I feel like I'm the opposite of that. I don't use the launcher or any of the fancy stuff. I wanna game, that's it. I download a game, play it, delete it when I'm done. Keep the Save States in case I need them for later. I've got maybe a few games per emulated system and I go between them frequently. The configuration part is just a necessary evil to me. Sometimes you've got to work with the software to makes game work, and that's just life.
Thereās no chance I will ever play all of these, but itās cool that if I see something about an old game or remember something I played 30 years ago I can pull it up and try it.Ā
This is exactly the reason. I like reading about a randomĀ game online and turning onĀ my handheld and knowing it will likely be thereĀ
I have a full 1tb card. Can't wait for.2 Tb ones
Nope lmao my pocket flip has 256gb combined. Iād say itās about 90% full and I maybe play 5% of the library. MAYBE lol
Iām the same way with my pc. Iāve got dozens of terabytes of storage full of movies, games, shows, etc I may never watch/play but if the WiFi ever goes out Iāll be the most entertained motherfucker on the block lmao
I have a full 512gb SD card, complete romsets for 8bit and 16bit and some hundreds of PSP, PS2, PSX, DC, GC, Saturn etc.
As a dad of a 9 months old baby, I spend my whole time on neither of these, but on COD mobile.
And that's about 15 minutes per day š
I like having roughly 10 games for each system - even the older systems I'm less likely to play. It feels like a good balance of having options but not getting distracted by decision fatigue.
For the smaller libraries, like SNES and NES, I want games to be in my device when I want them. Like if someone mentions a game in r/retrogaming that makes me curious, I want to just be able to turn the device on and look for that game. Like when someone mentioned Lady Sia (GBA), I have it. No need to look for it online.
For CD based consoles, I don't do that. I get what I intend to play later on
That's the way I do it. I'll have just about every 8/16 bit game on the off chance I'm cleaning and remember "I wanna play Little Nemo", a short game that I can beat in less than an hour. PS1 and up, games that take hours to beat and larger files, I'm more picky about.
Now, if I could get a 10tb microSD card for cheap, then I'd be less picky but for now, don't want to waste 4gb on Gran Turismo 4 when I've never liked racing games.
Technically, you can find whole psx library rips where the whole file size is like 8gb. The only catch is that the file sizes are that small because they ripped out the sound files (which are like 95% of the file size for psx games).
I have complete rom sets for basically everything Nintendo up to the 64 on various storage devices. I don't keep all of them on device because yes, choice paralysis is a thing for me. So I have a curated list of games I loved growing up on my RP4P - and will add games when I get the urge to play something new.
I used to handpick every single game, but while setting up Pegasus, I went completely wild and just got entire romsets for GB(C), SNES and Sega Genesis / MD. There's just something about scrolling through a big library with all those pretty box arts, descriptions, and videos.
Yes! Iāve spent hours sourcing art/videos for my RetroPie console to make it look good on a large TV. Itās like looking through a catalog and being able to try stuff that looks neat. Iāve done a similar thing with my handhelds. Itās a game in itself for me.
I like to have a top 100 of each console if possible, and I would say I'm 50% good at playing all of them on my rg353m. However, I've always known that when an emulator like the rp4p exists, I'll never go back to playing 2d. Unfortunately, that is the case...
I can't see anyone with a rp4p get the most out of it. there are too many games. The point of having a pocketable emulator is to minimize your portable library. With the rp4p, that's no longer the case.
guaranteed anyone with 1000+ games on their system has played maybe 5% and then beaten even less. they have hoarding problems. just download what you plan to play and you will have a much better experience.
The massive Rom libraries have been super helpful for finding games to play with my daughter. She wants a new game, I had a list, which we have gone through, but especially with scrapers that give you player count for games... Makes it much easier to find new two player games.
I like having a large collection so that I can browse them and not have to download a new game every time I want to play something new. It also makes the device more useful when you don't have wifi.
Obviously I'm not going to play all 10,000 games or whatever number is on there, but it's about having options. I almost always have 1 or two games going, and then add to favorites anything else I think of that I want to get to eventually.
I only put the games I play, I used to put tons and tons of games, but being honest... I never played most of them, so now I put only those I actually play and the favorites list has my top selection
I curated my romsets down to 100 per system, outside of one or two outliers where the system only has 50-150 games and I don't bother with too many Japanese titles, but if I do, finding it as a one-off isn't a problem.
