 No correct function" :eek:

itwins writes in ther txt-file to do the following:
Edit boot.ini file that you can find in C: root.
Change

/NoExecute=OptIn /FastDetect
to
/Execute=OptIn /FastDetect

Reboot your PC and relaunch !start.bat

:mad: I did that, but the error keeps popping up! :mad:

sorry, don't use msn....

I suggest that you try to launch the game manually. once that works, you can use ggl but if you can't get it to launch manually, ggl can't launch either....

1. start sfcure (make sure it's says something like service started and not the systemerror 1); I did NOT include sfcure for amd64 so if you have an amd64 computer; replace the included sfcure with the one for amd64 (uninstall the previous one, install the amd64 version and reboot. Perhaps change boot.ini (see post Bazille)

2. start sfn; disable node, disable cd, on some pc's you need to disable ata and/or ch2 depending on the configuration. (master/slave on primary or secondary channel)

3. Mount your image (self-created or not but its pretty weird that you choose the same name as ITW did :D)
I don't know if it matters but in alcohol enable rmps emulation!

4. Press play.

==> if this doesn't work for you, ggl won't work either. As i said before; it just automates mouseclicks in windows so there is no 'magic' in ggl. All the 'magic' is in sfcure, sfn, alcohol....sr7stop

==> If the sf-protection program said something about insert disc in cd-device; you got a problem with sfn.
If it says something like wrong serial; you got a problem with sfcure or perhaps you just got the wrong serial (search the web, there are only a few (2 or 3) serial per game and you can change it by pressing shift while launching (...or trying to...) the game)

==> I must report something; a friend of mine played scct using sfcure and sfn and he play without any problems for about a week. But then suddenly sf-protection refused to launch the game (wrong serial). i tried everything i could (remove sf, reinstall sf, update sf, uninstall/reinstall scct) but sf keeps ****ing it up. This is for all his sf-games (crc, bos,gtlegends,...)
if any of you guys had the same problem but fixed it, let me know how.

aiight hmm some f**ked up ****..

thanks anyway for all of this..

Did you try the manual way?

nah havent done that. and I dont think I will hehe... im to lazy...

I tried to to this with the game GTR... and it worked without any problems so I guess its just GT legends thats strange?

Cant find the damned SFcure for AMD 64
 

Searched google searched yahoo! searched most search engianes but nothing

I CANT FIND IT

Can someone give me a link please...?

Thx for your program Jannick,but it will be great if you include the tages protection in your tool.For exemple,for Fahreinheit,you need to launch Tetris,mount a TDf file,mount the mini image and launch the game.

well that cant be hard. I have a special script for launching fahrenheit but it only works on fahrenheit not tages... (cool game btw)
I finally found a workaround for autoplay function in windows. I just need to implement it. So GGL v1.01 will be comming soon

tages is the protection of fahrenheit, not a game !

thks jannick for this tool!

its all working perfectly except when i open the game it says samething like

"ERROR - insert the GT legends disc into another drive then press retry" :confused:

i´ve hiden the drives manually with Sr7Stop but it still runs the same error....

do you know how can i resolve this problem?

Thks

Jep, i do. gtl is sf > 3.5 so change the security and unplug powercable from ide cd/dvd devices....

mine didnt work and I did all of that... (Gtlegends)

but with "GTR" with the same configurations works...


plz tell if your GTlegends work.

mine works after unplugging the power cables; this is my ini file
[AutoLaunch]
GameName=GT Legends
Security=SF > 3.5
Exe=D:\Program Files\GTL\GTL.exe
ExeWorkingDir=D:\Program Files\GTL\
ProcessWaitClose=GTL.exe

[Alcohol]
Image=D:\images\Games\Race\GT Legends\itw-gtl.mds

[SF]
Sfn=C:\GGL\sfn\SFNightmare.exe
SfnNode=1
SfnCD=1
SfnATA=0
SfnCh2=0
SfCureStart=C:\GGL\SF Anti File System Blocker\!start.bat
SfCureStop=C:\GGL\SF Anti File System Blocker\!stop.bat

Okay, heres version 1.2
GGL v1.2

Extract to C:\GGL not to C:\GGL1.2 (or change ini)
- sorry, you need to remake your ini-files but its much easier.
- Edit Global Game Launcher.ini (it's the only file you need to edit for default image location and first alcohol device letter)
- If you have an amd pc, put your amd sfcure files in C:\GGL\SF Anti File System Blocker\sfcure
- Have fun
- Let me know what you think about it

but i guess it's still necessary to unplug drives!?

(i'm talking about GT Legends!)

i tested your utility yesterday and it worked with a not dpm-tested image i created myself.
but i experienced that the game starts and launches correctly (though i had a crash after 15 mins of gaming but i dont think this is about the protection) but you cant launch it a second time. you have to reboot if you want to play again.

another thing is that sfnightmare tool. sometimes (esp. when the game doesnt launch and exit properly) it messes up my dvd/cd-drivers so i cant burn cd's or dvd's. i dont know whos the author of this tool, but a "status" would be nice to all the options.

well. but it worked and this is what counts!
good job jannick!

IN YOUR FACE SF!!!

8)

- About gt legends --> Yes unplug it
- After the crash, have you tried shutting down ggl and restart it?. I guess it should work..
- Sfn tool problem, i have the same thing. I need to reboot and enable drives manually. If anyone has a solution, i would like to know it...

great job! but on my pc i get this error

Attachment 349

when i try to start GT legends with this conf:

[AutoLaunch]
GameName=GT Legends
Security=SF > 3.5
Exe=C:\GTL\GTL.exe
ExeWorkingDir=C:\GTL\
ProcessWaitClose=GTL.exe

[Alcohol]
Image=D:\Immagini CD\GT Legends\GTL.mds

[SF]
Sfn=C:\GGL\sfn\SFNightmare.exe
SfnNode=1
SfnCD=1
SfnATA=0
SfnCh2=0
SfCureStart=C:\GGL\SF Anti File System Blocker\!start.bat
SfCureStop=C:\GGL\SF Anti File System Blocker\!stop.bat

the error comes even if i try to change parameters with your front end. Please help!

strange, looks like a gui problem.
- When do you get this error (clicking in the listbox of when launching...)
- Can you post a printscreen of your ggl

i get this error when starforce nightmare do his jobs aduring the disable CD session i think or at the end of that

Attachment 350

my cd burner is disconnected and i don't have other cd or dvd readers. I'm checking configuration, could the problem be here? alcohol 120% 1.9.2 build 1705

i think yout pogram could work fine if you added more (3 or more) in the listbox...

I'll try to simulate you err