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For a while one of my collector friends and I have been fighting with ways to access our collection detail while on the go.  Although I have a Blackberry, navigating rfgen from it is tedious at best.  How do you guys keep up with what you have in your collections while you're on the go?

Old-school is the way to go for me, I have a small notebook with everything listed that I want. If it's not in the book it doesn't get bought. I'd hate to lose it. For a few years I used a pda, but that got tedious trying to sync it with master lists and what-not, so I gave up on that idea when the pda died.

I too go the "old school" way, I carry a checklist of games for all the systems I collect for.
RFGen can generate a checklist for you right here. (http://www.rfgeneration.com/PHP/checklists.php)

NICE!!  I didn't know about the checklists!!  That's awesome!!

Because my collection is still very small I simply know out of my head what I have and what I want/don't have. :)

i actually went ahead and purchased a palm tungsten e for this probelm. its a good cheap pda and can find what i have or need on the fly when i am out shopping.

I have a large binder with all the games in my collection.  If it's not in the binder I do not own it.  I have the binder tabbed by system and finding out if I own something is a breeze.  I simply print out the pages from Rfgen every so often.  For short term I pencil in new additions and add them here at Rf.

I can usually remember what I have in my head. But I like to keep a list of what I want in my head, rather than buying any game I don't have.

I pretty much just go by memory. I very rarely buy a game that I already have, which is surprising considering my collection is over 2500 games.

-Atarian75

I just took a look at your collection pictures (I think I never did before...) and WOW! :o

Congratulations on that beautiful collection...looks very organised too! Are the pictures relatively recent?

I keep checklists with me, but I know most of my collection from the top of my head.

This is usually what I do, too. I think I have doubled up a game maybe 3 times. Granted, my collection is around 900-1000 and not 2500...

Thanks for the compliment. The pictures are relatively recent, but I have added quite a bit since then and there is alot that is not pictured.

-Atarian75

Ive got a notebook (somewhere around here...) that has everything I have, what needs replaced (DC games) and specific games/items im keeping a lookout for. But ive got the systems I spend the most on (360, Ps2, DC, Genesis) pretty much memorized

is there any way the site could generat a generic txt, rtf, or pdf file of a collection that could easily transfer to a pda/phone/ipod etc?

im pretty good about what i own and need for most systems, but it gets difficult to remember which atari 2600 variations i need

Yes, the Checklist that NES_Rules mentioned are in PDF format.

When I was originally planning to collect E-Reader Cards (a challenge for a UK gamer like me) I had a checklist on my door with every card listed in groups, when I had all the cards from a bunch, I put a tick. I did quite well, I got every NES game card, All but 7 SMA4:SMB3 cards, one Animal Crossing Card and Every card from the system pack. I still have that kind of thing but on the computer for my Mega CD collection, though now I use RFGen, I gave up on it.

gamepopper101 - I made these up a while back for e-reader cards. Binder cover and checklist inserts: http://members.shaw.ca/antimind/videogames/ereader/inserts.html

Those work very nicely with Unikeep binders. I use them for all of my cards (I have at least a thousand cards total).