Has any one else beside myself was able to put your mugen program on a flashdrive so you can run it on anybody pc or laptop..Pretty cool you just have to have the controllers and config. you music and buttons if need be .
That's not an acceptable response dude.Yeah, we've all done it. A flash drive is just another HDD. If you can run mugen on a normal one, you can run it on a flash one. It's' handy if you play your friends or need some quick backup.
I used to have a very basic mugen set up on my flash drive constantly, just in case I had a hard drive failure.It had mugen with 10 characters, fighter factory install file and a copy of whatever WiP I was working on at the time.However I lost it somewhere and so far haven't bothered replacing it.
I never knew that man i just updated my flash drive to 8gb for $20 i had only a 1gb and it only holded the program and 82 characters lol On average how many gigabytes is enough for a decent mugen creations with at least 50 characters and 15 stages with songs if anybody knows?
Depends if you include intros, music, etc.Depends if you use KOF chars which are 4 MB max or if you use CVS or other flashy creations which can reach 30 MB each.
Keep in mind that a flash drive is not meant to be read constantly, and doing so significantly reduces the lifespan of the drive.
Someone knowledgeable told me.http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/114-How-Long-Does-a-Flash-Drive-Last.htmlhttp://www.corsairmemory.com/_faq/FAQ_flash_drive_wear_leveling.pdfAny medium dies with age, be it magnetic VHS tapes, DVDs, Hard Drives where the heads crash etc.
MirageAtoli said, August 29, 2009, 04:26:45 amSomeone knowledgeable told me.http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/114-How-Long-Does-a-Flash-Drive-Last.htmlhttp://www.corsairmemory.com/_faq/FAQ_flash_drive_wear_leveling.pdfAny medium dies with age, be it magnetic VHS tapes, DVDs, Hard Drives where the heads crash etc.From what i read it doesn't fully die, after it's exhausted the memory won't be deleted or unreadable, you just won't be able to write new data, so really it can be used for quite a while. The guy never really gives an exact time either, all he did was see how long he can abuse it. Also to just play a collection of mugen doesn't need to write new stuff, does it?I am sure everything eventually fails but I am also sure by the time it does it'll have been a lot of years that it won't have mattered anyway.
I also did a bit of research and writing is what kills it, and it's not like mugen writes too much besides the log.
My main Mugen is on my flashdrive, since my friends and I all play it. Its 8GB but it recently said that it was full, so I guess its time to do some quality control
Frederika Bernkastel~ said, August 29, 2009, 04:44:36 pmI also did a bit of research and writing is what kills it, and it's not like mugen writes too much besides the log.It would also write to the cfg when the keyboard layout changed.I think some drives have a toggle switch (inside the case) to make the drive read-only, I wonder if that would increase the life of the drive.I'm pretty sure the reason why there was a portable distro of firefox was to prevent it from trashing your drive.
I can't get it on my flash drive. My mugen has about 30 chars. And about 15 stages. Won't work. And when I try, my drive says there isn't enough room.
You could try to see how mugen dir "weights" by seing its size and packing (zipping) incase if it doesn't fit. If pack is larger than capacity available it's mostly impossible. (though you could make copy and exclude some chars/stages/whatever whitch has a biger size)Hence you almost times couldn't copy about 100GB content even packed to 8GB drive though for example...
umm...i believe ive been doing that for 2 years now...well soon.....In fact i have several flash drives fll of mugen stuff
