ffxi on usb

hello all I've been looking around trying to see if there is a way to put ffxi on myv32g USB drive and play I seen some forms talking about mojopac but I don't know if it works with Windows 7 and if I can use windower with it or not anyone know if I can or any other programs that are available to do this? Any info would be great since I no longer have internet at home but I go to many places with wifi or its ok to set up my computer to play

If you're already bringing your own computer somewhere with WiFi, then why do you need FFXI on a USB stick?

If you need to use someone else's computer at these WiFi hotspots then it's technically possible to put FFXI on a USB stick... but you'll also need to get all of the registry settings for FFXI and load them on that computer... then update the paths in them to the correct folder location as the USB stick may load under a different drive letter on different machines.

I don't play on a laptop tho so bringing mmy tower around sucks I seen some stuff about a program called mojopac but said was windows XP only

install steam and the steam version of of the game on usb. launch with steam. magic.

does the steam version work with windower? it should right

steam wont change any thing because you sill have reg data that needs to be there to log in and its coded where if your reg data does not match it errors and you have to reinstall it

even the steam ver is a full install

the only thing you can do is fully install ffxi on to your usb then get the reg data you need and create a .reg file and then run the ,reg file on the system you want to play it on(only needs to be done once for each machine as long as the reg does not get cleaned)

but the above assumes that your usb will always be the same drive letter on all computers

i supose someone could write a program that reads and adds reg data then starts ffxi but i dought it would get done

but you would need to know every reg line that ffxi puts in and i dont think any body here does

It would be theoretically possible to add some registry virtualization to Windower 5 to virtualize the COM regsitrations needed. We're doing something similar for game settings in Windower 5 already, but COM is quite a bit more complicated; I'm not really sure this kind of feature would see enough use to justify the effort involved in implementing it. Would definitely not make it in the initial release.

i'm using ffxi on a usb stick

it's pretty simple to play on a new machine (or from work) if you have admin rights to use some tools

(all your settings will remain, particulary macros/items sort order ...)

make sure the drive letter of the usb stick is the same on all your machine (computer/manage/storage/change drive letter)

i choose V:\

on the first computer :

with regedit, export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnline and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineEU (for EU zone and x86)

(or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PlayOnline, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PlayOnlineEU and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PlayOnlineEUInterface for EU zone and x64)

i have exported all of these in my .reg so it works with x86/x64 systems (make sure you use the last playonline viewer, not the one shipped with CDs)

on others computers :

import the .reg

you have to register some .dlls (with admin rights) :

cd SquareEnix
regsvr32 /s "FINAL FANTASY XI\FFXi.dll"
regsvr32 /s "FINAL FANTASY XI\FFXiMain.dll"
regsvr32 /s "FINAL FANTASY XI\FFXiResource.dll"
regsvr32 /s "FINAL FANTASY XI\FFXiVersions.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\polhook.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\unicows.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\patchfiles\PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\com\appEU.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\patchfiles\PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\com\polcoreEU.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\polcfg\sysinfo.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\util\unicows.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\ax\MSVCR71.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\ax\polmvf.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\ax\polmvfINT.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\com\appEU.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\com\polcoreEU.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\contents\PolContents.dll"
regsvr32 /s "PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\contents\polcontentsINT.dll"
regsvr32 /s "TetraMaster\TM.dll"

again it's for EU zone, you need to change some files names

You need admin rights to install the game (because of regedit and regsvr32) but you don't need them to play

just make sure that all the registry keys have write access for all users

(default for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE is read only for a standard user)

then you can launch "SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\ToolsEU\FINAL FANTASY XI Config.exe" and save your configuration.

(if you don't have admin rights and didn't make change in autorizations, your configuration will not be saved in registry)

of course, these steps are only done 1 time

put windower on your stick too and make a shortcut on your desktop

no one said it could not be done just that its not easy

heck i could build an app that does it all for you including launch windower/ffxi and when ffxi shuts down it removes all traces of the data fro the registry

but its just not easy to do

example:

you need all the registry lines

and that should cover all the regsvr32 as well

then you have to compensate for each drive letter