Portable release for windows

[simonzack]

First of all, great work! This frontend should definitely be more popular.

On windows, most emulators have portable downloads instead of installers. It would be nice if this frontend also has a portable release version.

[ghost]

You don't explain what is a portable version and what is required to call itself portable. Please make a detailed list with required changes. Keep the changes atomic, well explained and non-ambiguous.

[simonzack]

Here's what I mean:

• No installer, all files in a zip or some other archive format, where once extracted the executable can be run directly.
• All settings and saves are kept in the extracted directory, without modifying the registry.

[ghost]

Point 2 cannot work right now because m64py is just a frontend and not the emulator. The emulator core (mupen64plus.dll) has the path for config, cache and local data hardcoded to CSIDL_APPDATA. Thus the core must be changed for that. Please contact the mupen64plus core team to get that first.

The config dir can be overwritten using the second parameter of self.m64p.CoreStartup - the rest seems not to be possible.

[simonzack]

Well point 1 by itself is good enough for me to be consider the gui portable. I'll file an issue for point 2 on the core issue tracker, thanks for the explanation.

[Mushman]

I, too, would appreciate a portable release as described by @simonzack's first point.

[bb010g]

👍 for a way to run just M64Py from a directory and use relative directories to locate core.

[gen2brain]

Next version will probably include portable release. Settings are not stored to registry anymore, and both mupen64plus and m64py ini files can be in current dir. Cache and local data (saves, screenshots) are not possible right now.

[bb010g]

Woo! Thanks.