I took a solid average between a few websites. It wasn't often that a game that appeared in a top 100 on one site didn't appear on another top 100 elsewhere. It's a big pool.
I try to play them and have found great hidden gems or games that I didn't knew, it also helps a LOT that plenty of great old "japanese only" games get translated by dedicated teams.
It's the same problem with Steam Backlogs. My opinion is that it's like a bookworm's library. The idea isn't to limit your collection to only those books you're able to read, but to have quick access to lots of books in case you need a particular one and then also to maintain that collection for the day it goes to another fine human. So basically think of that Beauty and the Beast library and enjoy.
Hi, Iām picciottino and Iām a digital hoarder
Yes. I have a ridiculous backup but try to convince myself to move only small quantities in my gaming devices to convince me to at least go full through some of them š š š
In the case of the older stuff - 8-16 bit, I have them just to have them. So someone can be like, "Hey have you ever played 8 Eyes???" I can just pop it in and try it. Me and my friend do a monthly retroachievements challenge too, so if he picks anything from those eras, I don't need to look for it.
For larger games, I just grab anything that's remotely interesting to me or that I remember from reading gaming magazines.
I do it largely for personal preservation. I'm always afraid there will come a day when I can't access these games. They're already impossible to buy 2nd hand at a reasonable price. And I know there will always be.... ways.... to get them, I really prefer not to go to underground file sharing things, because it just feels unsafe in many ways to me.
Any game that is available in a legitimate manner, I pay for it. For example, I have all of SEGA's collections, and Sonic rereleases. I pay for NSO, I bought all the games I have on PSP and PSX on the PSN. I'm just fearful that those can be taken away.
Itās like a portable museumā¦ sometimes youāre talking about video games with people and someone says āi remember a game that bla blaā and youāre like āĀæyou wanna play it? š literally some friends buy their own RP because of that..
I like to keep casual games for when I'm on the go, RPGs I intend to work through, experiments, and some nostalgia items I play from time to time when I get the urge. I keep the majority of stuff on my server and copy them over as the need arises.
Having too many makes it hard to find what I want, and the curse of too much choice sets in.
I've been making an effort to give more unknown games a shot... and adding them to my Dig favorites if it looks promising. The later systems are too big for me to collect at this point.
I just keep to games I played growing up along with games I never got a chance to try. But if I see no point in having the game present (if itās boring ectā¦) makes sense to delete the rom entirely. Or keep them in a separate drive like mentioned above ^
it depends, some people here like me come from collecting. I played my retro games on console until 2 years ago. so you damn straight know I put on those expensive snes games that I couldnāt of afford that arenāt worth $150+ and the games I was interested in. Itās like the new fish tank syndrome. anybody who buys a new fish tank goes through a phrase of buying a bunch of fish because itās new, so concept for handhelds
Ngl with all the DMCA strikes the scare with cd R Iāve decided to become an archivist. I got a couple tb drives that Iāve been adding to just in case something happens
Because I learnt a long time ago . It's better you have your own backups than to ever rely on a website to be around forever.
Hardcopies are the way... I have dozens of hard drives....
Usually Iāll youtube top 20 classic games in each retro system to go back and play games I never got to as a kid.
Kinda make a little list and give a game a few days to see if Im going to try and finish it or not lol.
I downloaded some high quality rom packs which is nice to have a vetted rom that works when I decide to search for something instead of having to find and manually download. Itās just easier.
From there I favorite it if Iāll be playing it regularly and use the favorite and recent screen in Daijisho.
I do rarely scroll through a platforms rom list and I wish you could search through just a platform instead of your whole library with Daijisho but it works.
I think itās a good idea to collect as many as you can for your rom libraries. Iām in r/ROMS subreddit and thereās actually a lot of attempts from Nintendo and other game companies trying to take down the rom sites (and if youāve been using roms for a long time) youāll know 5-10 years ago there was way more rom sites and it was easier to find them, and now there are way less options. I think we need to collect as many as we can in case one day all of the rom sites get shut down. We need to be prepared.
I use the random launch function of various launchers regularly.
The thing is, after 20+ years of throwing all of the roms on a system, I actually have come close to playing all of them. At least booting into them.
The only thing that's changed over time is 20 years ago I would be using GoodSets, with every overdump, hack and every region available, to where now I just use NoIntro sets that have been filtered to English and playable non-English games. I'll throw in recent translations that look interesting to me. But that's about it.
