Sinden Launcher

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The Sinden Launcher is a community made tool to help setting up and using the Sinden Software and several emulators.

Currently it supports: Super Nintendo, MAME, Dreamcast, Playstation, Nintendo NES and Sega Model 2

## Download:

Download from the official GitHub Here

The application notifies about new releases and has the option to auto update.

## Installation:

Unzip to a folder of your choice. Run **SindenLauncher.ahk** if you have Autohotkey installed, or **SindenLauncher.exe** if you don't want to install Autohtokey.

## Usage:

### Main tab:

* Install the software using the Installation Wizard or manual download
* Run (auto start) or launch the Sinden Software for configuration

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### Playstation tab:

* Install Duckstation from the wizard, which will add the basic configuration and some game settings
* Sinden generic borders will be installed too
* Configure your game folder and your bezels folder
* Add custom bezels for games
* Enable mouse cursor hiding when launching games
* Create Windows Shortcuts to launch games from their own icon
* Play games using custom bezels

Download Duckstation (PS1) Bezel Pack (v1.7) HERE
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### SNES tab:

* Install SNES9x from the wizard, which will add the basic configuration and some game settings
* Sinden generic borders will be installed too.
* Configure your game folder and your bezels folder
* Add custom bezels for games
* Enable mouse cursor hiding when launching games
* Create Windows Shortcuts to launch games from their own icon
* Play games using custom bezels

Download SNES9x Bezel Pack (v1.7) HERE
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### NES tab:

* Install Mesen from the wizard, which will add the basic configuration
* Sinden generic borders will be installed too
* Configure your game folder and your bezels folder
* Add custom bezels for games
* Enable mouse cursor hiding when launching games
* Create Windows Shortcuts to launch games from their own icon
* Play games using custom bezels

Download the Mesen Bezel pack (v1.5) HERE
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### MAME tab:

* Install MAME from the wizard, which will add the basic configuration
* The wizard installs the required gun files and game configuration files
* Sinden generic borders will be installed too
* Configure your game folder and your bezels folder
* Add custom bezels for games
* Create Windows Shortcuts to launch games from their own icon
* Play games using custom bezels

Download the Sinden MAME Bezel pack (v2.5) HERE
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### Dreamcast tab:

* Install Redream from the wizard, which will add the basic configuration
* Reshade generic borders will be installed too
* Enable Reshade bezels (if you have issues running Redream in borderless fullscreen)
* Enable mouse cursor hiding when launching games
* Create Windows Shortcuts to launch games from their own icon
* Play games using Reshade bezels

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### Model 2 tab:

* Install Model 2 Emulator from the wizard, which will add the basic configuration
* Demulshooter will be also installed as it is required for this emulator
* Create Windows Shortcuts to launch games from their own icon
* Play games using Demulshooter

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## Launching games from command line

Once you have configured an emulator in the graphical interface, to launch a game from the command line (CMD) you need to provide the system and full path to the rom/iso of the game:

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* If the path to your game has spaces you will need to add " double quotes before and after

## Launchbox

To launch games from Launchbox, set SindenLauncher as an emulator and follow the same guidelines as running from command line above:

 File:Ps1 SDlauncher.png