CadetStimpy Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 SentaiBrad said I also recently got the eXoDOS set... it was huge. It was however A LOT of DOS games... like 600GB worth. 600GB?!?! I don't really know how large these DOS game ROM's are, but using what I suspect is a generous figure of 500KB/ea, that would mean there are (using that size an the average) 1.2 million games! Am I missing something, or is that an insane number? Surely my math is flawed, or I'm working with a false premise of game sizes, or there's additional content that isn't Game ROMs, or somethin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 DOS games range from 250kb in the mid 80's to several hundred mb in the mid 90's and a lot of these have their disc images available. So game install + disc images. I've also pruned down a bit since I got the pack. Also, DOS games are not 1 single file... usually. They can range with as many files as a regular modern game. They're PC games more or less. Currently 4,739 games. I'm currently having Windows tell me how big it is, but there's a lot of files so I will in a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Don't be overwhelmed by it just take it one system at a time and it will get to the point that it is like nothing. Start with RetroArch as learning it will teach you how to setup the majority of the systems all in one place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 SentaiBrad said DOS games range from 250kb in the mid 80's to several hundred mb in the mid 90's Ah, there's my ignorance showin'. I didn't realize they could be that large. That clearly says there aren't gonna be 1.2 million games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 442GB. I remembered 600GB, but I was off and I didn't delete that many. Still a whole hell of a lot though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 That's still pretty damn sizeable. My first PC had a 240MB HDD. I would've needed over 1,800 Hard-Drives just for that one ROM Set. Yup, a whole Server Room just for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 Is it common for lots of the Artwork in a ROM Set to be missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Depends on which ROM set. For anything Nintendo, Sega, Sony there should be a pretty comprehensive amount of data at least if you are referring to covers other stuff can be more sporadic depending on the popularity of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 Yeh, I was dealing with an Intellivision Set, and many graphics were missing... Argh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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