Portable Game Station in Steam?

LiveFastCyYoung

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!

herb_fargus

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

LiveFastCyYoung

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

Thanks anyways!

KN4THX

@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.

mitu

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.

LiveFastCyYoung

@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?

circo

@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?

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.