-McFly-

Monday at 12:09 AM

On 8/27/2025 at 7:13 PM, KRI$85 said:

🤯OMFG What a CRAZY BEAST COLLECTION, ffff yeaaaaaaaa is also planning, but I'm aiming for at least 100TB. I'd like to have the largest collection of games, movies, music, etc.
Are you planning to record an update on your YT channel with the current collection💪 - No, I just don't have the time.

As someone with the largest collection, could you offer some advice:
1. What HDDs and SSDs do you use, recommend, and what about RAID? It's the same here? - I use SSD for the C:\ drive, 3x hard drives in a soft RAID using Stablebit Drivepool. They all 'appear' as 1 drive (E:\ in my case) in explorer. No specific brand of HDD, they all die eventually.

2. Do you keep media manuals, movies, and games on separate HDDs and SSDs?
- Your collection a whole or is it broken down into smaller ones? I mean, as we know, LB-BB can't handle a very large collection and you have a huge one and people wrote on the forum that it's best to break the collection down into parts? - Yes, they are broken down onto other drives but not included in the E:\ drive as I keep that strictly for games only with symlinks where needed. Same drives though, just outside the 'poolpart' folder.

3. Cache
- How did you build the cache? Did you leave it in attract mode and let it build, or what?
- Could you tell me how many GB it takes up when building the cache? I'd like to be prepared. 😋
Do you keep the cache on the SSD or HDD? - I tried keeping the cache updated but every time I scan a system it wipes the cache so I gave up. Attract mode is useful but it's pretty useless at caching everything - all platforms would take forever to be guaranteed complete. It's on the E:\ drive also. I did have it on the SSD for a while but it got far too large for that.

Launchbox is known to prefer SSDs, so I suspect you have LB-BB on the SSD, newer games on the SSD, and retro games, etc., on the HDD? - I only have LB/BB on the SSD currently. Everything else in the RAID.

That's all for now.

I was going to ask in a private message, but maybe I'm not the only one who would like to know.

Ps:

Thanks for sharing the files.
1 Peta is waiting hehe.

I'll add that my system needs 32GB memory and an i7 processor that's less than 2 years old. It used to work fine on a lower spec PC but somewhere along the road it started choking.... I don't have a separate video card either, just the one that's built in (it does have a couple of monitor outputs which is nice). I rarely have everything in the Data\Platforms folder, so it only loads the specific platforms I actually want to look at or play that I drop in there. Anything more than 400k titles seems to be the breakpoint, at least for me.

My collection has evolved over 8 years or so. Don't rush it, it'll be better in the end if you take your time and do everything the way you want it first time, without having to go back and 'tweak' anything.

Best of luck with your build, and keep us updated here?

Sunday at 11:51 PM

1 hour ago, trueanimus said:

is there any way to run gamewave disks/roms i see you have it listed but i didint think there was an emulator for those yet

I'm not using this, but it might be useful to you? https://nytric.com/clients-zapit-games/ I have several systems that don't have working emulators yet, I have everything queued up for when they arrive and work well.

August 25

1 hour ago, trueanimus said:

Jesus hippy hoola and i thought i was a little anal about trying to add stuff to my bigbox.... we are not worthy we are not worthy /bows

all i can say is... wow dude.. amazing

by the way man, how many games do you have and how large is your storage... im sitting at 12 drives, and around 60 TB storage with 93.5k games atm.... but still have a ton to add.

1.2M titles, but they're not all strictly games. I've included cheats, videos and manuals as well so... probably about 800-900k games maybe? I haven't got a lot of the 'bigger' games like XBOX, Playstation etc. so my total storage is around 30+TB. 60TB is a lot of space for less than 100k games, I'm guessing you've chosen more recent systems?

