looking for some retro gaming advice.

[insomniac45177]

so heres the deal. currently i have on my main pc, Big Box Premium running from an external 8tb. i also have a raspberry pi 3 b+ running retropie and im setting up another pc that will be running batocera. my question is, do i really need to have 3 instances of every game. in other words is there a way for me to share my 8tb big box drive and have retropie on my raspberry pi and batocera on the other pc access the same games over a network? any help at all is appreciated. thanks in advance.

 

[tech3475]

You could potentially mount the network share and allow access that way, just setting folder locations in the emulators to the share. But the biggest potential issues I could see is how each emulator handles game saves as well as loading speed for games which are streamed from the source.