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brad808:
The only reason I did a partition is the ease of wiping the system drive while leaving all emulators in tact. Just saves me hooking up an external and transferring the files back and forth.

Sure you could argue that you never really need to format but I know myself and I know I like to format things and start from scratch a lot so I just took a couple steps to make it easier.

Sent from my Desire HD

rCadeGaming:
Makes sense.  I try to format all my computers about once a year, along with cleaning dust and replacing thermal paste and stuff.  It's probably overkill, but nothing refreshes things as well.
paigeoliver:
If you don't need the CHD games (almost all of which require analog or other specialty controls that won't be on a bartop) then you don't need the 250 GB drive at all. In fact, the 80 GB drive is more than enough. My cabinet has an 80 GB drive and it is half empty.

Repeat, most CHD games require analog controls, specialty controls or driving controls and very few would even translate well to a bartop.
rCadeGaming:
Let's not tell people to overlook CHD games altogether. 

Agreed, many do need specialty controls, or don't work, or aren't worth it.  However, there are some true gems like Third Strike.

Incedentally, there's a clone of Third Strike with no CHD, but I think the music was compressed to fit on a PCB instead of a disc.  The CHD isn't too big, so it's worth including the best version of the game.

There's other totally worthwhile games where I think the CHD is mandatory, like Blitz, Shikigami no Shiro, Killer Instinct 1 and 2, Jojo's Venture, and Red Earth.

Luckily, the list of CHD games is short enough that you can quickly look through, research what you haven't heard of, and pick and choose what you want.  With ROMs its more feasible to just download the entire set so you can try things out, but a ROMset is MUCH smaller than a full CHD set.

http://www.retroroms.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=35952
BobA:
If you go beyond MAME to the many other console emulators you can easily fill a 250GB drive. The old school consoles are fun and take only a few player buttons.
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