Mame On A 1gig Sd

[FluffyPanda]

I've got hold of the complete 0.34 romset for mame (lets just assume that I bought them from starroms, hmm) and they fall just 16 meg over what I can squeeze onto a 1 gig card.

So...

If anyone knows of a more efficient filesystem that is supported by FW1.4.0 that would give me at least 16 meg more space - great!

Otherwise I'm looking for advice on poor games, clones, etc that I could leave off the card and not miss. I know I won't play all 1,027 games, but there must be some that I would never even want to play.

Any ideas?

 

[Shikaku]

You can rezip them using the latest beta of 7-Zip, which has better fully compatible zip compression. Set the wordsize to maximum and rezip all of them up.

Try that!

 

[___]

or simply try to delete all the language versions you won't need... might be a pain in the ass to do with ca. 1000 roms though...

EDIT: Check out if you can find the majong games and the quiz games for neogeo. They are japanese and should add up to give you at least 16mb more space.

 

[cbox]

they won't fit on a 1 gig card, just get a 2 or 4 gig card if you want all the roms, otherwise delete the ones you don't want on it.

 

[Aninhumer]

Couldn't you write a script with something like

rm *[J]* *mahjong*

PS: I don't know whether that is exactly correct and I'm sure some 1337 *nix geek will correct me.

 

[Knoxximus]

You beat me to it.....but yeah, any thing with "mahjong" in the title or dealing with that game (don't fall for the cute anime chicks hyping it up in the pics!) has got to GO!!

 

[Knoxximus]

I've got hold of the complete 0.34 romset for mame (lets just assume that I bought them from starroms, hmm) and they fall just 16 meg over what I can squeeze onto a 1 gig card.

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That would be a good alibi, except for the fact that starroms doesn't sell mame rom sets....only specific "licensed" roms. Give it another go.... :lol:

 

[FluffyPanda]

I've got hold of the complete 0.34 romset for mame (lets just assume that I bought them from starroms, hmm) and they fall just 16 meg over what I can squeeze onto a 1 gig card.

That would be a good alibi, except for the fact that starroms doesn't sell mame rom sets....only specific "licensed" roms. Give it another go.... :lol:

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You would not believe how long it takes to order over a thousand roms independently. Or how much it costs.

Errr... yeah

they won't fit on a 1 gig card, just get a 2 or 4 gig card if you want all the roms, otherwise delete the ones you don't want on it.

Thanks for that, but I was actually asking people for recommendations as to which I could delete and not care about. Mahjong seems to be a good bet.

 

[CABBAGES]

what i would do is goto your mame folder on yrou pc then right click and arrange by size. Then try out the biggest ones see if you liek them or if they work atall then decide if you want to delete it or keep it.

 

[FluffyPanda]

Good call, Cabbages.

Probably the easiest way to find 16 meg of rubbish anyway.

I did have a look for mahjong games, but the 0.34 set only includes one, so that wasn't the space saver I thought it would be.

edit: "Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 - The Newcomers" was 26 meg and failed to load (not enough memory I think).

Everything else fits and I can work my way through them at my leisure. Cheers