The title says it all really, during my collecting sprees I have bought lots of great stuff but unfortunatley most of the great stuff also came a small mountain for crap. My problem is that I have alot of pirate and back-up copies (they came with the computers and consoles i bought 2nd hand). Most of them are oldskool pirated c64 tapes and amiga disks (i also was given over 200+ dreamcast backups, mostly duplicate copies of the same games). Should i ruthlessly throw all these out without checking what is on them or should I just throw them all in a box and dump them in the garage? What would you do and how do you manage your collections?
Speaking from someone I know, I would rip all of your pirate backups into .BIN/.CUE files using IsoBuster. Then, I would compress each .BIN/.CUE pair into a .RAR format using WinRAR. After, divide each of the .RAR files into different systems. From there, burn as many files as you can from each game system section into DVD-Rs. It's up to you. You can buy a separate hard drive to keep compressed backups of your pirates, then throw the pirates away!
I'd like to see this pile you have. Pics! If it's getting to much for your room, maybe you can build or purchase some shelves instead of having them everywhere. I have all my games nicely stacked and in alphabetical order. Yeah,I get bored.
Agreed...dump the DC stuff...keep the c64 and Amiga. You can burn a DC disc any time...it can be a pain in the ass to get software for/on the other two.
haha, do any of you catalogue your collections? If you do what do you use? notepad, excel, database software?
I used to use Game collector from collectorz.com (or something like that). But i eventually gave up just because of shear volume Plus i have too many unreleased and prototype games, what do you do when you have 7 different builds of the same game? These days i don't even bother to alphabatize 'em. Hell, i'm luckey if they're in order by system.
TextEdit. ;p I keep a detailed list of every single game I have. My games are sitting nicely sorted in cupboards too, so there's no dust or sunlight.
Yeah, what you don't want you can give away to someone who will want it. One man's trash is another man's treasure, they say.
I downloaded the trial version of this and was seriously disappointed, it is riddled with bugs and relies solely on amazon.co.uk (im a UK gamer so my collection is UK-centric, plus the collectorz.com database dies with a range check error). And the problem with amazon.co.uk's videogame database is that it doesnt even have Silent Hill in it, sure it has the platinum version listed but not the original. And even if you DO find the game you were looking for 50% of the time the case scan is of the US version. I think im gonna have to do this manually myself. I know what i'll be doing all bank holiday monday lol.
