Romsets.

[drgonzo7]

I am curious about this. Any explanations? I want to download the romset Goodnes1, I would just like to know more about it.

[Josh]

When you download a goodset you are getting EVERY rom for that system including all regions, hacks, homebrew, bad dumps, etc.

[Zorlon]

tosec sets are also the same but are more based on old computer systems

[loddie]

Even though it's good to have a whole romset, they are often big wasters of hard drive space. You honestly don't need 10 different dumps of the same game, just one working one.

[Desaigy]

wait, why are there such things as goodsets? surely there aren't people who want everygame for a system?

[GODJonez]

wait, why are there such things as goodsets? surely there aren't people who want everygame for a system?

Are you sure about collectors?

[SegNin]

If you use GoodMerge, then all those hacks, trained roms, translations, etc. won't take up as much space on your HD. GoodMerge organizes all your roms into seperate groups, with each group based on the "main rom" for that group. Example: All Super Mario roms, including hacks, trained, translated, bad, overdump, etc. would be placed into one archive. All Metroid roms including hacks, trained, translated, bad, overdump, etc. would be placed into another archive. And so on... For more info on GoodMerge:
http://goodmerge.sourceforge.net/

[Winged 2.0]

wait, why are there such things as goodsets? surely there aren't people who want everygame for a system?

I do. Whole romsets save me time when I want to play a game. All I have to do is pull up the folder on my computer and play. Cant waste any time looking the rom up, you know.

[drgonzo7]

Alright, thanks for the info, everyone. I was wondering why Goodnes was 222 mb when all of the american release nes roms probably amounts to only 100 mb at the most. I do want every nes rom, but only the American games, I'm not interested in the hacks or homebrews or translated games, although I do think that they have their place in the roms scheme of things. I'll probably download the Goodnes romset though. Again, thanks for the info.

[GundamGuy]

If you use GoodMerge, then all those hacks, trained roms, translations, etc. won't take up as much space on your HD. GoodMerge organizes all your roms into seperate groups, with each group based on the "main rom" for that group. Example: All Super Mario roms, including hacks, trained, translated, bad, overdump, etc. would be placed into one archive. All Metroid roms including hacks, trained, translated, bad, overdump, etc. would be placed into another archive. And so on... For more info on GoodMerge:
http://goodmerge.sourceforge.net/

How does that save space...