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    Guide to Creating Shortcuts for SS13 servers

    Addicted to SS13? Hate it whenever the BYOND hub decides to shit itself? Here you will learn how to create individual shortcuts for SS13 servers so you won't have to mess with the BYOND hub or server links.

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    Nifty right? Let's cut the chase and learn how to do this!

    Step 1: Grabbing dat link
    To grab the links of any BYOND server, go to their webpage and find the "Play Now!" button! (You can also go to the BYOND website at http://www.byond.com/games/Exadv1/SpaceStation13 and try find it there,but I haven't tested these links)
    Next hover over it and right click, then click "inspect" (inspect element for non-chrome users):
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    You should see the HTML code of the webpage, don't worry you aren't "hacking" the server, its clientside.
    Google chrome should highlight the line of code we need for this, and we are looking for a string which is this:

    Carefully select it, copy and paste it into a notepad document, you will need it later.
    Step 2: Creating the shortcut
    To create a shortcut, go back to your desktop and right-click an empty area and click "create shortcut"
    Once you do that, a window should pop up asking for the location of the executable file
    Enter the location of your BYOND.exe file, it is typically in "C:\Program Files (x86)\BYOND\bin\byond.exe"
    Then paste in the link we saved earlier after the quotes. Be sure that they are separated with a space!
    It should something like this:
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    After you are done with that, simply name it on the next prompt and you are good to go! If you run into any issues, make sure to check the BYOND link or the link to the file

    Step 3:Creating Nice Icons (OPTIONAL)
    To get icons for it, simply hunt for the image in the server's webpage,wiki or BYOND website and click save image as.
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    Then go to https://www.icoconverter.com/ and upload the file that you saved, don't mess with any of the options there. Then convert it.
    (OPTIONAL) After downloading the fresh .ico files, make sure to place it in a folder or at least out of the downloads folder so your computer isn't messy or you won't accidentally delete them in the future.

    Next go to your fresh icon file and right click it, Select the "Change Icon" button
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    Click browse and simply find the icon that you uploaded and (hopefully) put in it's own folder, so you won't fuck it up later.
    Then once you have found it, select it and then press "apply"

    Congrats! You now have your cool little icon for your SS13 shortcut!
    (note: make sure not to fuck with .ico files after this or you will end up having to do this again since the shortcuts use file paths, and even moving the files can mess it up)

    Now you can join the server anytime, without messing with the BYOND hub! (unless the server shits itself/is in the middle of a restart)
    These can be done with any SS13 server, not just CM-SS13, just with differant links and .icos .


    Have a happy CM day!
    Last edited by Total_Epicness; 09-25-2019 at 05:56 AM.

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