Launch NBlood Through Steam?

[Icewind Dale Wilson]

Has anyone been able to get NBlood to launch via Steam?
I tried renaming the nblood.exe to dosbox.exe, but I get this error when I boot it up:

source/blood/src/blood.cpp(1100): Invalid argument: -conf

Anyone know what this is all about? If I just launch the exe directly it runs fine.

[Butane]

That's because Steam launches Blood with a few DOSBOX parameters and arguments which NBlood does not recognize.

I tried to get the devs attention regarding this to see if they could tweak the binary for us but I got no reply. Maybe if you add in a reply (and like/retweet) it'll do the trick?
https://twitter.com/the_suicider/status/1096638977484963840?s=19

[Icewind Dale Wilson]

Originally posted by Butane:

That's because Steam launches Blood with a few DOSBOX parameters and arguments which NBlood does not recognize.

I tried to get the devs attention regarding this to see if they could tweak the binary for us but I got no reply. Maybe if you add in a reply (and like/retweet) it'll do the trick?
https://twitter.com/the_suicider/status/1096638977484963840?s=19

Hey, thanks for the reply!
I guess it's pretty early into its development anyway, so makes sense.
I'd help you out there, but I avoid Twitter like the plague.

[>M@tEo$<]

BloodGDX has a fake DOSBox.exe just launching the JAR file, there could be something like that for NBlood (or just ignoring launching params :P)

[Kevin Thomas²]

Originally posted by FutaNaruto:

Has anyone been able to get NBlood to launch via Steam?
I tried renaming the nblood.exe to dosbox.exe, but I get this error when I boot it up:

source/blood/src/blood.cpp(1100): Invalid argument: -conf

Anyone know what this is all about? If I just launch the exe directly it runs fine.

This should do it https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c5jNo2_heSMY-RBS770Jv2B8SJ9EeeTu or http://www.fast-files.com/getfile.aspx?file=192778 extract it and drop it on the same directory where nblood.exe and dosbox.exe are localized, it's basically a .bat with some parameters converted to .exe format with bat to exe converter.

[Panc]

http://steamedit.tg-software.com/

Use this to edit launch option. Remove all of the launch option to stop nBlood from giving you an error.

[Μολοχ]

Originally posted by Kevin Thomas²:

Originally posted by FutaNaruto:

Has anyone been able to get NBlood to launch via Steam?
I tried renaming the nblood.exe to dosbox.exe, but I get this error when I boot it up:

source/blood/src/blood.cpp(1100): Invalid argument: -conf

Anyone know what this is all about? If I just launch the exe directly it runs fine.

This should do it https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c5jNo2_heSMY-RBS770Jv2B8SJ9EeeTu or http://www.fast-files.com/getfile.aspx?file=192778 extract it and drop it on the same directory where nblood.exe and dosbox.exe are localized, it's basically a .bat with some parameters converted to .exe format with bat to exe converter.

the links don't work anymore :(

[iriyap]

Managed to get it working, including the overlay and screenshot taking.

- Create a text file, type "nblood.exe" (sans quotes) in it, save it as whatever.bat.
- Go to this page[www.f2ko.de], upload the file, choose 32 bit/invisible, save the result as dosbox.exe.
- Replace the dosbox.exe in Steam's Blood folder.
- Windows Defender might throw a warning since the EXE size is so suspiciously small, simply choose "more info" -> "run anyway" and it won't bother you again.

EDIT: some clarification.

[Μολοχ]

Originally posted by iriyap:

Managed to get it working, including the overlay and screenshot taking.

- Create a text file, type "nblood.exe" (sans quotes) in it, save it as whatever.bat.
- Go to this page[www.f2ko.de], upload the file, save the result as dosbox.exe.
- Replace the dosbox.exe in Steam's Blood folder.

Thanks, but I just got a reply on twitter from Butane here, and it also works perfectly, I've literally just tested it right now:
https://twitter.com/the_suicider/status/1113013359585177600

[iriyap]

Yeah that would work too, but keep in mind that Steam updates the game configurations periodically, so that's only a temporary solution.

[Μολοχ]

Originally posted by iriyap:

Yeah that would work too, but keep in mind that Steam updates the game configurations periodically, so that's only a temporary solution.

Hm, I'll see what happens. If it breaks, I'll try it your way, thanks!

[Bazztoner]

Windows Defender says that it has it is a Trojan Triggre!plock.
What the ♥♥♥♥

Originally posted by iriyap:

Managed to get it working, including the overlay and screenshot taking.

- Create a text file, type "nblood.exe" (sans quotes) in it, save it as whatever.bat.
- Go to this page[www.f2ko.de], upload the file, choose 32 bit/invisible, save the result as dosbox.exe.
- Replace the dosbox.exe in Steam's Blood folder.
- Windows Defender might throw a warning since the EXE size is so suspiciously small, simply choose "more info" -> "run anyway" and it won't bother you again.

EDIT: some clarification.

[iriyap]

Yeah, the exe is compressed with UPX and it's causing a lot of false positives. It's annoying me too. Would be nice to have a better alternative.

Still, you can tell Windows Defender to make an exception (open Windows Defender -> history -> restore).

[Bazztoner]

Originally posted by iriyap:

Yeah, the exe is compressed with UPX and it's causing a lot of false positives. It's annoying me too. Would be nice to have a better alternative.

Still, you can tell Windows Defender to make an exception (open Windows Defender -> history -> restore).

If you download the Bat to Exe program instead of using the online converter, you can disable the UPX compression; we don't get a false positive that way.

[iriyap]

Hey, this worked. Thanks for the tip!

Here's a mini-guide[i.imgur.com] + download link[www.f2ko.de] for the program.

[melão.dota]

SteamEdit worked perfectly fine for me for me. Running NBlood.