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How do you backup your downloaded ROMs? (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use emulators that play directly from (.iso) or (.img) files, however as you probably know, most ROMs are downloaded as archives.

Do you backup your ROMs in their downloaded archived format? Or as uncompressed files?

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[–] otp 1 points 2 months ago

If the emulator can't run games from archive files, then I store what I play unarchived, and what I don't play stays as archived as it was.

Unless they're small files, then I'd probably back then up extracted. But I haven't had a case where the files were small enough for me to store extracted but the emulator couldn't run from archives.