Selecting the EQ / exe shortcut path

[Sajun]

Okay... I'm by no means a computer expert, and this seems fairly simply to me, yet it's not working.

I just got Titanium from a friend who lives in the bay area with a group of pirates who eat organic food, then I followed the getting started instructions on here to get the launcher downloaded. Now I'm on the server select area, where I should be able to just hit play, but it's telling me that I have to select the EQ / exe shortcut path.

When the option window pops up I go to select the path manually. I put the files in a new folder under Program Files x86 and named it EQEmu, though doesn't seem to matter what I named the folder because it still won't let me select it. No matter what I do it still says "This is not the correct Everquest directory".

[Zereh]

Do this!

[Sajun]

I'm afraid I tried that. Followed the guide very carefully and still when I click the new shortcut it takes me to SOE's EQ game. It won't load Project 1999 by doing that.

I figured maybe it was because the directory for EQ was not in program files, so I moved it, so the target of the eqgame.exe is now labeled correctly like in your guide, being that it's now in program files. Still couldn't get it to work right. =(

[Zereh]

hmmm One bit or the other has to be incorrect somewhere. Double triple check!

[Sajun]

I've checked it and rechecked it a bazilliontrillion times. =(

The eqhost text file has the following in it:

[LoginServer]
Host=eqemulator.net:5998

And for the target of the shortcut it's:

"C:\Program Files\EverQuest\eqgame.exe" patchme

I can't think what part of that was done wrong, yet when I click the shortcut I still get the SOE EQ.

[Zereh]

Try to move it just to C:\<foldername>. I think Windows is trying to do some wonky permissions thing with it.

[Sajun]

Okay I did that and it gives me a log in screen that looks suspiciously like the soe version, complete with an old station username that it refuses to forget, and of course the trademark information and stuff.

Earlier it was doing the same thing except it had the background with Firiona Vie or w/e her name is sitting there. Now the background is just black.

I put in my forum username and password to log in but it just says "logging into the server, please wait". Doesn't show any signs of changing. =(

Edit: Well, turns out you need a seperate username and password, so I went to the EQEmu website and did that, logged in with the user/pass and still the same deal. =(

[Zereh]

It's almost like you are trying to use the shortcut taken from an EQ Live folder instead of the EMU Titanium folder. Wish I had more to offer, but I'd try deleting the shortcut you're trying to use and create a new one. Do the patchme thing and try one more time.

[Sajun]

I am using stuff from the EQ Live folder. I got the Titanium thing but there's really nothing in the folder, just seperate folders for each cd.

Yeah the Titanium folder didn't have a shortcut in it so, or rather it had no game file to make a shortcut from. I used the guide you posted to change the eqhost file in my EQLive folder, and then made a shortcut from the eqgame.exe file inside the EQLive folder as well.

[Zereh]

ah ha!

Download VirtualCloneDrive and use it to translate the .iso (image) files you found in the bay into working and usable files.

Once you have the files copied into a new directory THEN do all of the steps to get EQ running for this Emulator project.