Jump to content
LaunchBox Community Forums

Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?


cleverest

Recommended Posts

I think I got 23,000 games. I got main consoles like atari, sega, playstation +2, wii , wii u, 3ds , nintendo, and a few pc games, I'm adding 100 ps3 games, and xbox games. I got 17tb worth of games on 2tb OS and 2 8tb drives. I need a better pc to emulate ps3 but ehhhhh. I got a i5 and its no good for ps3.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

My Launchbox setup is heavily curated and currently at 17.000 games but it's 100% complete asset wise. I have complete collections for most cart based consoles but everything optical disc based or home computer is handpicked.

My question is... How do you end up with 60.000+ games? Do you also count every MAME clone, home computer software/shovelware, different regions, etc?

Edited by Imgema
Link to comment
Share on other sites

20 hours ago, Imgema said:

My Launchbox setup is heavily curated and currently at 17.000 games but it's 100% complete asset wise. I have complete collections for most cart based consoles but everything optical disc based or home computer is handpicked.

My question is... How do you end up with 60.000+ games? Do you also count every MAME clone, home computer software/shovelware, different regions, etc?

Different reasons for different people I suppose, but there's some platforms, mostly old computers that come with ridiculous numbers; My top3 platforms are C64 (16586), ZX Spectrum (7448), MS-DOS (7016). Games are grouped ie no duplicates. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

So now I almost wish I hadn't read this topic, I'm feeling wholly inadequate!!!  I grabbed LaunchBox really just as a nice front end for MAME. only really now started to add other games.  Currently standing at 1005 games!  Thanks for some of the inspiration to grow ......

Link to comment
Share on other sites

28 minutes ago, bbk70 said:

So now I almost wish I hadn't read this topic, I'm feeling wholly inadequate!!!  I grabbed LaunchBox really just as a nice front end for MAME. only really now started to add other games.  Currently standing at 1005 games!  Thanks for some of the inspiration to grow ......

MAME itself has way more than 1005 games, so you don't even have a lot of games for that platform. :) 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

6 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

MAME itself has way more than 1005 games, so you don't even have a lot of games for that platform. :) 

Shhhh I know :D!  I started with the games I loved, moved onto the ones I quite liked, then looked at the ones that supported high scores (because I'm like that, it's sad I know!).  I'm going to get a complete set one of these days, but the MAME high score thing has brought the worst out in me, harking back to the days of whoring Xbox Achievements (yes, including Avatar, 1000g in 6 minutes, to my shame) just to be top of my friends list.  I think I've just about got it out of my system over the past month ......

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...

I made a huge update in my collection and i'm now sitting at 21.000+ roms/games across 70 systems.

This collection, however, is heavily curated and mostly clean. I spent days for each system, especially for home computers that are the hardest systems to curate. So, there are no duplicates, no crappy demos and no public domain shovelware. My OCD dictates that the whole setup must be consistent and as clean as possible with name corrections and replacing wrong boxes, and other media as well. Multy-disk/CD games are either merged or i just add the first disk in the list (i don't need to change disks through the Launcbox UI anyway).

The consoles are mostly complete libraries except a few CD/DVD based systems (due to limited space, i only have 4TB to play with). Home computers with large libraries such as C64, Atari ST, Amstrad and Amiga are not complete of course since they got curated, but they still have a bit less than 2.000 games each with all the boxes, videos and snapshots complete. I also curate MAME/Arcade roms to remove multiple clones (unless there are big differences between them), gambling machines, non-working games, etc.

I scrap my collections with Emumovies sync, Screen Scraper and Launchbox. With all these databases combined i end up with very few missing media and i also try to fill the gaps using google if i can. Most of the missing stuff are usually garbage, fan made stuff, different region versions, demos, etc anyway.

A few rules i follow are that the setup only has consoles/handhelds and home computers that can be emulated. My newest systems are the Wii/PSP/DS/PS2, etc. I'm not going as far as WiiU or PS3/360. I also don't add my Steam library in there. I don't have "collections" or "classics" or "best of" such as Taito, Konami, Sega, etc, only Systems. Having separate collection entries means you duplicate your games. Pinball stuff, Pop-Cap, OpenBor, Flash Games, Magazines, Movies, and all kinds of random stuff i see in many large collections are also out. The only entry i have that counts as duplicate is the Neo-Geo (MVS as a console and AES in arcades). I also keep stuff like Model 2, 3, Naomi, etc in their own sections since they don't work in MAME.

 

So what's left to do?

