How can I make this game work from a memory stick only?

[Vraagman]

Is there a way to install Worms World Party onto a memory stick to play it on any pc where you put the stick in without having to install other stuff first?

I installed it on a memory stick and while the menu and stuff worked whenever I tried to start a game it would crash saying it had a memory error, which I guess is because, when installing on the memory stick, it also put something somewhere else on my pc.

I don't want to have to install the game everywhere I go, I can carry the disc for verification and memory stick for the installed game, but I dont want to have to install it everywhere I go.

Thank you for your time.

[franpa]

I don't think you will find much support here for cracks.

[Vraagman]

how is this a crack?

[robowurmz]

He isn't looking for a crack; he wants to install the game to his memory stick and carry the CD around so it will play.

Technically it should work if you install the game to the stick; when you're on another computer, put in the CD and run the WWP.exe file that is inside the folder you installed it in. Oddly enough, it isn't for you.

I wonder if this is due to the registry entries the installer creates? If this is causing the problem, you could open up regedit.exe and find the Worms World Party registration key in "HKEY_Local_Machine/Software/Team17/Worms World Party". You could export the Team17 registry entries to a folder on the stick, and then on another PC double click the exported file to merge it with the registry. That may or may not solve your problem; memory errors usually have something to do with the RAM of the PC, not storage memory.

[yakuza]

Just out of curiosity, are you a nomad?

[Vraagman]

Cant install stuff at my work

and no, I dont play games at my work, only in the pause.

[Vader]

If this also works for WA then I would be interested to hear the solution. My girlfriend has a wifi laptop for her job which she can't install things onto. It would be cool if we didn't have to share a PC when we're playing WA online. :)

[franpa]

probably the lack of access to win.ini granted I don't know where WWP stores the player name etc.

[Vraagman]

it stored the name on the memory stick, I made a team and I could see the team also on the other pc, apparantly it needs something to really play the game(not change options etc) which it puts somewhere else

[Vader]

As robowurmz said, it will be something to do with the registry.

I can't be sure about WWP as I don't have it installed but WA stores quite a few things in the registry, such as resolution (DisplayXSize, DisplayYSize), your detail preference - background, clouds, etc. (DetailLevel) and so on.

I imagine the reason the game wont launch is the result of not having those registry entries present on whichever PC you're playing on.

Perhaps MadEwokHerd's auto-installer would work for WA as that doesn't add reg entries, I don't think... I might be wrong. Plus that's not helpful to you if you only have WWP.

edit: I just used the auto-installer to put WA on my PSP's Memory Stick and it works but I noticed that it was using the correct res, so it must be looking at the entries already present in the registry from my C:\ drive installation of the game. I'll try it on my girlfriend's work laptop when she brings it home next but again, this might only prove that reg entries need to be present, not provide a means to play from a MS, especially given you have WWP. Is it worth asking whether you have WA?

[Muzer]

Perhaps MadEwokHerd's auto-installer would work for WA as that doesn't add reg entries, I don't think... I might be wrong.
It doesn't.

Both WWP and W:A can be run self-contained. However, both games for some stupid reason store some data into win.ini, so if you don't have access to that it could crash. I suppose the only way would be to patch out all the win.ini references in the .EXE, though that's probably easier said than done.

Also, it has to be able to read from and write to the registry, though both games can reconstruct all their registry entries successfully if they don't exist.

[Vraagman]

how about changing all video settings when you get on a new pc so it will remake those options?

[Vader]

So, assuming access to win.ini isn't an issue (as is suggest by my ability to launch and play a game), running this WA I have on my PSP MS will work because it will write the entries into the registry of its own accord?

Groovy.

[franpa]

whats a PSP MS?

[robowurmz]

PSP Memory Stick.

This should work if you had access to win.ini.
I think that possibly you could make a file called win.txt, and then hex edit the executable file to look for win.txt instead of win.ini...