whirlybird7 Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 I've noticed a lot of people keep their roms individually zipped. Is this necessary? I understand with MAME and other arcade roms they must remain zipped due to multiple files for 1 game, but do I need to do this with NES, SNES, N64? If not, what's the reasoning behind leaving them zipped?
dougan78 Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 To save hard drive space that is about it. Game on!
Undertow76 Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 I only zip small roms like etc. Nes, Snes, Sega Genesis, N64, The cartridge based roms to save space. But I normally like to keep my ISO based roms unzipped for a faster read, and for things to run faster and smoother! That is basically what I prefer due to my computer specs.
Styphelus Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 To save space. Saved me close to 800GB, believe it or not.
whirlybird7 Posted February 9, 2015 Author Posted February 9, 2015 If you have a large system and need to save space it works well with the big disc based games. However downside is then you gotta wait a while for them to decompress. This will not be a huge issue for me as I'm only looking to play roms on consoles no higher than N64, as well as MAME.
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