I am an obsessive gamer, but even for me having every rom is beyond excessive. But each to his/her own.
We are talking about tens of thousands of games here, most of which are going to be completely uninteresting to the middle school kids of today even if they are somehow "appropriate". You're going to have to filter most of them out. And that's going to take time that you apparently do not have?I am going to have to filter some games out. ( some are not good for kids )
Crazy idea: instead of looking for a complete collection of ROMs, why don't you look for someone who has done a similar project before, and see what games they've come up with? That will save you time.I am doing a project for some middle school kids
Good point. The games are not for me, I am doing a project for some middle school kids, I am having them "build" their own PC in a class I am teaching. We got a bunch of Raspberry pies donated and that is were the Lakka OS comes in. I am going to have to filter some games out. ( some are not good for kids ) hence why I am just look for the download of games.
He could have the kids bring in their games to show them how to dump and preserve them for their pis, the kids could probably figure out to copy and paste eachothers files to spread the gamesQuestionable posting about any of this stuff here - definitely dancing on the line w.r.t. da rules.
For anyone who is curious, though, these 40GB figures you keep seeing are for all ROM's from the mid-90's and below. Once you move into the PS1, you start looking at >1TB for each region uncompressed. Gamecube is 1-2TB uncompressed for everything. I think PSP is similar. Encrypted 3DS dumps end up being about 1TB, I think.
Formats start to get weird from the Wii on up. On the Wii specifically, discs are filled with algorithmically (sp?) generated garbage data, so they are difficult to compress without trimming. Archiving nerds will need to make tough choices, there. WiiU uses some weird file formats for eShop games I haven't looked into too much... good luck finding disk dumps.
Haven't messed around with Xbox 360/PS3 ISO's but they are out there. No Datfiles for consistent naming, though. You will need to make one yourself. 3DS datfiles are also missing the vast majority of updates and DLC.
You will be needing some pretty serious storage tech if you actually want to keep all of these locally, reliably.
Random brain dump for you there.
I ---Snip-- Things are different this time, I am sure I will not repeat the same mistake again, I mean, burning DVDs is not a good idea in these times, probably I will end up collecting a stack of 2TB USB HDDs.
Blu-Ray discs are 25 GB, not 250.Yall are also forgetting mame. thats like 500 gigs. He can burn all the rom sets in that list thats posted on 2 blu ray -r or one dual layer bllu ray.
You are right about that except for one thing; disc rot. Don't have to worry about that with HDDs.Good optical media is more durable the hdd. DVDs dont hold enough for things like nds roms. Buring blu rays are much better for rom archives.
Yall are also forgetting mame. thats like 500 gigs. He can burn all the rom sets in that list thats posted on 2 blu ray -r or one dual layer bllu ray.
I have my large stuff like all wii U e-shop games on hdds. ill archive them eventually. He might as well do nds/gba and 3ds roms as well as gamecube
Maybe technology changed and I am old, but AFAIK data stored in flash memory degrades if not refreshed with an expected life of around 16 years.You are right about that except for one thing; disc rot. Don't have to worry about that with HDDs.
Flash memory is the most durable, in the sense that it's not affected by the passage of time, and that it's shock resistant.
Looks like you are right. Keeping the drive online (connected) seems to be the way to go then, but that comes with its own drawbacks.Maybe technology changed and I am old, but AFAIK data stored in flash memory degrades if not refreshed with an expected life of around 16 years.
lol no kidding you will need more then one. files spread across multiple discs are better then on 1 single disc.Blu-Ray discs are 25 GB, not 250.
the NDS no intro pack i got, has 166GB, compressed in 7z
Questionable posting about any of this stuff here - definitely dancing on the line w.r.t. da rules.
For anyone who is curious, though, these 40GB figures you keep seeing are for all ROM's from the mid-90's and below. Once you move into the PS1, you start looking at >1TB for each region uncompressed. Gamecube is 1-2TB uncompressed for everything. I think PSP is similar. Encrypted 3DS dumps end up being about 1TB, I think.
Formats start to get weird from the Wii on up. On the Wii specifically, discs are filled with algorithmically (sp?) generated garbage data, so they are difficult to compress without trimming. Archiving nerds will need to make tough choices, there. WiiU uses some weird file formats for eShop games I haven't looked into too much... good luck finding disk dumps.
Haven't messed around with Xbox 360/PS3 ISO's but they are out there. No Datfiles for consistent naming, though. You will need to make one yourself. 3DS datfiles are also missing the vast majority of updates and DLC.
You will be needing some pretty serious storage tech if you actually want to keep all of these locally, reliably.
Random brain dump for you there.
Remember, your download is someone else's upload... someone has to do itI am an obsessive gamer, but even for me having every rom is beyond excessive. But each to his/her own.
I would say, it's been done – the pre-Playstation era is increasingly distant and by now everything has probably been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and stored away on innumerable hard drives and DVDs that no one is ever going to bother looking at ever again.someone has to do it
Sorry nothing too meaningful to add to this post, I just saw this and the number seemed wrong so I'm quoting the Wikipedia page for Blu-ray discsBlu-Ray discs are 25 GB, not 250.
Sorry nothing too meaningful to add to this post, I just saw this and the number seemed wrong so I'm quoting the Wikipedia page for Blu-ray discs
"Conventional or pre-BD-XL Blu-ray discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual-layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs. Triple-layer discs (100 GB) and quadruple-layer discs (128 GB) are available for BD-XL re-writer drives"
Not really, there are plenty of places that have original Xbox games around if you know where to look. Just cuz they might not be on XYZ popular ROM site or thepiratebay doesn't mean they aren't being preserved. I mean, just look at the Alvro public mirror, basically every Xbox game can be found with gdrive links.1 system that's pretty hard to find iso games for is the original xbox. You can find xbox 360 games easier than the original xbox. Feels like no one cares about the system enough to peserve it's games.
I've had the hardest time finding SMT Nine around. Thought I found it but I couldn't get it working with an emulator so either bad dump or incompatibleNot really, there are plenty of places that have original Xbox games around if you know where to look. Just cuz they might not be on XYZ popular ROM site or thepiratebay doesn't mean they aren't being preserved. I mean, just look at the Alvro public mirror, basically every Xbox game can be found with gdrive links.
Don't forgot the original Xbox had a massive Homebrew scene, probably just as popular as the Wii was, and with that naturally comes piracy.