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Anonymous Sat May 13 16:27:51 2023 No.9900701 [Reply] [Original]

making an emulation machine. how much space should I have for internal and external drives. internal for saves and external for roms

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:29:50 2023 No.9900705 >>9900701 >internal for saves and external for roms You need a drive that is halfway in and halfway out for ram disk emulators.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:31:06 2023 No.9900707 >>9900705 how much space should i get for roms

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:32:54 2023 No.9900715 >>9900707 ps2 and under

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:38:05 2023 No.9900725 >>9900701 Well you're going to want every game ever made, so you want about 100 petabytes of storage to start with, and then keep adding more as you get closer.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:42:13 2023 No.9900736 >>9900725 just stuff from this list https://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/V/%27s_Recommended_Games_Wiki

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:43:46 2023 No.9900740 >>9900736 Use your own brain and count, or open up a calculator. This board isn't Google. Ask questions requiring actual engagement and insight.

Anonymous Sat May 13 16:52:55 2023 No.9900762

>>9900715
Just get a 100 terabyte ssd. That should hold all roms up to ps2 including Mame, plus leftover for other things that you’ll probably need space for while setting up the emus n stuff. I’d probably install windows 10 over 11 you can always upgrade free when/if more stuff gets updated. Retro arch is basically an all in one emu front end that would be a good choice if you are only using this machine for emulation. You can find tuts online to create minimal windows installations custom drivers and such to reduce cpu usage and direct it straight to retro arch (I don’t even like retro arch, but it seems logical for your purpose)

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:53:02 2023 No.9900763 >>9900701 Get a 2TB SSD, they're not expensive these days.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:53:54 2023 No.9900767 >>9900701 8 TB or bust.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:54:12 2023 No.9900769 >>9900762 Lol this is fucking retarded, for CD systems just make a curated list of stuff you actually wanna play. /v/ recommended games wiki is a pretty good starting point.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 16:56:08 2023 No.9900773 >>9900769 That’s not what he asked for. He just said how much space should I get for roms ps2 and under. He can curate if he wants, but 100tb is sufficient and also allows him to add more systems such as ps3, Xbox, etc… as they become more playable.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:09:39 2023 No.9900794 >>9900773 Isn't 100tb expensive as fuck?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:12:58 2023 No.9900798 the mednafen core in retroarch can play ps1 games as .chd files it would bring the size down quite a bit

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:18:04 2023 No.9900812 >>9900701 If you're playing a lot of fifth and six gen games you'll probably need at least 1TB

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:18:26 2023 No.9900813 What the fuck is this thread is this a psyop, why are you guys recommending a 100TB SSD, I need my meds

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:37:52 2023 No.9900854 >>9900813 You know the people who think you need to upgrade your PC every millisecond, otherwise your rig will contract aids and start deleting random files? Apparently they found this thread.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:47:56 2023 No.9900873 >>9900769 that’s wat I’m doing

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:50:25 2023 No.9900880 >>9900769 >creating curated libraries for CD systems get a load of this poorfag

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:54:21 2023 No.9900885 >>9900794 Yes, 16tb is probably enough

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 17:56:48 2023 No.9900893 >>9900880 >cd systems So just the sega cd abd what the 3do? The ps1 used cd-roms and everything after that is cd-roms or something better. You only need like 20 gigs for all cd systems including neo geo

Anonymous Sat May 13 18:10:47 2023 No.9900942

>>9900880
but unless you are a video game museum or something, curated lists is the way to go.
do you really have to have the entire 4000+ titles of the PSX?
even the standard ~1200 US set has a bunch of garbage in it
>sports games
>kiddy games
>shovelware
>edutainment

having thousands of games, not only wastes space,
but it is also noise that you have to skip when browsing your catalogue

Anonymous Sat May 13 18:45:04 2023 No.9901007

>>9900701
100% depends on what you're wanting to play.
n64 or older have almost non existent file sizes by modern standards (32MB for OOT). Any disc based consoles like ps1 or newer will be like 1gb+ a game.
I find it hard to believe you'd hit over a 128gb drive.

Anonymous Sat May 13 18:45:10 2023 No.9901009

>>9900701
You enormous faggot
Get a list of PS2+Xbox games you want to play and times n by 4.7GB

Get a list of GameCube games you want to play and times n by 1.46GB

Get a list of Dreamcast games you want to play and times n by 1GB

Get a list of PS1+Saturn games you want to play and times n by 0.45GB

Get a list of PC-Engine CD games you want to play and times n by 0.35GB

This is based on average ROM sizes and of course doesn't account for multidisc games (it's your job to pick the games) or games with otherwise outlier volume (again, your job to pick the games).

Space won't be an issue for cartridge-based systems or Sega CD (most Sega CD games aren't even 100MB).

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 18:51:05 2023 No.9901023 >>9900701 >>9900701 When you use chd for disks, 1tb will cover over 200 games for every retro system, including saves

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 18:53:09 2023 No.9901029 >>9901023 Why is he even worried about save volume, this is flash memory in the early 2000's at the latest he's talking about

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 22:40:31 2023 No.9901519 >>9900701 Don't use a hard drive. The noise is annoying.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 01:50:05 2023 No.9901797 >>9901519 bump

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 01:51:50 2023 No.9901801 >>9901797 https://strawpoll.com/polls/mpnboqjDLg5

Anonymous Sun May 14 03:00:50 2023 No.9901927
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>>9900701
>>9900715
It depends a lot on which games you play the most and how often you see yourself playing them... Cartridge games take up next to no space, so if you have only like ten PS2 games and a full SNES set you won't need as much as if you play primarily stuff like GameCube, PS2, Dreamcast, etc. which requires a lot more space. I think this a fantastic idea btw OP, especially on the TV

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 03:03:35 2023 No.9901930 >>9901801 I voted only 1TB. Unless you are doing full rom sets for any of the CD consoles that's way more than enough

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 03:15:12 2023 No.9901947 >>9901801 What the fuck where's the 100 TB option

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 04:43:14 2023 No.9902090 >>9901930 doing all games on this list https://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/PlayStation_2

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 04:48:19 2023 No.9902098 >>9900812 For some reason 1TB just sounds good enough. The reality is 12TB hdds aren't expensive, of course 22TB exists. May as well throw the os on an m.2 card and the games on the biggest 7.2krpm disk you would like to buy.

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