Thread 11929212

Talk about your retro ROM Collection
>How many ROMs do you have
>How do you organize them
>What's your setup to play them
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends

>>11929212 (OP)
>how many roms do you have
idk
atleast 192 that's just how many I know I have for the ps1
>how do you organize
i don't
>what's your setup to play them
everdrives

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
Too many. Last I checked around 430ish.
>How do you organize them
By platform, like pic related. Then in ABC order by series. If they have two different titles, says "Blood Omen & Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver" then I simply group them all in Legacy of Kain (series).
>What's your setup to play them
Still working that out. I use separate emulators to run most of them but looking at maybe using Playnite or some other front end to load them all up.
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
I have no idea what any of the best ones are. I currently use:
>NES - Mesen/Retroarch
>SNES - higan/snes9x/Retroarch
>N64 - Project64/simple 64/Retroarch
>GC/Wii - Dolphin
>Wii U - Cemu
>Switch - Ryujinx/yuzu
>Gameboy/Color - SameBoy/Retroarch
>GBA - mGBA/Retroarch
>NDS - melonDS
>3DS - Lime3DS
>Genesis - Retroarch
>Dreamcast - Flycast
>PSX - DuckStation/Retroarch
>PS2 - PCSX2
>PS3 - RPCS3
>PSP - PPSSPP
>Xbox - Xemu

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
>How do you organize them
I have anywhere from 30-100 games per console, on a 1TB hard drive. I "collect" for maybe 20 consoles, so I have over 1000 games on there.
If for some odd reason I'm interested in a game that isn't in my hard drive already, I just go and get it.
It's already way too much and I never understand people who download complete ROM packs for all consoles and have huge +10tb drives? It's not like you're able to play everything.

Since organizing like this, I've played maybe 40 games in the past 2-3 years? Maybe not even that. I just don't got as much time as I'd like.

>What's your setup to play them
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
Retroarch and standalone emus on Xbox Series X. I haven't left dev mode on my Series X in years.

Relax, nobody's going to raid your house and confiscate your ROM collection. You're being paranoid

>>11929273
Here come the thread shitters

>>11929267
I downloaded every cart-based ROM onto one of my hard drives because it's 1. small 2. means I can pull it off that into my "folder of games that I actually want on my flashcarts/emulators" without going onto a ROM site every 3 days. Plus it future-proofs my autistic fear of wanting to play a game and my internet/those sites being down. High reward for what was ultimately 15 minutes of telling jdownloader what to grab

>>11929212 (OP)
i have a desktop folder with git repository of saves for each game i'm currently playing. Otherwise i delete it because i will always be able to get it elsewhere, if only offline from a FWB's GF

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
Complete 3rd and 4th gen rom sets.
Almost complete N64, GameCube and GBA sets.
Shit loads of Mame, PSX, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2 games.

>How do you organize them
A couple of hard drives and a couple of pen drives

>What's your setup to play them
PC or Wii on CRT like picrel (not my pic, but pretty close to my setup)

I will never buy a modern game again and if my Wii or CRT dies, I'll just buy a new one (even though good CRTs are getting stupid expensive because of zoomies)

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
I average around 25 per system, across maybe 12 systems.
I never download anything I don't intend to play. And if I don't plan on replaying it, I don't keep it.
>How do you organize them
By system.
ex:
Drive://Games/Emulators/ROMs/PlayStation 2
>What's your setup to play them
PC
I use RetroArch for everything up through 4th gen and GBA. Everything else is just better standalone.

>>11929258
I use similar structure. It's important to keep roms in one directory and emulators/software in other. Never combine these two together. Rom root is holy.

>>11929212 (OP)
I have like 2-3 roms at any given time and I force myself to play everything to the end.

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
510. i just added 'em up.
>How do you organize them
by console like everyone else.
>What's your setup to play them
handheld
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
Delta Touch for doom.

>>11929212 (OP)
All of them
I don’t (please gib script to effectively organize 10K+ roms)
Outdated bigbox or chinkheld
Frontends are all garbage, but I’m forced to use rocknix on chinkheld. Otherwise, I just drag and drop.

