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    • shavecatS
      shavecat
      last edited by shavecat

      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! 😮👍
            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.

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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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