A decade ago, i was all about collecting roms. All platforms, full sets, mirc, newsgroups and PC turning day and night. After a while, i got tired of collecting for the sake of collecting and i started to create my own sets, only for the platforms and the games i was playing. But, with the years, i have widened my gaming spectrum and i've reached a point where it'd be good to have full sets again. Also, the collecting fever may have returned.
Only, this time, i would like to avoid as much as i can the huge sets with 1000000 roms, half of it being fakes, redumps, corrupts, traductions, hacks, obscure korean versions...
In, short i'm trying, for each platform, to get only one set and the cleanest i can find.
Mostly, when i have to make a choice between Goodsets, TOSEC and [no-intro], i go for [no-intro], they are cleaner and more adapted to my (non-completist) needs.
Unfortunately, every platform doesn't have its [no-intro] set, that's when i fall back to what i find, goodsets or TOSECs.
In the spirit "if there should only be one set", I have started a little list with each platform i'm targeting and the sets that i'm planning to get:
Mame - MAME v0.130 complete ROM sets [MAME/Arcade/2009]
CHDs - Mame 0.130 CHD's [Mame/Arcade/2009]
NES - [No Intro] Nintendo Entertainment System (20090218)
SNES - [No-Intro] Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (20081015) [Rom Set/1990]
N64 - [No-Intro] Nintendo - Nintendo 64 (20090315) TorrentZip'd [Various/1996]
GB - [No-Intro] Nintendo - Game Boy (20081015) [Collection/2008]
GBA - [No-Intro] Nintendo Game Boy Advance (20090322) [GBA/Romset/2009]
SMS - [No-intro] Sega - Master System - Mark III (20090212) [Romset/2009]
Genesis - [No-Intro] Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis (20090331) [Romset/2009]
Dreamcast - TOSEC Sega Dreamcast 2009-03-14 complete part 1 + 2 + 3 [Region Free/all/2009]
Saturn - Sega Saturn Collection USA (U) [All/1995]
SegaCD - Genuine and tested Sega CD USA images (2007-11-14) plus extras [Various/1992]
Gamegear - [No-intro] Sega - Game Gear (20090320) [Romset/2009]
C64 - GameBase C64 V03 [Collections/2006]
Amiga - The complete set of amiga games, TOSEC 0.29 [all games/1980][RS]
CD32 - The complete set of Amiga CD32 games (TOSEC-v0.05 CM) [TOSEC/2006]
Atari 2600 - not decided yet
Atari 5200 [No-Intro] Atari 5200 (20081124) [5200/Rom Set/1982]
Atari 7800 - not decided yet
Atari ST - not decided yet
Jaguar - No-Intro Atari Jaguar 03-23-2009 [Various/1993]
Lynx - [No-Intro] Atari - Lynx (20081228) [Collection/1989]
Turbografix - PC Engine-CD 99% Complete Collection [All/1989]
NeoGeo CD - SNK Neo-Geo CD [TOSEC-2006-03-15] [Collection/1994]
NeoGeo Arcade - Neo-Geo Arcade Perfect Set (20090105) [Misc. Genres/1990]
NeoGeo pocket - [No-Intro] SNK - Neo Geo Pocket Color (20090303) [Romset/2009]
3DO - [TOSEC] REAL 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (2008-10-31) [ALL/1994]
I was wondering what the other rom collectors would think about it. Are my choices right or are there other, better sets? Are the [no-intro] really the cleanest sets? What would you change/adapt in my list?
And you, what are your collecting goals and how do you plan to reach them?
EDIT: i forgot to say that i plan to download the sets, not purchase them on HDs or DVDs