Best emulator is NESticle.

>>11929212 (OP)
I only use goodsets. If you don't you're not serious about playing video games. If you're content with using whatever rom someone deems as the correct one or whichever subpar rip someone else decides to share instead of seeking an authentic experience yourself you're robbing yourself of the true enjoyment of the game. Say someone decides that YOU need to play a later revision of a game because it has a game breaking glitch patched out but the chance of encountering that glitch is integral to experiencing the game as everyone else did then who are they to decide that you don't need to experience it that way? At least for the 1st time, then you can play different revisions and see the differences for yourself.

>>11929919
>the chinkheld in question

i don't understand entire rom libraries...i mean, there's some really shitty games on every console. Why have them if you're never going to play them? All the games i have are hand picked to be the best in my taste. I'm finishing everything I play all the way through, but every game on here is something that I'm intending to play.

>ROMs
Good* sets, so thousands
>organize
I just use Everything to search INSTANTLY

>>11929963
No intro includes all revisions, though.

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
stick to sets and patched roms
>How do you organize them
by system
>What's your setup to play them
pc
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
mostly retroarch, followed by usual standalones

>>11929963
I favor no-intro, but for those that don't need the bloat, champion collection is a good choice. europoors can pick 1g1r.

>>11930645
>How many ROMs do you have
>i can count to potato

I have about 100-150 games between nes, snes, gbc, gba, and n64. I don’t like sitting at my computer to play games so I have everything on my phone using Delta and it’s organized by their UI. Looking into getting a handheld emulator but I’m indecisive so it’s the phone for now

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
Complete sets for every cartridge based retro system, enough of everything else to keep me busy for a decade+
>How do you organize them
by system
>What's your setup to play them
pc
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
Retroarch is the worst fucking piece of shit software ever. That's all

>>11929212 (OP)
My main devices for video games nowadays are my tablet and my smartphone, with telescopic controllers to make them resemble traditional handhelds a bit more. I keep my ROMs on micro SD cards instead of the tablet/smartphone storage, I prefer it that way. In general I organize them by console, with older consoles having full ROM sets, and consoles with larger ROM sizes, I believe all of the CD and DVD based ones, and some later cartridge based ones, I try to make a proper selection for it.

I use RetroArch for it all because I love its UI and how many options it has, I like to keep it all in one place and I love shaders.

>>11930659
you really wanna know

>>11930704
>Retroarch is the worst fucking piece of shit software ever. That's all
defiantly wasn't a fan of it, back when I tried it on wii. but, windows is fine. only real negative is that I can't get the piece of shit to save individual controller mappings per system core. tried to use my n64 controller with it and had to remap my xbox controller after. also keep identifying my xbox controller an an 8bitdo arcade stick. the software itself is retarded af.

>>11929306
>I never download anything I don't intend to play
Based. Why waste storage space with data you're never going to use?
Only reason I can think of for downloading entire romsets is if you think ROMs are going to be permanently unavailable from the internet at any moment

>>11931053
It's over, Anon
I know exactly where you live from the size and number of files of your ROMs folder

>>11931078
eventually nintendo will kill archive, better to download what you want before that

Ive got about 3000 roms. I didnt even download ROM sets either, just... got really into "shopping" for games when I first got into emulation, also was doing a lot of stimulant drugs at the time, and the act of downloading, unpacking and organizing and then watching number go up was just incredibly satisfying. Now that Ive calmed down I regret having all that shovelware and wish I only downloaded shit Id actually end up playing. one day Ill prune it

I remember I took the emu pill and downloaded a TON of shit of vimms. and then like a few days later it started getting shut down.... it might have been my fault, sorry guys.

>>11931119
>archive
Literally every single time a site dies another rises up
Also there's a site with No-Intro, Redump, and TOSEC dumps that's way better and faster than Archive

>>11929212 (OP)
On my N64 EverDrive all of the standard N64 games are in the root of the SD card, then ROM hacks are in their own folders to make them easier to find, like SM64 hacks are all in one folder. And Game Boy and NES ROMs are in their own folders.

