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dreamakuma:
Well I got this stupid idea while getting my busted leg looked at(my cab landed on it). I took some of my mame roms and ran it through mame32, and put them on my flash drive. At the doctors office , he has a spare pc he keeps lying around (no idea on the specs, but it's a P4, with XP), I deciced to give my mame a shot, and it had no noticable slowdown or loss in proformance! so my question is, would it be fine if I had an X-arcade dual hooked up to one usb port, and a flash drive on the other? I'm thinking if I have a smaller hard drive I could save money, and a flash drive would last longer(no moving parts?) maybe get a small powered hub to run different game emulators on different flash drives( I play mame, GENS, and snes 9xw,...and the occisional neorage). what would be the downsides to this? I don't care if my cab shows windows(at the moment,every time you turn it on, you see DREAMCAST, so who's kidding?). Opinions?

severdhed:
that should work, but you will be limited with the amount of roms you can fit on the flash drive... my mame .124 rom set is 16.4gb not counting chd's.  also, you can get an 250gb sata hard drive for $39 at newegg.com

Turnarcades:
Already done this. Can't find the thread at the moment, but I did it with a 4-port USB hub, 4Gb flash pen and twin-port USB joypads, set up in Windows to launch MAME when plugged into your PC.

I did it after seeing a similar video on youtube. Search for 'removable mame' or something siilar and you will find it.

daywane:
Mame 56 set is smaller than 4 gig
Mame 36 fits on CD
a 4 gig thumb drive can be found often a Wal Mart for under $20.00
I keep a set of thumb drives ready.
"EDIT"
I almost forgot USB 1.0 and USB 2.0  BIG Difference

wooowman93:
wow you guys make it so complicated  all you do is a version of mame put in all the roms you want on the usb, plug it in with the xarcade and play and configure the controls to work with it

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