Help Finding a Complete Dummy File Set for a "Museum" Build

[Brandon8o]

Hey everyone,

I'm working on a "video game museum" project in LaunchBox. My goal is to have a complete library for as many systems as possible, purely for Browse the themes, art, and video previews in Big Box without needing the actual game ROMs.

I've spent a very long and frustrating evening trying to create a complete dummy file set myself, but I've hit nothing but roadblocks. I've tried:

• Using the Community Theme Creator, but it seems the feature to generate dummy files has been removed from the latest evaluation versions.
• Finding pre-made packs on the Internet Archive, but the main links I found were either for broken multi-part archives or have since been taken down.

I'm hoping someone in the community can point me in the right direction. Does anyone have a current, working link to a complete (or near-complete) dummy file set that they would be willing to share? Or, if there's a better tool or method than the ones I've tried, I would be very grateful for any advice.

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

[C-Beats]

On 6/7/2025 at 11:15 PM, Brandon8o said:

Hey everyone,

I'm working on a "video game museum" project in LaunchBox. My goal is to have a complete library for as many systems as possible, purely for Browse the themes, art, and video previews in Big Box without needing the actual game ROMs.

I've spent a very long and frustrating evening trying to create a complete dummy file set myself, but I've hit nothing but roadblocks. I've tried:

• Using the Community Theme Creator, but it seems the feature to generate dummy files has been removed from the latest evaluation versions.
• Finding pre-made packs on the Internet Archive, but the main links I found were either for broken multi-part archives or have since been taken down.

I'm hoping someone in the community can point me in the right direction. Does anyone have a current, working link to a complete (or near-complete) dummy file set that they would be willing to share? Or, if there's a better tool or method than the ones I've tried, I would be very grateful for any advice.

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

Could just use DAT files for a ROM set. Should be able to con an AI (or potentially some one on the forums) to help make you a tool that creates an empty file by the filename included in the DAT. Would get you a pretty good start on your journey.