PC Games in iPod?

[Jumpman23]

I was wondering if it was possible to install PC games in an iPod with 80gb of hard drive space and bring that to me where ever I go and just plug it in and play it on any computer.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I successfully did something similar to that with WoW once, load times were horrible, but it worked.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
RBUtil to load the rockbox freeware, opensource, firmware onto your ipod.

That firmware will allow you to play more games on it (and adds several new features like FLAC support). I was able to get Doom (the original, not 3😛) working on my ipod with it.

i think he meant using it as a external drive and playing the game off it that way.

 

[Lonyo]

AFAIK you can use the iPod as a mass storage device (like an external hard drive) for regular files. It's just that any music loaded that way isn't playable.
IOW, yes you should be able to put games on it to play elsewhere. However, it depends on whether the game will run from the drive without needing to be installed or anything first.

 

[MrPickins]

I would imagine that load times would be pretty long.

 

[Jumpman23]

So the game doesn't have to be registered in the Window's registry to be able to play?

 

[Piuc2020]

And performance in general would be choppy but yeah its possible it just depens on whether the game can run with the install files alone and doesn't need the usual registry entries and whatnot.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Jumpman23
So the game doesn't have to be registered in the Window's registry to be able to play?

Some games do, some don't. It really depends on the game.

 

[Jumpman23]

What about an external portable hard drive? Same deal with better performance?

 

[Noema]

An eSATA 7200RPM would be a much better choice than an iPod.