Shortcuts creator for emulators
ShortCutes is a tool to easily create shortcuts on desktop for some of your favorites emulators. (Windows only)

Is not neccesary to remember every emulator parameter, just select an emulator, game and image; whoala shortcut created.

ShortCutes has its own GUI while waiting for an emulator to open. (Check Screenshots for some GUI examples) (The wait depends on your hardware)


Example Screenshots
Cemu
Yuzu
Dolphin
Supported Emulators
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ShortCutes isn't signed. This leads to most navigators and Windows to prompt an insecurity alert (False Positive). To avoid this problem ShortCutes needs to get some downloads to be trusted by the navigators and Windows or you can build ShortCutes yourself with the source code and Visual Studio 2019 or 2022.

You can check here a VirusTotal scan report
Open report here

Exclude ShortCutes folder from any Anti-Virus to avoid problems, ShortCutes folder is created on your Emulator Path root.
(ShortCutes gives you the path the first time for every emulator).

ShortCutes requires .NET Framework 4.8 Runtime to work
Download .NET Framework 4.8 here

Recommendations
  • Recommend that the emulators have their original name (Example: Cemu 1.23.exe | Cemu.exe)
  • For a better user experience make sure you have a shortcut to the emulators on desktop, task bar or Windows menu
  • Exclude ShortCutes folder from any Anti-Virus to avoid problems, ShortCutes folder is created on your Emulator Path root. (ShortCutes gives you the path the first time for every emulator)
  • Re-doing a shortcut overwrites the old shortcut (You can find all your shortcuts on the history and modify them)
FAQs
Why ShortCutes as name?
It all started with a Console App of little size (we could say "cute" size), but most important because I misspelled Shortcuts and I wrote ShortCutes. Then I noticed it but I liked the idea, so I kept working on the project around that naming. Now it has it's on Cute GUI, "Cute size" for every shortcut, etc.
Why should I use ShortCutes instead of normal Windows shortcuts?
Simple, because the launcher looks good while waiting for the emulator to open, you don't need to remember every argument for every emulator and the shortcut can be added to steam or any game launcher instead of windows shortcuts which are recognized as the same program.

But if you are not interested on any of those advantages, you can use the arguments listed below to create your own shortcuts (Knowledge is power).
What file should I select on Cemu or RPCS3 emulator which has decompressed games?
Cemu
For Cemu emulator you need to select *.rpx file located in your game folder (Cemu supports: *.rpx; *.wud; *.wux; *.elf; *.iso files)

File Directory:
Your-Game-Folder-Path/code/File-Name.rpx
Example:
The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wild/code/U-King.rpx

RPCS3
For RPCS3 emulator you need to select EBOOT.bin file located in your game folder (game folder could be inside RPCS3 nand)

File Directory:
Your-Game-Folder-Path/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/EBOOT.bin
Example:
BLUS30481/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/EBOOT.bin

Which are the arguments used for every supported emulator?
The arguments for every emulator are listed below

Cemu
emu-path/cemu.exe -g "game-dir" -f

Project64
emu-path/Project64.exe "game-dir"

SNES9X
emu-path/snes9x.exe "..\game-dir" -fullscreen

Dolphin
emu-path/dolphin.exe -e "game-dir"

yuzu
emu-path/yuzu.exe -f -g "game-dir"

Ryujinx
emu-path/Ryujinx.exe -f "game-dir"

Citra
emu-path/citra-qt.exe "game-dir"

DeSmuME
emu-path/DeSmuME.exe --windowed-fullscreen "game-dir"

mGBA
emu-path/mGBA.exe -f "game-dir"

VBA
emu-path/VisualBoyAdvance.exe -F "game-dir"

VBA-M
emu-path/visualboyadvance-m.exe "game-dir"

RPCS3
emu-path/rpcs3.exe "game-dir"

PCSX2
emu-path/pcsx2.exe --fullscreen --nogui "game-dir"

PPSSPP
emu-path/PPSSPPWindows.exe --fullscreen "game-dir"

xemu
emu-path/xemu.exe -full-screen -dvd_path "game-dir"

xenia
emu-path/xenia.exe "game-dir" --fullscreen

DuckStation
emu-path/duckstation-qt.exe -fullscreen -resume -- "game-dir"

MelonDS
emu-path/melonDS.exe -f "game-dir"

Flycast
emu-path/flycast.exe -config window:fullscreen=yes "game-dir"