[Indev 0.50.1] Launcher Update Ignores Game Path...

[nilllzz]

That's not expected, for all the reasons stated and there's no advantages to us, but it's your creation, do as you please. =)

It's programmed without a launcher in mind at all, the game was distributed in a folder called "Pokemon" for convenience purposes. As the launcher came along, to make all versions prior backwards compatible, all version use a subfolder called "Pokemon". The next thing is that the game doesn't really "install" anything, it just downloads and extracts the files.

 

[Cor'e =)]

I see, well that said it's too bad it went that way long ago, it was probably a good quick fix back then, albeit short-sighted. Perhaps a break with the past is best at some point or milestone. Problem is the game won't run without running the Launcher and the Launcher won't run without the game installed in the "Pokemon" folder. That's too bad, this means we cannot move the game's base/working directory to wherever it suits the player, we still have to add this old Pokemon folder to the path. I also understand it does not "install" per se, i guess if this is open source i can just try to modify the launcher to run the game anywhere.

 

[nilllzz]

I see, well that said it's too bad it went that way long ago, it was probably a good quick fix back then, albeit short-sighted. Perhaps a break with the past is best at some point or milestone. Problem is the game won't run without running the Launcher and the Launcher won't run without the game installed in the "Pokemon" folder. That's too bad, this means we cannot move the game's base/working directory to wherever it suits the player, we still have to add this old Pokemon folder to the path. I also understand it does not "install" per se, i guess if this is open source i can just try to modify the launcher to run the game anywhere.

It's not worth the hassle to update the game and launcher's path throughout the whole code. I can really live with a Pokemon subfolder, I don't see a real issue with it.

 

[Tornado9797]

I see, well that said it's too bad it went that way long ago, it was probably a good quick fix back then, albeit short-sighted. Perhaps a break with the past is best at some point or milestone. Problem is the game won't run without running the Launcher and the Launcher won't run without the game installed in the "Pokemon" folder. That's too bad, this means we cannot move the game's base/working directory to wherever it suits the player, we still have to add this old Pokemon folder to the path. I also understand it does not "install" per se, i guess if this is open source i can just try to modify the launcher to run the game anywhere.

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