Portable FF7 PC?

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@kranmer, i have never used (or heard of untill now) Ulteo. a quick search shows me its a type of Virtual Machine. if that is the case i don't see any reason that you can't get a distro set up to run ff7. with aali's driver the open source video card drivers for most cards will work well enuff to play at full fps (if you don't use direct mode). if this doesn't work its not to say you are with out options. for one there are several other virtual machine programs you can try. you can even try Wine on Windows and attempt to run it that way(if it builds now). i have not tried to run ff7 in a virtual machine myself since i only use one to test the 32bit version of black chocobo. ill let you know what i find out.
 
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AS long as you paid for a full license for the OS, there is no legal issue in making a portable virtual machine as the only install of the OS CD. vmware player might actually be good enough for running it.   But there is no portable virtual machine with enough power to run 3d games that I know of. vmware player must be installed on the target PC, because of the os integration required to gain performance.

A more likely to work approach is to purchase the PSX CDs, rip them to disk and run a psx emulator off the flash drive. YOu can even include emulator for windows and linux on the same flash drive.

I still maintain that my procedure is probably the one most likely to give the best results across most windows machines, even though it's not truly portable.

A custom sound driver should probably be developed to match the custom graphics driver. this way a good "fire and forget" config can be created.
 
Actually, no, some operating system vendors actively prohibit installation on VMs in the EULA.

But I know for a fact that Microsoft offers free XP VM licenses for testing legacy versions of Internet Explorer. Those a MS Virtual PC images, though - I don't know if they can be hotswapped by USB.
 
Yeah, like apple. :)

MS does not prohibit virtual machines. you just have to pay for the license as if it were a physical computer.

WIth windows 7 business or ultimate you do get a free xp professional license, but it is specific to the OS.
 
Give me a bit of time, I might be able to make something that, for all intents and purposes, SEEMS completely portable (will copy its own files/registry entries, play the game, and even temporarily rename its own drive, and then eliminate any trace of itself except for locally stored save files afterwards). It's not quite a perfect solution, but it should make the game functionally as good as portable.

Obviously, If I do this, I would require the original discs on setup to keep some semblance of antipiracy in there, and to ensure valid source files.
 
Give me a bit of time, I might be able to make something that, for all intents and purposes, SEEMS completely portable (will copy its own files/registry entries, play the game, and even temporarily rename its own drive, and then eliminate any trace of itself except for locally stored save files afterwards). It's not quite a perfect solution, but it should make the game functionally as good as portable.

Obviously, If I do this, I would require the original discs on setup to keep some semblance of antipiracy in there, and to ensure valid source files.
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That would be so cool! Would we be able to play in a psp? But the size with all those upscaled textures would be vast..  ???
 
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That would be so cool! Would we be able to play in a psp? But the size with all those upscaled textures would be vast..  ???
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No, it would still require Windows, and generally behave like an installed copy of the game. In computer software, "Portable" does not refer to running on portable systems, but being able to move from one machine to another and keep your data intact. For example, I could play the game from a USB flash drive on my home PC, save my game, bring my flash drive to work and play there, with my save intact, get fired for gaming at work, and then go home and keep playing, all from the flash drive, without leaving behind any remnants or evidence it was ever there.

Of course, the method I have in mind isn't truly a portable application, it just fakes it. Essentially what it would do is install the game's FILES to the flash drive on initial setup, and then run the game with a launcher that would install all the needed registry settings and whatnot, and then revert them when you're done playing. It's a bit of a hefty workaround, but the user experience should be pretty much the same as a program which was actually DESIGNED to be portable. In fact, most of what I have in mind is not all that different from Cameyo that DLPB already posted, except that it would be specifically tailored to FF7PC, retain moddability, and give the user a bit more control if they want it.
 
Would a solution like this work on windows systems where you don't have administrative access as well?
 
What about this ?
psx4droid run on zte blade

Would it be possible to play with mods?
 
Playing without actual physical buttons really sucks.

What if you use something like VMWare ThinApp with windows XP.  There probably aren't video card drivers for an older OS.  I've read a few posts by people running FF7 successfully using VMWare.
 
What about this ?
psx4droid run on zte blade

Would it be possible to play with mods?
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You really don't get how this stuff works, do you?
 
Playing without actual physical buttons really sucks.

What if you use something like VMWare ThinApp with windows XP.  There probably aren't video card drivers for an older OS.  I've read a few posts by people running FF7 successfully using VMWare.
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aye cameyo is basically a freeware of that program.
 
aye cameyo is basically a freeware of that program.
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Is there anyway to stop Cameyo from leaving loads of files on your computer in the "C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\VOS" folder ? i tried making a few portableapps with Cameyo and was slightly annoyed that they left stuff on my computer (the point being i didn't want them leaving anything on my computer).
Am i just missing some very simple setting in Cameyo that leaves these files around ?
 
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Sorry misread that.  Not sure if you can set it to stop that but those files aren't needed.  At least I don't think so.
 
they could be a way if you had a flashed psp i used to use a app that was windows on the psp (based on vista) that ran quite alot of programs i had load of different things on it like spotify and quicktime but saying that i never tryed a pc game with the app but i did play a back up of my ps1 version of ff7 and it played perfectly on my psp
 
Well if you have a psp, you can play the psx version on the go with little difficulty, without pirating. :)

Unfortunately, it's kinda difficult to MOD that particular version. In fact i'm not sure it's possible.

I doubt the PSP has the power to emulate windows and a 3D card and run the PC version.


With custom firmware, and googlable tools you CAN mod your own fff7psx ISOS, then create an eboot that will run on your PSP.
 
Just an unrelated fact, but Windows 3.11 runs on the PSP via DosBox.
 
Well can the beefy psvita handle it? I don't see why not with the specs but ofcourse still need to wait for a hack for it so we can emualate and do other crazy stuff :)
 
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