My main preference when getting roms is having them organized by genre, but so few packs do this these days besides the old SMOKEMONSTER ones

I did start curating one for the Genesis/Mega-Drive (used to have another one, but it got lost in a hard drive crash) and it's been fun going through and remembering games I enjoyed for the system. There are some on there that are on it purely out of nostalgia like Justice League Task Force, Fun N' Games, and "adult toddler" simulator, Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures

>>11932183
>SMOKEMONSTER
shame that dude got scared off, those were the best packs for translations and hacks

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
Probably around 80,000. I have 24,364 games individual games as far as I can tell, and most of them have 2-5 region options.
>How do you organize them
By platform. I thought about splitting the platforms themselves by region, so I can have NES and Famicom, TG16 and PCE, etc., but decided against it.
>What's your setup to play them
Other than real hardware, I use Launchbox, primarily with Retroarch for most things.
I have the platform list sorted by manufacturer and then release dates, so if I want to play SNES, it's between Game Boy and Satellaview. I also have playlists for individual series that are sorted by release dates, and I've made some categories where you select Nintendo, Sega, NEC, SNK, or Sony, and it lists all their platforms exclusively.

>>11932365
A few questions, if you're still around anon.

>How much space do 80k roms take?
>You must have wasted a few thousand dollars on hard drives?
>What's your purpose for doing this? You're probably not even going to play 10% of those games from start to finish in your life time. Is it solely a preservation thing?

>>11932927
About 5 terabytes. Admittedly, I still don't have a PS1, PS2, or Xbox full set.
$240 for two 8 TB drives.
I like games. I like playing games. It's that simple.

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
Way too many, but I still need to get XBOX and Wii done
>How do you organize them
Just a folder for each console. ROM files dropped inside
>What's your setup to play them
The usual suspects. Retroarch for casual play

I just like the novelty of having a home "kisok" that will play literally fucking everything whenever I want

>>11933903
What the folder looks like on the inside. Nothing special

>>11931146
Why don't you say the name myfriend?

>>11933921
Nice try, Nintendo

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
A few hundred. Pic related.
>How do you organize them
By device
>What's your setup to play them
It depends. Flash cart, Analogue Pocket, MiSTer, or PC depending on what exactly it is that I want to do. I play the original carts a lot, so if I'm playing dumps than it's usually something like SNES games on Analogue Pocket (my go-to for RPG's), or maybe NES games in 3dsen or something.
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
Frontends are awful. Just open an emulator and launch the rom like the old days. With a front end you will spend way more time tinkering with the front end than you will actually spend playing games, and usually the UI is awful.

Best emulator is whichever one gets you to play the fucking game.

>>11929212 (OP)
>How do you organize them
Like this. It's the superior way to do so. I organize them with a tag system that labels the manufacturer first, then the system.
>>What's your setup to play them
Retroarch for pre-6th gen, standalone emulators for anything 6th gen and up.
>>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
Retroarch is the only frontend that matters.

I have a "Favorites" folder in every single subdirectory that has only my favorite games inside of it.

>>11929258
This is a man after my own heart.

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
Probably downloaded over 5 TB now. Never tried tracking it.
>How do you organize them
By console.
>What's your setup to play them
My laptop, DS, GBA, and SNES Classic.
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
That's what I was hoping to find here. Where do I find out what the best emulators are?

All the people saying they use RetroArch are just shitposting, right

>>11933976
sticky emugen

>>11933978
No. Why do you have such a low opinion of it? Did you get filtered?

>>11929212 (OP)
For each flashcart I do something like this. On Genesis this but also similar on Snes. I'll have temporary stuff I haven't decided on yet or I'm just testing.

own homebrew
BIOS
BUP
Castlevania
CD Music
CHEATS
demo roms 2024
demos
Euro exclusives
fantasia
Fist of the north Star
Fixed
Giovani Random Sonic hacks
hack 2023 3
hacks 2022
Hacks 2023
Hacks 2023 2
Hacks 2024
Hacks 2024 2
hacks first half 2022
Homebew 2025
home brew
home brew 2023
homebrew 2024
Kickstarter Demos
MCD mode 1
Md_Tools, Tools
Mega CD games
Mega Drive best music
mini 2
modern games
Paid roms
Prototypes
rom BIOS
rom hacks
Roms
sega mini
sms hacks
sonic hacks 2024
Sonic Hacking Contest
Sonic Hacks
STATES


