Ultimate Console Game database

Was bored last night and came up with the idea that it would be cool to have one huge ass database for every console and every game with detail of what should have what, cat numbers and bar codes (the idea of which would be that you could scan in the game thus making it easy to input that you have it).

Firstly would anyone here be interested in it?
Second Where the hell do I start??
Thirdly Anyone want to help?

The idea of it would be it could be put into a PDA and taken with you as you go out on the prowl. It would be free to anyone and prob use Google Docs to distrbute it. Also Id use Open office to make it - its free to anyone and I like it better then MS Office.

 

Something to compete with http://vgrebirth.org/ ? You'll first need hundreds of contributers.

 

No wishing to compete with anyone just wanted to see if its possible or if anyone wanted one. I didnt even know that existed.

 

I'd help out if you got something started, but it is a huge project and you'd need to put a lot of time and effort into it for a long period.

 

http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/

 

Hi, if you require any assistance (sweeping the virtual floor, making virtual cups of coffee) then give me a shout. I may be a dev kit noob, but as far as consoles & computers are concerned I have owned almost 300* and taken the vast majority of them apart in my 25+ years of gaming. It really does mean I should know a great deal more than I do, but I refuse to use my time more wisely and can only defend myself by saying its more expensive than fags, drugs & booze with far less pain!

*Obviously some were duplicates!

 

Parris can make a Ps2 out of matches and a string in the middle of a tropical storm. He ll be most suited to write anything about consoles

 

I wish that were true, especially were that PS2 Tool was concerned.

 

Parris > so your like the Macgyver of gaming? :lol:

 

Would be more than happy to lend a hand if you get something off the ground.. ;-)

S.

 

Just really mulling it over at the moment, the basic fields at first would be


Name of Game
Region
Console
Barcode No

Everything else can come in time, as I collector these fields are needed 1st.

 

Why not join Segadatabase

 

No one offers a portable database everything is net based.

 

Going off that there is 134 console and handhelds not counting Regions...

Just wondering how many people here have any data already compliled? would save re typing out everything

 

Just another thought

Games shops where do they get the data for the barcode reader? do they has a Mug who has to type it all in?

 

They can manually enter it or they can "subscribe" to it. Take a look here:

http://www.gs1.org/docs/gdsn/gdsn_what_you_need_to_know.pdf

 

how shops get their data

hiya.

From previous work experience, there are companies that deal with nothing but collecting data about (any kind of, but also video game) products -- there are literally hundreds of those vendors. They mostly hang their product information off the EAN code (that bar code on the box), but they provide all kinds of details about the product -- see Amazon.com for examples. All of that content is licensed and bought.

Some of their archives reach back a fair amount of time, e.g. there are huge commercial Mega Drive / SNES / NES catalogs.

In any case, none of those archives are public, as people make money of limiting their availability.

An undertaking like what you are planning is hard to materialize without a solid input feed system with a reconciler that takes the best data from several sources and combines it into one record (this is what e.g. Amazon does ;-) . Simply typing up the info will, at best, give you an incomplete and rapidly outdated DB, unless you have a huge following.

best
tubo

 

It would be good if the list was comprehensive and listed the vast array of "fake" consoles, dev units & went back to retro equipment. You should scout around and ask the particular "experts" or enthusiasts in the particular console groups for information. There are a lot of sites with huge amounts of information already.

Get crunching! I completely agree with the above posting. This might seem like a simple idea, but like all simple ideas you will need a very large following of people prepared to assist whenever they come across material. Realistically you are looking at months of core work, then constant updating even with several people helping. Seriously, there are more products out there than you could imagine!

 

I think its a no goer really, the huge amounts of data in it would send any budding Pda into spaz.

 

Hey gang,

actually I'm currently developing an online games database system (with future plans for porting to mobiles and PDAs) which would allow for users to add data.

It's been in dev for the past 3 months, and I plan to run it in alpha in the next couple.

In other words, don't bother. I'm on it. If you do get ahead of me I'll cry.

Lots.