Overview
A guide to create desktop shortcuts to launch each expansion in the Megaton Edition
Introduction
This guide will take you through creating desktop shortcuts for each game in the Megaton Edition
DISCLAIMER: This guide has only been tested on a Windows 7 64 Bit PC, This tutorial may vary based on Operating System, and information in this guide may not work on your system, I assume this will work on all Windows based PC’s, although I am not sure if it will on OSX or Linux
Getting Started
To start, simply create your first Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Shortcut, to do this, right click the game in your Steam library, and select “Create Desktop Shortcut”
On your desktop, copy and paste the shortcut three times so eventually you are left with four shortcuts to launch the Megaton Edition
Once you have completed this, move onto the next section
Launching Expansions
Once you have created your shortcuts, rename them to something which you can easily identify each shortcut by, I’m going to name each shortcut “Name of Expansion – Megaton Edition”
After you are done, you should end up with something similar to this, depending on how you decided to name your shortcuts
Now, right click the expansion that you wish to create a shortcut to, and go to properties, and edit the URL field to correspond with the correct expansion pack
Here are the URLs for to launch each game, and each expansion
- Duke Nukem 3D: steam://rungameid/225140/
- Duke It Out In DC: steam://rungameid/225140//-addon 1
- Nuclear Winter: steam://rungameid/225140//-addon 2
- Duke Caribbean: Life’s A Beach: steam://rungameid/225140//-addon 3
IMPORTANT: THERE CAN NOT BE ANY SPACES IN THE URL: IF THIS GUIDE DOES NOT WORK, CHECK YOUR SHORTCUTS FOR SPACES OR “[link]
Once you launch the shortcut, you will get this message, simply hit OK, and the game should launch with the desired expansion pack
Extra: Customization
Once you have created your shortcuts, you may wish to personalize them some more, for example, I will be adding custom icons to my shortcuts, to do this, go back to properties where we originally changed the URL, instead however, hit “Change Icon”, browse to the folder where your ICO file is and select it, the shortcut will change depending on which one you selected it
IMPORTANT: ICONS MUST BE IN .ICO FORMAT, ANY OTHER FORMAT WILL NOT WORK
I decided to go with icons relating to each expansion pack, and quickly threw some together to reflect this
If you wish to use my icons, I have uploaded them on my dropbox here, however the icons are very rough and you may wish to create your own.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52325718/duke%20icons.zip
Conclusion
Hopefully this guide has helped you, Feedback in the comments would be gratefully appreciated since I am inexperienced to writing guides. feel free to answer any questions in the comments and i’ll try to answer them to the best of my ability