I want to make a shortcut wich both mounts an iso and launches a game

Question

I have a little collection of old cd games, I would like to have a desktop shortcut (.lnk) for each game. I already successfully launched games without the discs but I have to manually mount the iso every time I reboot. My problem is I don't know how to mount an iso file and launch a game with one shortcut. I know it's possible with powershell, but I haven't been able to set it up, as I wasn't able to find any documentation about powershell code in shortcuts on the internet.

Please don't answer if you don't know the answer, even if similiar, theres a reason I want to have the shortcut. I don't want all of my games isos to be mounted all the time, because it will make my file explorer very unorganized.

Thanks for your help in advance :)

Answer 1

Hi,

You may refer to the following link for details:.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7738040/how-can-make-a-batch-file-that-will-mount-a-iso-file
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Hope above information can help you.

Answer 2

In your startup script put;

start my.iso

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Answer 3

My solution:

My problem was, that I was trying to use only a shortcut and not a combination of shortcut and batch file.

One of the games I was doing this for was the german version of Lego Island 2, here's the code (batch):

@echo off
cd "C:\Users\berta\Documents.Iso\Games\Lego Insel 2"
start "" "LEGO Insel 2.iso"
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\LEGO Media\LEGO Insel 2"
start "" "LEGO Insel 2.exe"
exit

It may be possible to do it without the batch file, but I wasn't able to get that working. The only progress I was able to make with the shortcuts were these two things:

You can mount ISOS with:
explorer "C:[directory]\game.iso"

You can also run an executable and a PowerShell wtih only a shortcut:
"C:[directory]\game.exe" -powershell {some command}

As you can see I wasn't able to mount an ISO with PowerShell through a shortcut, but it did open both my game and powershell.

If anyone knows the proper way how to do it with a shortcut only, feel free to leave a comment here.

Also thanks to everyone answering so early, you are the reason I got it working.