brando56894

Thanks for the insight. It's nice to know that you're taking it into consideration 😀 I definitely can't copy my games to my PC because I have about 15.7 TB of games (properties shows 233,782 files, anything larger than a cartridge ROM, like CDs/DVDs, are split files. Anything from the 90s and before is 605 GB, about 72,000 files) on my home server shared out via Samba/SMB/CIFS. Creating sym/hard links on my server (which runs Linux) would work, but it would most likely require linking every file since LaunchBox likes a flat folder structure. Also, Samba sometimes doesn't play well with links, symlinks can easily be broken when the source file is moved, which just creates more headaches. Hard links would be much better in my case since all links point to the same inode, so they can't be broken like symlinks can. While moving my games to a non-alphabetized folder hierarchy (removing my A-whatever subfolders under the platform folder) would be feasible, it's just not ideal since I also have a MisTer, which I prefer to use for any systems from the 90s and before, since it's hardware emulation and not software emulation. I can create "favorites" in the MisTer UI for games I frequently want to play, but if I want to get to a letter near the end of the alphabet, it would require scrolling through hundreds, if not thousands of files per console. Just as an example, my SNES folder of just US released games is 733 files. Like you said, everyone has their own way of doing things, and it would be difficult for you guys to cover everything under the sun. I actually rarely play any of these games, I'm a data hoarder and they're just nice to have for whenever I get the urge to play something old.

It would be nice and more user friendly if there was a way to mass import everything at once for those of us that have gigantic libraries, like Emulation Station and RetroArch do, instead of having to click though handfuls of (or literally a hundred) dialogue boxes and dropdown menus, but, alas, my opinion won't change anything. I like the desktop UI and filtering ability that LaunchBox has, but the import process makes me not want to use it over the other two due to the hours it would take to setup. I'd also have to reorganize my folder structure apparently, because under each console name I have the country/general area that they were released in (US, EU, JP, etc...), then separated alphabetically in chunks (A-F, G-M, N-Z) depending on how many games there are for that system. Also, I have a folder in the same level as the alphabetized folders which uses categories as subfolders (game series, FPS, RPG, etc...) so you can search for a game by that as well instead of scrolling through the list alphabetically. This wasn't my own layout, by is a "standard" set up by the Hardware Target Game Database organization system and is used by a bunch of "Retro Archivists".

Thanks, that's still a lot more work than I'd like to do because I'd have to add in about 25-30 platforms manually and then change all their paths manually, which isn't really ideal.

I have a huge collection already organized on my NAS and shared out via SAMBA shares on a RetroNAS VM. I have the drive mounted as Z:\ and all the ROMs are sorted by platform under either Z:\recalbox or z:\retroarch I haven't found an answer to this yet, but is there a way I can tell LaunchBox "Import all the platforms under z:\recalbox" instead of having to go through the Import wizard tens of times, amounting to hundreds of clicks taking an hour or two?