Organizing your game collection

Launchbox

>>3474198
This. I just started using launchbox and diggin it. though it seems any fucking "DOS" game I get either needs win32 or doesn't install right on it, but hey, this is ROM collection, not DOS lol

openemu, duh

>>3474082
I make shortcuts to retroarch with the appropriate setup and game rom in the command line and then add it to steam as a non-steam game.

Not totally satisfied with it because it's such a pain. I think I'll try launchbox

>>3475329
If you try launchbox there's not an option to directly add roms, you drag and drop them then it prompts you to add them.
Took me a bit to figure out, had to look it up >>

On a different note
What do you guys use for organizing physical games?

I just save images of cover art into folders.

>>3475387
I don't do anything, but I had a friend who kept them in a bin then had sheets of paper listing all the games on the bins.

I was thinking of making a simple ROM browser and launcher. Most of the existing choices are targeted towards HTPCs, I'd prefer more of a traditional desktop application without a lot of graphics and extraneous information. It'd have support for filtering, playlists, name search, etc... so you can quickly access specific games without a lot of scrolling and such.

I'd really like to allow genre/publisher/date/etc... filtering but I'm not aware of any complete metadata file projects for most systems. At the very least I'd like to integrate some no-intro dat file support to warn users about missing games or bad versions of ROMs.

I have a lot of experience with WPF for Windows development, but something like this would probably be better off cross platform? Would have to do a little research into portable GUI frameworks.

>>3475797
That sounds solid. It would be cool if you made the core of it in something cross platform like SDL and then use some GUI framework like Qt for the GUI but let other people (or you if you feel like it) make some HTPC frontend for it.
SDL and Qt are random examples I suppose you will find (or most likely already know) more setups that let you do it.

>>3475797
Gamebase already exists.
http://www.bu22.com/

>>3475387
Ive started using an app Caled My Game Collection. Im away from my physical collection right now so Ive only been able to import my Steam games, but its a lot of work to get everything in it perfect.

>>3474082
http://openemu.org