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I like your question, it's one of those 'should i / why do you / how about this' questions, one that ultimately comes down to personal wants and needs. Mine changes all the time. For instance I have many Playlists for the ZN-1, System E and more which I could have as a platform instead. Why do I have some that are Platforms and others that are Playlists... is a question I can't really answer tbh as I make it up as I go along. Will I change some platforms to playlists and vice versa? Probably. I might even change them back. Your .xls spreadsheet is interesting, I see what you're getting at there. You could just plop them all under Sega, or you could spread them out over platforms, playlists or both. How much time do you want to spend on everything? That's the question. If you don't mind spending more time than most then make everything as granular as you want. If you don't like them later you can always change them to someting else. I do have a fairly small Platform Categories list I sometimes play with which may take more of my time later, if I want to get more granular. I don't think anyone will mind how you do yours, I expect everyone does them differently. I do have a bunch of Platforms and Playlists that only have 1 game though. You could have a 'Boards' category that has specific board types in there if you preferred, it sounds like a good idea that I might think about doing myself... Several of my platforms and playlists are in more than 1 category as well. Keep doin' what you're doin, make up your own rules and go for it, it's your collection -
My 144TB Launchbox build 200k Games !
-McFly- replied to Achisweden's topic in Collections and Builds
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Oh I have many issues with a lot of emulators, including N-Gage. My take on these is that when working emulators become available I'll get them added to the system and I'll finally be able to see these games in action again. Finding the games is much harder than finding a working emulator, I'll be ready when they catch up.
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You got me thinking, exactly how many games do I have in total, including different versions and duplicates? I ran all my Platform .xml files through Notepad++ and the magic number of how many </ApplicationPath> files I have are..... (drum roll...) 1,631,204. Of course, that's everything including Magazines and Videos etc.. It doesn't count in the grand scheme of things but I wanted to know
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Hahahaha, right?? I'd like to say I'd be happy with just the 1 million... Who knows.
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My system isn't for sale, and never will be. As strange as this may sound I rarely play any games at all, I feel compelled to find everything there is available in this retro realm, to share en-masse for free online when laws and licensing allows (which may be never). My advice to you is to learn the process on your own time and keep at it, if it's what you want. TBH my collection is completely ridiculous if you actually want to play these games, stick to the consoles or computers you see yourself actually playing regularly and start there.
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Are you asking if this is for sale or are you asking how to go about getting all these yourself?
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Updated again. I've added my Platform Icons folder as well.
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Just found this - need to delete a folder of zero byte files? - Powershell 'as admin' this - Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\LaunchBox\Images\Cache-BB" -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -eq $false -and $_.Length -eq 0 } | remove-item (change the path as needed) I did this on my cache folder and everything is faster.
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I've found some crazy downloads, stuff I'd never find on the known sites. I prefer to put everything together.
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Check out my Platforms xml file, there might be a few there you can add - https://forums.launchbox-app.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=96455&key=b2a8a06f80b22bb6a08c82b77a140dea
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I'm trying to find all languages, hacks, homebrews, everything. I have some 'best of' playlists that I found somewhere, if the numbers in there aren't whole (ie. 50, 100 etc.) then I take that to mean I'm missing something. It's entirely possible that I do have everything they're just mis-named but I'm not going through all the weirdly named ones one by one to see what they are...
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A complete excel spreadsheet of all the games... I'm not entirely sure how I'd do that tbh. I've never tried importing from .xml to a spreadsheet, I'd need to look into it. SiriusVI's reply above is correct, I've searched in (too) many places to find everything and smushed everything together. Some sets I've downloaded might be 100GB only to give me an extra game or 2. I'm still missing a bunch of SNES titles.
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You are correct Emrys3177 I haven't gone for a lot of the larger PS3, XBOX etc. titles as my need isn't just to fill up drives. When it comes to PS1 and others tho, there's a LB plugin here that will convert ISO and other files to CHD which did reduce a lot of space.
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Around 32TB right now.
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They got back to me and said " We are unable to take downloaded games: as a library, we have to have everything obtained legally from a game's rightsholder in order to be able to use it, so the games either need to be purchased by us or we have to have original physical copies. " Until this requirement is removed I'm going to have to find another way... or create my own. I think their requirement, although understandable in terms of legalities, does nothing for preservation.
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I've reached out to https://gamehistory.org/ and I'm waiting for a reply. I'm sure anything you have will be a welcome addition for them.
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I kinda took a break during Covid but I didn't stop. My overall objective from 6+ years ago was to collect everything, and that won't change. I will at some point donate everything to an online archive so these are all preserved forever. I have no intention of playing them all or even knowing if the obscure systems work as they should or used to as emulators are being written constantly for every system imaginable. All of the original games and other software titles need to be available to everyone for historical reasons. These are the foundations of where we are as a digital society and they won't be lost, at least if I have any say in it.
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I have also experienced this. For a long time now I've had BigBox run at startup instead of Explorer which did help with a lot of the sluggishness. I also found that caching in both BB and LB help enormously too. My system takes about 40 minutes to boot into BigBox but when everything is cached and the system is not running anything else, it's beautiful to watch. I take backups of both my cache folders weekly as I don't want to start again... I have an Octocore AMD running 32GB with an EVGA Geforce 1070 video card. It's all running on an Asus motherboard with liquid cooling as well.
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Ευχαριστώ για την απάντησή σας. Αποφάσισα κοντά στην αρχή αυτού του έργου να κάνω αυτήν την πλατφόρμα-κεντρική, αγνοώντας τις ταξινομήσεις που αναφέρατε. Η φιλοδοξία μου ήταν να συλλέξω τα πάντα σε ένα μέρος, ήξερα ότι θα υπήρχαν πολλές πλατφόρμες και λίστες αναπαραγωγής χωρίς να προσθέσω περαιτέρω αναλύσεις, οι οποίες κατά τη γνώμη μου θα το γέμιζε πάρα πολύ. Είναι αρκετά ακατάστατο όπως είναι! Ανάμεσα στην οθόνη και το joystick έχω ένα Stream Deck, έναν ελεγκτή θερμοκρασίας / ανεμιστήρα και ένα tablet που μπορεί να λειτουργήσει ως οθόνη για οποιονδήποτε λόγο. Το χρησιμοποιώ κυρίως για διαχείριση εργασιών και γρήγορους ελέγχους φακέλων.
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Thanks for this info, I'll reach out to him!
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Version 20230704_Images,XML,Videos
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All my Platforms / Playlists / Categories / Icons Image Folders individually zipped up; Banners, Clear logos, 3D Boxes, 3D Carts, Boxes, Carts, Devices, Fanart My .xml files are here - My videos are here - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TEUrBqH8Vbo-EAtlyGJQvlhJdDFiUxwe?usp=sharing Happy Independence Day! -
Platform / Playlist / Categories / Icons | Images| All Zipped UP | XMLs and Video links included | 20230704 - Happy 4th of July! View File All my Platforms / Playlists / Categories / Icons Image Folders individually zipped up; Banners, Clear logos, 3D Boxes, 3D Carts, Boxes, Carts, Devices, Fanart My .xml files are here - My videos are here - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TEUrBqH8Vbo-EAtlyGJQvlhJdDFiUxwe?usp=sharing Happy Independence Day! Submitter -McFly- Submitted 07/04/2023 Category Platform Clear Logos
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I just did one of these last month, but I've added quite a few since then. Happy Independence Day!
