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    • thelostsoulT
      thelostsoul
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      I am at a 64 GB on the Pi. It started as 32 GB card and I didn't want include space demanding games, but changed my mind a while back to include some Playstation and Sega CD games (and they are still uncompressed, need to work on this). Amiga doesn't need much space on my system, as I only have 50 games or so. The thing is, the whole setup is a curated list and each single game is tested. I have a 480gb WD portable harddrive here and could use it for those bigger games.

      Do you extract archive files, even if the system supports zip? Snes emulators in example support zip archives I believe. I extract the roms anyway.

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        VictimRLSH
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        I don't have that much on the Pi's SD card itself, since I mount a 256gb USB stick. I only unpack the ones that can't run from a zip. It get way too unwieldy if I cram too much stuff on the Pi, then I have to wade through it whenever I want to play something. I was referring to total software collected. I'm one of those people that want to archive EVERYTHING. I found that is as much an entertaining hobby as actually playing the games. Also getting addicted to designing and building. Now that I have the mini-bartop, a controller/keyboard mount palmtop, I'm kicking around a mini build for the Pi zero I have sitting around doing nothing.

        I still have 18gb free on the 32gb SD card, and I have a full Raspbian install on that one, complete with a lot of utilities, Exagear, etc.

        System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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        • thelostsoulT
          thelostsoul @VictimRLSH
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          @VictimRLSH said in Collectors, how big is your stash of Pi games?:

          I was referring to total software collected.

          Ouh, ok. I have somewhere near 2000 games now (forgot the exact number), some multiple versions (with good reason), some homebrew and mods. A lot of work was done to get images and record videos for titles not found through scraping.

          I'm one of those people that want to archive EVERYTHING.

          Everything is maybe a little too much, even for my hard drives on the pc currently. I see my RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi as a subset of everything I have. That's why I don't include everything on the Pi.

          I found that is as much an entertaining hobby as actually playing the games. Also getting addicted to designing and building. Now that I have the mini-bartop, a controller/keyboard mount palmtop, I'm kicking around a mini build for the Pi zero I have sitting around doing nothing.

          I was mainly on the software side of "building" and searching for games (as you probably can tell from my previous postings and threads). One day I want do such a bartop too, if I have more money. The prices for all those parts are high in Germany and i am short on money. Once I start this thing, I know I get hoooked too. Building, experimenting, learning, designing, all those stuff are exciting. Doing your stuff, presenting to others. I absolutely can understand you here.

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          • ballboffB
            ballboff
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            I don't see the point of this. Scrolling through that many games isn't fun. Take the gamecube for instance, out of the 600 games released, there are only say bout 5 or 6 that are playable. Megadrive/SNES , pretty much every game is playable, apart from maybe lion king and that battle toad game. And maybe you might pick up the odd game just to see what it's like, but you'll always go back to sonic and/or mario kart. I suppose there's no reason why you couldn't have a backup drive with every game on it, but like I say, you're wasting space if you know you're never gonna play the world is not enough or puzzle fighter on ps1.

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              VictimRLSH
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              Yeah, if you don't have the collector mentality it doesn't make any sense. I don't stop at downloads, I'm also constantly buzzing pawnshops and thrift stores looking for physical finds too. I love original packaging and manuals when I can get them as well.

              System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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              • BobHarrisB
                BobHarris @VictimRLSH
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                @VictimRLSH All that stuff needs space too. I'm fortunate to have a small apartment, so I can't collect much as I don't have the room for it (saves money/time/worries). I much prefer the Pi: you can collect as many games/art/manuals as you want, without them taking up any physical space or having to worry about them degrading over time. But I only want good games on there. I have about 800 games, spread out over 20 systems and taking up almost all of my 64 gb memory stick.

                Even that is way too much, so I won't expand upon it anymore. Collecting more than a couple hundred of games feels more like hoarding to me. Games are made to be played and who has the time to play thousands of games?

                Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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                • thelostsoulT
                  thelostsoul @BobHarris
                  last edited by thelostsoul

                  @BobHarris Do you have video previews of the games? With large number of games, they also take a lot of space.
                  @VictimRLSH I gave up collecting physical copies, but I can understand if you enjoy this. A friend of me always looking everywhere, at flee market, at second hand shops, in the internet and it is just pure fun. The main problem I have is since the retro boom in last years, the prices are going crazy.

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                  • m2306M
                    m2306
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                    I had a huge collection of retro games but sold about half of that stuff. It was taking up too much space and I never got around to hooking up any of those old consoles because of hassle with finding them in the storage room and angry waifu when I finally managed to play something since the living room looked like a teenagers room with all the consoles. I also donโ€™t feel that collecting is a healthy hobby for me. I get too worked up about what I want to have. For the above reasons I do only emulation these days. Iโ€™d love to have a curated rom collection but that takes a lot of time and playing random games is a lot of fun too. I havenโ€™t fine tuned my Retropie setup yet and have huge romsets for many different systems on a hdd. For example, I havent decided between Mame and FBA, so I have full sets for both. Retropie takes very long to start up (because of too many roms?) but works great after that.

