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

[GAMESHARQ]

Or do they need to be installed on my PC?

[gamfrkI]

most emu's are portable so yes you can run it from an external hd

[te_lanus]

If set-up correctly, yes it can be run from External HD

[GAMESHARQ]

How do I set it up correctly?

[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

[Kherr]

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.

[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