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Goodseed
Profile Joined December 2010
Korea (South)270 Posts
October 29 2011 02:47 GMT
#1
I got a 16gb USB from PNY bought from bestbuy and I'm looking to put games on here so we can possibly lan at school club after school.
One of the guy made a portable USB for dota and it literally took 10sec to open up the game.
I'm trying to get Starcraft 2 and CS 1.6 ( maybe more )

So my question is, does someone know how to make put a game into usb so you can play anywhere?
안녕하소~
Jaxtyk
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States600 Posts
October 29 2011 03:07 GMT
#2
Can the school computers even handle a game like SC2??
To tell the truth....I could beat anyone in the world.
LXR
Profile Joined June 2011
357 Posts
October 29 2011 03:12 GMT
#3
I don't think sc2 would work very well. sc1 worked great for lanning at my school, as well as Halo CE and CS1.6.

SC2 would not work well because you have to connect to bnet to install, which might not work through your firewall and takes a long time regardless.
Goodseed
Profile Joined December 2010
Korea (South)270 Posts
October 29 2011 03:18 GMT
#4
@LXR
how did you get cs 1.6 for portable? and was it playable for lan too? I would love to know!

Yea most school computers suck, dont really think it can run sc2 even in low quality.
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Puph
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada635 Posts
October 29 2011 03:21 GMT
#5
I'd check their specs next time. Also, as stated before I can vouch that battle.net 2.0 is very fussy when it comes to internet connection but it is worth a try.
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Hoon
Profile Joined December 2010
Brazil891 Posts
October 29 2011 03:22 GMT
#6
Our class have a portable CS 1.6 in a pen drive that supports LAN inside the whole University, so we can play anywere as long as we are connected to the campus' network.

You could try Diablo II as well. It runs on any computer. (:
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Goodseed
Profile Joined December 2010
Korea (South)270 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-29 03:23:43
October 29 2011 03:22 GMT
#7
school blocks connection for games and stuff like that so I dont think sc2 will ever work at school because you would be able to play only lan featured games. ;d

@hoon

what is a pen drive and is there a download link for the portable cs 1.6? or you know how to make one? that can work with my own configs for binds and stuff?
안녕하소~
Hoon
Profile Joined December 2010
Brazil891 Posts
October 29 2011 03:28 GMT
#8
On October 29 2011 12:22 Goodseed wrote:
school blocks connection for games and stuff like that so I dont think sc2 will ever work at school because you would be able to play only lan featured games. ;d

@hoon

what is a pen drive and is there a download link for the portable cs 1.6? or you know how to make one? that can work with my own configs for binds and stuff?


Uh, sorry, in Brazil, USB Flash Drives are called Pen Drives. :p

I don't know how to get/make it portable, but maybe you can send all the files from the CS folder and put them into the USB, so you just transfer all the files to the computer.
As it is 1.6, you need to make a shortcut for hl.exe with the parameter "-game cstrike ".
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Childplay
Profile Joined October 2011
Canada263 Posts
October 29 2011 03:35 GMT
#9
i thought all you had to do was copy the game files onto your usb and run it, thats how i always did it, unless im understanding this wrong
Goodseed
Profile Joined December 2010
Korea (South)270 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-29 03:37:00
October 29 2011 03:36 GMT
#10
what do you mean by with the parameter -game cstrike?
Also, if I just drag all the folders to the usb, will it run without a install?
How would I be able to run like cevo config and do a live on 3 thing?
안녕하소~
Hoon
Profile Joined December 2010
Brazil891 Posts
October 29 2011 03:42 GMT
#11
On October 29 2011 12:35 Childplay wrote:
i thought all you had to do was copy the game files onto your usb and run it, thats how i always did it, unless im understanding this wrong

Yeah, I guess that's how it's done. :p


On October 29 2011 12:36 Goodseed wrote:
what do you mean by with the parameter -game cstrike?
Also, if I just drag all the folders to the usb, will it run without a install?


After you make a shortcut for hl.exe, right click it(the shortcut), go to properties and add " -game cstrike" at the end of the Target thingy, so it'll be like
"C:\Users\Hoon\Documents\hl.exe" -game cstrike

You have to do it because CS is just a mod of Half Life, so you have to add this parameter in order to run CS over HL. :p
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Ruscour
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
5233 Posts
October 29 2011 04:29 GMT
#12
WC3 works great portable.
renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
October 29 2011 05:05 GMT
#13
we used to do this back in computer club, good times

i loved playing brood war against the kids cause none of them knew how to play, so I would regularly just 1v7 them, classic!
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Dotrar
Profile Joined October 2011
Australia46 Posts
October 29 2011 05:36 GMT
#14
Most of the time, its just a case of copying the file from C:\Program Files\BLAH
to your drive, not much else is needed.

i know SC:BW needed the registry keys though, inwhich i just did a search for Starcraft in the register and exported it.
Phayze
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2029 Posts
October 29 2011 19:20 GMT
#15
Blizzard games especially are great as this, as they rarely ever need an actual install to run properly. Source games are great also, you can bring steam around on a USB stick also and only have to run first time setup for the games. Other than that though it's pretty hard nowadays. Allowing this sort of behavior is a dead giveaway of priracy; but i'm really glad steam and blizzard have the right ideas.
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LanTAs
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1091 Posts
October 29 2011 20:02 GMT
#16
1. Plug in USB into your comp
2. Copy whole Starcraft 2file from Program Files
3. Its going to be like 12 GBs, but if you delete the whole campaign file, the game will be just 5GB of memory.
4. Unplug from your comp
5. bring it to school and plug it in.
6. Open the SC2 file
7. Open Support, then open SC2 switcher
8. ???
9. Profit from playing at school.

If you open the Normal SC2 opener, it'll say that you need an admin account, but if you open SC2 switcher then you dont need it for some reason.
Also, yes, SC2 DOES WORK WITHOUT CAMPAIGN FILES. you just can't play it if you delete it but you save a shitload of memory.

Doing this since SC2 came out last year, so enjoy!
MrEko
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada37 Posts
October 29 2011 20:42 GMT
#17
On October 30 2011 05:02 LanTAs wrote:
1. Plug in USB into your comp
2. Copy whole Starcraft 2file from Program Files
3. Its going to be like 12 GBs, but if you delete the whole campaign file, the game will be just 5GB of memory.
4. Unplug from your comp
5. bring it to school and plug it in.
6. Open the SC2 file
7. Open Support, then open SC2 switcher
8. ???
9. Profit from playing at school.

If you open the Normal SC2 opener, it'll say that you need an admin account, but if you open SC2 switcher then you dont need it for some reason.
Also, yes, SC2 DOES WORK WITHOUT CAMPAIGN FILES. you just can't play it if you delete it but you save a shitload of memory.

Doing this since SC2 came out last year, so enjoy!


I have had trouble with installing one of the patches when playing without the campaign file. Other than that this works from my experience.
shelcoop33
Profile Joined December 2019
1 Post
December 26 2019 04:31 GMT
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ariachris56
Profile Joined January 2020
2 Posts
January 17 2020 05:44 GMT
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