Keeping up in the wild

[Half Japanese]

If you've got an iPod, don't forget that those hold text files also via the "notes" function.

[Spartacus]

You could let somebody else do the work of organizing, printing and price tracking your collection for you so that you're only concern becomes - do I have it, do I want it, or should I get it?
For $6 you can purchase a back issue of Video Game Collector magazine that will give you a complete list of games for most every system out there plus a price guide for each title- in many cases both complete and loose. Also, you'll find a checkbox next to each title for you to do with as you please. I've recently taken to using a highlighter pen and marking the title's for every game I've bought a strategy guide for because I run across cheap ones so often and can never remember what I've got. It's a very small magazine so you'll find it very easy and convenient to carry around. A full years subscription is only $15 (quarterly). I've tried just about everything else - paper and electronic wise and this has beat them all hands down in speed, effectiveness and cost. And I will never worry about it being lost or stolen at less than $4 an issue. Oh, and by the way, there's articles in it too.

At home I use the DP guide as my reference of choice because it contains far more information! You'd be doing yourself a disservice to be without it.

[shvnsth]

also, when im in the wild, i can't really look up reviews of games, so when i pass by a game i have nevre heard of for the psx, i don't know wheather it is good or not. is there any site that has reviews for systems all together, so i could copy and past them into text files and save them on my palm.

i want somthing like this:

13 dalmations- 7.5
ardvark- 5.5
blue dragon-7.0

this site is nice: http://www.videogamecritic.net/ , and it has a lot of systems, but there are only 216 reviews in the psx section, and only 50 in the n64 section, and i would like a close to complete list.

[Cauterize]

Palm Pilot + Excel = pwnage

Exactly the same, however:

HP Journada PPC + Excel :P

Ditto - iPaq + Excel, though my totals page doesn't seem to work right on Pocket Excel for some reason . I've had a few funny looks at car boot sales etc. when people have thought it's a price list. I seem to remember a thread about people getting grief when taking the paper DP guides out on the hunt. An electronic version would be a godsend.

Oh mine has the Guides with rarities and prices. They don't know that :P

Heh exactly the same again, downloaded Acrobat reader for ppc and have all those rarity guides in PDF format!

pr8cjb would you liek help on the totals forumla? its been imprinted on my brain since GCSEs @ school in I.T.!

[pr8cjb]

@ cauterize - The formula works OK on my desktop machine, it just doesn't seem to want to play on my PDA for some reason. Plus it's not an essential, it's just nice to know!

PM me if you'd like to share those PAL pdf lists though!

[Ed Oscuro]

Okay, so I see you've got the guide

My secret is - I keep it ALL in my head; what I've got and what I don't, as well as what I want (I'm an imports-centric guy, but even so there's tons of domestic stuff I'd snag given the chance). I would buy any game that I think would be a good purchase, however, even if I wouldn't necessarily play it. I try to keep tabs on relative rarity of games, so I can figure out if a buy's worth the asking price. You'll get underpriced deals often enough that you don't need to know the exact price, anyhow.

[Red Hedgehog]

There are PDF or Excel versions of the DP Guide?

I would so put 'em on my Palm if I knew about that. Where do I get them?