There are many of our kind I am sure
pcgamingwiki.com and
vogons.org are great resources to finding solutions to known and unknown problems respectively. Both are pretty much responsible for my 100% success rate at making plug & play packages of pre-2000 games, tuned to perfection.
Only sweet problem is I keep finding new stuff to add to packages I deemed complete... For example only a week ago I discovered
tvtropes.org, a site rich in various and interesting triva about even the most obscure of games. So at one point I'll have to update each package to include saved offline .mhtml page.
Example. It never ends