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What not to put on a microsd card when setting up LaunchBox?


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After a long time, I’m setting up a new install of LaunchBox.  I am a premium user.   All the ROMs and CHD files are going on a microsd card.  I am assuming LaunchBox will run a bit slow if I put the actual installation on a sdcard as well so I think I am going to put it on an SSD.  If my assumption is correct, what else should go on the SSD?  I have a MAME Extras directory with some subdirectories like screen snapshots and a directory with video snapshots.  Should these both go on the SSD or only the images?  Anything else that I am missing that should go on the SSD?  Of course I would rather install everything on the microsd and have a complete portable solution but I don’t want it to run slowly.  Thanks.

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I found a pretty old post that stated that Launchpad (and I guess other programs) won’t run good on a microsd because of the many small random read and writes.  Is this still the case with modern microsd cards?I have a Sandisk 1TB microsd with class 10, etc. Thanks.

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4 minutes ago, Avenger said:

I found a pretty old post that stated that Launchpad (and I guess other programs) won’t run good on a microsd because of the many small random read and writes.  Is this still the case with modern microsd cards?I have a Sandisk 1TB microsd with class 10, etc. Thanks.

Yes for the most part. SD cards and USB sticks are made for storage of files, not constant reading and writing like that. Will it work? sure, will it be slow as hell? absolutely. Put Launchbox and emulators on the ssd, just use the sd card for the roms.

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4 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Yes for the most part. SD cards and USB sticks are made for storage of files, not constant reading and writing like that. Will it work? sure, will it be slow as hell? absolutely. Put Launchbox and emulators on the ssd, just use the sd card for the roms.

Thank you.  If I have custom snapshots and video “snapshots”, should those go on the ssd as well? I guess LaunchBox would scan them frequently to show them on the UI.  Anything else I am forgetting about?  Thanks!

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9 minutes ago, Avenger said:

Thank you.  If I have custom snapshots and video “snapshots”, should those go on the ssd as well? I guess LaunchBox would scan them frequently to show them on the UI.  Anything else I am forgetting about?  Thanks!

Those are things i have never used, but i would doubt that they adhere to Launchbox naming standards, so likely wouldnt work with Launchbox. Be glad to be proved wrong by another user who has actual experience with them though, but i assume they are made to work with mame, and not anything else.

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6 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Those are things i have never used, but i would doubt that they adhere to Launchbox naming standards, so likely wouldnt work with Launchbox. Be glad to be proved wrong by another user who has actual experience with them though, but i assume they are made to work with mame, and not anything else.

Yes they are snapshots and videos specifically  for MAME.  They are named the same as the corresponding MAME ROM.  I think I used them with previous versions of LaunchBox by setting the snapshot and video snapshot paths.  But I guess they should go on the ssd if I can use them because I would think they would be scanned a lot.

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