Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?

[harryoke]

just surpassed 107,000 after adding lots of obscure romsets.

But with it comes the problem of no boxart for some titles.

[proghodet]

4 hours ago, gamerboii said:

Anyone have large Windows games collection? Just bought a 8tb only for pc games. They sure take up space.

The size of games goes hand-in-hand with more advanced graphics and technology. You could get quite a few games from the mid-90's for the size of GTA 5 MS-DOS-games or 3.x games are tiny, so if you want numbers, those are probably the way to go

[Scriven]

7 hours ago, gamerboii said:

Anyone have large Windows games collection? Just bought a 8tb only for pc games. They sure take up space.

Well, a complete install of my Steam account would probably fill that 8tb. The last time I checked I was a 11tb. ??

[cleverest]

I only have about 20 Windows game, they take up too much space on my single 8tb drive. Can't wait until a 16TB NAS solution becomes more affordable!

[Retrofrogg]

I have the Win3xO collection, but not loaded it into Launchbox yet. Waiting for eXo to release his updated pack and then I'll give it a go. Worth a look if you're interested in Windows games.

[harryoke]

2 hours ago, Dan said:

I have the Win3xO collection, but not loaded it into Launchbox yet. Waiting for eXo to release his updated pack and then I'll give it a go. Worth a look if you're interested in Windows games.

same here.

[surfino]

I have only 8 and 16bit consoles systems. Full Sets and All JAP games are patched personally by me with at least "playable" patches. I love those games so much!

Thinking to switch those on Retropie and start modern consoles and systems with launchbox, but i don't know as the way LaunchBox handles multiple roms (for me, mostly translations) is unmatched and it's the reason i happily moved here

 

[kiddanplay]

Ok I figured I would throw my stuff out there too ? Currently, with switch progression moving as fast as it is I went ahead and dropped those in there however you can subtract them from the number as technically it is not playable. All systems work, have overlays and look great in big box. However one thing I do want to do as time goes on is remove any games that don't have any form of video snaps, and actually fire up every single individual game to check compatibility and remove those as well...I figure with this many games in my system I could go ahead and scrap the 5% that don't play or have video snaps. Also this is with ALOT of the NFL,NBA,NHL games removed (I'm not a big sports game fan) Eventually I would like to have it where everything in big box is showing box art, video snaps, and is 100% playable. As for hard drives I currently have 1 - 8TB drive that contains all metadata and 90% of my roms currently I only have 200GB available free on that drive and I have another 4TB drive that I am using for "overflow" and I currently have 1.5TB free on that. All total were looking at close to 9TB of stuff. However, I can easily see this expanding by another 4TB or so as switch dumps keep happening and once the original XBOX is finally emulated. At this point, I'm close to wrapping up my 7 months of tinkering and getting ready to physically build my cabinet here soon. 

[MiamiLamiW]

I’ve got 3 8TB drives in a 15TB Raid 5 and about 12TB deduped using DiskZip Max (to save on space) in Console, Computer and Arcade Rome  from the 1st generation consoles up until the PS2 generation. Still gathering the PS3 and Xbox360 and Wii stuff but as they are DVD and Blu-ray size I decided to get every game for the PlayStation consoles and for other consoles only the exclusives so I don’t have duplicate titles. 

My profile has the link to my collection 

 

[gamerboii]

For people that want Flash games in launchbox there is a new proceft that aims to preserve the flash games for the future in launchbox. Alot of dedicated guys. The collection is currenlyat 4500 games and growing. Includes flash,java,shockwave,html5 and unity games.

 

Join their discord to see more about the project and how to help:

http://discord.gg/S9uJ794

 

 

Edited August 28, 2018 by gamerboii

[gamerboii]

21 hours ago, gamerboii said:

For people that want Flash games in launchbox there is a new proceft that aims to preserve the flash games for the future in launchbox. Alot of dedicated guys. The collection is currenlyat 4500 games and growing. Includes flash,java,shockwave,html5 and unity games.

 

Join their discord to see more about the project and how to help:

http://discord.gg/S9uJ794

 

 

New patch out:

* The game count has broken 5,000. * We now support web-based Java games. * We have batch files to allow you to backup and restore Flash game saves. * We've reduced the size of the Infinity download; it's only 1.4GB now, much more reasonable. * About 50 games were broken in Infinity thanks to bad capitalization; that's fixed now. * And some other minor fixes.

[Scriven]

Interesting, though I am wondering if the files will remain on archive.org forever. Infinity downloads the files as you start the game and when the files are taken down, the game is gone. On the other hand, this is gold for everyone with limited space.

Oh, and I know about the standalone Flashpoint as an option. Will be checking out both.

Edited August 29, 2018 by Scriven
Edit to add some info

[dnm]

for sure not the largest... but the best one ??

 

collection

[dmjohn0x]

Turns out, curation is much harder than just amassing and importing fullsets.

[flatuswalrus]

3 hours ago, dmjohn0x said:

Turns out, curation is much harder than just amassing and importing fullsets.

I completely agree with that statement.

