Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?

[cleverest]

I'll check it out; there is always a tool you never heard of that is awesome, lol...

Chris's proposed tool already saved me 35GB in my video folders (not LaunchBox stuff, just general media stuff), so this sort of stuff is valuable to know...ultimately for those running it on drives with their LaunchBox data, it may lead to larger collections (as per the theme of the thread)  🙂

[papion23]

At the moment, I have 65,040 and that's because I'm facing a challenge with one of my external drives, which has become corrupted and Unfortunately, this has resulted in the loss of all my PC games stored on that drive I'm currently working on recovering the data, but the chances of success seem slim. I have 2x20TB Exos drive and 1x20TB Iron wolf

[Samorite]

I am just over 62k games, adding obscure collections. I don't get much time to play them as I usually trying how to figure out how to add and run them  

 

[Lucoshi]

Meanwhile me i have 19040 in total of media (Including Tv Shows, Movies Magazines, TV Shows and Much More!

[SiriusVI]

On 6/20/2024 at 7:11 PM, cleverest said:

I wish there was a way to know how many TB a 1G1R set would be for all playable systems/roms, with no hacks, betas, alt dumps, etc....I'm at just under 16TB currently with my own with over 59k gaming title and I feel like I can't add much more except later systems that require much more disk space (and way more PS3 titles). I can't imagine it's much larger than this....

Well, I have 1g1r sets for most systems that are a part of either no intro or redump. For Computer Systems I use TOSEC, which adds some duplicates however. On systems that have an eshop and virtual console games, I usually add these games under a separate platform, such as Wii (digital) or 3DS (digital), which also adds a couple of duplicates. I don't feel like manually comparing digital and physical releases, so I just keep the duplicates. I have also the whole Flashpoint Ultimate collection imported into Launchbox, which adds over 200.000 entries.

All in all that gives me a total of 34.288 games for consoles, 17.226 for handhelds, and 3.533 games for arcade.

I need to overhaul many of my computer systems, because more often than I'd like, games will just not launch. It's a real pain setting everything up. But currently I have 269.089 entries here (200.333 is just Flashpoint Ultimate).

Edited August 26, 2024 by SiriusVI

[-McFly-]

this is where i am  currently...

 

[cleverest]

1 hour ago, -McFly- said:

this is where i am  currently...

 

Not 1G1R, right?

Does this count Includes beta, demos or all language versions of a game possible?

 

[-McFly-]

It's everything I can find including betas, demos, languages, bootlegs, versions, etc.

[SiriusVI]

11 hours ago, cleverest said:

Not 1G1R, right?

Does this count Includes beta, demos or all language versions of a game possible?

 

For 1g1r sets, it doesn't get larger than around 52.000-55.000 games, depending on how many systems you add (consoles + handhelds + arcade). I'm at around 52.000. That includes everything up to the PS3 in consoles (excluding Xbox 360) and PS Vita in handhelds.

The only way to get beyond this number is with computer systems, but if they are not curated by no intro or redump, it's very time consuming / near impossible to make a clean 1g1r set.

[-McFly-]

11 hours ago, SiriusVI said:

For 1g1r sets, it doesn't get larger than around 52.000-55.000 games, depending on how many systems you add (consoles + handhelds + arcade). I'm at around 52.000. That includes everything up to the PS3 in consoles (excluding Xbox 360) and PS Vita in handhelds.

The only way to get beyond this number is with computer systems, but if they are not curated by no intro or redump, it's very time consuming / near impossible to make a clean 1g1r set.

Agreed, very time consuming and near impossible. I don't make 1g1r sets.

[RumRaiderArcader]

I have close to 60k  2TB boot drive 4 16TB drives 

[SiriusVI]

On 8/30/2024 at 7:12 PM, -McFly- said:

Agreed, very time consuming and near impossible. I don't make 1g1r sets.

If you know how, 1g1r sets can be created fairly quickly, but only if you have good dats from no intro and redeump. It's not possible with TOSEC unfortunately.

