Return and what about running from flash drive

[Nori]

I'm a long time player of ToME 2.x and 3 and I was going to recommend it to a forum pal but I wanted to link to a website. To my chargin I can't seem to find the iconic black and red site and kept getting redirected to this te4.org site... I finally figured out (by reading through all the dev blogs) that this is actually ToME 4 and it has been redone! Very pleased by this. The game looks great and I can't wait to try it out!

Anyway, I briefly ran the game from my flash drive and noticed that it created a profile folder in my documents on my harddrive. Is there a way to make it keep the profile on the flash drive and keep it completely mobile? I could find anything in my searches, so figured I'd register and ask.

Thanks for working on this again. ToME 2.x and especially 3.x were my favorite rougelikes that I played (though I'm really like Dwarf Fortress right now). Anywho, it looks great!

[darkgod]

Thanks for the praises!

Unless you recompile there is no way to do that I'm afraid, but it would seem to be a popular option I'll see if I can cook that up

[Final Master]

If you could do that, it would be amazing. That way I can just scoop up everything when I go somewhere instead of having to transfer the 'important' files from my C drive and put them back on my external harddrive.

[j-rod]

I can second that. In lieu of online save files, this is a great alternative. I could play at home, and for those times when I find myself with "free" time at work, I could pop it in there...

[viper73]

I've got two Windows 7 machines that I use to play. What I've done is copy my T-Engine folder out of my user folder and put it into my Dropbox. Then I created a symbolic link in the user folder to direct to the Dropbox and there you have it. My save files sync automatically between both computers.

If only the save files were the same between the different platforms so I can do that with my MacBookPro...

[Seneschul]

Very desirable quality!

I can't move between linux and windows saves? Smud.

[Seneschul]

Hmm, whomever said you can't move between windows and linux saves is incorrect.
I am happily pwning on Senesbrawl.

I spent this morning syncing dropbox (cloud backup)
and utilizing info from here: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/02/sy ... _folder-2/
Windows way:

• 1. Make a dropbox account. (I get bonus dropbox space if you use this link: http://db.tt/9GsGPaH )
  2. Install Dropbox Dropbox for windows
  3. Go to %USERPROFILE% and back up yout T-Engine folder (I prefer 7zip.
  4. Move your T-Engine folder from your user directory, to your dropbox folder.
  5. Download JUNCTION (This tool only works on XP, Vista, and 7 OSes. The host file system may need to be NTFS too)
  6. Open a cmd prompt (administrative command prompt for vista/7)
  7. In the command prompt, type in the following, without the single quote marks 'junction "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Dropbox\T-Engine" "%USERPROFILE%\T-Engine"
  8. Play your games everywhere. Make sure not to have multiple t-engines open between your work and your home computers!

Linux way:

• 1. Make a dropbox account. (I get bonus dropbox space if you use this link: http://db.tt/9GsGPaH )
  2. Install Dropbox dropbox for Unix
  3. On linux? Go to ~ and back up yout .t-engine folder.
  4. Move your .t-engine folder from your user directory, to your dropbox folder. ('move ~/.t-engine ~/Dropbox/T-Engine')
  5. Open a shell prompt
  6. In the shell prompt, type in the following, without the single quote marks 'ln -s "~/Dropbox/T-Engine" "~/.t-engine"
  7. Play your games everywhere. Make sure not to have multiple t-engines open between your work and your home computers!

Flash drive

• 1. Go to %USERPROFILE% and back up yout T-Engine folder (I prefer 7zip.
  2. Move your T-Engine folder from your user directory, to your flashdrive. (We'll call the flashdrive M, thus move your T-Engine folder to M:\ )
  3. Download JUNCTION (This tool only works on XP, Vista, and 7 OSes. The host file system may need to be NTFS too - the flash drive does not need to be NTFS)
  4. Open a cmd prompt (administrative command prompt for vista/7)
  5. In the command prompt, type in the following, without the single quote marks ' junction "%USERPROFILE%\T-Engine" "M:\T-Engine" '
  6. Play your games everywhere you take your flash drive. Make sure not to have multiple t-engines open between your work and your home computers!

the thing that looks like a dash is actualy a tilde ~ the key to the left of the number 1 makes it. It's shorthand for home directory on Unix.
The %userprofile% is shorthand on windows for "my user profile directory".
Whenever the flashdrive is removed, the link is broken until the flashdrive is inserted. If the flashdrive is assigned a different drive letter, the junction is broken and needs to be re-made.

Lemme know how it works for you! (goes to play his brawler!)
Seneschul

P.S. THe linux commands should work for Mac OS. Just make sure to install the macintosh dropbox instead of the linux one. And you may need to tweak the command lines

[yufra]

Hmm, whomever said you can't move between windows and linux saves is incorrect.

I think in general this will work. The saves are basically zipped tarballs, and copying those between windows/linux/mac is fairly stable.

[Canderel]

Cool I've done it for flash. Thanks!


Just note: the parameters are the other way around.

Junction "%userprofile%\t-engine" "m:\t-engine"

[Seneschul]

Cool I've done it for flash. Thanks!


Just note: the parameters are the other way around.

Junction "%userprofile%\t-engine" "m:\t-engine"

Woops, fixed; Thanks

[Nori]

Wow, guess it is a popular idea.