Is it possible to run the alpha version of Lemming Ball Z in a portable manner? I mean, is it possible to set a custom location for the "LBZ ALPHA Game Data" folder, in some settings file or by command line arguments?
As far as I've been told, that folder is the only thing created on the hard disk. So, moving it to some location in the same removable drive as the default game files and specifying the location would make it portable as far as I'm concerned. [I wonder what other dependencies the game has though...]

No other dependices, and yes, if you would change to profile folder, the entire game is portable...
The profile folder was introduced mainly for 2 things:
1) system-wide installs on linux in /opt/
2) windows 7 installs

Current LBZ does not have an option to change the profile folder location other then changing cb9gamedefaults.xml and disabling the updater.

I didn't quite get this. You mean if I move the Lemming Ball Z game folder into the LBZ ALPHA Game Data folder? [I hope that is not what you're saying] It does put all things in one place. But, I can't carry it around with me on a USB Flash Drive like that and play on another computer.


So, I need to disable the updater to change the LBZ ALPHA Game Data folder location? [Correct me if I'm wrong] If I don't need to disable the updater, I'm willing to try a few hacks to make it work as a portable application.

Current design does not allow easy portability: the hack:

-install LBZ op usb drive: "E:\LBZ-Portable"
-Run LBZ from there and let it update
-Copy mydocument/LBZ ALPHA GAME DATA to "E:\LBZ-Portable\Profile"
-Edit "E:\LBZ-Portable\data\cb9enginedefaults.xml" and ""E:\LBZ-Portable\Profile\data\cb9enginedefaults.xml".
-Change the following lines:


-- Change to --



-Edit "E:\lbz-portable\Profile\etc\updater.xml" and disable all updating.
(Or the game will update and undo your changes)

OK. That makes sense.
Would it be possible for me to update "manually" somehow then:
like merging the regular LBZ ALPHA Game Data folder into the portable Profile folder (except for that configuration file)?
or manually downloading the files from the update server whenever I notice somebody playing a new version?

Secondary & possibly redundant question:
If that is possible, would it then be possible to combine both the updated Linux LBZ ALPHA Game Data folder and the updated Windows LBZ Alpha Game Data folder into the same portable Profile folder? Or update files for both Linux and Windows at the same time? (I noticed that they have different files somewhat.)

The redundant question: both the linux and windows version have the exact same data folder contents. So yeah you can make a portable version with 1 data folder for both linux and windows.

To update, update a "normal" LBZ installation, copy over data folder to the portable version, while leaving out the cb9gamedefaults.xml.

OK. Cool. Thanks for confirming.