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                    • BobHarrisB
                      BobHarris @thelostsoul
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                      @thelostsoul No, I only have the front boxart images. I also stopped gathering digital manuals. I have all the manuals of the games on my favorite system (ps1) and that's enough for me. It's just too much work that it feels like a chore..and online you can't find manuals of a lot of games either so it won't ever be complete (unless you hunt down physical copies). It does bug me a bit, as the manual often was an essential part of the package, explaining certain mechanics that you'd have a hard time figuring out on your own.

                      Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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                        VictimRLSH @thelostsoul
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                        @thelostsoul I definitely hear you about the prices, in fact it is tempting to sell things, but like most collectors, I won't sell unless it means I can get something even better.

                        @BobHarris That is why I expressed an interest in a scraper that grabs docs and perhaps even GameFAQs, cuts down on the work.

                        System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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                        • BobHarrisB
                          BobHarris @VictimRLSH
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                          @VictimRLSH What do you use to be able to read the docs/manuals? I use a pdf viewer app in kodi. It would be nicer if you could switch to the manual midgame.
                          Also the pdf viewer I use often has trouble reading downloaded manuals; I have to extract the pdf to jpegs and then convert them into a pdf again..that way I never have any issues. But it's quite a bit of work.

                          Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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                            VictimRLSH @BobHarris
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                            @BobHarris I just use the pdf viewer built into Raspbian, as I have installed the full desktop. I agree, it would be great to switch between the manual and/or FAQ and the game.

                            System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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                            • sirhenrythe5thS
                              sirhenrythe5th @VictimRLSH
                              last edited by sirhenrythe5th

                              150 NEOGEO
                              222 PSX
                              100 NES
                              100 PC-Engine (including CD Images)
                              150 Megadrive (including 32x)
                              85 SEGA CD
                              35 ScummVM
                              30 MS DOS
                              1331 Mame ๐Ÿ˜Š
                              350 SNES
                              200 GBA

                              All that on a 200GB MicroSD Card, i like the idea of having all in a small System without external HDDS.

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                              • shavecatS
                                shavecat
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                                Openbor 98
                                Virtual Boy 23
                                Snes 783
                                SnesCd(fans) 53
                                Sneshack 41
                                Sg1000 75
                                SuperFamicom 82
                                MegadriveHacks 183
                                SegaCd 160
                                Sega32x 35
                                Scumvm 202
                                ResidualVM 3
                                Psx 878
                                Psp+Minis 211
                                Ports 30
                                Pc engine 410
                                Pc games 7362(not sure here...)
                                Neshacks 47
                                Nes 819
                                Nds 165
                                N64 336
                                MegaDrive 751
                                SegaMastersystem 319
                                Gbc 533
                                Gba 873
                                GameGear 368
                                G&W 56
                                Dreamcast 130
                                Daphne 14
                                Lynx 40
                                Arcade 2361
                                AmigaCD 96
                                Amiga 3404

                                128gb SDcard & HDD 1T
                                Usually dont play much,
                                just travel them and getting tired from that ;)...

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                                • thelostsoulT
                                  thelostsoul @shavecat
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                                  @shavecat Holy Broly!

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                                  • shavecatS
                                    shavecat @thelostsoul
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                                    @thelostsoul
                                    Yeha all sorts with gamelist and videos snaps (didnt sleep a year cause of that shit ;) )

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                                    • sirhenrythe5thS
                                      sirhenrythe5th @shavecat
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                                      @shavecat i also spent a lot of time to search nice Artworks/Flyers for each game without scraping.
                                      Was worth the work.
                                      A lot of stuff you collected! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ‘
                                      I reduced my collection to those games i really like, full romsets would include too much Trash for me.

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                                      • shavecatS
                                        shavecat @sirhenrythe5th
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                                        @sirhenrythe5th
                                        yeha crazy time spent ;)
                                        and not really dont have any duplicates or games that are not working...
                                        but yeha lots of trash haha

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                                        • thelostsoulT
                                          thelostsoul
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                                          @shavecat I often try to only have 1 or 2 versions in my collection, depending how different they are. But there are some exceptions. I bet you have all versions of Earthworm Jim and Street Fighter 2 included? What is your controller setup? I use SNES gamepad for almost anything, besides Arcade games. They are played with an Arcade stick. Alone this difference is sometimes a reason to include "duplicates". Sadly, no other input device here (besides mini keyboard/mouse for starting some computer games). The amount of games you have included is insane! Just a question, are a descendant to Kefka or somehow related to him?^^

                                          In general, I would be interested in the decisions and reasoning on one version over the another version of a game. Obviously this applies only to curated list of less games. I am also interested in the hacks you all included. (Maybe on a different thread? I mean, there are a lot of related threads.)

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                                          • shavecatS
                                            shavecat @thelostsoul
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                                            @thelostsoul
                                            duplicates sure but in different consoles (sega32x,snes,segacd) and so but not double games in the same folder...
                                            controller ps3 (dualshock 3 ) and 1 arcade stick (pretty lame) mini keyboard/mouse also the same.
                                            thanks a lot love too share what i collect ;)

                                            descendant to Kefka ? who is that haha (guess not ...)
                                            Sure about the hacks the are so many its crazy so i have the best that i found and couples more (with snaps videos and all), sure tell me where .

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