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[quote=BBD]I remember few of my friends trying this years ago...
it failed

i think it was because of the updates and such

We even made sure it was a Re writeable CD...[/quote]
Yes, patching to a DVD would be the problem. Even a RW disc wouldn't necessarily solve it depending on how you're creating the discs.

But running from a DVD would definately work.

The DVD is 5$ per DVD, meaning 5$ per Patch. You can buy 5-10DVDs for 5$ and burn your own, but the catch with DVDs is that you have to re-burn the file onto a new DVD each time it patches. Using a RW is optional, but the over-writing process will eventually burn out of your disc and can take quite a long time.

You can drag and drop your Maplestory folder onto your Flash Drive. The only problem with that, is your computer's read speed, and sometimes, your flash drive, but that's only for flash drives under 1-2GB, which have an extremely slow speed and are about 3-4 years old. With new flash drives, all read speeds are based off of your computer's USB reading capabilities.

I run Maple off of 9 flash drives and 4 external hard drives, and no problem with any of them. If you experience lag, that might be because you are running from the website, or your computer's CPU usage is high, causing you to slow down.

When playing Maple off of a flash drive, I suggest turning off large processes such as your browser (if you're streaming, running a flash/video, etc), torrents(taking up your bandwidth) and other programs.

Overall, if you use a flash drive, keep a hardcopy on your desktop/laptop's hard drive, so once it patches, update the files on there, then replace the old file on your flash drive with that. Updating/Patching your file on a USB can be extremely slow/incapable if your flash drive's capacity is small.

[quote=Manaphy777]he was asking could u burn it to a disc not if he can play it from a disk and no u can't play maplestory from a disc seeing its a exe file, get your facts rights[/quote]
Don't argue with [quote=BobR][/quote],
He's pretty much always right when it comes to the tech stuff

I remember few of my friends trying this years ago...
it failed

i think it was because of the updates and such

We even made sure it was a Re writeable CD...

[quote=Manaphy777]he was asking could u burn it to a disc not if he can play it from a disk and no u can't play maplestory from a disc seeing its a exe file, get your facts rights[/quote]

Funny when every single video game I've ever seen on a CD/DVD format for the personal computer requires an .exe file to run properly. File format has nothing to do with whether you can burn it onto a CD and play it or not. This guy clearly did not get his facts rights.

It also depends on whether or not the CD storage capacity is big enough to store MapleStory, which in this case 4.2 GB is enough. It doesn't seem very practical though for a game like MapleStory, flash drives seem much better for this.

[quote=Manaphy777]he was asking could u burn it to a disc not if he can play it from a disk and no u can't play maplestory from a disc seeing its a exe file, get your facts rights[/quote]
The storage medium has NOTHING to do with whether or not a program will run. Maple Story runs just fine from a USB flash drive, it will run just fine from a CD.

Get your facts rights.

Maple Story does NOT use any registry entries. It installs NOTHING on the hard drive beyond the game files in the Nexon/Maplestory folder. The folder can be moved to ANY other storage medium and it will run just fine.

The ONLY registry entries involved with MapleStory are the normal Windows desktop icon locations, which have nothing to do with making the game run.

When you move the Nexon/Maplestory folder to a different location, the old desktop icon won't work any longer, which is why I always detail how to open the Maplestory folder and start by double-clicking the proper game file. The desktop icon -could- be recreated from the new location, but I never do that siince the media is removable.

[quote=Manaphy777]he was asking could u burn it to a disc not if he can play it from a disk[/quote]

The last sentence implied that he was going to play it from the disc. Since he asked whether or not he could burn it onto a disc, it would make sense that he doesn't know if you can play it from one as well.

[quote=Manaphy777]and no u can't play maplestory from a disc seeing its a exe file, get your facts rights[/quote]

If what you said is true about it not being able to run from a disc (despite some people claimed to have done it in the past), then it's not because it's a .exe file. If you had mentioned something about the registries, then what you said would have some truth to it. Then again, MS doesn't have any registry's entries that are needed for MS to run, or else those who copy and paste the MS folder onto a FlashDrive shouldn't be able to run it off of another computer that didn't have MS previously, but they were able to run it anyways.

There is actually a CD/DVD (not sure which one) from the MS website I believe...5 bucks for postage and handling.

Here's the link:
http://www.nexon.net/Downloads/GameClients.aspx?action=dvd

Yes you can play Maple Story from a CD/DVD, but the only advantage to doing that might be that you could take it to a different computer and play it from there.

The loading of the game would be a bit slower than playing directly from a hard drive, but playing the game shouldn't be any slower once the game loads.

Also, you wouldn't be able to patch the game on a CD/DVD. You'd have to patch on your hard drive then burn a new CD/DVD.

To burn Maple Story to a blank CD/DVD just drag and drop the C:/Nexon/Maplestory folder to the CD/DVD drive however you normally burn CD/DVDs.

To play, you'd put the disc in the drive then open the CD drive, open the Maplestory folder, find and double-click on either "Maplestory.exe" (to start from the Maple web site), or "Gamelauncher.exe" (to start from the old login page).