launcher

Neo's Starsiege Launcher

Launches a specified version Starsiege following the proposed starsiege:// URI

Quick Install instructions

1. Download launcher.exe and place it where your Starsiege.exe is located
2. Download example.reg
3. Open example.reg in your favorite text editor
4. Replace all 3 instances of \\path\\to... to the folder from step 1, making sure your path separators are two backslashes (\\).
5. Save, Exit, and Double-Click on your .reg file
6. Click yes on the prompt or prompts
7. Try it out: Github doesn't like to link to non-standard URIs, so pasting the following URI starsiege://96.126.117.157:29007 into your browser's address bar will work just as well.
8. Check out the other servers you can now instantly join at https://starsiegeplayers.com/multiplayer

If Starsiege doesn't launch, or you need any additional help, visit us at the Starsiege Players Discord

Overview

Windows provides a way to register arbitrary protocols with the proper registry configuration.

We can use this mechanism to launch Starsiege, similarly to how Steam launches apps with the steam:// URIs. For example pasting the URI steam://url/StoreAppPage/17080 in your address bar should open a dialog box withing your browser asking to launch steam. This will take you to the Tribes: Ascend Steam store page.

Other URIs such as rungameid will go ahead and launch the game in Steam. Pasting the following in your address bar steam://rungameid/17080 will prompt Steam to launch Tribes: Ascend

Example Registry information (example.reg)

Every install of Starsiege is unique, therefore this file provided for use as a template. The simplest way of using the launcher is to place it alongside starsiege.exe

In this case, change all 3 instances of \\path\\to\\... to the folder your starsiege.exe file is in.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\starsiege]
@="URL:Starsiege Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""
"DefaultIcon"="C:\\path\\to\\starsiege.exe,1"
"Executable"="C:\\path\\to\\starsiege.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\starsiege\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\starsiege\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\starsiege\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\path\\to\\launcher.exe\" %1"

Proposed URI Schema Definition