garbanzo Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 My goal is to set up complete USA sets of all console and handheld systems that can be emulated. I need to buy some new drives just for this project. How many TBs do I need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spektor56 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Here are some sample sizes NES -> Wii: 2.83TB PS2: 2TB PS1: 0.5TB Total: 5.33TB Wii-U games are very large too so they will take quite a bit of space. If you want to raid to protect against hard drive failures then you will need even more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbanzo Posted May 7, 2017 Author Share Posted May 7, 2017 Thanks for the tips. I think I'll skip 3DS and Wii-U for now. I have both of those systems, so I don't intend to emulate them. Anyone know how big the USA PSP set would be? I am having trouble tracking one down. What other larger sets am I forgetting? I'm undecided on MAME CHD games, I'll see how much room I have left at the end... System GBs Cartridges 9.4 Total DOS 46.9 ScummVM 66.8 Win3xO 323.3 MAME 39.2 Dreamcast 144.4 TG-CD 15.4 Sega CD 46.6 Neo Geo CD 32.8 Sega Saturn 94.8 3DO 57.5 Gamecube 671.1 Amiga CD-32 21 PS1 385 PS2 1922.3 PSP ? Wii 2450 6326.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 It certainly wouldn't be a full set, PS2 isn't even a full set yet if I recall, but a set is out there. You can also use unconventional compression to compress down PSP, PS2, PS1, Wii and GameCube games. They wont use any archives, save you space, and give you other benefits like merging PS1 discs so you don't need to swap discs. Something to look in to. Realistically, will you also play most of the games? What about genre's you don't like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbanzo Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Realistically no, I won't play them all. But I'm intimidated by the thought of sorting through sets to find games I might enjoy. That sounds like a lot of work! Sure, there are genres I don't like. I'll never play a sports game, or a shmup. But I don't even know where I would find that information for all the systems I listed in order to start sorting early. At this point I have 8tb dedicated to this project, so I think I have room to be sloppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Well for me, when it came to filtering out games, I just used the Windows search, looked for "NHL", or "NFL", "Soccer", "Baseball", "Jakyuu" for Japanese wrestling, etc etc, and deleted what it found. I know of several common phrases like that, that I filter out of most sets and just delete them. I have 8TB too, with about 1TB remaining, and I did prune a lot. Granted I also have a lot of rom hacks, some duplicates, and much much more than just an NTSC set, but yea. That's with my games compressed without archives too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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