My adventures in inventorying. Pic (links) included

[KidA]

On an individual basis, I appreciate the contents of a limited edition, but from a collecting standpoint,  they can become overbearing.

[Izret101]

Some pics of piles of crap at my parents house. Mostly systems and magazines.
Nintendo powers barely visible as well as some other Nintendo related stuff and a ton of demos in the bottom of the nintendo system holder thing.
http://sdrv.ms/TYTpkT

Crash RC car, walkthrus, mags barely visible
http://sdrv.ms/RUUhaq

Systems
http://sdrv.ms/UXqq5B
http://sdrv.ms/UXqvpL
http://sdrv.ms/RUUxGq

Oddball systems GH, GH2 Demo Kit CTR Pinball (this and the next 2 pics seem to only show up when they want to)
http://sdrv.ms/TcMALD

Displays all boxed up
http://sdrv.ms/QZKJxL
http://sdrv.ms/QZKLWt

More mag stacks
http://sdrv.ms/TcMNhS

Xbox in a bag not really noteworthy who puts a system in a bag though...
http://sdrv.ms/QZKVNy

MORE MAGS thing i am lifting up is a huge vinyl MK display. Can't remember which game it is for
http://sdrv.ms/QZL3fS

Got the movie in Italy and got ripped off on the GB cassette player if memory serves it is supposedly brand new but has no headphones in it where they belong.
http://sdrv.ms/QZLcQE

Probably the most boring picture
http://sdrv.ms/QZLqHr
Kindgoms of Amalur Signature edition is inside. Can't get any more sealed than a factory shipping box though AMIRITE!?!

As for progress made in between that excursion and finishing up my secret santa gift pack and hanging out at a new(to me) local shop(which was SOOO much fun) i managed to finish nearly all of the boxed Gameboy/Color/Advanced stuff. I haven't come across a GBA platinum system and i know there are still carts hiding. Pretty sure there should be another cache of complete/sealed stuff too. But enough is there to be picture worthy. Especially since i am moving onto the next system...

Anyways
Gameboy related stuffs:
http://sdrv.ms/UTQEjx

Next systems on the chopping block are Genny/SNES/N64/Pico probably in that order.

[Zagnorch]

Auditing your collection sure can be trying, especially if you have a lot of stuff.

I decided to audit my collection when it hit 1000 pieces, and it took me almost two weeks to complete.

It didn't help that I was in the middle of it when the Great Outage occurred, and my collection had mysteriously lost about 100 items after the site got back up.

Still, when all was said and done, I discovered I actually had less than 1000 pieces, mainly due to taking console components I'd listed separately beforehand, and bundled them with the consoles they belonged to.

I'll do another audit when my collection reaches 1500 pieces.

[Izret101]

Starting to lose motivation
Genny games all suck. Still want to buy the rest of the Pico collection, SNES has some worthwhile/rare stuff, N64, V.Smile/Leapster in here too
http://sdrv.ms/R0uyAf
http://sdrv.ms/WAaQNr

Ran across 2 more Xbox game while i was going through the boxes those were in.
Games that are apparently missing so far has jumped significantly i have boxes/manuals for all of these but no carts. No clue where they could have gone...

Genny:
Tecmo Super Bowl 3
Ahhh real monsters
Lion King
Joe Montana Football
Shinobi III

N64
Super Smash Bros - JP Import

GBA
Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga
Pokemon Emerald
at least 1large flatrate priority box full of CIB/sealed games. I believe it is actually 2 tho

I haven't uncovered game.com stuff yet so i am hoping that some of this might have gotten pushed back in a box behind all the controllers/hardware/misc stuff on the top shelf.

[Barracuda]

Reading this makes me want to go through my collection. I think I'll wait until next summer when we hopefully buy a different house.

[bombatomba]

Wow.  Last time I audited my collection it took more than two weeks (maybe three days full days of actual work), and I have less than 600 pieces.  For your efforts I have much respect, Iz

[Izret101]

No pics this time.
XBLA is done. Sitting at 334 titles. Before the inventory i only had 153.(Still need to add my JP ones. That should be a breeze though.) Sadly this is by far the largest collection. I believe it is the highest number of games i have ever had for any given "system".

Also nearly done with the CIB hardware that is here. Going to pull the last couple things out of the closet then start alphabetizing, coming up with a storage plan and reshelving everything.


Going to see about snagging a scanner tomorrow.... hopefully. I would like to fill in some DB holes before i have to get everything put away again.

[techwizard]

awesome, it sounds like it's really coming together.

[Izret101]

Have started doing scans for games missing images.
Gotten through Xbox and GCN so far.
http://sdrv.ms/USFuex
&
http://sdrv.ms/UZl6c8

But...
http://sdrv.ms/SluAj4

Going to take a break and download/mess around with image resizers that have been mentioned and get the scans i took today uploaded to the site.
I only had to do just over 100 so far.

But i cherry picked the systems.

EDIT
http://www.rfgeneration.c...nfo.pl?ID=U-076-S-01492-A&
Well all my scans pretty much look like this or worse so i guess i will save a bunch of time on not scanning in the rest of my shit.
Just wish i hadn't wasted all that time already now :-/

[techwizard]

wow is your scanner really old? i've never seen scans come out like that

[Izret101]

Nah only a year old. It is one of those all in ones.
They looked fine in the preview window so i am assuming i inadvertently had some setting selected that i didn't want to have selected.

[techwizard]

ahh ok, ya i would go through all the settings and put anything to do with picture quality at max, you can't go wrong with that

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Actually, I have a similar issue with one of my scanners. It's just a crap scanner, as far as I can tell.

[mumboking]

Do the images look like that before resizing? It could be the resizer program causing it.

[Izret101]

Yep. Like i said though in the scan preview they looked fine but when i uploaded i noticed how shitty it looked. Checked the resizes and originals and both looked like ass.

As for progress made.
I have nearly all my games put away. All the hardware and almost all of the oversized/colletors edition games are still stacked in a wall though.

I still have to go through 4 more totes/boxes of hardware, 1 large and one huge tote of mortal kombat stuff, and finally PC games.