Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:For the record, let it be noted that Mr. R. B. Sherwin
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stated in IC-"uh-oh!"-Q (his new favorite hangout)
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JWQ: "The MAME ROM collection is too big to fit on a single DVD."
JWQ? JWQ?
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RBS: "I fucking hate the NeoGeo, and the only thing I hate more than the NeoGeo is the squidfucks who play it! Drop them roms from the retro-gaming equation and you'll find 4.7 gigs of quarter-hungry goodness! KICK THAT NEOGEO SHIT TO THE MFing CURB!!!"
Worm wrote:Killer Instinct is quite big also is it not?
Yes. Anything with a CHD file is going to be huge.
The two Killer Instinct games are 95 and 139 MB. Area 51 and Vicious Circle are 5xx MB, and Maximum Force is 1.2G. War Gods is a comparatively svelte 65 MB.
For comparison, the zipped ROMS of Donkey Kong, a game that kicks the asses of all the preceding so far you can't even see them anymore, come to 22070 bytes.
bruce wrote:You can save about HALF that space by losing Area 51 and Area 51/Maximum Force, which, let's face it, are pretty much a sucky version of Doom anyway.
bruce wrote:You can save about HALF that space by losing Area 51 and Area 51/Maximum Force, which, let's face it, are pretty much a sucky version of Doom anyway.
R.B. - the second B, for Rob"B". This time, I "left off the S, for savings!"
(Geez, that'll sound ridiculous to anyone who hasn't heard a 1-800-Mattres add.)
I screwed up my handle's initials. (No one seems to use the term "handle" any more. I'll be taking a dirt nap before I call it a "screen name.")
The ROMs alone (which I have complete for .72, the current one) are still 5.something gigs. Point being, even if you skips all the chds and the samples and the backgrounds and so on, you still can't fit all the ROMs on a single DVD. (Well, not one that you burn yourself. I suppose if you ran a production house, you could make a dual-layer DVD to hold 'em all.) I do still need to get the Vicious Circle chd (which I expect will be reposted any time now on usenet), then I'll be 100% complete... until .73!!!
Just saying, the irony is that RobB, in public, defends the Neo-Geo, while stabbing it in its overpriced guts in private. Nice guy!
