how do you organize you almost-mass collection of roms\isos?

i have hundreds of games in iso\rom format for different systems that i play on real consoles and emulators...i'd like to ask, how do you people organize all the stuff?it's a pain of the ass having real hardware and flashcarts\devices because there is software different for each thing...
and some require their own clients\patchers\copy methods...so i wanted to ask, what tricks and cool things you guys use for browsing and trying new retro games?also, in a side note, i really find annoying to manually have to download then decompress to the right folder, isn't there some way to make it more automatic? like a browser extention that automatically decompresses rar\zip and 7z files and moves them to a folder?

For organizing/ managing games of different consoles I create folders with different console names and add the appropriate roms/isos to those folders.
Then import them through this http://www.launchbox-app.com/ and assign Emulators through the application for each file extensions.
Yes i can assign no$gba to .nds and Dolphin to Wii/Gamecube isos etc.You get something like this in the end

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Now i don't have to worry about going into different files/folders, opening emulators and browsing roms/isos. I open Launchbox and double tap a rom/iso/pc game and voila!

Dark InfernapeFor organizing/ managing games of different consoles I create folders with different console names and add the appropriate roms/isos to those folders.
Then import them through this -link- and assign Emulators through the application for each file extensions.
Yes i can assign no$gba to .nds and Dolphin to Wii/Gamecube isos etc.You get something like this in the end-picture-Now i don't have to worry about going into different files/folders, opening emulators and browsing roms/isos. I open Launchbox and double tap a rom/iso/pc game and voila!

this seems really neat. just like steam.. it solves the problem of having dozens of exes and it's a cool way to have everything at hand to playdo you usually get complete sets, or you add the games when you want to play them?

Right now i have EVERYTHING imported to the software. You don't have to add each game individually, there's an option that lets you import entire folders of roms/isos all at once, just make sure the game files are named properly.

Just in one big old gaming folder.

Dark Infernape · #2

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I remember betrayal at krondor, almost certainly the first D&D inspired game I ever played

I do the same thing as msg for organizing games.