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The size of mame???
zzsprade:
G'day guys and girls. Just a quick question which I needed to fire away before I buy a new hard drive. What is the file size of the entire rom set of mame these days, plus what extra space will be required for extra goodies that can be used with mame. Ball park... exact..... any ideas? Cheers guys!
-Alex
CitznFish:
~7 gigs
Smack:
Personally, I'd go bigger than that, especially with the new .chd files and such.
Plus if you end up installing other PC games on it (set up virtual CD drives), Visual Pinball, etc.
Drives are so cheap, I'd throw a 20 or 40 gig in there. (You can never have enough space...) ;D
My 2 cents.
Smack
Howard_Casto:
The rule of thumb is that every year you get the hardrive around 100$ and you get the most storage per dollar. This year you can get a 120 gig for around that price. That sounds like way too much but trust me, I am a developer but I have almost 200 gigs of data right now and half of it is emulation related roms/artwork/ect. Don't even bother getting anything smaller than 60 gigs unless you get a super deal on it.
Odonadon:
Well, if you want an average system without having every single ROM for every single system known to man, and have a decent MP3 collection on there as well, ~7GB will do you just fine. I have all the MAME ROMs I, my significant other, or my friends will ever play (about 900) and some SNES, NES, Genesis, and TG16 ROMs, as well as a decent MP3 library on my machine, game snapshots, etc. and I still have over 3GB free.
CitznFish is right.
BUT, if you're buying new, you aren't going to find yourself a 7GB. I'd say go 40GB. Decent price, and you won't have gigs and gigs of space to waste.
Odonadon