Video Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Hi, does anybody know of a program that will help to organize my collection of games? I'm looking for something I can put a game name into (or remove it) easily. I'd like several colloms so I can put other info about the game, like does it have the box, the dox, extras, part numbers, what I paid for it, etc. At the moment, I'm using, literally a 7 colum notepad. Which works, but once you write a game down, you can't move it, so it's a real bitch to modify when I get in new games. I want something that works like that, but will organize the game names alphabetically automatically. It would make it easier to find out what I have, or don't have, or think I have I don't, or have that I don't think I have, confused yet? Anyhow, Can you help me out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Go here..... http://www.arcaderestoration.com/index.asp...sp?OPT=3&CBT=20 And download Cart Commander. Great little program for keeping track of your collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Microsoft Excell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbid Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 http://users.ign.com pretty good web app, there is also a good amount of space given for notes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 I've been using Gnumeric to keep track of my collection. It's a Excel clone for Linux, so I get the added benefit of being able to use the same files under Windows as well (Gnumeric can export to .xls). I used to use Cart Commander for a while, but I felt that it was too specialized... it worked great for carts, but keeping track of what hardware you had didn't work very well. Spreadsheets are about as generic as you can get... also, now that I've invested so much time into the spreadsheet, migrating to something else would be difficult. However, a database app would probably be a more appropriate solution... MS Access would probably work best. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted December 20, 2003 Author Share Posted December 20, 2003 Thanks, I'll take a look at all these and see which one's best suit my needs. Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasoco Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Good old HTML and PHP are what I use. Mainly because I've been too lazy to install MySQL and create a front-end for that. I like to have total control over what I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 I'm looking for hot ch1x to help organize my collection(room)! Cart Commander is the best I've seen it's a program with most of the classic games already installed, I haven't checked out any newer versions, maybe even more systems are supported? But it has a built in rarity guide, which is extremely similar to the DP guide, Rarity & prices. It can conver to html which can be used if you wanted to create a webpage of your various collections online to share with others. the ign thing I didn't care for with classics it's soo off it's not even funny, many many rare titles they didn't have listed. Or they have CV games listed as 2600 & vice versa, for most of the classic platfroms I saw errors, most of the newer systems are pretty much on. And yes there is always excell, if you can learn to use it ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian M Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 You can easily build your own functional and dynamic collection database using a DB program like Microsoft ACCESS, Lotus Approach, Appleworks, etc. Pretty simple to do, and you'll find the filtering and reporting options on a well-built DB more robust than that of a simple Excel sheet. That's what I use and it didn't take me very long to cobble together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasoco Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 If I could figure out how to get PHP to read an Excel Spreadsheet, I'd stop putting my games and items in PHP files as variables like this: $Game[] = "!NES | Metroid | 08/28/2003 | | %%EBY | %%U | | "; $Game[] = "!NES | Mighty Bomb Jack | | | | | | "; $Game[] = "!NES | Milon's Secret Castle | 10/20/2003 | $2.99 | %%GS | %%U | | %%B%%M "; And it'd make my organization a lot easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raijin Z Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 Cart Commander is awful. IGN is really the best, and that's sadly the only good thing IGN does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 Is there a program in the style of DVD Profiler,where when you put in an entry,it'll d/l the box art/screen shots from its server? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted December 22, 2003 Author Share Posted December 22, 2003 AAk, I don't want it to download a bunch of pictures and rarity guides. I just want a spreadsheet kinda program that will automatically organize stuff for me and I can keep track of what I got and what I paid so if my lazy arse gets around to selling any of it, I'll know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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