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If my memory serves me, we'd discussed collection software long ago. Does anyone use anything currently? I've been trying out TONS of different stuff over the past 4 days or so. If you use software, does it support multiple collections or just games?

I currently use Open Office Base. Used to use MS Access. Now my needs have grown a bit. I'm in the market for something that'll let me export to html (with photos, layout editor). I'd like to catalog my Tales merch, games, game merch, videos, and game related comics :girl:

Like I said, I've been looking into things. These programs are things I've tried or looked into (where no trial is available). All of this stuff will allow you to have ANY type of collection - not just games.

So far the only one I've found that's stable is Collmate (http://www.sidency.com/). The report editor is pretty advanced. You can export to tons of different formats, including full html pages or just html tables. If you write and tell them that you're interested, they'll send you a limited-time registration key so you can check out all of the features.

NMCollector JE is free, configurable, and sucks (http://www.nmcollector.net/JE/downloads/Subscr/index.htm)

Messless is highly configurable, seems perfect and ideal. Fucking thing constantly crashes. Runtime errors left, right, and center (http://www.messless.com)

The Data Boss looks promising but doesn't offer any trials (http://www.thedataboss.com)

The last time i was using databases for things other than games it was Collectorz. Which is limited by collection type anyways, i think they have games, dvds, books, comics, and maybe one or 2 other things.

And i had set up a DB for my various card collections using Access. Which was pretty limited. (at least what i could get it to do was :-/)

This is probably not very helpful in your case as it looks like you're after Windows software, but for anyone using Linux I'd highly recommend Tellico (http://periapsis.org/tellico/). It's actually for KDE, but with all the dependencies installed it's also bloody fantastic under Gnome

I've actually gone with Collmate. It's tons better than just using a simple database. I'm able to use it for my many collections AND use it as a cheap, easy, superquick way to update my website. Just export the collection report as an html table, copy table data, paste into site template *poof* ;)  Perfect for lazy people. Highly configurable. Especially where output is concerned.

@ Terz - I didn't even mention Collectorz because I'd tried it for games. I thought it blew. Most of the big name stuff is very specific. If you do your homework you can find better stuff off the beaten path.


@ ga5ket - I pissed around with Tellico briefly a good while back. Very, very nice suggestion for friends of Tux :girl:

I've used Cart Commander. It is not nearly as polished as some, but it is essentially customizeable to your needs. There is a free version and you may be able to still register if you contact the creator, but the free version is not time-limited or feature-locked. It was last updated in 2001 or so.