Portable applications

vampyr07au · 06-15-2009, 07:33 AM

Not sure if this is the right place to post but i'll put it up anyway.

I have a couple of free portable games that I use on my USB stick and I have used winrar to turn them into an sfx file rather than having the folder with all of the files sitting on the thumb drive.

The problem I have is that when I save my game and then exit the game save file is lost because the sfx only extracts to a temp folder.

what i want to know is whether or not there is a way that I can make the sfx save the modified game save file when i exit my game .....

I want to be able to open the sfx, play, save then exit and next time i open it not have to start all over again

can anyone suggest anything ?

**jamiemac2005** · 06-15-2009, 08:22 AM

Hey, although this is possible(and let me add, hard to accomplish) you'd be re-encoding the sfx every time you play(depending on filesize this would most likely take a while)... You'd also have to have a full working(portable) copy of winrar(or the command line version) on your drive at the same time, so it's basically not worth doing(because you're back where you were at the beginning)...My only suggestion is that if they're portable to start with then you're just gonna have to put up with the files seeming messy. (don't zip em up).

Sorry that there's not a better solution(there isn't really, i've done this a few times and saving data in one single file is hard to do)...

Cheers,
Jamey

vampyr07au · 06-15-2009, 06:48 PM

OK

Guess I'll have to put up with it the way it is then

thanks

06-15-2009, 07:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
vampyr07au Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 20 OS: Xp pro	Portable applications Not sure if this is the right place to post but i'll put it up anyway. I have a couple of free portable games that I use on my USB stick and I have used winrar to turn them into an sfx file rather than having the folder with all of the files sitting on the thumb drive. The problem I have is that when I save my game and then exit the game save file is lost because the sfx only extracts to a temp folder. what i want to know is whether or not there is a way that I can make the sfx save the modified game save file when i exit my game ..... I want to be able to open the sfx, play, save then exit and next time i open it not have to start all over again can anyone suggest anything ?

06-15-2009, 08:22 AM	#2 (permalink)
jamiemac2005 Design Team Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Coventry, UK Posts: 1,853 OS: Vista, various linux distros	Re: Portable applications Hey, although this is possible(and let me add, hard to accomplish) you'd be re-encoding the sfx every time you play(depending on filesize this would most likely take a while)... You'd also have to have a full working(portable) copy of winrar(or the command line version) on your drive at the same time, so it's basically not worth doing(because you're back where you were at the beginning)...My only suggestion is that if they're portable to start with then you're just gonna have to put up with the files seeming messy. (don't zip em up). Sorry that there's not a better solution(there isn't really, i've done this a few times and saving data in one single file is hard to do)... Cheers, Jamey __________________ Myspace

06-15-2009, 06:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
vampyr07au Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 20 OS: Xp pro	Re: Portable applications OK Guess I'll have to put up with it the way it is then thanks