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Running mame and other emulators from network
Hyperfan:
I run a home server and am thinking of putting all the emulators and roms on the server drives then just running them from the network share on each pc to save me having to have mutiple copies of roms.
Does anyone do this? any noticable drop in performace when running bigger chd games?
bkenobi:
You will have a delay in starting the game while the rom is transferred into memory on the local machine. This delay depends on the size of the rom and the speed of the network and hardware being used. If you can deal with that perhaps minimal lag, you should be fine.
Hyperfan:
Do the chd games keep accessing the chd file? i guess they do?
DashRendar:
Out of curiosity, how many PCs will be running MAME? Are you setting up an arcade where you would need multiple machines running, and would they be running at the same time?
Hyperfan:
only a couple of machines on at a time.
I just want the data central then its all backed up automatically on my home server.