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Amazing features Build from kolektors to kolektors ;) kolektor app is everything you need to manage your game library. Gorgeous game view: Preview your game collection with beautiful covers, powered by IGDB. The details panel also provide you with useful information, such as IGDB score, played/unplayed status, game description, screenshots, platforms and game modes, paths, files and associated collections. Multiple looks: Table view also available to see more details in a more compact way.
Lightning fast From scrolling to search, kolektor support thousands of games with high quality covers with 0 loading times. Large library support: No matter if you have 100, 1000 or 10.000 games, scrolling your collection is amazing on kolektor. Sort or filter your library in a blink of an eye. Instant results: Search results will appear as fast as you can type. No matter if you are looking for a specific game or a huge series, search will provide you exactly what you are looking for.
Limitless collections Take control of your library: Endless possibilities when creating collections. You can use any platform, folder/s, and filetypes. kolektor allows you to use any filetype as a game file. Never been easier to manage your ISO, EXE, ZIP or any kind of file as you will do with kolektor. Fetch your game details from IGDB: Out of the box, kolektor will retrieve all your data from IGDB (Twitch). You can re-fetch any missing/wrong identified game within a second. More services and integration coming in the future.
kolektor Batocera.linuxkolektor's answer
While the purpose of the app may be similar to competitors, kolektor is taking a different approach: Emulation/retro-gaming won't be a priority. We will rather focus on providing tools for organizing your game library. Game files management will be our main goal (either you have your games on ISO/BIN/CUE etc, or your installed executables, ZIP files, etc), you can choose whatever filetype you want to identify as a game. Also, folders can be used to fetch data for games. We are committed to provide an ultra-fast, lightweight, customizable and beautiful application.
kolektor's answer
Videogame collectors, videogame enthusiasts.
While it has the potential to be amazing, like most linux-based options, it falls apart in the area of user experience, with automatic misconfigurations, failure to recognize supported devices and the requirement to SSH into the host system from yet another system (that you may not even have). in order to enter complicated commands just to turn basic supported features on and off. If you do spend a few days getting it to a basic level of functionality, it may be worthwhile, but the problem is that you shouldn't have to. Extra layers of unnecessary complexity seem to have been added simply to maintain that unapproachable aura that most Linux distros have.
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The OS you probably want is Batocera. I have a couple external SSDs that I use to run it on my VCSs, and they're great. It's definitely an easier setup than Windows with Launchbox, and you don't have to deal with licensing, forced updates, and all the other Windows garbage. Source: 11 months ago
This subreddit is for the completely free and open-source distribution that you would find at https://batocera.org/ which comes with absolutely no copyrighted ROMs(games). You will only get support here for that and that alone. Unfortunately if you bought a preconfigured system ("unofficial image"), your issues are with the people who sold it to you. Nobody here can help you with anything outside the scope of the... Source: 11 months ago
Alternatively, since you just built a nice PC, you can take the free options and just software emulate classic systems and run MAME. If you don't have time to set much up, look into a Batocera boot drive https://batocera.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
I don't think many people have done that, as u/tonymurray was explaining. But to be fair, there are a few other decent gaming-first distros. Someone might want to install ChimeraOS or Batocera, to give a few examples. Others might have bought the Deck to serve as a cheap home computer, and replaced the OS with one that doesn't have a gaming mode (say, Ubuntu, or Manjaro). I think those numbers would be extremely... Source: about 1 year ago
You can make your own https://batocera.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
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