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    Arcade cabinet and PC/Device

    in Monkeys

    Posted

    Actual recommendations will probably need an estimate of your budget for a PC itself, not including anything extra like a cabinet, arcade type controller, etc.

    As far as size goes, you can go with a small in size unit, as long as it has the right kind of cpu, memory, and graphics capability, or a larger, desktop tower unit with basically the same components as the small unit, but will more than likely give you more expansion abilities, i.e. storage, more efficient cooling, etc.

    Redundancy???????

    in Collections and Builds

    Posted

    I have had a 'three' copy backup of EVERYTHING I do for quite a while. I just lost a drive for my 2nd copy volume, so I need to decide what I'm going to do going forward. A lot of my drives are beyond their normal life expectancy, so I need to do some GB/$ calculations.

    Why three copies? Read this: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

    I have learned from hard experience over the years working in IT that one backup only is a mistake. You eventually will have a multi-drive failure across purposes of use that gets you right where it hurts. I know some people have never had a data loss, and I congratulate them. Me? Not so lucky.

    To Compress or not to Compress

    in Noobs

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Bageena said:

    I currently have been using Demul, haven't had much luck with the Retroarch Dreamcast cores. 

    Thank you CPUjunkie, I will get that a try as well. Is there any downfalls to the NTFS disk compression that you have encountered?

    The stand alone Demul should support CHD files as well.

    To Compress or not to Compress

    in Noobs

    Posted

    What Suhrvivor said. I meant to expound a little more, but failed miserably.

    I have kept an old copy of chdman from an older MAME build which outputs V4 CHD conversions. That gets me around the CHD incompatibility that can show up.

    To Compress or not to Compress

    in Noobs

    Posted

    One thing to consider is IF you are using Retroarch, or are willing to switch to it, many of the cores support CHD files now. CHD is a good compression option for those cores that support it, plus there is no uncompressing the game files as the core runs the game directly. You can save a ton of space using CHD, or at least I know I did.

    Here is a current list of cores that support CHD (as of this initial post).
    4do_libretro
    genesis_plus_gx_libretro
    mame2000_libretro
    mame2009_libretro
    mame2010_libretro
    mame2014_libretro
    mame2016_libretro
    mame_libretro
    mednafen_pce_fast_libretro
    mednafen_pcfx_libretro
    mednafen_psx_hw_libretro
    mednafen_psx_libretro
    mednafen_saturn_libretro
    mednafen_supergrafx_libretro
    mess2014_libretro
    redream_libretro
    reicast_libretro
    reicast_naomi_libretro
    reicast_oit_libretro
    ume2014_libretro

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    Too much info....

    in Noobs

    Posted

    You could use Notepad++ to mass edit the xml file for that platform. I just testing this here and I wiped out all the info in the <version> field in about 5 seconds. Here is my replace criteria.

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    Replacement joystick w/4 & 8 way gate

    in Monkeys

    Posted

    I wondered if anyone here had any experience with some of the replacement arcade joysticks with auto-switching 4 & 8 way gate plates? I have been thinking of swapping my existing sticks out for some, but wondered how well they work. I know I can buy sticks where you manually change the gate plate, but am lazy these days. :)

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