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Best SD card size for retropie ?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:59 am
by gargoyle67
I know this is very dependant on what emulators you want on your setup but just out of interest whats the average for putting into a zero build ? would 64gig be a waste ? I'm thinking around 32gig's would hit the sweet spot.
Re: Best SD card size for retropie ?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 10:58 am
by Dracip
Hi, it's depending on which emulators (number of games for this) you want to store on your sd-card. More space = more games to store.
Re: Best SD card size for retropie ?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:13 am
by gargoyle67
gargoyle67 wrote:I know this is very dependant on what emulators you want on your setup
Hence the above statment, I'm asking what's the average size for most zero builders

Re: Best SD card size for retropie ?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:26 am
by Dracip
gargoyle67 wrote:gargoyle67 wrote:I know this is very dependant on what emulators you want on your setup
Hence the above statment, I'm asking what's the average size for most zero builders

Decide yourself, look for the example sizes of roms:
GB/GBC: 256-KB, 512-KB, 1-MB, 2-MB, 4-MB, 8-MB
GBA: 4-MB, 8-MB, 16-MB, 32-MB
NDS: 8-MB, 16-MB, 32-MB, 64-MB, 128-MB, 256-MB 512-MB
PS: 700-MB
I'm personally using a 32GB sd card, because best price/size ration.
Re: Best SD card size for retropie ?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:48 am
by chiz
I guess this is purely depending on personal preference.
I'm using a 64gb card coz I intend to install XBMC on my GB Pi2 and let my daughter watch movies when she gets bored of the games. Videos can take a lot of disk space so I'm using the max card size I can afford.
Re: Best SD card size for retropie ?
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 1:40 am
by Kilren
gargoyle67 wrote:I know this is very dependant on what emulators you want on your setup but just out of interest whats the average for putting into a zero build ? would 64gig be a waste ? I'm thinking around 32gig's would hit the sweet spot.
Like chiz said, it's dependent what you want to do. GBA is what's going to eat up the most room on a pi0 (can't play almost all psx or n64). I like 32gb. I buy this one,
Micro SD, for $10 and I don't worry about space. I currently have 10k+ games so far and probably half full. I'm also only doing emulation (no videos/music etc.)