Page 1 of 1

Can Emulators and Roms be run from an external hard drive?

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:42 pm
by GAMESHARQ
Or do they need to be installed on my PC?

Re: Can Emulators and Roms be run from an external hard driv

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:59 pm
by gamfrkI
most emu's are portable so yes you can run it from an external hd

Re: Can Emulators and Roms be run from an external hard driv

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:06 pm
by te_lanus
If set-up correctly, yes it can be run from External HD

Re: Can Emulators and Roms be run from an external hard driv

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:35 pm
by GAMESHARQ
How do I set it up correctly?

Re: Can Emulators and Roms be run from an external hard driv

PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:49 am
by gamfrkI
for most emu's ive used (zsnes,epsxe,pj64 most used) all i had to do is make sure that they knew where the roms were

Re: Can Emulators and Roms be run from an external hard driv

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:27 pm
by Kherr
gamfrkI wrote:for most emu's ive used (zsnes,epsxe,pj64 most used) all i had to do is make sure that they knew where the roms were


Agreed. :3

Just unzip the emulator to the removable jump drive or to an external HDD and then put the roms you want to play into a folder marked "ROMS" on the device, then when you load up the program just tell it to find the roms in that folder on your device. It should work perfectly.

Re: Can Emulators and Roms be run from an external hard driv

PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:16 am
by stinow
I'm curious if this performs well enough with, let's say, Hyperspin (FE).
For the love of some people I'll start making a portale Hyperspin setup when finished with the arcade cabinet.

It will hold a complete 'ready-to-go' Hyperspin, emulators, daemontools, (possibly roms) & batchfiles.
Will take some time though, and if anyone here is interested in having one, just PM me.

Cheers guys :)