How do you keep track of your collection?

[Jubal]

so I recently (last month) stumbled across a better way to keep track of my collection than the old txt file...

http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/col ... Collection

RF generation has a great database allowing you to keep track of your collection, drop down lists to pull it up by particular console

http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/col ... Collection

and a cool graphical way to represent your collection

I have only listed what I physically own, no roms

after getting most this put in, I saw http://www.digitpress.com/ has a similar system, and it displays a 'rarity guide' tho I think there rarity guide is a bit screwed up.

how do you guys keep track of what you have? do you use this site or some thing else?

-Jubal-

[Zork]

I used Club IGN's collection page. I'm not a paying member and it's a free feature. I mainly used it to see how my own ratings stacked up against editors and other users, and to find out the alleged worth of my collection, which ended up being over $8,000. I thought it was pretty cool honestly.

[alexkidd]

I sold my entire collection in '02 to fund moving and trying to start my art career. I had about 10-15 systems, about half with original boxes including SMS, NES, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD 1, Turbo Grafx 16, PS, Saturn, Jaguar, Game Gear, Game Boy Color, and Dreamcast. I had about an average of 20 games per system except Saturn and Dreamcast I had about 50 games each. The big money items besides boxed systems were the late US Saturn Games (SFIII, PD Saga, etc...) Snatcher for Sega CD, SMS 3-D glasses & games and a SF Alpha II strategy guide with artwork that went for $75 for some reason (by Versus books).

I made about $3500 after ebay and paypal fees. I only bring it up because it would have been really cool if I could have seen my actual sale value versus the estimated value IGN does now. Living in downtown of a large city I just don't have the physical space for a huge collection of anything so I'm mostly emulation and my "racketboy'd saturn" now. The crazy thing is I actually probably made about a $1000 profit on my saturn collection because I bought so many titles on clearance toward the system's end and they soon became very desired. I doubt if I made an increase on any other system, possibly a slight one on Sega CD, but I probably broke even on a few.

I used Club IGN's collection page. I'm not a paying member and it's a free feature. I mainly used it to see how my own ratings stacked up against editors and other users, and to find out the alleged worth of my collection, which ended up being over $8,000. I thought it was pretty cool honestly.

[Jubal]

just ran across this...

http://www.arcaderestoration.com/

so here is a database application built to organize your game collection,
it looks good, but I admit to enjoy being able to send anybody a link to see what titles i have heh

-Jubal-

[disorderlyvision]

I use gamespots, mainly because it was the first one i came across, and i was too lazy to type my entire collection into another one. i am sure there are better. i know there are some that will let you list the condition (box, manual, etc.), which would be a nice touch. and yeah the collection value estimations are highly inflated i think they base off of retail prices.

[racketboy]

I'm gonna be launching the game database here relatively soon now that we're running on phpbb3
It won't be pretty starting out, but you'll be able to track your games in there once it's up.

[gennss]

Pen & Paper, though i have multiple systems and everythign i only collect dreamcast.

[executioner]

Well Jubal I have to say I really like the look of the database from that site, things are nicely listed, easily sorted and being able to send a link to someone is cool. If the database that will be here has all those options I'll patiently wait. I have a lot of backups and some roms and so many users here maybe could that be some sort of filter setting.

[nickfil]

I'm gonna be launching the game database here relatively soon now that we're running on phpbb3
It won't be pretty starting out, but you'll be able to track your games in there once it's up.

i'd like that. I never really went for the game collection aspects of IGN or Gamespot. It made me feel like they were doing reasearch on me more than giving me a utility.

So how do i manage my collection? Poorly. More and more i find i buy the same game twice, but usually it is because i found it cheap and can't remember if i have it or not. I'm not ending up with 4 dragoon sagas (unfortunately). Lately I've been buying a lot of ps2 and original xbox games because they are starting to get crazy cheap and there are a few gaps in my collection. Just picked up my second copy of soul reaver 2 the other day. I played it so long ago, i didn't realize i owned it.


just a thought racket- maybe it would be cool if the collection page was viewable by mobile phone? Maybe a variation on the css for mobile phones? I have no idea what goes into that though, and just typing that out seemed like a headache.

[gennss]

I'm gonna be launching the game database here relatively soon now that we're running on phpbb3
It won't be pretty starting out, but you'll be able to track your games in there once it's up.

That would rock. That way I can pay attention to what i need to get rid of to afford the OMG I GOTTA HAVE IT list..