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#Oni does not create any important registry entries, so an installation of Oni is essentially a copy of the Oni folder; this makes it easy to back up Oni before experimenting with it (hint, hint!). | #Oni does not create any important registry entries, so an installation of Oni is essentially a copy of the Oni folder; this makes it easy to back up Oni before experimenting with it (hint, hint!). | ||
#Retail versions of Oni typically check for the installation CD. You can get rid of the CD check [[Customizing#CD_check|with a custom patch]] or, better, by using the Daodan DLL (see "Patches", below). Otherwise, you need to have an Oni CD in the drive to play (any CD will do as long as its volume name is "ONI"). | #Retail versions of Oni typically check for the installation CD. You can get rid of the CD check [[Customizing#CD_check|with a custom patch]] or, better, by using the Daodan DLL (see "Patches", below). Otherwise, you need to have an Oni CD in the drive to play (any CD will do as long as its volume name is "ONI"). | ||
#If Oni.exe is opened by double-clicking it or its shortcut, it first looks for the GameDataFolder in the same directory as the EXE. If Oni.exe is launched from the command line, it first looks for the "GDF" in the directory of the command or .bat that called it. Wherever it starts looking, Oni will also look for a folder in that directory called "OniEngine" and look inside there too for a GameDataFolder. If neither location contains the GDF, Oni checks the parent | #If Oni.exe is opened by double-clicking it or its shortcut, it first looks for the GameDataFolder in the same directory as the EXE. If Oni.exe is launched from the command line, it first looks for the "GDF" in the directory of the command or .bat that called it. Wherever it starts looking, Oni will also look for a folder in that directory called "OniEngine" and look inside there too for a GameDataFolder. If neither location contains the GDF, Oni progressively checks the parent directories, all the way up to C:\ if necessary, looking for the GDF (or an OniEngine folder with the GDF inside) at each level. | ||
===Mac=== | ===Mac=== | ||
#The Mac app never checks for the Oni disc in the CD-ROM drive. | #The Mac app never checks for the Oni disc in the CD-ROM drive. | ||
#When opened, the app first looks for the GameDataFolder in the same directory as itself. If the "GDF" is not found there, it continues to look in each parent directory up to the root of the hard drive. Unlike Windows, the app does not look for "OniEngine/". | |||
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