[vahacris]

On 8/23/2018 at 4:08 AM, kiddanplay said:

Ok I figured I would throw my stuff out there too ? Currently, with switch progression moving as fast as it is I went ahead and dropped those in there however you can subtract them from the number as technically it is not playable. All systems work, have overlays and look great in big box. However one thing I do want to do as time goes on is remove any games that don't have any form of video snaps, and actually fire up every single individual game to check compatibility and remove those as well...I figure with this many games in my system I could go ahead and scrap the 5% that don't play or have video snaps. Also this is with ALOT of the NFL,NBA,NHL games removed (I'm not a big sports game fan) Eventually I would like to have it where everything in big box is showing box art, video snaps, and is 100% playable. As for hard drives I currently have 1 - 8TB drive that contains all metadata and 90% of my roms currently I only have 200GB available free on that drive and I have another 4TB drive that I am using for "overflow" and I currently have 1.5TB free on that. All total were looking at close to 9TB of stuff. However, I can easily see this expanding by another 4TB or so as switch dumps keep happening and once the original XBOX is finally emulated. At this point, I'm close to wrapping up my 7 months of tinkering and getting ready to physically build my cabinet here soon. 

Hi! sorry to bother but what is the point in keeping Arcade collection and Final Burn collection? Isn't that the same Arcade games in both of them? Same with Sega Naomi, Delphine, etc. Or maybe You do not have Naomi games in Arcade platform collection? Maybe i miss something but this way theres a many duplicate games in Yours and others collection using the same game file from MAME collection.

[kiddanplay]

41 minutes ago, vahacris said:

Hi! sorry to bother but what is the point in keeping Arcade collection and Final Burn collection? Isn't that the same Arcade games in both of them? Same with Sega Naomi, Delphine, etc. Or maybe You do not have Naomi games in Arcade platform collection? Maybe i miss something but this way theres a many duplicate games in Yours and others collection using the same game file from MAME collection.

What’s up man! Your not bothering at all...honestly I am still going through the build process and tweaking a bunch of stuff...initially I had a final burn set imported due to size then went with a full MAME set including CHDs and haven’t removed FBA yet thanks for the catch on that though! As for Naomi I did scrub my MAME setup to remove the Naomi games. MAME itself is a tricky animal to scrub and clean and separate per system...although with the new LB/BB 8.6 update I’m probably going to remove my arcade set completely update MAME and get the new rom pack and import again using the new features. 

As for other systems, there would be a significant time investment to scrub all duplicates from every system as the same game may have released on multiple platforms and some have different features or playability styles so you may have 5 duplicates of a game spanning multiple systems but without playing through each version you wouldn’t know which one to keep. Therefore your numbers will be inflated by 5 technically. 

 

[kiddanplay]

6 hours ago, dmjohn0x said:

Turns out, curation is much harder than just amassing and importing fullsets.

I can agree with that...but I think we’re talking 2 separate trains of thought....those who want to curate and ensure complete preservation of full galleries vs those who want a nice collection to play and have fun with....eventually as we begin building our systems we fall into either side of that camp however at the end of the day it’s about playing and enjoying and therefore to me getting a complete set importing and playing is the key and as time goes on if I decide to curate I can however once you import enough full sets of systems you have more than is humanly possible to play....I did the math at 1 game a day it would take me 49 years to play my system start to finish...so in my head I ask myself why curate any further? But I don’t knock the boys who do especially the ones that torrent their curated sets :-)))

[vahacris]

4 hours ago, kiddanplay said:

What’s up man! Your not bothering at all...honestly I am still going through the build process and tweaking a bunch of stuff...initially I had a final burn set imported due to size then went with a full MAME set including CHDs and haven’t removed FBA yet thanks for the catch on that though! As for Naomi I did scrub my MAME setup to remove the Naomi games. MAME itself is a tricky animal to scrub and clean and separate per system...although with the new LB/BB 8.6 update I’m probably going to remove my arcade set completely update MAME and get the new rom pack and import again using the new features. 

As for other systems, there would be a significant time investment to scrub all duplicates from every system as the same game may have released on multiple platforms and some have different features or playability styles so you may have 5 duplicates of a game spanning multiple systems but without playing through each version you wouldn’t know which one to keep. Therefore your numbers will be inflated by 5 technically. 

 

Thanks for the answer. i see your point of view. and to be clear i do not talk about different version of the same game for different platforms (like the same game for genesis and snes). I was talking about the exact same game, even the same file on hard drive - one in fb alpha collection and one in arcade collection.

 

but its all good. everyone had their own ish. i personally edit all games individaully, add covers, and other media, correct genres, add extended game info, etc, etc. thats my style ;] 

 

and i only collect official europe and usa releases only. i had like 30 000 games in collection (commodore 64 and amiga collection was the biggest ones) but i catch myself that i never had chance to play all this games so i install fresh copy of lb and starts again with official releases only.

[dmjohn0x]

12 hours ago, kiddanplay said:

I can agree with that...but I think we’re talking 2 separate trains of thought....those who want to curate and ensure complete preservation of full galleries vs those who want a nice collection to play and have fun with....eventually as we begin building our systems we fall into either side of that camp however at the end of the day it’s about playing and enjoying and therefore to me getting a complete set importing and playing is the key and as time goes on if I decide to curate I can however once you import enough full sets of systems you have more than is humanly possible to play....I did the math at 1 game a day it would take me 49 years to play my system start to finish...so in my head I ask myself why curate any further? But I don’t knock the boys who do especially the ones that torrent their curated sets :-)))

I guess I can understand that. I've got so many Fullsets backed up, but when you drop them all into a huge collection, you'll have a bad time finding anything worth actually playing. And Curation is really tricky. You need to find just the games that are good, or at least, interesting, and then further parse that number down so there is a fantastic selection and its not so many as to be overwhelming for the end-user.

Monkus shared a great curation project for MAME called All-Killer No Filler, and while it cuts down the set to around 25%, even it is too full of options to be realistically something your average gamer would be able to go through. But its a fantastic starting point.

Edited September 8, 2018 by dmjohn0x