>the rom folder

1 A-F - US
1 G-P - US
1 Q-Z - US
2 A-O Japan
2 P-Z Japan
3 Sega 32X
3 Sega Master System - Mark III
4 Betas, Revisions, Tools
4 Color Enhancements & Restorations
4 Demos
4 Game Gear SMS Conversions
4 Homebrew
4 Prototypes
4 Translations
5 Brazilian Pack
6 Game Series Collections
7 VGM-ROM Music Project
8 SRAM Patched for EverDrive-MD
arcade
Brawler
Demos
hacks
MEGA
other
platform
puzzle
Sega CD Bios
shooter
unlicensed

>shooters folder

360
forward
horizontal
running
vertical

I just go on gamefaqs and look up the categories and sort games like that, I'll at least seperate games by letter, makes it so much easier to find the game you want

>>11929267
>I never understand people who download complete ROM packs for all consoles and have huge +10tb drives? It's not like you're able to play everything.
It's called being futureproof. You don't know what the internet is going to look like in a decade, at the rate we're going now.
Better to have them and not need them, than need them and not have them. Multi-TB HDDs are dirt cheap now. I don't even live in the USA, and I can buy a 4TB for under $150.
There's literally no reason to not download complete libraries at this point. It's not the 1990s, where storage space was a premium. I can download every game from every console that existed during my childhood.

>>11933984
What a fuckin nightmare

>>11933979
Thanks.

>>11929267
>I never understand people who download complete ROM packs for all consoles and have huge +10tb drives? It's not like you're able to play everything.
Archival. Keep everything archived in cold storage, and copy what you want to play into hot storage. These digital hoarders are unironically what keeps the scene alive and why new sites can sprout so quickly after old sites get taken down.

>>11929212 (OP)
Everything that exists up through PS2 and GameCube. I don't care enough to download the entire original Xbox set and anything after that is both too large and not at all interesting.

>>11934020
There's only a small handful of 7th(and beyond) gen games that you even need to emulate, because the majority of the good games were released on PC. There's only a few Xbox games that I would want to emulate, because they're never going to get PC ports.

>>11933984
That looks awful. Here's how I organize my flash carts:
>Retail
>Hacks
>Homebrew

Self explanatory. And inside of the retail folder is a sub forlder for each letter of the alphabet. I only put JPN roms and delete all of the other garbage.

>>11934020
>>11934076
Sixth gen is where I start curating

>>11934107
>curating

>>11934107
Sixth is the last gen that I can justify not really curating, outside of the Wii/PSP/3DS.
PS2 is ~2.6 TB, GCN is ~0.75 TB, and the DC is ~0.5 TB. I can fit the few Xbox games that I want into the remaining space on a 4 TB HDD.
>>11934316
Everything before the sixth gen is no big deal to not curate. Almost everything after the sixth gen needs to be curated, because so many of the good games already have native PC releases. There's no reason to ever download an inferior console version.

There is no reason no to download every no-intro set until GBA with how little space these take.

>>11934335
>There's no reason to ever preserve
At least you're honest about just being a filthy little pirate

>>11933837
what percentage of them have you played?

>>11935710
Probably around 70%.

>>11929212 (OP)
I don't know why I have the Vita thing there when I never bothered getting anything together for it but some Project Diva F shit I never used. But otherwise, I didn't download EVERYTHING for every console, more just what I would personally play and some stuff to offload to family if they ever need it. Fair amount of undubs, fan translations and the like too. I had an Xbox 360 folder, but realized Xenia just wasn't working how I wished and it was taking up too much space. Still massively bloated and could get some culling - as well as some better name organization like some others in this thread.

>>11933978
>>11933982
Confirmed, they got filtered, lol, lmao, even

I keep a folder of curated games for me and some friends. It mostly contains games we want to play, historically significant games, oddities and weird stuff no one has played since the 90s. I've built this up over years and it contains far too many games for any one person to play but at least I'll never have nothing to play.