August 24

These .xml files only has the Metadata for each game... title, gameid's, details, etc. There are no game files in the playlists. These .xml files get built / updated by LB when you import your own games. My .xml files show all the games in the .xml files inside MY LB & BB, they are basically a shortcut for you if you already have all the games on your system already. Any games you don't have simply won't open when ran inside LB or BB as they're not there. You don't need these .xml files if you intend to run the importer yourself - I've simply added them here as a reference if you are looking for more titles to add to your own collection.

August 24

9 minutes ago, Arthurcoutinho600 said:

Hello

This build is amazing but I think you should made more franchise, series, sub-series and misc playlists because not only will grow more but I think that will made more easy to navigate some games that have a series. (and because I love this type of collections).

There are some examples:

Street Fighter Alpha

Mega Man X

Fancy Pants

Mega Man Zero

Mega Man (NES Series)

Super Mario (SNES Series)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Mega Drive/Genesis Series)

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast

etc etc etc....

There are some examples but will make longer and endless

You'll be graced for my help!

Thanks a lot

Thanks for this! I have over 1000 playlists already, I could do all the ones you suggest, but someone will suggest others and someone else will suggest even more... I've reached a limit I'm happy with. Anyone can create playlists in Launchbox and upload them to these forums, you could help the community by doing these yourself?

August 21

5 hours ago, Asparky said:

Isnt this covered Via Mame / Mess Softwear List?

I had a look at this briefly and it appears so. There's nothing definitive to add in the way of a standalone emulator or games, at least that I could see.

August 19

2 hours ago, stigzler said:

Whut, no Nabu? 🤣

https://www.nabu.ca/

Not yet

August 13

4 hours ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

What did you mean by you are taking this over?

Asparky is taking over the management of the archive on Saturday from me, I'm taking a back seat from it.

June 18

I tried, no luck. I have everything online as a backup but I'm not allowed to give any information about it here.

May 28

What's trash to some is gold to others. Different strokes.

May 27

1 hour ago, geeseman said:

Why do you collect them all then? (I know i do it as well...)

They all need to be archived, or they'll get lost forever. I feel the same way about these as https://www.gamepres.org/en/qamission/ do.

May 27

1 hour ago, geeseman said:

Ok thanks, I'm currently using 3X16TB drives in stiped raid under windows as a single drive. Backup is to a Synology NAS. I expect to probably go to 4 Drives in the future for 60TB or so, So many games I will never play but what the hell.

I really don't play any of mine! Maybe when I have guests staying...

May 23

I use Drivepool on the Arcade for the actual LB stuff. 5 drives, 65TB right now. It has duplication going on and it's filling up fast so another 16TB should fix it when it's due. I also back all my home computers up to iDrive, including this, plus the whole MEGA thing. The Drive pool software is pretty reasonable priced and a thought I was taking a risk going that route but it's been pretty stable so far - I have had a drive go bad and it managed it well.

April 27

So I have a bigger, better update at

I've reached the million mark and am happy with where it is for now. I've managed to remove a bunch of duplicates and tidied up everything I can see that needs it - I'm sure I can do more but that's the game

April 25

Last Update I think, I'm not finding many more to add so I'm calling it done. Maybe not forever, but for now.

December 11, 2024

1 hour ago, mironkraft said:

And I forgot, the process that gets blocked:

Doesnt gives me too much info...

And also always happens:

Part of this i think it is becuase of the computer sepcs

That second error means your computer doesn't have the ms-gamingoverlay file, i think this is the XBOX one but I may be mistaken. Try here - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cant-open-ms-gaming-overlay-link/906df8a1-73bc-4eb3-9abd-f34c437ee482 Or it can be downloaded from the windows store... or elsewhere if you don't have that for whatever reason. I'm also seeing that your memory is topped out, that definitely won't help. Adding more memory will help, but your CPU will then be the bottleneck... I'd cut back on how many of the XML files you load each time, see if that helps any.

December 11, 2024

2 hours ago, mironkraft said:

Not working, keeps lagging/freezing

Is there any minimum spec requirements?

If not, we can even make a screensharing if you are up to

Thanks in advance!

