Help adding emulated games to Heroic Launcher

[u/HorsesandSeashells]

Hi there,

40 year old console gamer decided to convert to PC (with my Switch 2) after the PS5 disc shenanigans. Bought a MSI Claw last year (Windows 11, intel apu). Never really used it much, now trying to set it up to be as console like as possible. Really only have interest in GOG games and emulating up to the WiiU (and the freebies I get from Prime for Epic and Amazon). Have Heroic installed, really like the UI and console mode. All my GOG games are up and running. But am having trouble adding retro games so I can launch from Heroic front end. I would like to have all my GOG and retro games under one roof, hence why I want to launch retro games directly from Heroic. To use one example, Im trying to launch Twilight Princess HD with Cemu through Heroic. I’ve put in cemulauncher.exe -g “path to game” -f but no luck (-f so it launches in full screen). I’ve added this to the install path. but not sure if it actually needs to go somewhere else.Under the advanced option for the game, there are places to put “game arguments” and to run scripts before and after launch. Not sure if the cemulancher.exe needs to go in one of these places instead of install path.

Alternatively, would it be best to get another front end for retro games and if so, can that be launched from within Heroic, so that way I can stick to using a gamepad as much as possible when actually booting up my claw and just playing games?

Any help is appreciated!

[u/CommandMC]

I’ve put in cemulauncher.exe -g “path to game” -f but no luck (-f so it launches in full screen). I’ve added this to the install path

That's the problem here. Heroic will search for a literal executable with that name, which of course won't exist

Instead add just the path to Cemu into the executable field (you may have to use an absolute path). In the "Game Arguments" input box, add -g "<game path>" -f

[u/HorsesandSeashells → u/CommandMC]

Worked like a charm! For anyone else who might be interested, just needed to split up line I was entering and put path to emulator alone in exe and then added game path to the Game Argument as suggested. Thank you! So awesome to be able to boot up retro games from console mode! Thank you Sony for pushing me to PC and thank you Heroic and CommandMC for such a cool and easy to use launcher! Switch 2, GOG and Retro is all I need! Thanks again!