I still haven't completed the Arcade, Atari-8bit and Sinclair Spectrum sections. I'm adding roms alphabetically, for instance, every rom that starts with A, then B, etc. This way i only have to work with a sensible amount of roms each time and when i finish a letter then i go the the next one. When these systems are complete, i should have at least 24.000 roms in Launchbox. Not bad for an OCD driven, heavily curated collection.

 

Oh and one more thing. I haven't touched DOS yet... Now that will be a challenge. I'm waiting for DOSBOX pure to be released that supports archieves and maybe i can use the Exodos pack with it...

 

 

Edited by Imgema
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I'm at over 90k at this point. All major popular consoles and handhelds working great, except Nintendo Switch and PS3, which are still fairly experimental. Whenever possible, I built a 1G1R set with USA --> JAP (english language) --> EUR--> JAP (non english language) --> other regions. I excluded betas, demos, and prototypes, but included unlicensed games.

I'm not too happy with computers. there are many issues that give me a headache:

1. I like to keep things consistent, so I opted for MAME Software List Roms for computer systems. However, many (most) of the roms are not games, but applications. There are other sets, which have the games separated from apps, such as TOSEC, but TOSEC includes multiple different formats for its games, making it very hard to build 1G1R sets. On the other hand, TOSEC has many games that MAME SL does not have.

2. There is the question of which emulator to use. Again, I like being consistent and use the mame core in Retroarch. This can be a pain to set up, but works in most cases with a few workarounds. However, standalone emulators might work better.

3. Many computer systems require launching every single game / app with a string of commands that need to be typed in manually, which makes launching games from Launchbox a pain. There are ways to automate this process for some computer systems, but it doesn't work for all of them.


TL;DR: Consoles and handhelds work great, computer systems are a pain.


EDIT: I've also seen people with a collcetion of over 400K. I guess a collection like this includes all regional and version varieties as well as clones for and every single game out there, all imported as separate entries into Launchbox. Such a collection would be borderline unusable for me. I can see the appeal of having regional and version varietes included if they are grouped together under one single entry. E.g. the USA rom at revision 2.00 would be the default rom and other versions and regions would be additional apps. However, at this point, Launchbox does not reliably allow importing and grouping different versions of a game following such a defined pattern.

If I incude more computer systems from MAME SL, and maybe OG Xbox (although there currently is no emulator that works well) I might be able to hit over 100K roms in Launchbox.

Edited by SiriusVI
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hey all, so my 8TB is full now with 15gb free space...expanding it on my NAS to create a 12-16TB upgraded build...from what I can tell by doing so I can fully have sets for WIi, PS2, 3ds and possible Wii-U.... I will be building a PS3 only collection later because it's simply too large...but will have some PS3 favs in this one...will add more Switch to this too...

is anybody else sporting a 14 or 16TB Lauchbox collection currently? what is your total game count? Are you are organizing for cleaning up duplications, demos, etc... and removing non-english titles unless they're translated or playable like mine?

Edited by cleverest
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 12/21/2020 at 2:33 AM, SiriusVI said:

I'm at over 90k at this point. All major popular consoles and handhelds working great, except Nintendo Switch and PS3, which are still fairly experimental. Whenever possible, I built a 1G1R set with USA --> JAP (english language) --> EUR--> JAP (non english language) --> other regions. I excluded betas, demos, and prototypes, but included unlicensed games.

Would you be willing to share your platform list and total game counts for them? (Not specific games if you don't want, just counts per platform)? I'm wondering what I'm missing....

I ask cause I have just over 42,500 game titles the full ExodDOS collection as well as an assortment of about 50 PC games and I know I'm missing about 300 PS2 games total but short of that (and more Switch games... I only have about 25) I know that my collection is almost complete as far as a 1G1R

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, cleverest said:

Hey all, so my 8TB is full now with 15gb free space...expanding it on my NAS to create a 12-16TB upgraded build...from what I can tell by doing so I can fully have sets for WIi, PS2, 3ds and possible Wii-U.... I will be building a PS3 only collection later because it's simply too large...but will have some PS3 favs in this one...will add more Switch to this too...

is anybody else sporting a 14 or 16TB Lauchbox collection currently? what is your total game count? Are you are organizing for cleaning up duplications, demos, etc... and removing non-english titles unless they're translated or playable like mine?

Don't know how much my collection is gonna end at

But im gonna add PS3 XBOX360 WII U WII and Switch

The Switch set is at 6tb and so is the WII set, PS3 XBOX 360 is bigger sets

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...