Just how much space do I need for all this shit?

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Just how much space do I need for all this shit? Salty Dog 07/03/15 (Fri) 22:53:28 ed462e No.7867

Topic. I'm preparin' for what happens if/when/if/IF(oh dear god let it be if) the TPP passes, our glorious age be at an end and me job be outsourced to someone in Bwongaloo India makin' 5 cents on the dollar to what I get paid. I need to know how much HD space I need in order to fit enough vidya so that I will be able to enter me nerd cave and never emerge. Just for starters, let's go with how much space I'm gonna need to store emulators and complete ROM/ISOsets for EVERY console/handheld put out so far.

Salty Dog 07/06/15 (Mon) 05:12:58 ccf21f No.7926

>>7867

Idk the PS3 has a emulator out right now.

The XBOX 360 has a emulator.

PS4 and XBOX -1 doesn't have emulators yet I think.

If ye mean all the games for every single console probably 4Tb± to be on the safe side.

Salty Dog 07/06/15 (Mon) 07:18:28 9c4700 No.7927

>>7926

X360 has an "emulator" in the sense that it can load the Xbox 360 home menu buggy as fuck, and run light homebrew apps. No game be even remotely playable.

PS3 has no emulator, and every youtube video ye see showin' otherwise be a complete fake. There be no program to download. They don't even have the PS2 emulatin' properly and the PS3 be exponentially more complicated.

As for OP -

Gamecube ROMs are 1.5gb each (Mini DVD)

N64 Roms are generally <50mb

GBA Roms - 5mb

GB roms - 1mb

PS2 isos are around 4gb each (DVD)

Wii are typically 4gb each too, but the Metroid Prime Trilogy ROM I have be 8.5gb

Those are the only things I emulate so that's what I know. Multiply 4gb per PS2 game by the number of PS2 games there are and ye will need a fuck ton of storage.

You just need to look at "best of" lists and download everythin' ye think you'd be remotely interested in, not try to get everything. That's what I'm tryin' to do. Torrents are hard to find for GC/Wii since they recently cracked down with DMCA on the popular ROM exchange sites and cabin boys don't like to seed.

Salty Dog 07/06/15 (Mon) 13:37:16 a51c82 No.7930

The entire NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and SNES libraries are less than 1GB each. PS1/Dreamcast ISOs vary, but usually are around the 700mb territory. Saturn emulation be piss-poor, so don't even worry about that. N64 as another m80 posted max out at 64mb. Basically take the maximum size a game of that system can be and multiply that by number of games on that system to get a rough idea of how much space it would take. Get a few big externals and you'll be good to go with the exception of Wii and PS2.

Salty Dog 07/06/15 (Mon) 22:43:26 24ea0a No.7936

>>7867

80 TB matey, I already ran the numbers

Better start savin' for them HDDs