Ok, I know that Visualboy Advance is portable, what I'm trying to do is toss it and some roms on a DVD, and make sure it works on any Windows XP machine. Maybe set the .ini up to read the roms from the rom directory on the dvd, but save things like say, the screenshots and saves to Documents and Settings on whichever computer the DVD is being used on. I know it's been done (has to have been), help me out ladies and gents (I'm begging ya), links to a tutorial, or advice on setting up the paths correctly in the .ini would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Go to Options->Emulator->Directories... and set the Screenshot, Save, Battery ETC. to your folders, then open VBA.INI and set the defaults (batteryDir=, saveDir=, captureDir=) to folders that all Windows XP PCs have, a good example would be C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents, unless you're Windows drive isn't C:\. As for Romdir=, set it to D:\whatever your ROM folder's labeled, there is no "Universal" way to do this, however, D:\ is a very common disk drive letter. No matter what settings you have, VBA will try to change the "Recent" line in VBA.INI when you load a ROM, you will get an error message saying you can't write data to the disk as it's read-only, but that's nothing to worry about. Cheers.
Thank you, very much, nintenut. Besides my computers personal issue with my Documents and Settings being stuck on "read-only", your advice is working perfectly.
