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?
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Looking for a program to organize collections.
Started by Video, Dec 14 2003 12:37 AM
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Posted Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:04 AM
Go here.....
http://www.arcaderes...sp?OPT=3&CBT=20
And download Cart Commander. Great little program for keeping track of your collection.
http://www.arcaderes...sp?OPT=3&CBT=20
And download Cart Commander. Great little program for keeping track of your collection.
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Posted Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:07 AM
Microsoft Excell
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Posted Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:11 PM
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.
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However, a database app would probably be a more appropriate solution... MS Access would probably work best.
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:16 AM
Thanks, I'll take a look at all these and see which one's best suit my needs. Thanks a lot.
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:00 PM
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.
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.
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 7:06 PM
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
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
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 9:52 PM
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.
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.
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 11:56 PM
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:
And it'd make my organization a lot easier.
$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.
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Posted Sun Dec 21, 2003 3:31 AM
Cart Commander is awful. IGN is really the best, and that's sadly the only good thing IGN does.
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Posted Sun Dec 21, 2003 3:11 PM
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?
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Posted Sun Dec 21, 2003 11:01 PM
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.
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