Commander Genius

Game engine to play Commander Keen games.

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Information

Emulators	cgenius
File folder	📂 roms \ 📂 cgenius
File extension	.cgenius
Saves location	emulators\cgenius\save Copied to saves\cgenius

BIOS

No BIOS required.

Controls

Retrobat	Commander Keen
START	Help
SELECT	Back
D-PAD	Directions
	Run
	Jump
	Fire
	Pogo
L1	Status
R1	Camlead
Hotkey +	Quicksave
Hotkey +	Quickload

System Features

Cgenius configuration file

By default, RetroBat will use the cgenius.cfg file located within the \emulators\cgenius\ folder of the RetroBat installation in order to apply game settings.

However, if you previously installer cgenius without RetroBat, it is possible that the settings files already exist in your user documents folder. If this is the case, this will render RetroBat settings ineffective.

To prevent this issue from happening, you can simply delete the cgenius files located in your user\documents folder.

Game files organization

The engine requires the games to be located in a "games" subfolder inside the roms\cgenius folder .

For RetroBat to detect the game, create in the individual game folder a text file and change the extension to ".cgenius".

The folder organization is the following:

└── roms\
    └── cgenius\
        └── games\
            ├── keen1\
            │   └── ...
            │   └── Commander Keen.cgenius
            └── keen2\
            │   └── ...
            │   └── Commander Keen 2.cgenius
            └── keen7\
            │   └── ...
            │   └── Commander Keen 7.cgenius

How to add a game

The files can be downloaded from the engine itself:

Run cgenius.exe from the emulators\cgenius folder:

Click on "+ MORE":

Select the game and click "download"

The game will be downloaded within the emulators\cgenius\games folder:

Copy the last folder (KeenDreams in the example) to the roms\cgenius\games folder:

Create an empty .cgenius file in the game folder: