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Honestly I think it would be easier to find rompacks with more seeders, Download batocera and then add your Roms yourself. It's not that much more work although it might feel like it
Good point. I think you're right. I suppose that way I can cut out some of the junk roms I'll never play. Good call.
It's definitely worth it to curate your library. It makes it a lot better when you actually get to playing
I was mostly worried about coming across some junk roms that won't play, etc. But that's probably not so common.
Funnily enough, I actually had problems in the past with junk roms in all-in-ones. I'm sure there are good, currated all-in-one images out there but I found the flexibility of managing my own library to be worth it cause there are so many great sources of roms. For retro, my favourite is vimms lair. Check it out if interested
I love Vimm's Lair and have used it a bunch. Only reason I didn't start there this time is I want a new build for a Pi 5 and boy, Vimm's is slooooooow. Great project and service offered though.
@Father_Redbeard @owen you can easily find pretty complete rom packs and then check it all with DAT files (a database of checksums)
Where do you like to find them? I looked at the Megathread, but couldn't really find a retro-centric source.
@Father_Redbeard archive.org for the roms, and no-intro for the dat files
Download bato. Download rom pack. Put roms in rom folder.