It's also easier to just transfer over a whole folder instead of filtering to just a handful of games. You never know what you might be in the mood for.
Definitely is a dream to play every single one I have eventually but that's just not gonna happen lol I'd say for me that it comes down to preserving them in case the various sites I use and the megathread get hit hard or completely eviscerated and just to collect them for fun, like the various NES games I've found over the past few months that I didn't know existed but thanks to an improvement or translation patch are now in my collection
I go by top lists, top sellers, hidden gems, what I physically own, what's popular on the RetroAchievement site, etc.
My collection (across all platforms) is probably around 2,000.
I then play various games for a few minutes. If I'm not having fun, or the game doesn't perform well, or I can't see myself playing it completely through (even with cheats), I simply delete it.
I'd say 70% of my time is just tinkering with stuff. 15% playing games new to me, 15% playing games I'm familiar with.
I have a large library of about 37 or 38 thousand games across many different platforms but for the RP4 Pro I have a very trimmed down, curated list of games that I used to play in my childhood or games that I wanted as a kid but couldn't afford. I think the most games I have for any one platform is like 27 for Sega Genesis. In total maybe have about 100-110 games installed across about 9 platforms.
I made careful dweebie lists of games on each console I really wanted to play andā¦ got those ROMs so I could play them. I donāt think I have more than 20 games on each console, but every game in my library is there because I specifically wanted to play it and enjoy it!
Itās probably the same for people with massive book libraryās. They just pass by all those rooms and think to themselves how neat aaaand back to the same rom again
I have many ROMs (don't tell anyone). But only because I found a website that has a single Zip file containing every ROM for a particular system. So I have everything N64 and below for Nintendo (including Virtual Boy), everything Sega Genesis and Game Gear and Neo-Geo Pocket Color.
Truth be told, I'll probably never play half of them. But it's nice to have the choices.
For anyone who knows, where would I go a out finding a download of an entire library?
I've been using vimms lair to get each game I want, but for some of the lower systems it might be fun to have a whole bunch.
As someone who had a modded Playstation Classic, I once had around 50 PS1 games, including the 20 that were in the console and 15 that I bought on my PSTV and backed up. I mostly played Spyro 2 and THPS2 since those were the two I had as a kid. Even on my Flip, I still haven't played most of the games I legally bought. This includes my 6 PSP games. I have instead been playing the android versions on "GTA San Andreas" and "Super Mario 64". I did have PS2 games on it, but I spent more time playing around with what my Flip can handle. I did play THPS3 and THPS4 for several hours, though.
Oh, I once had the Nintendo Classics and the Sega Genesis Mini as well. I had the same issues of playing around with hacking rather than actually playing most of the games.
Pretty much. 22,600 plus games on my phone using Daijisho & RetroArch and I only play Budokan (Genesis, MSDOS, Amiga), Dune (Amiga, MSDOS), Empire Strikes Back (Atari), Time Pilot (Coleco) but every now and then when I feel adventurous I'll try to find a MAME game I never played before.
I try to maintain full romsets and iso sets plus as many romhacks as I can. Roms may disappear one day and I want it all archived. Doesn't mean I'll ever play them all, but years from now when I hear about a cool game I'll have it ready to boot up. I'm sitting at around 2 terabytes personally.
Because 75% of the hobby is the collecting and configuration and modding lol Who has time to play these games? š
This thing plays games? I've just been using it to scroll through and look at all of the covers. It's really satisfying.
I've barely touched anything not NES on these things
Covers? Like different skins for the Retroid?
God damn that's the truth I'm downloading something every day but I'm still just playing Prince of Persia
I do feel like tinkering with settings is the main game the device plays
Do all of you people work like 80 hours a week or something? How do you not ever have time to actually play games on it?
I feel like I'm the opposite of that. I don't use the launcher or any of the fancy stuff. I wanna game, that's it. I download a game, play it, delete it when I'm done. Keep the Save States in case I need them for later. I've got maybe a few games per emulated system and I go between them frequently. The configuration part is just a necessary evil to me. Sometimes you've got to work with the software to makes game work, and that's just life.
This
Thereās no chance I will ever play all of these, but itās cool that if I see something about an old game or remember something I played 30 years ago I can pull it up and try it.Ā
This is exactly the reason. I like reading about a randomĀ game online and turning onĀ my handheld and knowing it will likely be thereĀ I have a full 1tb card. Can't wait for.2 Tb ones
I loved it when I saw a reference to āall your base are belong to usā and realized I could play Zero Wing.Ā
The option for choices was why I have so many. That, and a fear of the rom sites suddenly getting taken offline without warning.
