~650–700 GB Without CHDs: ~70–80 GB

While "all ROMs" suggests every game ever dumped, top packs often filter out:

. These provide beautiful "Netflix-style" menus with box art and video previews. Quality over Quantity

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: The gold standard for most users. Each game ZIP file contains every single file needed to run, including BIOS files and parent ROMs. This is the easiest to manage but takes up the most disk space. Split Sets