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    Anyone use a "Selective" Rom Collection? (Rather than trying to own everything)

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    3 hours ago, Chris Kant said:

    I rethink my collection now and will also go with the selective ones... as long as I cannot compare if I have a real full set or not I am not motivated anymore to have everything of everything. it breaks my heart a bit when deleting stuff like Famicom Disk System and so one but I know I will never play these games. NEVER.

    if there would be a comparison plus a different why of "selecting" full set and favourite sets in BigBox I may rethink it again. selecting system would be like going into the system then open filter and there is something like "full", "only favourites" and so on and not with the Playlist option.

    yesterday in short I reduce the arcade section to now 400 games. coming from around 5.000

    I plan on doing the same, but will first hide somewhere in my closet my main collection, and buy a smaller hard drive for this cut down version....that way I avoid the feeling of heartache, LOL...of course that costs more, but...

    Removing all adult themed games in large collection...fastest?

    in Troubleshooting

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    Copying my collection for a friend (and yes, I actually had him BUY LB premium...cause I support this awesome software!), but I need to remove all adult themed games from my large 43k games collection...

    At least I need to try, I know some to remove, but any suggestions on how to do this quickly? Anyone have an adult playlist perhaps, so I can find some fast>... or is there a way to quickly see which games have been tagged HIDE in the edit view? ...which I do to all adult games in my collection when I noticed/add one...

    Thanks.

    In touch with a fantastic Video Program developer - Exciting stuff coming

    in Playlists & Playlist Media

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    I totally get what you're saying, but at the same time I'm not aware of any other program that allows you to batch process multiple video files in a folder and auto-assemble them together from extracted clips into a single video file....nothing that I've seen....so this seems like a unique and fast way to accomplish something that takes considerably longer with every other software solution out there.

    Or am I missing something else that does this and I'm simply lacking experience in this domain?  I suppose that's totally possible.

    In touch with a fantastic Video Program developer - Exciting stuff coming

    in Playlists & Playlist Media

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    I've known this guy for years...He made hands down the best video organization program available....I have no vested/financial ties, just stumbled on this guy awhile back...I've known him for at least 6 years, and he is one of the most responsive and accommodating app developers I've ever had the privilege of BUYING software from (although he does offer a trial to fully check out his software)...but what struck me and had be buying the software fast, was much like Launchbox, he genuinely cares about the quality of his program and he listens to ideas, much like Jason does with Launchbox,.... and if it's a good idea, and even a bit radical, he still moves to implement them quickly. I've literally donated extra to this guy as a thank you; which is something I never do for other software (although I have referred several people to buy Launchbox if that counts...)

    So... I take great pride is seeing some of the features I've requested make it into his video organization program, which BTW is the top one out there...I've tried them all...

    Anyways, after not discussing things with him for a couple years, I've been requesting some exciting feature updates to his excellent program, and he's agreed to work on the idea in a next couple weeks. The reason I bring it up is that it will be an amazing one to use to build video clips from, from single video files/games OR multiple video clips to build playlist or platform videos!  The idea is to have a batch process available in his existing excellent program which will take any video(s) highlighted, and utilizing parameters you set (for time start/end time and clip second duration, or randomizing them), it will automatically pull clips from that video or many videos  and compile them into a single video file.

    I'm excited cause I think about the time wasted just having to load an editing program and do this manually, when this could feasibly be accomplished in second or a couple minutes, and tweaked if the automated settings fail to come up with something nice....

    Thoughts? Ideas?  I'll happily pass it along...this guy is very receptive to feedback.  I'll post more details later as I get some progress on this.  

    ExoDOS Import

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    2 hours ago, eXo said:

    Adv v3.1 incoming at PD today. 1 week freeleech.

    Thanks. Do I just uncompress it over and overwrite my current existing, working launchbox adventure exodos collection that you released last time?

    Anyone use a "Selective" Rom Collection? (Rather than trying to own everything)

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    56 minutes ago, candre23 said:

    Why not both?  My total collection is a bit under 11TB and consists of ~350k files.  Like with pokemon, gotta catch em all.

    But it would be overwhelming to have all those ROMs in launchbox.  These are complete romsets, so there are a ton of versions/dupes.  Most Japanese games are unplayable unless you can read Japanese (which I don't).  A lot of the old computer stuff isn't even games, and even much of what is doesn't lend itself well to my livingroom setup.  Hell, I have a bunch of old mainframe and minicomputer software that isn't even emulatable at this time.