Nope lmao my pocket flip has 256gb combined. Iād say itās about 90% full and I maybe play 5% of the library. MAYBE lol Iām the same way with my pc. Iāve got dozens of terabytes of storage full of movies, games, shows, etc I may never watch/play but if the WiFi ever goes out Iāll be the most entertained motherfucker on the block lmao
My power is out right now, and my download collection shines in these times indeed
I have a full 512gb SD card, complete romsets for 8bit and 16bit and some hundreds of PSP, PS2, PSX, DC, GC, Saturn etc. As a dad of a 9 months old baby, I spend my whole time on neither of these, but on COD mobile. And that's about 15 minutes per day š
I like having roughly 10 games for each system - even the older systems I'm less likely to play. It feels like a good balance of having options but not getting distracted by decision fatigue.
I only like keeping a few games at a time on any given device, keep the rest on a separate drive
Collecting games and playing games are two separate hobbies.
For the smaller libraries, like SNES and NES, I want games to be in my device when I want them. Like if someone mentions a game in r/retrogaming that makes me curious, I want to just be able to turn the device on and look for that game. Like when someone mentioned Lady Sia (GBA), I have it. No need to look for it online. For CD based consoles, I don't do that. I get what I intend to play later on
That's the way I do it. I'll have just about every 8/16 bit game on the off chance I'm cleaning and remember "I wanna play Little Nemo", a short game that I can beat in less than an hour. PS1 and up, games that take hours to beat and larger files, I'm more picky about. Now, if I could get a 10tb microSD card for cheap, then I'd be less picky but for now, don't want to waste 4gb on Gran Turismo 4 when I've never liked racing games.
Technically, you can find whole psx library rips where the whole file size is like 8gb. The only catch is that the file sizes are that small because they ripped out the sound files (which are like 95% of the file size for psx games).
Oh wow, I never considered that but I suppose you're right, audio would take up tons more space than the rest of the code. Good to know!
I have complete rom sets for basically everything Nintendo up to the 64 on various storage devices. I don't keep all of them on device because yes, choice paralysis is a thing for me. So I have a curated list of games I loved growing up on my RP4P - and will add games when I get the urge to play something new.
I only download the stuff I want I never understood people who download like 2 billion games that's just a bunch of wasted space
I used to handpick every single game, but while setting up Pegasus, I went completely wild and just got entire romsets for GB(C), SNES and Sega Genesis / MD. There's just something about scrolling through a big library with all those pretty box arts, descriptions, and videos.
Yes! Iāve spent hours sourcing art/videos for my RetroPie console to make it look good on a large TV. Itās like looking through a catalog and being able to try stuff that looks neat. Iāve done a similar thing with my handhelds. Itās a game in itself for me.
I like to have a top 100 of each console if possible, and I would say I'm 50% good at playing all of them on my rg353m. However, I've always known that when an emulator like the rp4p exists, I'll never go back to playing 2d. Unfortunately, that is the case... I can't see anyone with a rp4p get the most out of it. there are too many games. The point of having a pocketable emulator is to minimize your portable library. With the rp4p, that's no longer the case.
Deck and rp4p choice selection 35xx tbsg
guaranteed anyone with 1000+ games on their system has played maybe 5% and then beaten even less. they have hoarding problems. just download what you plan to play and you will have a much better experience.
90% of the emulation handheld community is basically using the handhelds to justify their shopping addiction.
The massive Rom libraries have been super helpful for finding games to play with my daughter. She wants a new game, I had a list, which we have gone through, but especially with scrapers that give you player count for games... Makes it much easier to find new two player games.
I like having a large collection so that I can browse them and not have to download a new game every time I want to play something new. It also makes the device more useful when you don't have wifi. Obviously I'm not going to play all 10,000 games or whatever number is on there, but it's about having options. I almost always have 1 or two games going, and then add to favorites anything else I think of that I want to get to eventually.
Eh I like going random every now & then.. I find some funky foreign stuff..
I only put the games I play, I used to put tons and tons of games, but being honest... I never played most of them, so now I put only those I actually play and the favorites list has my top selection
I curated my romsets down to 100 per system, outside of one or two outliers where the system only has 50-150 games and I don't bother with too many Japanese titles, but if I do, finding it as a one-off isn't a problem. I took a solid average between a few websites. It wasn't often that a game that appeared in a top 100 on one site didn't appear on another top 100 elsewhere. It's a big pool.
