Game Profiles

This is where you add, edit and setup Game Profiles.

Info at top

Name: Shows the GameProfile number {x} and the 'friendly' Game Name.

Key: Shows the gamefile and the emulator (at the time of Game profile setup/edit) for this Game Profile. NB - the emulator {xxx} can fall 'out of date' if the emulators are edited - rely more on the Emu info section to indicate this.

Updated: Date Game Profile last updated.

Emu: Shows the emulator within the Game Profile.

Default: This one is quite important. If there is more than one profile for a specific Gamefile, then emvoy needs to know which one to load and boot with if you only pass the gamefile details via command line. This show the default Emu (via corresponding Game Profile) used. In above example, although this profile launches with Emulator 2 - Mednafen, the default profile/emu to use for this gamefile is Emulator 4 - ePSXe.

Cmd: Shows any specific command line parameters to append set within the specific Game Profile. For instance, you may have a specific shader you want to use for a game, so this may read something like "-shader black_and_white.shd" This also overrides the cmd line parameters set in the Emulator setup (leave this blank if you want to use the Emu defaults).

B+E/GApps: As per that in the Main menu info section (here)

QLaunch: Shows the game specific quicklaunch setting - for instance, you may not wish people to know that you've been playing "Hello Kitty - Cube Frenzy" (!)- so could set this to "delete" to ensure the quicklaunch folder is always deleted.

UseDT: Game specific setting for whether to use Daemon Tools or not.

Options

Select Game Profile via Present Game's System - Shows all profiles available for the present profile's system (in example - all available for Sony Playstation).

Select different profile via browse all: Lets you browse all the Game Profiles setup for the gamefiles path specified in the Boot Profile being used (e.g. all the gamefiles for Play station).

Select different profile via search: Same as above, but lets you use a search term (for large Game Profile sets). 

Delete a game profile: As expected.

Edit Current Game Profile: Takes you into a wizard to edit Game Profile settings. See below.

Make this Default Profile for Gamefile: Another important option. This sets the current game profile as the default one that's used where more than one profile exists for a specific Gamefile and there is no emulator specified within the command line parameters. For instance you may setup Tekken2 on 4 different emulators, but want it to run on ePSXe when booted from your front end. You would select the ePSXe game profile then select this option.

New Game Profile: Asks you to select a Gamefile and then an emulator and then creates a Game Profile from this. You can then used Edit Profile to do more detailed settings.

 

Edit Current Game Profile

Takes you through a wizard to make various settings:

Name: You can set a friendly name here. This is for use where gamenames auto generated from Gamefiles are in a verbose or messy format.

Choose Emulator: Choose which emulator to map against the game file.

Command line parameters to use: Here, you can specify game-specific command line parameters for the emulator. If this is defined - this is used rather than defaults setup for the emulator. Be careful with characters in here, as it is not checked. Also, if you are wanting quotation marks in eventual command line parameters, use the symbol ` instead of "

Keep backup history of game/emu settings from Settings Scripts: As described. If "Yes" then every time game is quit and emulator closed, the present settings are saved and the 'old' settings moved to a backup.

Use Daemon Tools? Specify whether game should use Daemon Tools or not. Defaults to that in Boot profile/Emu settings.

Quicklaunch folder setting: Allows you to set game-specific quicklaunch folder operation. keep and delete automatically do what they suggest. "ask" prompts to user asking whether to keep or not.

Support Apps: Select which support apps to run for game. If you want none, CTRL+click highlighted ones.