Who has the largest collection currently standing in Launchbox?

[mamizoune]

My collection is up to 25342 games. I think it might include steam games too, and my steam library is obscenely large. 

Now that I think about it, my PS1 collection is pretty big, too. It's 481 games. Not the entire PSX library by a long shot, but still pretty big for what's basically me collecting whatever PS1 games strike my interest.

[cleverest]

On 1/6/2017 at 3:47 PM, cleverest said:

Just thought it would be fun...I know it's not the size that counts...errr, well maybe that's what small sizes say, but....

I'm currently at somewhere around a couple hundred from 18,000 games total (not counting about 430 steam games I need to add) and over 6,000 Exodos/Win3x games to be added once officially supported by LB... [Picture coming later], and I'm still building mine...

Anyone's library way more massive?  I'm looking forward to the nested feature, may make organizing this way more fun ?

*Edit, 09-18-2017 - I'm now at just under 33,000 games (no dupes, only English and Japanese translated to English and a few Japanese only (mostly Japanese only platforms), and other Japanese, but English playable titles (mostly shooters or old platformers/fighters.)

*Edit, 01-30-21 - I'm now at 44,888 titles, but 2,800 are video game magazines & comics. 8TB is chock full, now expanding to a 12-14TB build next....

*Edit, 06-27-25 - I'm now at 62,516 titles, 2,545 are video game magazines & comics, on a 16TB drive, but expanding this to a 28TB next.....

 

[SiriusVI]

I'm pretty much done with Consoles & Handhelds. Arcade (Mame) will get updated regularly, so this is an ongoing process. Computer Systems are a mess and I'm not sure I'll ever get to setting them up well enough for me to be content with them. If I click "play" on a title in Launchbox, I want that title to launch, but oftentimes this won't work with computer systems. For MS DOS I use eXoDOS which works great, but other systems are a pain.

Then there is mobile games, magazines, comic books ... where to start where to stop. I only have one lifetime to give.

I have decided to make a cut after PS3 / Xbox 360 / Nintendo Switch. I won't be emulating PS4 & XBOX One games and beyond, except for maybe must have exclusives.

What I have been focussing on lately is having different options for playing the same games. So for example, if I want to play N64 games, I can play them:

1. With a shader that mimics the looks of the original N64
2. Same as 1. but in addition to that, it's set up to be played with an original N64 controller
3. Upscaled to 4k with some texture smoothing and maybe texture packs
4. Upscaled and with a widescree hack.

I can right click any game in my collection, go to "Launch with ..." and select a different instance of Retroarch to suit my taste at any given time.

For Game Boy games I have the options to play them:

1. With the original DMG colors
2. With Game Boy Color colors
3. With Game Boy Light colors
4. With Game Box Advanced colors / borders
5. Using a SNES emulator with the Super Game Boy subsystem
6. Using the GameCube Game Boy Player borders

Here I chose a different approach than with N64. I  imported the Game Boy games played on different systems as diferent platforms. This made more sense to me. I can go to "Handhelds", then "Game Boy Color" (both set up as platform categories) and the select which games I want to play on the Game Boy Color: Game Boy games or GBC games (those two are platforms) and so on.
 

Edited Wednesday at 07:51 PM by SiriusVI

[cleverest]

7 minutes ago, SiriusVI said:

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I can right click any game in my collection, go to "Launch with ..." and select a different instance of Retroarch to suit my taste at any given time.

For Game Boy games I have the options to play them:

1. With the original DMG colors
2. With Game Boy Color colors
3. With Game Boy Light colors
4. With Game Box Advanced colors / borders
5. Using a SNES emulator with the Super Game Boy subsystem
6. Using the GameCube Game Boy Player borders
 

Would you be willing to share your 'Launch With' menu settings for each of these? Screenshots should be great. This sounds fun to have available. I do the same with magazines/guides that match certain games, player's guides, etc...but not retroarch specific stuff

[SiriusVI]

On 8/27/2025 at 9:11 PM, cleverest said:

Would you be willing to share your 'Launch With' menu settings for each of these? Screenshots should be great. This sounds fun to have available. I do the same with magazines/guides that match certain games, player's guides, etc...but not retroarch specific stuff

Sure will do. Just give me a little time. RL is crazy right now with my one year old daughter, haha.

This set up is really kind of neat, though. The short version is that you have to use multiple instances of Retroarch (especially if you want to switch between different controllers, Xbox and original controllers, for example). The cool thing is that you can edit the config of all Retroarch instances to use the same save and save state paths. That way you can switch it up like you want at any given time, but use the same save files. 

[cleverest]

22 hours ago, SiriusVI said:

Sure will do. Just give me a little time. RL is crazy right now with my one year old daughter, haha.

This set up is really kind of neat, though. The short version is that you have to use multiple instances of Retroarch (especially if you want to switch between different controllers, Xbox and original controllers, for example). The cool thing is that you can edit the config of all Retroarch instances to use the same save and save state paths. That way you can switch it up like you want at any given time, but use the same save files. 

No problem man, family takes precedent. I know how to do the save state path saving stuff, but I don't know the rest, like the examples you gave....I only use an Xbox 360 controller, so I wouldn't need it for multiple controllers though....