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Title: Hard drive size?
Post by: CCM on October 15, 2003, 12:18:43 pm

Anyone know the minimum HD size needed to accomodate the full .75 rom set.  I'm running Windows 98 SE and that's about it.

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: Shieldwolf on October 15, 2003, 12:29:35 pm

not including the chd files i would say about 20 gigs. Probably closer to 40 when you include your operating system, chd files and assorted other programs

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: DeathMonk on October 15, 2003, 12:31:18 pm

I don't think it's quite that much..  Maybe around 10-11GB

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: CCM on October 15, 2003, 12:49:40 pm

Quote from: Shieldwolf on October 15, 2003, 12:29:35 pm

not including the chd files i would say about 20 gigs. Probably closer to 40 when you include your operating system, chd files and assorted other programs

you're saying the the non-chd roms take up 20 gigs?  that seems high.  

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: SirPeale on October 15, 2003, 02:01:06 pm

I can definitely tell you that the ROMs themselves take up about 7.1 gigs.  The CHDs add another seven-ish on top.

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: microwrx on October 15, 2003, 07:58:57 pm

I'm running 98SE and with the exception of the .chd files I fit all roms and artwork etc. on a 10Gb HDD.  A 20Gb would probably be the answer.

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: grafixmonkey on October 15, 2003, 08:45:20 pm

If your hard drive is too small, sometimes you can get pills to fix it.

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: JustMichael on October 15, 2003, 09:19:44 pm

The current rom set for Mame (version .75) takes up 15.5GB.

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: BobA on October 16, 2003, 12:14:28 am

Does that include the variants of the Beatmania and all their CHDs ?

Thanks

BobA

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: SirPeale on October 17, 2003, 09:13:50 am

BobA: Yes.

JustMichael: sounds like you haven't used ZipMax on your ROMsets.  Get it from the ClrMAME site.

Title: Re:Hard drive size?
Post by: CCM on October 17, 2003, 09:51:54 am

Quote from: Peale on October 17, 2003, 09:13:50 am

JustMichael: sounds like you haven't used ZipMax on your ROMsets.  Get it from the ClrMAME site.

how much space does ZipMax save you?