@exodus collectorz recognises a lot of Japanese exclusive games. I had to manually add some very obscure JPS1 games but otherwise it has a good success rate.
One problem it does have though is that it pulls prices (to give you an estimated value for your games and collection) from price charting and this skews your collection value. Since I'm in the UK, my copy of Devils Third is worth £20 or something but it thinks it it worth £400 since it is crazy rare in the US. Same for a lot of the Japanese games I own. I don't really care about the value of my game collection but might be a problem for others.
just one of those things the retro game scene still hasn‘t reached. like how we only recently got every US SNES game box and manual scanned and availabe in HD on archive.org, it’s gonna be a while before that happens for Japanese boxes, which are 99 out of 100 times the more direct expression of the original artistic intent of the games.
I just migrated my Backloggery data over to backloggd (took a while but there wasn‘t that much). I’ll add anyone who linked their account here.
Trying to be more proactive this year in planning out what games I play and working through them. I did well with that a couple years ago but in 2022 I played only FFXIV for about 6 months and never really got back into the groove of recording what I was playing.
I‘m setting up Playnite as my universal PC launcher, since I’ve been quite engrossed in curating my games library on my PC with custom art. It turns out to have a nice Completion Status indicator:
I don't intend to have my full retro backlog on here, but it's great to have all the games that have ever been on my PC in one place, with these markers. I like the categories they chose, having "Beaten" and "Completed" there instead of, say "100%", leaving it up to your discretion what constitutes as "complete"
…and then I pretty much only look at my “currently playing” or “shortlist” categories when I sit down and want to play something. I try to keep “currently playing” to really just be what I‘m really currently playing, and kick things out if I’ve left them be for a long time.
I might give playnite a go. Can't hurt to try it, at least.
I'm on Backloggd. I use the calendar feature a lot to keep tracks of games I dip in and out of since I do a lot of channel surfing. https://www.backloggd.com/u/ogremode/
I use a custom spreadsheet to log my hours totals in games. As of this year, I‘ve started tracking by play session, so I also have that data. I’ve added fields that let me calculate totals by genre, developer, etc. It‘s a horrible hodge-podge of ad-hoc “code” that I’ve ship-of-theseus'd over time. Started for my love (and hatred) of last dot fm.
Hey heres my backloggd I would love to follow everyone back! Backloggd | AoEaesthetic Currently working on a 3000+ word review of FF8 so I hope that can get some eyes on it!
I use Backloggery, but a little afraid of the impending changes to the site to say with full confidence I’m sticking there forever.
My problem with switching to Backloggd is that it doesn’t have a lot in the way of features for managing a sizeable collection (understandable!). I need something that helps me manage not only what games I own, but where and how I own them. I will most likely stick with Backloggery, but I like the the letterboxd-esque features of Backloggd. My dream site combines Backloggery + Backloggd + How Long to Beat. If someone makes that, I might jump ship!
Here’s my Backloggd.
I don’t really use it as a collection tracker though, mostly I use it as a Letterboxd style way to keep a list of what I’ve finished so I can look at a list at the end of a year and go “wow I finished a few games that year”.
The what? I also use backloggery, have since I think about 2010, and one thing I like about it is how little it’s changed and how basic it is, at least on the level I interact with it. I can’t see anything on the (mobile) website about how it’s changing, what’s gonna happen?
I haven’t fiddled with other sites, but something I like on backloggery is that there isn’t a list of valid games. The name of the game is whatever you record it as. That’s a fair bit of work at the start, but it makes obscure or international games no problem. It’s probably less good for community stuff like how many people have this game, how many have beat it or whatever, but I’m not interested in that anyway. I wanna know how many of my games I’ve beaten (roughly half) and occasionally if I come across some SMS game or whatever that I’m vaguely interested in whether I already have a copy.
I have recently started switching to howlongtobeat.com so that I can more easily fit games around different periods in my life. I have some deep cuts on there and it hasn’t failed on the look up yet.
There should be a banner on your profile that links to the the patreon information here https://www.patreon.com/posts/site-remake-3-101782746 but tl;dr they’ve been working on a big site redesign to be more modern and mobile-friendly. I’m not the biggest fan of all the changes, but they seem to be listening to feedback well, so I’m more hopeful than I was when this started years ago. Really wish they had consulted with a UI/website designer though.
You can test out the new site here: https://backloggery.club/ (your same login works but all data is temp)
Yeah, this is me exactly. I want complete control over how my information is cataloged and filtered. Hopefully with the site revamp they’ll eventually add more features like the ability to add a game once with multiple platform options.