[Jeffit]

That’s an insane collection! I can’t even imagine keeping track of all those games. I’m still working on my library, but I try to keep it manageable—maybe a couple hundred titles right now. I’m really curious about the nested feature too; it sounds like it’ll make organizing a lot easier. 

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

The question is interesting, but it's more akin to a technical challenge or compulsive completionist syndrome!"

Let's be honest: you all know that one lifetime will never be enough to play through all these games. We're no longer really in a collecting mindset, but rather in a sort of quest for self-satisfaction, even a frantic accumulation.

Because a real collection—whether physical or digital—is something to be browsed, admired, returned to, and taken the time to get a little lost in it. 

Worse: it's not even certain you'll reopen this collection once it's completed...

Let's be honest: between us, the goal isn't really to play all these games anymore, is it? We're talking about thousands of titles piled up in a corner of a hard drive, carefully sorted, carefully categorized... and never launched.

We click, we download, we mentally check a box:

"This one's good, I've got it. Next one!"

But at what point did we start confusing collecting with compulsion?

And the worst part? The more we have, the less we play.
Because we don't even know where to start anymore. Because quantity kills desire. Because pleasure has been lost in the labyrinth of "having it all."

A real collection, whether physical or digital, is something you experience. You contemplate it. You browse it, a bit like an old library.
You open a box, you remember a theme song, a cover, a startup sound...
You stop, you explore.
You feel something.

What we're seeing more and more are folders filled to the brim with gems... that we haven't even taken the time to look at once.
Games that are sleeping in a corner of the frontend, like books we've never opened but are showing off in the window for show.

What if we got back to basics? A console, a few games, a video theme that immediately sets the mood.
It's not the quantity that matters.
It's the story you tell with your collection.
The one you tell yourself.

So yeah, install your games.
But above all: experience them.
Admire them. Rediscover them.
Because a frontend, a collection, isn't an Excel spreadsheet.
It's a living work of art.

And you are its guardian.

 

[Retrofrogg]

Lol, very poetic post. You're right of course, regarding it being impossible to play all of those games and it being more of a "compulsive completionist syndrome". You should head over to the datahoarder subreddit, or hang out in the RomVault discord - you'll see that collecting full sets for the sake of it  isn't all that unusual. You can collect a large stamp collection, but you never actually use any of the stamps. Collecting for its own sake is not an unusual hobby. Me, I'm somewhere in the middle; I like to collect full sets, but I don't tend to import a new platform until the existing platforms that I have are "sorted" - i.e. everything is set up properly with the correct artwork, manuals, videos etc. And I play many of the games too  

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

41 minutes ago, Retrofrogg said:

Mdr, message très poétique. Tu as raison, bien sûr, sur le fait qu'il est impossible de jouer à tous ces jeux et que cela relève plutôt du « syndrome du complétionniste compulsif ». Vous devriez aller sur le subreddit des datahoarders ou sur le Discord de RomVault ; tu verras que collectionner des séries complètes pour le plaisir   n'est pas si inhabituel. On peut collectionner une grande collection de timbres, sans jamais les utiliser. Collectionner pour le plaisir n’est pas un passe-temps inhabituel. Personnellement, je me situe quelque part entre les deux ; j'aime collectionner des séries complètes, mais je n'importe généralement pas de nouvelle plateforme tant que mes plateformes existantes ne sont pas « réglées » – c'est-à-dire que tout est correctement configuré avec les illustrations, les manuels, les vidéos, etc.  

Yes, it was late, and my sentimental side came back! 😅 Of course everyone is free to do what they want, and i respect that but we can always discuss it!

The eternal debate between the complete set and the perfect set, alala

But after all, that's what a fiorum is for: to express yourself. I hope no one takes it the wrong way! I just gave my feelings ^^

 

Edited Wednesday at 03:07 PM by PadeMoNiuM Prods

[cleverest]

When I originally posited this question for this post, I didn't really concern myself with motivation. Someone's psychology and their desires for being a completionist aren't AS interesting to me to be honest. I simply wanted to know what is truly the biggest collection out there, especially one that could be said to be utter quality and not riddled with duplicates and nonsense, like beta, demos, garbage hacks, etc...

