How to Launch Doctor Who - The Gunpowder Plot From Desktop

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You would have notice that when you try to use the Desktop shortcut that Steam creates for Doctor Who: The Adventure Games, it always launches the game with the four first episodes and you cannot access the Gunpowder Plot. In order to do this you need to launch the game from Steam. Well, not anymore!

1. Go to <Steam Installation Directory (usually C:\Program files (x86)>\Steam\SteamApps\common\Doctor Who The Adventure Games\
2. Look for DoctorWhoS2.exe and copy it into the subfolder called "Series2".
3. Now, once you have copied this file, created a shortcut to it. Afterwards, copy the shortcut to your Desktop.
4. Use the new shortcut in your Desktop and play the Gunpowder Plot!

Just to clarify a few things:
You need to copy DoctorWhoS2.exe into the Series2 folder so it can read the data of the game and find the steam_api.dll file. If you try to launch the game from the file in the previous folder, you will get an error saying that the game cannot find the steam_api.dll. Also, you cannot copy the steam_api.dll into the previous folder because, while it launches the game, you will only obtain a black screen (the game did not find the data and doesn't launch, but it doesn't give an error neither).
Oh, and you cannot create a Desktop shortcut using the path steam://rungameid/<Game ID> because the ID is the same for both games and it automatically launches the first one.

Hope it helps!

[MadeIndescribable]

Thanks for the help :D

[tazamiga]

Does this constitute as altering a game so you could incur the wrath of gabe?

[Fleet Admiral Q]

I don't think they would've included The Gunpowder Plot in the game's files if they didn't want players to play through it. Not to mention, there are some achievements which can only be unlocked by playing that episode. Would they really implement impossible achievements? I think not. So, they may be willing to give this instance of modding a free pass, especially since they seem to want us to launch The Gunpowder Plot, and have given us the means to do so. All we needed to do was put it in.