Game collection tracker

[PinBiohazard]

I still cant remember some so when I get home hopefully it will be a complete list 

[TDIRunner]

Being an accountant, I've always gone with Microsoft Excel.

If you set up the spreadsheet properly, it's a pretty powerful tool.

I'm also an accountant and, surprise, surprise, I use Excel as well.

[PinBiohazard]

Being an accountant, I've always gone with Microsoft Excel.

If you set up the spreadsheet properly, it's a pretty powerful tool.

I'm also an accountant and, surprise, surprise, I use Excel as well.

I think I can safley say that Excel is the life blood of accountants

[Ozzy_98]

I use a spreadsheet and book collector for my AD&D books, since it works like a checklist.  But since I collect any and all video games I can find, especially the lesser known ones vs the ones the fanboys clamber to, game collector works great.  Also nice being able to just scan a bar code and have it mark it into the collection.

[sheep2001]

Collectorz.com game collector.

[Jeff]

I use the Backloggery. I'm not a collector, I just hate getting rid of my games. Also, I fully intend on beating all of my games so having colorful icons, bars and numbers in my face tends to keep me motivated.

[Lashek]

If there were enough of a demand, I could probably build something. I'll fire off an email to Price Charting about possible data-basing schemes and see what they offer for data pulling.

My current process is just a Google Docs sheet that I use based on Price Charting for the systems I'm interested in.

[mojoeskateco]

If there were enough of a demand, I could probably build something. I'll fire off an email to Price Charting about possible data-basing schemes and see what they offer for data pulling.

My current process is just a Google Docs sheet that I use based on Price Charting for the systems I'm interested in.

Excel with a vlookup function would do the trick.

I can set this up pretty quick.  I'll try over the next few days and see if I can get it working

[Ozzy_98]

I highly doubt he'll allow SQL calls over the internet.  I know game collector does pull values from there, but think over pure http; I don't have anything that can do wireshark of that at the moment, kind of inbetween network setups right now.  Not sure if they have an API for it, or what.  But since most of their good stuff is subscription based, I doubt it's free, so you'd almost have to scrape the website.

Also if you didn't know, pricecharting is also owned by same guy who owns jj games.

[Lashek]

Yeah, I get that. They do offer an API though that feeds JSON calls based on the "Price Guide" link at the top. Cost doesn't specify if it's a per-download transaction, monthly/yearly subscription expense, etc.

It isn't hard to automate pulling straight from their site, but I'd rather avoid doing this if they are reasonable.

[FFXIK]

I use vgcollect.com.  It's good site has an app, but it's still more or less under construction.  The community is fairly small but they are good people.

[Beastman1975]

i use collectorz myself  there is a link in my sig to my collection its a pay program but ive been really happy with it myself

[sheep2001]

i use collectorz myself  there is a link in my sig to my collection its a pay program but ive been really happy with it myself

You've got a couple of ngage dupes........fancy selling them to a fellow tcp-er? 😉 (or swapping)

[Lashek]

Revisiting this topic as I couldn't sleep at 4 AM this morning. Too many things were flowing through my brain.

Came up with this:
http://xeraweb.com/tracker/proofofconcept.php?system=psp
http://xeraweb.com/tracker/proofofconcept.php?system=sega-genesis
http://xeraweb.com/tracker/proofofconcept.php?system=super-nintendo

Changing the system to mirror the price-charting system in the URL will pull/parse through the game list and store it in an array. This could be modified to insert into a database and update to match price charting once a week/month.

After that, it's just a means of allowing users to flag what they own or add custom games/systems not in the database (based on what I see people requesting).