Portable FFXI

[Kingofgeeks]

playing off a netbook would be awesome, especially with a 3G card.

I suppose a possibility would be to install ffxi on a host, then delete the playonline folder so that the registry is still preserved, and ffxi could just run off of the hard drive. This would be very useful since you don't have to deal with virtual machines but it would just be mostly portable, not completely portable.

This method will solve my issue, seeing as though there is a finite amount of computers i could possibly play ffxi on. I think, however, it would be nice to know if there was a way to make the game completely portable, without having to modify anything on the host computer

[Aliekber]

I think, however, it would be nice to know if there was a way to make the game completely portable, without having to modify anything on the host computer

Unless you can hook into the executable and hijack POL/FFXI's attempts to read the registry, and redirect them to an .ini file or something you've rigged up, probably not possible. You need the registry information there for FFXI to function.

Edit: And overall, it seems like a lot more effort than running a .REG file (unless you don't have admin rights on the destination computer, I suppose).