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

                                  descendant to Kefka ? who is that haha (guess not ...)

                                  Too late. ;-)
                                  Kefka is one of the most memorable villains in the Final Fantasy history or even in the whole jrpg culture ever. He looks a bit strange and he is completely insane megalomaniac, taking over the world (yeah sounds cliche). The game is Final Fantasy VI. :-)

                                  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 .

                                  Existing popular threads are here, if you not already know them:
                                  https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7295/best-rom-hacks
                                  https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8792/big-rom-hacks-homebrew-thread
                                  I am in the process of adding more hacks currently, can't stop it, i am addicted. Will post there again.

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                                  • shavecatS
                                    shavecat @thelostsoul
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                                    @thelostsoul
                                    ohhh shit ff VI im getting old ... haha.
                                    sure i will check it there :)

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                                    • hansolo77H
                                      hansolo77
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                                      I'm expanding right now. I'm bit with the hoarder bug. You should see my gaming PC. Not only does it have all these, but also games that aren't playable on the Pi.

                                      Atari 2600 - 474
                                      Atari 2600 Hacks - 12
                                      Atari 7800 - 66
                                      Atari Lynx - 84
                                      Coleco - 159
                                      FBA - 1740
                                      FDS - 270
                                      FDS Hacks - 11
                                      Game Gear - 377
                                      Game Boy - 1086
                                      Game Boy Hacks - 33
                                      Game Boy Advance - 1675
                                      Game Boy Advance Hacks - 27
                                      Game Boy Color - 962
                                      Game Boy Color Hacks - 13
                                      Sega Genesis - 1023
                                      Sega Genesis Hacks - 48
                                      MAME - 2707
                                      Sega Master System - 372
                                      Sega Master System Hacks - 10
                                      Nintendo 64 - 302
                                      Nintendo 64 Hacks - 9
                                      Neo-Geo - 143
                                      Nintendo - 1673
                                      Nintendo Hacks - 215
                                      NegoGeo Pocket - 10
                                      NeoGeo Pocket Color - 76
                                      PC Engine - 307
                                      PC Engine Hacks - 1
                                      "Ports" - 16
                                      Playstation - 1447 (includes hacked Japan->English)
                                      Sega 32X - 36
                                      Sega 32X Hacks - 1
                                      SG-1000 - 92
                                      Super NES - 1828
                                      Super NES Hacks - 160
                                      Vectrex - 44
                                      Virtual Boy - 26
                                      Wonderswan - 110
                                      Wonderswan Color - 91
                                      Infocom - 3

                                      Total: 17,854 (According to the "All Games" Filter).

                                      I actually have more I'm working on scraping and adding right now. I have a full Game&Watch collection, and a SegaCD collection I'm working on. I also have a full NintendoDS and PSP collection to go through. Only THEN can I relax and start deciding what I want next. I know I'd like to get some DOS games, and then work on some Dreamcast. A buddy of mine from work has some PCE-CD games I'd like to play. There's also stuff like Amiga and ZXSpectrum I have no experience with. And once I figure out how to make it work, I'm going to be adding a collection of Atari 800 and Atari ST games (the 2 systems I had growing up with) too.

                                      Who's Scruffy Looking?

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                                        Rastan80 @hansolo77
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                                        @hansolo77
                                        Atari 2600 - 648
                                        Atari - 7800
                                        lynx - 76
                                        Wonder Swan Color - 84
                                        PC - 274
                                        Turbo Grafx 16 - 94
                                        Turbo Grafx Cd - 5
                                        Super Grafx - 5
                                        Nintendo Game and Watch - 55
                                        Virtual Boy - 24
                                        Game Boy - 565
                                        Game Boy Hacks - 19
                                        Game Boy Color - 535
                                        Game Boy Advance - 1022
                                        Game Boy Advance Hacks - 26
                                        Nintendo DS - 181
                                        Nintendo - 791
                                        Nintendo Hacks - 6
                                        Super Nintendo - 787
                                        Super Nintendo Hacks - 37
                                        N64 - 293
                                        Game Gear - 249
                                        Game Gear Hacks- 4
                                        SG-1000 - 68
                                        Deamcast - 8
                                        Sega Master System - 281
                                        Sega Mega Drive - 784
                                        Sega Genesis Hacks - 192
                                        Sega 32x - 32
                                        Sega - 13
                                        Neo Geo Pocket - 40
                                        Neo Geo - 146
                                        Minis - 293
                                        Playstaion 1 - 67
                                        Arcade Classics / MAME - 2361
                                        Daphine - 3
                                        Light Gun - 41
                                        Commodore 64 - 147
                                        CPC - 3277
                                        MSX - 567
                                        MSX 2 - 83
                                        PC Games - 95
                                        Scumm VM - 13

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                                        • simpleethatS
                                          simpleethat
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                                          Wow, I thought I was excessive. I do try to keep it to things that are in English (although some of the really early stuff I don't worry as it really doesn't matter) but on my primary build I have:
                                          Atari 2600: 505
                                          Game & Watch: 59
                                          SG-1000: 83
                                          NES: 1031
                                          Atari 7800: 57
                                          Master System: 264
                                          TurboGrafx 16: 94
                                          Genesis: 763
                                          Game Boy: 609
                                          TurboGrafx CD: 45
                                          Lynx: 75
                                          NeoGeo: 137
                                          Game Gear: 257
                                          SNES: 780
                                          Sega CD: 113
                                          Sega 32X: 33
                                          Playstation 1: 1140
                                          Game Boy Color: 532
                                          NeoGeo Pocket Color: 42
                                          Game Boy Advance: 1017
                                          According to All Games collection: 7636

                                          I do also have both Sega & Nintendo exclusive builds but their collections are the same as their respective systems above. I think when I get moved I will finally start heavily into my Odroid build for Dreamcast, 64, NDS, PSP, etc and at some point I would like to add some MAME stuff or do an arcade standalone build. On my NAS I keep basically full ROM sets for everything I can find... the compulsion is kind of ridiculous.

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                                          • RanmaR
                                            Ranma @ballboff
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                                            @ballboff said in Collectors, how big is your stash of Pi games?:

                                            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.

                                            Wait, what? 5 or 6 playable games on the GC? Er no!

                                            However I do agree that having too many on the Pi is a pain. I've tried to hand curate my collection down to a more reasonable 64GB, and personally I think that's a good limit for the Pi. Any more and it's overkill for me, plus it slows Emulationstation down too. I'm currently trying to manually curate my MAME collection and it is proving hard work, but it has to be done. There are too many obscure puzzle games and mahjong games, clones and many other games that don't work and will never work on the Pi. They have to go. I've got it down to about 1700 right now and I think I'm nearly done. Hope I am anyway! Be nice to just download a finished set but everywhere you look it's complete set or nothing.

                                            I do support the idea of going much further with a more focused setup, say a few dozen titles for each system comprised of games that you know you'll want to play, but I do like the discover-ability of having a nice large MAME set. Like for example, this morning in fact I discovered a marvellous 1983 game I'd never played or even heard of before and it is truly superb - Blaster. Rather than feeling like a retro game it plays more like a modern take on a retro game. Absolutely superb gameplay, and without a good set I would never have found it.

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