How much space is your retro ROM collection? What systems? Where

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142 GB. Most from the Internet Archive.
FM Towns is the the largest part as that's the only CD based system where I downloaded a large set instead of single images.

>>3714590
Around 250 gigs, though MAME, PS1, and N64 account for most of the bulk.

>>3714590
1 gig or less I assume. Most of it is Neo Geo. I see no point in keeping games that I won't play anyway

My ROMs take up about 2 walls.

>>3714590
I got all of mine from Kazaa.
Who wouldn't trust all_systems_rom_collection_mp3_photoshop_full_warez_teen_anal_moby_porcelain_xxx.mp3.exe 16Kb

>>3714658
What is Sega - Megadrive?

>>3714723
How the Genesis is known outside of North America.

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>>3714590
pic related plus a complete playstation 1 and mame+chd sets. It's probably around 6TB total.

>>3714810
Why do you have a gog folder for three different OS?
What is T-English?

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>have 250 GBs of ROMS for every system since 1970s to 2000s

>replay the same 3 or 4 games every year
>actually spend more time tweaking configs and arguing about crt monitors than playing

do not even try and deny this is you, anon

>>3714825
I have windows at home and a mac desktop. I grabbed the Linux set to seed. T-eng is a English translation rom set for various consoles

>>3714658
What is the internet archive?

>>3715091
https://archive.org/index.php

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>>3714829
Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong, per se.

But the thing is, that when I do finally sit down to play, it's for days on end. It's usually when I have time off from work with little else to do. So at that point, I pretty much only pause and pry myself away from a game to make another pot of coffee or empty my bladder.

>>3714590

There used to be a service back in the day before torrents came about. Dudes that would copy and send to you entire console libraries on CD and then later DVD media for the cost of shipping and the media used. It took an awful lot of time for no reward, and I still don't understand why they would do it. But I'm grateful because around the time of the PS2, I found a dude who was willing to send me everything from the 5th gen all the way back to Pong.

The sets aren't complete though, as I only find a JP or EU version of a game if there was no NA counterpart released. I don't mind. For 4th gen and earlier, finding a rom is easy because they're all on one disc. But finding a Saturn or PSX iso can take some time. MAME takes some time to sort through as well.

Anyway, I posted how many DVDs it is in another thread like a week ago. Yeah, I should put it all on an external HD or something. Pic related.

>>3715178
>>There used to be a service back in the day before torrents came about. Dudes that would copy and send to you entire console libraries on CD and then later DVD media for the cost of shipping and the media used. It took an awful lot of time for no reward, and I still don't understand why they would do it. But I'm grateful because around the time of the PS2, I found a dude who was willing to send me everything from the 5th gen all the way back to Pong.

Does anyone remember a dude from the late nineties and early 2000s that went by the name Eggman? He ran a site called Eggmans Emulation Archive and posted on game forums. He basically had full sets for every single console up to whatever was current and burned them for a price. He showed pictures of his setup and there were several pc with dozens of cd and dvd burners it was insane. A full set for a cd system would take reams of dvds.

I actually bought some shit from him back in the day.

>>3715178
That's how people traded anime back in the day. People used to copy VHS tapes and send them in the mail. Truly, it was a barbarous time.

How do you guys decide which files to download from Internet Archive? I often see mutliple copies of the same game, and although I often run in a sandboxed environment, I don't always..

>>3715390
I mostly grabbed the No-Into and Neo Kobe packs.
Only time I downloaded single games was for the Saturn.

>>3714590
700mb.

Mainly Genesis, NES, SG-1000 and PCE.

>>3714714
Do people still use the gnutella network or is it just a bunch of FBI agents trading cp?