Now how did I miss this? It must be new...you can put select BFG on a U3 smartdrive (usb drive) and take your games with you...now I can play at work during lunch without having to download anything on my work computer...if I'm understanding this correctly...whoohoo

Here's a link BIg Fish Portable Games

BFG Guy...how come you didn't tell us about this?

oh yeah...it looks like you can use club credits too!

edit: here's a link to Gamezebo article

That's very cool Phantom, thanks for the headsup!

Ana

Sorry -
Did not know how interesting this would be. To get these games you need a U3 compliant USB "thumb" drive. You can install them to the thumb drive and play them on any computer you plug the thumb drive into.

I'm a gadget geek...so I love all that techy stuff...I went to walmart after work, picked up a 8 gb sandisk drive and am heading to bfg now...

I checked them out on Best Buy's website. Mothers Day is around the corner.

I have been doing this for some time to make room on my hard disk for the "long" games that take more space. It's very handy and no trouble playing from the flash drive.

I believe this is different by not requiring any part of the game on the hard drive of the computer Adorable.

Ana

yep...when you install one of these not a single file or registry setting is touched on the computer...when you remove the flash drive, your computer is EXACTLY as it was before you installed the game.
If you do this with normal games, they set registry settings and other things on Windows.

Sandisk is a HUGE company and this was a big deal for BFG and them. Most Sandisk thumb drives will come with a few free BFG games already on them and they sell 100's of millions of these drives a year.

That's quite the partnership with Sandisk! Congrats!

To clarify, only the ones offered on the sandisk subdomain of BFG (sandisk.bigfishgames.com) will work as a truly portable game on the U3 drives, correct?

correct!

Where can I find these sandisk thingies in Canada, any idea?

jldcat, you can get it direct from Sandisk here or find a retailer that carries a U3 enabled disk by you.

Ana

jldcat, I just checked futureshop.ca and bestbuy.ca. They have them at bestbuy.ca but not futureshop.ca (yet).

I'm a former Ontarian, born and raised (only left about a year ago) and waving to you and your snowy wonderland.

I just got a U3 drive and of course I didn't do a great deal of research as I didn't realize there were only a few games that would work with the U3. I just figured all the games would work....darn. Oh well, now that I have it I'll just have to use it.

Now, how do I use it? I've never used one before so am completely clueless. I got the Sandisk Cruzer Titanium USB Flash Drive, 4GB.

On BFG there is a game that says "free U3 game" now do I download the demo onto the drive and then when I activate it, it won't cost me anything?

Jldcat, I'm not sure if a U3 drive is the exact same thing as an external hard drive or a normal flash drive.

If so, then it works just like the drives inside your computer. You download or install to it, and then you run your game (or work on a document, listen to music) ect from that drive.

You just plug that drive into your computer, and operate from there. The big thing about the BFG games that run on the U3 is that nothing will be installed to the computer--everything stays on the U3, so you could play games on your lunch hour at work without having to worry about non work files being on your work computer.

If you download a games specified as a U3 game to your flash drive, then when you install and run it--all to the flash drive of course, you will have the same 60 minute demo time as you usually do.

and have fun.

there are almost 100 games at BFG sandisk site .
They work as people describe above. They do not work wit hanything other than U3 drives (U3 is a technical standard) and the USB drives will say "U3" on the packaging.

You install games on them just like you would to your hard drive, but they leave your computer hard drive untouched, so when you unplug them you can plug them in any computer and continue playing and the original computer has not remnant that the game was ever installed.

What about the games on the site that are labeled free? I believe there are 4 of them. Do I just download them to the U3 drive and then click to activate and they will activate without taking a credit or asking me to buy a credit?

Also, will there be more games coming available that will utilize the U3?

jld, help me out here. I don't see any games labeled Free. Where exactly are they? Can you link me there please?

Hi looney4labs,

The link is in the first post of this thread. It will take you to the main screen showing some of the games for the U3 drive.

If you go to "all games in the U3 pull down, the free games are the ones with the little green fishy guy beside them. There's an MCF, Atlantis etc all free.

I have a question though for BFG-Guy if he comes back on.

I own Escape from Paradise already so I downloaded it from the U3 game list.(I clicked on "download the demo", I want to activate it so I can play it from the U3 but it is asking me for a license name and activation code and I don't know what they are looking for.

jldcat, I do believe you will need to repurchase the games if you want that version. It is a bit like buying a Pc game and then buying the console version. It is a whole different thing.

Ana

So I have to re-buy a game I already own just to be able to play it off the USB? That doesn't sound fair does it? I understand what you mean about a pc game and console game but in this case aren't they the same thing? I think I'm a bit confused.

Not the same at all. It isn't a regular flash drive you are talking about, you are talking about a whole different programming that goes into these to make it work without downloading anything on your hard drive. It is a different version that is why it has it's own section.

Ana

Jld, I think it's because the games are a different version so that it doesn't put anything on your hard drive.

Thanks, I see the fish now. Thanks. I would looking for a big "Free games" banner.

My assumption would be since they say "free" that they are.

I think I see what you mean. I guess because I didn't see anything in the threads about having to re-purchase the games I didn't think you would have too.

I deffinately wouldn't have spent $60 buying the U3 drive knowing that. Oh well, buyer beware I guess.

jld, try one of the free games.

You can use a flash drive for any thing--I back up documents etc to mine.