Collector List Websites?

[SlowCoder]

I know a lot of us have some sort of list of the games and consoles we have collected. We keep them in Excel, Word, Notepad, or on a piece of paper somewhere.

 

I was wondering if there are any websites out there that do the same thing?

[jhd]

PlayStation Collecting offers this functionality, though not for all game systems:

http://www.playstationcollecting.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Users.Collections

[Hatta]

Whatever you use, make sure it lets you download your database in a platform agnostic format. You don't want to lose all the work you put into making a database when the website you chose calls it quits.

[SlowCoder]

I've asked this question, because I think it's high time something is available. Many of us have queried in the past about how to best record their game and console collections.

What purposes would this serve?

- People would have a central location to manage their personal collections information, public or private.

- Would be web based, so accessible from your PC, laptop, tablet or phone, at home or at the yard sales.

- Not that I'm picking on the "2600 Heavy and Light" lists, as much work as the maintainers of those list work (which I appreciate), I think it is haphazard at best in a forum, and can put a lot of work on a single person. When that person decides they don't want to continue, the list may, or may not, be passed to the next person, if anyone is even interested.

 

I have coding skills that extend to web design and database management.

 

Here is my thought:

1. Start off with a game console list, the consoles will have much information, such as pictures, manufacture dates, model types, etc. This would be a static list for the time being, just to get the actual games libraries rolling, though eventually people would be allowed to post information and pictures of their own consoles.

2. Once a simple database of consoles is available, we can move on to building a database of game libraries for each console. This would require the assistance of people from this board to compile the appropriate data. I'm sure this would be easy to accomplish, as many of you probably already have the data. Would include the same type of information as the consoles. Much like the Atari database we have here.

3. Build a user account database. Allows people to log in and manage their accounts and personal games lists. Shouldn't be difficult to create an import function for people to easily upload their entire collection data via CSV, or maybe Excel documents. Users could post everything about the games they have ... revisions, condition, where they got them, etc. People's collections could be public or private, allowing them to share (or not to) them with other users. They could even have a "circle of friends".

4. In the same way the games DB can be done, users can also upload their consoles with pictures.

5. While I wouldn't be interested in seeing creating a social site, perhaps a limited wallboard or something could be cool. People just leaving notes about this or that.

 

As was previously mentioned by Hatta, I would definitely want to allow people to export their data. I feel this is very important.

 

Yes, this is something that is well within my capabilities. It's just time that is somewhat limited, so I'd be working on it here and there.

 

I am working on configuring a personal web server for development of various things, but I'm not sure if I'd want to permanently house the site once it's up and really running. And I'm not particularly interested in paying a hosting site, either. I know some of you have sites of your own, so maybe we can talk?

 

Anyway, let me know what you think.

[Seob]

Like this site? : http://www.retrocollect.com/search/tutorial-game-collection-tracking.html

[tpugmire]

Odd, I swore I replied to this a few days ago. Check out vgcollect.com. It's pretty much everything you wanted.

[Lendorien]

rfgeneration.com is what I use. it has a pretty active community updating and adding games. It's also VERY comprehensive covering many systems and regions.