I'm running mine right now on an i7 laptop... what are you using? Try removing some of the bigger .xml files in the Data/Platforms folder, see if you can pinpoint what system/s might be causing the issue? I'd also go through all the xml files and check the file paths, Notepad++ makes this much easier. I use 5 drives, H I J K L so these will need to be changed if you're not using these drives... I've tried to symlink all game paths to the Launchbox/Games folder but some need to stay in the /Emulators folder for technical reasons. I'd also make sure your computer is up to date (which I'm sure you've checked) and watch Task Manager for whatever is slowing everything down.

December 10, 2024

7 hours ago, mironkraft said:

Well, after installing and executing it is kinda slow, I am using Windows 10, it stucks or freezes like this, Do i have to try to setup or change the configuration of this?

Try reinstalling Launchbox in the same place

December 9, 2024

There is a very long answer here but basically, you need to get a hold of all the games you want then replace your .xml files in your Data folder with mine, overwriting yours. There will still be some work to do by yourself, like making sure the correct emulators are in place and working, the paths all work, etc.

December 4, 2024

1 hour ago, regismaltais33 said:

Hi,

Where I unzip those files which are at the beginning of this post ?

Your Launchbox / Data folder, in place of what's there.

November 7, 2024

4 hours ago, Zanuto said:

I don’t know about you all, but I purchased access to this collection. The website claims you’ll receive the password immediately, but they haven’t sent it or responded to my emails. It seems I’ve been forgotten =/ @-McFly-

Hi Zanuto. The password is shown on the screen immediately after donating, some miss it I just sent you an email with the password, let me know if you don't get it.

September 27, 2024

Apologies if I've overstepped some mark but people keep asking for more.

September 27, 2024

On 9/23/2023 at 5:07 AM, Kjhrono said:

Good job, I'm very interested as I'm a bit "maniac" too!

I'd like a comprehensive platform list too, so I want to ask: what do you think about a more arcade specific systems? I mean... I found on "System16" a very large list of famous arcade developers board systems, many of them with a very small games list (Capcom ZN-1, Konami Bubble System, Sega System E only for example) and I see you haven't other developers like Data East, Seibu or Taoplan.

I'd attach the file I'm working on, if you want to take a look to understand what I'm saying, that I'll need to store the ROM path and create a .bat to xcopy the files when new romset will be released.

One of my concern is: should I put the boards with >5 games in a separate folder (and system) and the smaller (or the board created for a specific game as I don't like the name "Contra based" for example) in a generic "Arcade - Capcom/Namco ..." or create a platform based on the main CPU and not the board? In that last case, I should have all the developer games in a specific folder like "Capcom Z80, Capcom 68000..." but I should also eliminate the CPS systems/System 16/... too because they refere to a board name. I thought to an hybrid system but, well, not correct to mix board and cpu!

I know it's only a matter of personal taste and my hypothetical setup maybe is only a waste of time, so I'd like to hear an opinion from another that like me likes to have many many platforms (it's just too simple to say "put all in the arcade folder"!).

Cartel1.xlsx 304.81 kB · 12 downloads

I have a share going on that "if you were to deep dive" you might find some answers to some of your questions. I'm hesitant to put any links here to it, so if you're interested please email me at mail@snaapgames.com and say "deepdive" and I'll reply. That goes for anyone.

August 30, 2024

11 hours ago, SiriusVI said:

For 1g1r sets, it doesn't get larger than around 52.000-55.000 games, depending on how many systems you add (consoles + handhelds + arcade). I'm at around 52.000. That includes everything up to the PS3 in consoles (excluding Xbox 360) and PS Vita in handhelds.

The only way to get beyond this number is with computer systems, but if they are not curated by no intro or redump, it's very time consuming / near impossible to make a clean 1g1r set.

Agreed, very time consuming and near impossible. I don't make 1g1r sets.

August 29, 2024

It's everything I can find including betas, demos, languages, bootlegs, versions, etc.

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