Ok, the start.bat file goes like this.
Code:
@echo off
start world.exe
cls
echo Wait for World to finish loading... Press Enter when done.
pause
start eqlaunch.exe zone
exit
This allows anything with "echo" at the begining of it to be displayed on screen
This does what it says, it opens up world.exe in your Emu directory. This will happen as soon as you open start so you will have two windows open. If this opens and closes instantly, its due to a error in world.exe, 99% of the time because it cant connect to the database.
Clears the start.bat screen and makes it blank
Code:
echo Wait for World to finish loading... Press Enter when done.
Echo = Display text on screen
Will puase current program to allow time for world to finish loading before booting zones. "Press any key to continue"
Code:
start eqlaunch.exe zone
Starts eqlaunch.exe with zone option. Zone option tells it to look at a certain row in the launcher table in your database to find out how many zones to boot up dynamically.
Closes start.bat, essentially leaving you with two open windows, world.exe and eqlaunch.exe
Your issue with no servers in the server select screen is due to world not loading all the way, and closeing out as soon as it opens. Like I said, you will need to go over your log files in EqEmu\logs to find out why this is happening, or run world directly from a command prompt.
If your running the minilogin, it must be opened first, before running start.bat, so world has somehting to connect to as far as a login server goes.
The reason that I didnt add any minilogin information to my guide is do to the fact that its easier to get on going on public login to make sure it works. Once you can login in, make characters ect... then you can try to make the move to minilogin. Until I add it to my guide, I cant honestly say what needs to be done to make it work.
Give us this, and we can try to help you.
Log files that show the error first -> Try to search for the error number first in the fourms as 99% of the times, its aleadry been expierneced
Eqemu_config.xml -> need to trouble shoot
loginserver.ini -> since your using the minilogin
Version of Mysql, EqEmu, Perl
ip# of your computer that your running the server off of. Get this from run->cmd -> ipconfig (Should be like 192.168.xxx.xxx)
Databse your using, and how you obtained it. CVS or direct download.
These things help us out in determinging your issue.
Anyhow, hope this helps to get you going.