    It's important to me to have it all, but it's counterproductive to have it all in launchbox.  That's why I hoard everything, but I'm selective as to what I import.

    I'll probably archive it, but still have it as a massive master Lauunchbox library, it's still fun to set it up and show it off in BigBox, even if it loads slowly....but you're right, I'll also build a second smaller collection of favorites/games I want to play (seriously plan to), or believe I would like on a smaller drive...I'll just shelve the bigger one.

    Anyone use a "Selective" Rom Collection? (Rather than trying to own everything)

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    1 hour ago, shinra358 said:

    I only have the games I like. Community ratings are useless to me because I only have the games I like so if I have them, I know I like them and don't need help deciding for myself xD

    There's not that much hdd space in the world to get every game. And no one wants to play bad games.

    Ahhh but many love to collect them, a bragging rights thing I guess.

    Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?

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    3 minutes ago, FRK said:

    Hi Guys

    Not read all posts on here but as I am at 93 Systems and 40K+ games I am struggling to even think what's next...

    I think I might get to 100 with some very odd systems but this would only take my game total to 41K at best...

    What's the thoughts of others ???

    FRK


    Same here, including playlists I've created and genre ones, I'm at 100 (probably about 70 platforms if you remove playlists) and 43K titles total not counting comics and vintage video game magazines.....not sure what else to add...I think a lot of larger ones also include non-english titles, duplicates, mame titles that are not merged, multi-disc games that may not be merged, etc......that would make sense...mine does not, except translations to English titles and about 160 jap famicom games, and a few NEC-PC-FX games..

    Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?

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    2 hours ago, GuroDragon said:

    My Current Collection is

    108,000 games (merged for multi disk and different regions US,JP,EU= 1 game)

    105 platforms (arcades are not clearly separated yet)

    19.5 TB in size (Most archives are zipped)

     

    There are different modes for everyone. My collection is not the cleanest (missing box art, info, screen shots only), especially  hard to collect NEC Computer Media. For me its more of a personal archive. For others its about curation and refinement.

    WOWzers....what hardware are you running this from? curious about your particular hard drive/raid implementation for it.

    Do you audit your collections at all or just wing it best you can?

    Best performing BigBox Theme? (Flash drive Build)

    in Big Box Custom Themes

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     Hey guys, I fixed the issue, had nothing to do with the drive, I’m using a 128 GB USB three SanDisk ultra, and the problem was actually an Nvidia setting in GeForce control panel... no more flashing black...

    In those settings you go to the 3-D section, and scroll down and choose the option –  Desktop  only, I forget what it’s called but something to do with how it renders or detect. something.  It was set to application controlled and somehow that was messing it up 

    Anyone use a "Selective" Rom Collection? (Rather than trying to own everything)

    in Collections and Builds

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    1 hour ago, bmonomad said:

    Yes.  I manually organized my collection, removing games that were rated poorly; usually below 60% (or whatever equivalent) on sites like mobygames, gamefaqs, or metacritic.  I also got rid of dupes, keeping what is typically seen as the best version of games.  I did keep, and add to, completed hacks and translations of games that were highly rated, getting all available for every system.

    I did this as I preferred the aspect of scrolling through games knowing that whatever I picked would most likely be enjoyable in some way, and rationalized the effort knowing I wouldn't have to do it more than once.  This was very time consuming but was able to do it over the course of this year.

    This was done from NES to ps2/wii era, as well as full mame set and Dos/PC games.  Still comes to around 6700 games, not including recent PC and a few ps3/wiiu/3ds games.

    I want to do this with a second collection, just not my main "library of gaming history collection I have now"....how much space does yours take up on a drive with all media assets that you have?

    Desmume Full Screen

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    On 12/26/2017 at 5:41 AM, Freestate said:

    For no debug console and full screen use this.  Open desmume.ini (in your emulator folder) search [Console] and arrange like this

    [Console]
    PosX=0
    PosY=0
    Width=0
    Height=0
    Show=0

    For full screen use this on AUTOHOTKEY OPTIONS (In emulator configurator on launchbox)

    WinWaitActive , DeSmuME ;
    Send !{Enter}

    That was great! Thanks! But how do I close the emulator without pressing ALT+4? is there a one key solution for doing that?  ESC doesn't work and there is no X to click with the mouse...

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