Now that MAME is merged with MESS a complete rom set is close to 3TB but includes just about everything that can be emulated except GC, Wii, PS2 and PS3. If I were to start today knowing what I know now I would get all my roms from a current MAME set because it has every game with checksums to know they are correct. I've been gaming for a while and have a lot of roms. chd files for some of the other systems I mentioned. pbp is the best compression option for PS1 games using Psx-Rearmed. In terms of the Pi, you are correct in saying. That being said I use Windows mainly because some emulators aren't available for any other OS and it also has the largest selection of frontends. I honestly don't play much on the Pi because my media center and arcade cabinet are much more capable. On the Pi I store small uncompressed roms locally (SD card) and access larger roms from my media center so space isn't a Pi issue for me. I like the Pi and it's cheap fun but it's not the best hardware for emulation.
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know any good programs that will mass compress roms.or any ideas how to do it? And I am not even sure how much space you would get all together.but with a small SD card.yes even a 128GB.well space is important! I don't have $1,000 for a TB SD Card.I can't wait until I can afford one though.but hard drives are cheap Might not make a big noticeable difference compressed on loading. So compression is a GOOD thing for the PI on space.but you trade that for speed (thus slower load times), as stated by progets in the original post. *Psx-Rearmed can not use a chd format but that is a 55 MB difference.add it across 10 games or so.well you get my point. *Psx-Rearmed can now use a chd format use it! What about a Raspberry PI?.why do you need space.well because your SD is small on a raspberry pi! PĬHD 317.9 MB difference of 287.8 MB <- WINNER!* You are coming from a PC side looks like.