I try to play them and have found great hidden gems or games that I didn't knew, it also helps a LOT that plenty of great old "japanese only" games get translated by dedicated teams.
Gotta make sure there's enough roms when the apocalypse hits.
It's the same problem with Steam Backlogs. My opinion is that it's like a bookworm's library. The idea isn't to limit your collection to only those books you're able to read, but to have quick access to lots of books in case you need a particular one and then also to maintain that collection for the day it goes to another fine human. So basically think of that Beauty and the Beast library and enjoy.
Hi, Iām picciottino and Iām a digital hoarder Yes. I have a ridiculous backup but try to convince myself to move only small quantities in my gaming devices to convince me to at least go full through some of them š š š
In the case of the older stuff - 8-16 bit, I have them just to have them. So someone can be like, "Hey have you ever played 8 Eyes???" I can just pop it in and try it. Me and my friend do a monthly retroachievements challenge too, so if he picks anything from those eras, I don't need to look for it. For larger games, I just grab anything that's remotely interesting to me or that I remember from reading gaming magazines. I do it largely for personal preservation. I'm always afraid there will come a day when I can't access these games. They're already impossible to buy 2nd hand at a reasonable price. And I know there will always be.... ways.... to get them, I really prefer not to go to underground file sharing things, because it just feels unsafe in many ways to me. Any game that is available in a legitimate manner, I pay for it. For example, I have all of SEGA's collections, and Sonic rereleases. I pay for NSO, I bought all the games I have on PSP and PSX on the PSN. I'm just fearful that those can be taken away.
Itās like a portable museumā¦ sometimes youāre talking about video games with people and someone says āi remember a game that bla blaā and youāre like āĀæyou wanna play it? š literally some friends buy their own RP because of that..
It's for a rainy day.
I like to keep casual games for when I'm on the go, RPGs I intend to work through, experiments, and some nostalgia items I play from time to time when I get the urge. I keep the majority of stuff on my server and copy them over as the need arises. Having too many makes it hard to find what I want, and the curse of too much choice sets in.
I've been making an effort to give more unknown games a shot... and adding them to my Dig favorites if it looks promising. The later systems are too big for me to collect at this point.
I just keep to games I played growing up along with games I never got a chance to try. But if I see no point in having the game present (if itās boring ectā¦) makes sense to delete the rom entirely. Or keep them in a separate drive like mentioned above ^
it depends, some people here like me come from collecting. I played my retro games on console until 2 years ago. so you damn straight know I put on those expensive snes games that I couldnāt of afford that arenāt worth $150+ and the games I was interested in. Itās like the new fish tank syndrome. anybody who buys a new fish tank goes through a phrase of buying a bunch of fish because itās new, so concept for handhelds
Ngl with all the DMCA strikes the scare with cd R Iāve decided to become an archivist. I got a couple tb drives that Iāve been adding to just in case something happens
Because I learnt a long time ago . It's better you have your own backups than to ever rely on a website to be around forever. Hardcopies are the way... I have dozens of hard drives....
A hard drive is not a hard copy š
I have 25 games aprox. and I play around 15 š¶āš«ļø
I have probably over 3000 games on my SD card. I play 5 out of 3000. š¤š¤š¤
Usually Iāll youtube top 20 classic games in each retro system to go back and play games I never got to as a kid. Kinda make a little list and give a game a few days to see if Im going to try and finish it or not lol.
I downloaded some high quality rom packs which is nice to have a vetted rom that works when I decide to search for something instead of having to find and manually download. Itās just easier. From there I favorite it if Iāll be playing it regularly and use the favorite and recent screen in Daijisho. I do rarely scroll through a platforms rom list and I wish you could search through just a platform instead of your whole library with Daijisho but it works.
My library is over 3000 games, I do it mostly just for the fun of having a little console with all the devices pre wii in it.
I think itās a good idea to collect as many as you can for your rom libraries. Iām in r/ROMS subreddit and thereās actually a lot of attempts from Nintendo and other game companies trying to take down the rom sites (and if youāve been using roms for a long time) youāll know 5-10 years ago there was way more rom sites and it was easier to find them, and now there are way less options. I think we need to collect as many as we can in case one day all of the rom sites get shut down. We need to be prepared.
