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    Portable Game Station in Steam?

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    • ?
      A Former User
      last edited by

      Hey @herb_fargus. I have a non-RetroPie question for you.

      I recently got Portable Game Station and @jdrassa ' s EmulationStation for Windows build installed on my computer. It works great!

      I want to be able to add it to Steam as a non-Steam game so I can stream it to my Steam Link. As it's a .bat file, I haven't found a solution on how I could do this. Do you have any ideas?

      Thanks!

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators
        last edited by

        I've never done anything like that so I'm afraid I wouldn't really know where to start

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        • ?
          A Former User
          last edited by

          No problem! Hopefully someone else has attempted to add it to Steam and can chime in.

          Thanks anyways!

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          • KN4THXK
            KN4THX @A Former User
            last edited by

            @livefastcyyoung Since steam only accepts .exe files you could try converting the .bat file to an exe file. Or if you don't want to mess with the original, make a new .bat pointing to the original and convert that one. Then add the exe file. Haven't tried it yet but need to do it myself and that's the solution I came up with.

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator
              last edited by

              The .bat file just starts the ES executable, why not add the complete .exe command (from the .bat file) to Steam ? No 'conversion' or other tricks.

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              • ?
                A Former User @mitu
                last edited by

                @mitu I know the .bat just starts the ES executable. However, starting the executable on it's own and it'll say it cannot find any systems. I am guessing this is a path issue and Portable Game Station sets the path in the .bat.

                How would I add the complete .exe command to Steam?

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                • circoC
                  circo @A Former User
                  last edited by

                  @livefastcyyoung I'm not using the windows build, but I might be able to help with figuring out what the .bat does and help with the .exe. Could you please post your .bat on pastebin and link it?

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                  • thelostsoulT
                    thelostsoul
                    last edited by thelostsoul

                    So far, I only added exe files to Steam.

                    • Maybe you can use a .bat to .exe converter and try it again.
                    • Or you try to call it through the interpreter, something like cmd.exe /c path/batchfile.bat. Which means you include cmd.exe to Steam and set commandline options to /c path/batchfile.bat.

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