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The size of mame???
zzsprade:
Cheers guys!
mkdevo:
when i first built my system, i thought i would be more than happy with a 40gb drive.. but i wanted a total emulation station, with every rom for every system.. needless to say, that 40gb filled up FAST!
i just dropped a 120gb drive in there, and i think i'll be all set with that.. i ghosted the 40gb drive over, and ditched it. the only thing i may do now is upgrade to an 8mb cache drive at some point, but for now, i'm golden..
BobA:
I have a vertical cab with a limited number of games (600)that is happy with 8 GB but unless you are looking for old bargain drives go for one with 40 to 60 GB. This seems to be the most common size being put in mass market systems and are fairly cheap.
You can always add 100 GB or more later when the price of these drives comes down.
Just my 2 cents.
BobA
MameFan:
I just finished a COMPLETE set of .64 a month or so ago. Took 12 1/2 700 meg cd's = 8.55 Gig
This included, ALL roms, ALL chd files, plus verified archives of the sounds, artwork (bezels and backgrounds), marquees, control panels, cabinets, icons, screenshots, title screens), plus ALL known non-mac versions of the executables, front ends (including Emulaxian) and ad-ins, Linux boot images, AMD, P4 cross-compiles, etc.. Yeah, virtutally everything available.
Of course, now .65 and .66 are out, but at least no new .chd's were added. I would expect it's just under 9 gig for the "world".