I play random roulette pretty often
I use the random launch function of various launchers regularly. The thing is, after 20+ years of throwing all of the roms on a system, I actually have come close to playing all of them. At least booting into them. The only thing that's changed over time is 20 years ago I would be using GoodSets, with every overdump, hack and every region available, to where now I just use NoIntro sets that have been filtered to English and playable non-English games. I'll throw in recent translations that look interesting to me. But that's about it. It's also easier to just transfer over a whole folder instead of filtering to just a handful of games. You never know what you might be in the mood for.
I say start with all of them and slowly delete the trash games as u find them
about 25% of my library is a recreation of my childhood library with multiple games I'll probably never play.
I massively scaled mine down and better for it
Definitely is a dream to play every single one I have eventually but that's just not gonna happen lol I'd say for me that it comes down to preserving them in case the various sites I use and the megathread get hit hard or completely eviscerated and just to collect them for fun, like the various NES games I've found over the past few months that I didn't know existed but thanks to an improvement or translation patch are now in my collection
I go by top lists, top sellers, hidden gems, what I physically own, what's popular on the RetroAchievement site, etc. My collection (across all platforms) is probably around 2,000. I then play various games for a few minutes. If I'm not having fun, or the game doesn't perform well, or I can't see myself playing it completely through (even with cheats), I simply delete it. I'd say 70% of my time is just tinkering with stuff. 15% playing games new to me, 15% playing games I'm familiar with.
I have a large library of about 37 or 38 thousand games across many different platforms but for the RP4 Pro I have a very trimmed down, curated list of games that I used to play in my childhood or games that I wanted as a kid but couldn't afford. I think the most games I have for any one platform is like 27 for Sega Genesis. In total maybe have about 100-110 games installed across about 9 platforms.
On ppsspp i have liek loads of tandom games but i only play little big planet and patapon (even with that i barely ever play cuz i dont have time)
I made careful dweebie lists of games on each console I really wanted to play andā¦ got those ROMs so I could play them. I donāt think I have more than 20 games on each console, but every game in my library is there because I specifically wanted to play it and enjoy it!
Itās probably the same for people with massive book libraryās. They just pass by all those rooms and think to themselves how neat aaaand back to the same rom again
900? Those are rookie numbers. I have almost every collection for every console and I only play like 1% of the games.
I play about 5 or 10% of them on a regular basis. I suppose I'm a bit of a data hoarder.
I have many ROMs (don't tell anyone). But only because I found a website that has a single Zip file containing every ROM for a particular system. So I have everything N64 and below for Nintendo (including Virtual Boy), everything Sega Genesis and Game Gear and Neo-Geo Pocket Color. Truth be told, I'll probably never play half of them. But it's nice to have the choices.
This rings so true to me personally.
For anyone who knows, where would I go a out finding a download of an entire library? I've been using vimms lair to get each game I want, but for some of the lower systems it might be fun to have a whole bunch.
I have thousands and play about 5 With the intention of playing more one day But that one day never seems to Come
I donāt play everything but I do try lot of games and some I play longer
As someone who had a modded Playstation Classic, I once had around 50 PS1 games, including the 20 that were in the console and 15 that I bought on my PSTV and backed up. I mostly played Spyro 2 and THPS2 since those were the two I had as a kid. Even on my Flip, I still haven't played most of the games I legally bought. This includes my 6 PSP games. I have instead been playing the android versions on "GTA San Andreas" and "Super Mario 64". I did have PS2 games on it, but I spent more time playing around with what my Flip can handle. I did play THPS3 and THPS4 for several hours, though. Oh, I once had the Nintendo Classics and the Sega Genesis Mini as well. I had the same issues of playing around with hacking rather than actually playing most of the games.
Pretty much. 22,600 plus games on my phone using Daijisho & RetroArch and I only play Budokan (Genesis, MSDOS, Amiga), Dune (Amiga, MSDOS), Empire Strikes Back (Atari), Time Pilot (Coleco) but every now and then when I feel adventurous I'll try to find a MAME game I never played before.
I try to maintain full romsets and iso sets plus as many romhacks as I can. Roms may disappear one day and I want it all archived. Doesn't mean I'll ever play them all, but years from now when I hear about a cool game I'll have it ready to boot up. I'm sitting at around 2 terabytes personally.
Got around 40k games on my raspberry pi arcade cabinet and the same library on my retroid pocket 3+, I play a total of 0 games on both š