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building an NES PC...only for NES emulation
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: hulkster on August 15, 2008, 03:22:41 pm ---about the hard drive...are you talking about booting to a usb flash drive? i need the hard drive space for roms, screenshots, etc, and i dont have any flash drives big enough to hold all of that. i know that space is somewhat of an issue, but if i can knock out the cd rom drive, then that gives me extra room.
and explain more about the compact flash-ide adapter...you lost me there. :dunno
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Thumb drives of 8gig are easy to get now. If you can come up with more than 8gig of NES ROMs and screenshots send the new discoveries our way. :)
The tutorials with CD drives are old. That's why they have CD drives.
hulkster:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 15, 2008, 03:28:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: hulkster on August 15, 2008, 03:22:41 pm ---about the hard drive...are you talking about booting to a usb flash drive? i need the hard drive space for roms, screenshots, etc, and i dont have any flash drives big enough to hold all of that. i know that space is somewhat of an issue, but if i can knock out the cd rom drive, then that gives me extra room.
and explain more about the compact flash-ide adapter...you lost me there. :dunno
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Thumb drives of 8gig are easy to get now. If you can come up with more than 8gig of NES ROMs and screenshots send the new discoveries our way. :)
The tutorials with CD drives are old. That's why they have CD drives.
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:dizzy: oh...yeah i guess i just assumed that the roms (even though they are only 20k or something) plus screenshots would be lots of hd space. sorry for the retarded moment :banghead:
so based on that....if i go to the CF route, how many gigs would be enough for OS, screens, FE, roms, etc etc??
Ginsu Victim:
I have, so far as I know, the entire NES collection on one CD. You don't need much space at all.
hulkster:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 15, 2008, 03:37:11 pm ---I have, so far as I know, the entire NES collection on one CD. You don't need much space at all.
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so thats around 700mb or so (minus dupes and crappy roms i wont play). so that leaves screens and OS, plus drivers if i need them. so....2-4gb?
are there drawbacks to using usb flash drives vs. cf ? as in...speed? im not talking about slowdown on playing the games, just booting up and such.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: hulkster on August 15, 2008, 03:31:13 pm ---so based on that....if i go to the CF route, how many gigs would be enough for OS, screens, FE, roms, etc etc??
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If you buy a new one you'll have trouble finding one that isn't many times the capacity you need.
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