Does Hypespin have to be installed off root?

[FlightRisk]

I am trying to configure a retroarch -> rocketlauncher -> hyperspin setup. I will use RA for most of my emulation, but might want a different MAME version and use that outside of retroarch (so 2 or 3 emulators other than RA). I was thinking to keep them all separate and just point to the files. Is that acceptable? Ideally I would want something like this:

c:\arcade
  |__\Hyperspin
  |__\Rocketlauncher
  |__\Retroarch
  |__\roms
     |__\Arcade
     |__\snes

I'm still fleshing it out. Can I do this? I also would like to share roms so that I could have retroarch use them, but use another emulator outside RA that isn't libretro to use them too.

[gigapig]

Yep put them where you like just keep each in there own folders like in your example. Maybe put Retroarch in an Emulators folder.

[gigapig]

And please only create one thread per question as it just clutters the forum and I have to delete them.

[FlightRisk]

Just want to make sure I understand what you are asking me about forum rules. Are you saying to only ask one question in a topic, or as you worded it and I initially understood it, "only create on thread per question"? As in don't ask the same question in multiple places on the forum. Not sure if you were just giving me a heads up since you may have seen that was my first post on the forums, or if you thought I posted this question somewhere else. BTW, I love gigapig and Qbert

[gigapig]

You had created the same question twice in different threads which some people do if they don't know where to post or if they don't get an answer. 

You may have just submitted twice by accident of course.