For me in that quest, I'm now up to 62,000 gaming titles and over 2,500 retro gaming magazines, comics, and strategy guides. The biggest limitation for me are the larger platforms that are huge... PS4 is starting to become emulate-able, so that's not even factored in at all in this collection...and then of course, there are a heck of a lot more PS3 titles that could be added to mine that won't fit unless you have a collection of large drives or a NAS to play it off of; but the latter always causes severe performance drops managing it (in my experience), so I'm sticking with external drives; a 16tb in my case, with all platforms possible using the best lossless compression formats for them;, which even makes this count possible on this drive.

Edited Wednesday at 11:48 PM by cleverest

[-McFly-]

What's trash to some is gold to others. Different strokes. 

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

3 hours ago, cleverest said:

When I originally posited this question for this post, I didn't really concern myself with motivation. Someone's psychology and their desires for being a completionist aren't AS interesting to me to be honest. I simply wanted to know what is truly the biggest collection out there, especially one that could be said to be utter quality and not riddled with duplicates and nonsense, like beta, demos, garbage hacks, etc...

For me in that quest, I'm now up to 62,000 gaming titles and over 2,500 retro gaming magazines, comics, and strategy guides. The biggest limitation for me are the larger platforms that are huge... PS4 is starting to become emulate-able, so that's not even factored in at all in this collection...and then of course, there are a heck of a lot more PS3 titles that could be added to mine that won't fit unless you have a collection of large drives or a NAS to play it off of; but the latter always causes severe performance drops managing it (in my experience), so I'm sticking with external drives; a 16tb in my case, with all platforms possible using the besr lossless compression formats for them;, which even makes this count possible on this drive.

And you did well !! because it raises a real little debate, that's why I posted and I'm passionate about it! A post that dates back to 2017 and that continues to be updated, I want to say, so much the better! and I'll tell you (just to develop further)
You did well! Because today we're sure of nothing! And I see a call for preservation... look!

Who would have believed 4 years ago that Microsoft, after these billion-dollar buyouts, would withdraw as manufacturers and turn around to become publishers, leaving Nintendo and Sony the field clear....

Damn guys, Forza has been on PS5 for a week and Gears of Wars is coming! It's crazy... It's evolving so fast! The physical is inevitable disappears...

You are ultimately still guardians of completion and passionate people, ultimately the two ways of thinking agree...

The hardest thing is perhaps to make the young generation like our old games, tiktot and roblox, to pass the torch (as a certain solid snake would say).... And that's a whole different ball game!

Well, I managed to pass on my passion for manga and Japan, it's already a good base, nothing is lost!

Nothing is created but everything is transformed (as I would say, oh shit, I don't know anymore!)😂

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

3 hours ago, cleverest said:

When I originally posited this question for this post, I didn't really concern myself with motivation. Someone's psychology and their desires for being a completionist aren't AS interesting to me to be honest. I simply wanted to know what is truly the biggest collection out there, especially one that could be said to be utter quality and not riddled with duplicates and nonsense, like beta, demos, garbage hacks, etc...

For me in that quest, I'm now up to 62,000 gaming titles and over 2,500 retro gaming magazines, comics, and strategy guides. The biggest limitation for me are the larger platforms that are huge... PS4 is starting to become emulate-able, so that's not even factored in at all in this collection...and then of course, there are a heck of a lot more PS3 titles that could be added to mine that won't fit unless you have a collection of large drives or a NAS to play it off of; but the latter always causes severe performance drops managing it (in my experience), so I'm sticking with external drives; a 16tb in my case, with all platforms possible using the besr lossless compression formats for them;, which even makes this count possible on this drive.

I forget !  For the PS4 you can already make a system: with the .exe pc. the majority of the big AAA are released on pc (come on, last guardian and medievil are missing and it will be perfect)

why wait for the emulation especially since you benefit from the best versions / not sure that the ps4 emulation arrives at this stage of improvement or not for a long time!

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