How to directly boot the game and skip/bypass the launcher?

[MrPawnch]

Hey everyone,

I am trying to play this game on my couch in Steam Big Picture Mode and have made myself a nice controller profile, but it is always a nuisance and hassle to reach out to my Keyboard and Mouse just to confirm the Play button on the Game Launcher...

So is there a way to skip the Launcher and boot directly into the game? Do I have to change something in the game files or make a custom BAT file (if so, how) or set something specific in Steam Launcher Settings?

Help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!

[F-Man]

Rename sonic2app.exe to Launcher.exe.

[MrPawnch]

Thank you!

[Morg]

Honestly, thank you. I was frustrated, constantly googling trying to find a way to get the game to just launch when i clicked it, I didnt need to change my settings every time i launched it, it was annoying. This post right here, This post saved my day. 10/10 thanks.

[WinterStorm]

you need to change the original launcher to a diffrent name, first i think

[Mr.black]

change it to what

[AmethystViper]

Modders on GameBanana advises against renaming the game and launcher executables since it doesn't fix some other issues and might break video card settings and effects from working. Use this command line parameter instead:

-q

This will skip the launcher but only if there are configruation files present, otherwise it will launch into the launcher

Source: https://gamebanana.com/tuts/13152 (point 2.1)