TapTo for Windows - How to launch games

Start Roms (+ Emulators) with .bat files on Tapto Windows (Beta).

Requirements:

- Make sure you have the emulators already configured in windows.

- Tapto for windows installed

- Roms in the desired location

- Tapto.life app installed on iOS or Android

Notes:

At this moment it’s only possible to launch Roms through Steam or via Bat files

This tutorial will show you how you can make the .bat files to launch your rom using tapto.

Keep in mind that every rom/game will have its own .bat file so it’s recommended to organize them properly.

I choose to create a folder per system and add the .bat files inside the corresponding system folder.

Moving your roms and emulators to a different location after creating the bat files will result in non-working bat files so keep this in mind before you make any .bat files.

Tutorial:

Open notepad (or a similar text editor)

Copy the location of your emulator (let’s take PCSX2 for example) *For retroarch it takes an extra step, scroll to the bottom of this tutorial for retroarch*

Paste the location to notepad and add the name of the .exe file, it should similar to this:

G:\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-v1.7.4266-windows-64bit-AVX2-Qt\pcsx2-qtx64-avx2.exe

Now add a “ to the beginning and the end of the path followed by the spacebar like this :

“G:\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-v1.7.4266-windows-64bit-AVX2-Qt\pcsx2-qtx64-avx2.exe”

Copy and paste the location of your rom and add the rom name (and its extension) and like before add the “ to the beginning and the end of the path.

your .bat file should now look similar to this:

"G:\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-v1.7.4266-windows-64bit-AVX2-Qt\pcsx2-qtx64-avx2.exe" "O:\Retail Roms\Sony - PlayStation 2\Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 3 (USA) (Greatest Hits).chd"

*optional:

some emulators support extra commands for example start in full screen, keep in mind the commands for this are emulator depended, for pcsx2 it goes as the followed:

"G:\LaunchBox\Emulators\pcsx2-v1.7.4266-windows-64bit-AVX2-Qt\pcsx2-qtx64-avx2.exe" "O:\Retail Roms\Sony - PlayStation 2\Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 3 (USA) (Greatest Hits).chd" -fullscreen -nogui

Now save the file you’ve created in notepad and change the extension to .bat

you should end up with something like this :

Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 3.bat

Try starting your bat file to check if everything works as desired.

Please make sure it’s not Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 3.bat.txt because that won’t work.

Before you can flash the path to the bat file to your nfc card we need to add the location of the bat file to the .ini file of tapto in order to allow tapto to launch this file.

Open the tapto.ini file and under [launchers] add allow_file = PATHTOBAT It should look similar to this:

allow_file = G:\Tapto\Sony - PlayStation 2\Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 3.bat

Now open your tapto.life app and flash the the path to your bat file as a text string:

G:\Tapto\Sony - PlayStation 2\Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 3.bat

Your NFC card is now ready to start your desired rom !

Retroarch

For Retroarch the bat file also needs to specify the core it need to launch the rom, let's take snes9x for example, add the line -L cores\snes9x_libretro.dll between the emulator and the rom path, the bat file should look similar to this:

"G:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch-MSVC10-Win64\retroarch.exe" -L cores\snes9x_libretro.dll "O:\Rom Hacks\Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System\Translations\Mega Man X (USA) (Rev 1) [Relocalized Addendum].sfc"

All the other steps are exactly the same as specified above