Emulator Groups

This panel displays information about the emulator groups. You don't actually set any options from this panel, you do that via the groups wizard.


Fields

Group Name The name of the group Group names are used by StarLaunch, instead of their indexes when asking the user things.
Extensions Extensions that this group supports, seperated by spaces. StarLaunch uses InStr to match an extension, that's why the need for spaces.
Large Icon Path A path to an 40x40 bitmap that StarLaunch uses in large icon view. If it's syntax looks like "nX" where X is a number, that means to load bimap resource X. StarLaunch uses 40x40 bitmaps, not icons.
Small Icon Path A path to a 20x20 bitmap that StarLaunch uses in all other views. The same applies as the Large icon path for "nX". StarLaunch uses 20x20 bitmaps. Kinda weird, i know.
Name Offset This is a long int that records the position where StarLaunch starts reading the game name out of the rom. If this is negative, it means something else. -1, -2 and -3 correspond to Genesis, N64 and Snes roms respectively. -255 means StarLaunch doesn't read anything, and puts the Rom's filename minus extension in the listview. This tells StarLaunch how to read the name out of a rom internally.
Name Length Length of the name retreived in the step above. Only required if Name Offset is not 0 or negative.
Verify alpha name StarLaunch checks if the romname contains alphanumeric characters. If it doesn't, it uses the filename minus extension in the listview. Most useful for Japanese roms. Alpha range is A-Z, a-z, 0-9

Buttons

New Opens the new group wizard with blank / default fields. Pops up the group wizard. If the group wizard fills the global struct, StarLaunch creates a new group.
Edit StarLaunch Hide or close StarLaunch.
Browse buttons Go to My Computer, Go back a folder Lets you search for roms around your hard drive.

You can create a new emulator group by clicking on the New button, or edit the currently selected group by clicking the edit button.

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