>>11929212 (OP)
I collect originnal media OP, does that count? I do have a 64 GB flash drive with something like 14000 spectrum games though

>>11936095
You've played through 56,000 games?
That's one game a day for over 150 years.

I downloaded a lot of roms when they took down a lot of stuff from Vimm's lair but it seems they are back

>>11937689
Why only one a day?

>>11937790
Most adults don't have the free time to marathon through 3-4 games every day.
Even if they did, 56,000 games would still last you 40-50 years.

Gameboy, Nes, Mastersystem, Turbographix, Snes, Genesis fullsets. A curated PS1 set I am slowly adding to. Don't think I would ever bother with PS2 or Gamecube. N64 looks like absolute ass so I don't emulate it.

>>11937820
If it takes an hour per game, you have no excuse to not beat 6-12 games per day

>>11937852
How do you have 6-12 hours of free time every day?

>>11937860
The wagie can't even comprehend the idea of simply not working. Very sad.

>>11937860
Work takes 8 hours, sleep takes 4
How do you not have 6-12 hours of free time daily?

>>11937852
>>11937860
This also assumes that games are only one hour long, which probably isn't true for most of those 56,000 games (which themselves only make up 70% of your collection).

>>11937871
When you hit the fifth generation maybe, but if it's all /vr/ stuff, probably the vast majority of the games can be beaten in an hour or less. Especially since we're talking about regional variants here too, instead of assuming that anon just beat 70% of the 24k or whatever games they had.

>>11937883
>probably the vast majority of the games can be beaten in an hour or less
I don't agree. Even something like Super Mario Bros. is going to take someone longer than an hour their first time through, and that's not even considering games with save batteries.
>Especially since we're talking about regional variants
The 56,000 games are specifically the 70% that anon has claimed to have beaten, not his entire collection of 80,000.
You wouldn't include different regions, revisions, prototypes, etc. in that list.

>>11937913
>implying people who brag about their epic ROM collections while boasting about how many games they've purportedly beaten aren't twitchy savestateloadstate spammers who also play any sort of RPG at 4x+ speed

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
6,172.
>How do you organize them
Eh? In ROM or ISO folders, ya loony.
>What's your setup to play them
Depends. I have individual emulators and mutisystem emulators.
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
IMHO:
Coin-ops - Arcade64
Gamecube - Dolphin
PSP - PPSSPP
Vectrex - ParaJVE
Playstation - ePSXe
X68000 - XM6
Sega - Kega
NES - FCEUX
Game Boy - VBA-M
N64 - Simple64
SNES - Snes9x
Virtual Boy - Mednafen
PC Engine - Ootake or Magic Engine
PC98 - Anex or Neko
MSX - BlueMSX
DOS - DOSBOX
Amiga - Winuae
C64 - Hoxs or CC64
Atari 2600 - Stella
Atari 7800 - Prosystem
Atari 8bit - Altirra
ZX Spectrum - Spectaculator
an' Mesen, Ares and Retroarch for whatever, whenever.

My neighbour keeps calling seemingly random passers-by gamer words. It's funny. I think he might be a closet homosexual. Or a nonce. I don't think he thinks he's black, though.

>>11929212 (OP)
>How many ROMs do you have
Too many to count, probably not enough. Somewhere in the 4k range, not including hacks and homebrew.
>How do you organize them
Like everyone else, folders for each console. Not very consistent though, my arcade folder is also my "this runs in MAME/I have one game for this system" folder (wouldn't recommend)
>What's your setup to play them
I use whatever the emu wiki tells me is best, usually a Retroarch core since it's easy to set up and run.
>Discuss the best emulators and frontends
Retroarch as mentioned. Some others for systems that don't work on Retroarch. Standalone versions of Dolphin, PPSSPP and PCSX2. Whatever works, really.

Btw, anyone know how I can make RPCS3 not run like hot garbage on a 4-core system? I'm planning on a new CPU anyway, I just wanna play video games (even if they're not really retro, though idk) :(