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User Manual

2011.08

1 Content
1 2 3 4 5 6 Content ......................................................................................................................................2 Preparation ................................................................................................................................3 Installation.................................................................................................................................6 Configurations.........................................................................................................................10 Save & Load Game Data ........................................................................................................12 Customize Skin .......................................................................................................................17

2 Preparation
1. On CCBoot server, select a client from the client list as the master PC. Double click it to open the Client Properties dialog box. Specify the Game Disk for this master PC (Figure 2-1 and Figure 2-2).

Figure 2-1

Figure 2-2 2. Options -> Settings -> Other Settings, set Server and Client Disk Mapping for the game disks (Figure 2-3).

Figure 2-3 3. Diskless boot the master PC, run games from the game disk to make sure the game disks are working well. Then shut down the Master PC.

4. On CCBoot server, double click the master PC to open its Client Properties dialog box, check the Keep Write-back File option (Figure 2-4). When save, please delete preview write-back file (Figure 2-5).

Figure 2-4

Figure 2-5

3 Installation
1. Diskless boot the master PC. Launch gmenusetup.exe, keep clicking the Next button till finish.

Figure 3-1 2. When installation finished, it will pop up a dialog box as Figure 3-2. Please specify the folder of game data here. It will be used for saving shortcuts of games.

Figure 3-2 3. Click the OK button to get into the main window as Figure 3-3.

Figure 3-3 Now, theres no game here, please click the Quit Menu button to quit. 4. Create shortcuts for all the games in game disk, and move them to different folders in C:\CCBootGameMenu\games. Therere six default folders here (Figure 3-4). You can also create shortcuts for chat tools, Internet tools and typing tools and move them to the corresponding folders.

Figure 3-4 5. Launch CCBoot GameMenu, click the Settings button at the right bottom. Input the default password (123456) to open the Game Manager window (Figure 3-5).

Figure 3-5 6. Click the Update Icons button to import shortcuts for games and other tools you have created. Now you can see the game list in the main window (Figure 3-6). OK, please shut down this master PC.

Figure 3-6 7. On CCBoot server, open the master PCs Client Properties dialog box and click the Save to Image button. Now, you can diskless boot this master PC again to try the game menu.

For other client PCs which using the same image with the master PC, please check out their game disk settings to make sure also the same with the master PC. Then, when you diskless boot them you will find that the CCBoot GameMenu is also available.

4 Configurations

Figure 4-1

To search games all over this game menu.

To open My Computer.

To open My Documents. Change skin for CCBoot Game Menu. To open the Mouse Properties window. To open the Volume Control window. To quit CCBoot Game Menu. To open the Game Manager window, you can import and update game icons, change skin and password here. The default password here is 123456.

To search via Google.

To modify this information please open the games.xml file in folder C:\CCBootGameMenu\games with notepad, then edit the bellow information between <marquee> and </marquee> <marquee>WE HOPE CAFE</marquee> YOU'RE ENJOYING PLAYING @ YOUNGZSOFT CYBER

Save this file, then restart CCBoot GameMenu to enable it.

If you want to customize the category here, please also open the games.xml file in folder C:\CCBootGameMenu\games with notepad, then edit information between <categories> and </categories>. If you want to add new category, please dont forget to create corresponding folder first. After save this file, please Update Icons to enable it.

5 Save & Load Game Data

Figure 5-1 2. After installation finish, it will popup a dialog box as bellow. Please specify a folder here to save the game data uploaded from clients.

Figure 5-2 3. Click the OK button then you will see the main window of Youngzsoft Game Save as bellow (Figure 5-3).

Figure 5-3 4. On CCBoot server, click to select the Keep Write-back File check box for the master PC then diskless boot it. 5. When diskless boot OK, please open the games.xml file in C:\CCBootGameMenu\games.

Figure 5-4 Set the IP address of CCBoot server between <IP></IP>, for example, <IP>192.168.1.10</IP>. Save this file. 6. In the game shortcuts save folder, for example C:\CCBootGameMenu\games\langames, create an .xml file using the same name as the game shortcut. For example, the game shortcut named nba2k11, you need to create a file named nba2k11.xml. Open this file with notepad, input the bellow information <game> <SaveDat>D:\gamedata\nba2k11\*.*</SaveDat> </game> The string between <SaveDat> and </SaveDat> is the game data you want to save for this game. It supports multi models, for example <game> <SaveDat>D:\gamedata\nba2k11\*.*</SaveDat> </game> Means to save all files and subfolders in folder D:\gamedata\nba2k11\.

<game> <SaveDat>D:\gamedata\nba2k11\data.dat</SaveDat> </game> Means to save only one specified file (data.dat) in folder D:\gamedata\nba2k11\.

<game> <SaveDat>D:\gamedata\nba2k11\data1.dat</SaveDat> <SaveDat>D:\gamedata\nba2k11\data2.dat</SaveDat> <SaveDat>D:\gamedata\nba2k11\data3.dat</SaveDat> </game> Means to save only 3 specified file in folder D:\gamedata\nba2k11\.

<game> <SaveDat>D:\gamedata\nba2k11\data1.dat</SaveDat> <SaveDat>E:\gamedata\nba2k11\data2.dat</SaveDat> </game> Means to save only 2 specified file in different folders.

For new version, we have added GUI for these settings. Login as administrator and then right-click a selected game icon, then click Edit Game... to open the Game Edit dialog box as bellow.

Figure 5-5 Menu run mode: Select to show/hide/exit CCBoot GameMenu on running current game. Save dats: Game data saving settings, you can add multi items here. Precmds: When launch current game, it will run commands specified here. For example, import different game keys for different clients. 7. After you have saved the .xml file, please start CCBoot Game Menu and Update Icons.

Right click the game for which you have just created the .xml file, you will see the Load Game Data and Save Game Data options. 8. Click the Load Game Data or Save Game Data option to open the dialog box as bellow. To save or load game data, you must have an account. You can create account here, then login to save or load game data.

Figure 5-6

6 Customize Skin
As a default setting, there are 2 available skins for CCBoot Game Menu: default and blue.

Figure 6-1 Default Skin

Figure 6-2 Blue Skin Its easy to customize the skin as bellow. 1. Open the folder C:\CCBootGameMenu\skins, you will find 2 folders here which belong to the 2 default skins: default and blue. 2. Create a copy of folder default, rename it as you wish.

3. Open this new folder and over write the pictures you want to change. Note: please use the same file name for all files in the skin folder. 4. Now, start CCBoot Game Menu, click the Change Skin button, you will see a new skin option which you have just added.