{"id":420,"date":"2022-01-16T17:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2022-01-16T17:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:03:55","slug":"utility-to-create-direct-launch-exe-files-for-rpcs3-ps3-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/utility-to-create-direct-launch-exe-files-for-rpcs3-ps3-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Utility to create direct-launch EXE files for RPCS3 PS3 games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cross posted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.rpcs3.net\/thread-203633.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forums.rpcs3.net\/thread-203633.html\">RPCS3 forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-1024x601.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-1536x902.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image.png 1971w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a small utility that may prove useful to other users: It parses the games.yml along with the params.sfo files on your virtual HDD and creates an EXE with the correct name and icon.<br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hansschmucker\/rpcs3-stub-generator\/releases\/tag\/1.0\" target=\"_blank\">rpcs3-stub-generator on GitHub<\/a><br>(The above link will take you straight to the release page where you can download binaries)<br><br>The reason it was written was simply that now that I wanted different Steam controller configs for different games (in particular, it&#8217;s great to play lightgun games with a gyroscope)&#8230; and Steam needs different EXE files for that.<br><br>Usage is simple:<br>Extract, run the GUI application, point it to your RPCS3 folder and the place where you want the EXE files created. If you don&#8217;t want it to create stubs for all files select the ones you want in the list, press Generate, done.<br>If you want to update with your last settings just run the commandline application.<br><br>Features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Creates EXE files for PS3 games<br><\/li><li>Finds disc games added to RPCS3 from games.yml<br><\/li><li>Finds installed games by looking through the emulated HDD (SFO parsing included)<br><\/li><li>Creates correct icon for each game<br><\/li><li>Uses game title for filename<br><\/li><li>Includes GUI application for setup and filtering<br><\/li><li>Commandline application for automatic creation<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope it&#8217;s useful to others as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross posted from the RPCS3 forums. I&#8217;ve written a small utility that may prove useful to other users: It parses the games.yml along with the params.sfo files on your virtual HDD and creates an EXE with the correct name and icon. rpcs3-stub-generator on GitHub(The above link will take you straight to the release page where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/utility-to-create-direct-launch-exe-files-for-rpcs3-ps3-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Utility to create direct-launch EXE files for RPCS3 PS3 games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,42,44,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}