Hello all, been emulating for many years now and every year I feel like I learn something new and focussing on ROMs, I have been through some packs through the years. Just when I thought I had the "best" version of a ROM, I'd learn something new and then have to search and archiving of that ROM set.
Only recently have I discovered a certain joy for the SHMUPS genre. However not all, if they do at all, frontends display the genre of a game. So I find myself, analy yes I admit, sorting games into categories so at least I can pick the game from an emulators file browser. These are not full-on system sets, these are through the years, heavily curated lists of the best of the best or at least the curious.
From perhaps a game company's view I'd own well over millions of gameplay hours.
But I play very little and a lot of the time I find more joy in reading up or collecting patches/roms/watching retrospectives on YT.
These past few months I have been looking at the higher disk space req consoles, the PS3, Vita, little WiiU, little XBox 360 and yes I'll admit, full-on Switch xci's.
Again, very very little playing, but I'm like in love with the JRPGs and there's just an awesome library there. It always feels like I'm collecting and "one day" I'll play them.
I have ordered a 6TB WD Black HD for just this purpose. They will complement my 2 WD USB drives. One will be in my system facilitating constant access and the 2 USB ones will be my backups.
My too long didn't read:
Only recently have I discovered a certain joy for the SHMUPS genre. However not all, if they do at all, frontends display the genre of a game. So I find myself, analy yes I admit, sorting games into categories so at least I can pick the game from an emulators file browser. These are not full-on system sets, these are through the years, heavily curated lists of the best of the best or at least the curious.
From perhaps a game company's view I'd own well over millions of gameplay hours.
But I play very little and a lot of the time I find more joy in reading up or collecting patches/roms/watching retrospectives on YT.
These past few months I have been looking at the higher disk space req consoles, the PS3, Vita, little WiiU, little XBox 360 and yes I'll admit, full-on Switch xci's.
Again, very very little playing, but I'm like in love with the JRPGs and there's just an awesome library there. It always feels like I'm collecting and "one day" I'll play them.
I have ordered a 6TB WD Black HD for just this purpose. They will complement my 2 WD USB drives. One will be in my system facilitating constant access and the 2 USB ones will be my backups.
My too long didn't read:
- How do you store your ROMs, do you categorize? Full sets, small collections?
- What sort of storage do you have to store all these ROMs? Do you back up these files?