What's new in CLZ Games?

Fixed:

• The app crashed on Android 7 and lower
• Scroll position could be wrong when navigating through folders and lists

This one is for the Android users!

Our Android developer Pim was working on the app’s main screen and he saw some opportunities for improvement. Mainly to reduce slowness and stuttery behaviour when navigating back and forth between the folder list, the game list and game details page.
So instead of starting on the next new feature, we gave him a few days to refactor the code and improve existing functionality.

The result of Pim’s work is live now, in version 10.2.3 of the CLZ Games app.
We have been testing the new update quite a bit and we think it feels a lot snappier and smoother, especially noticeable on larger collections.

We hope you will notice the improvements too and that it will make you enjoy the app even more!

How to update your app to the new version:

1. On your device, open the Play Store app.
2. Search for “CLZ” and select the CLZ Games app.
3. Tap “Update” to update the app.

Fixed:

• On iPad devices the add screen would crash upon opening

Adding games by scanning barcodes is one of the most popular features of the CLZ Games app. Just scan barcodes, bleep, bleep, bleep, and the scanned games are added to a “queue”. Then use the Add button at the bottom to add all queued games to your database in one go. Quick and efficient.

However, we always like to keep improving the app, or at least give users multiple options. So today we have added a new “One-by-One” mode to the Add by Barcode screen, that is, without a queue.

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Fixed:

• The app could crash on startup

You may have already read about this when we introduced the eBay link in the CLZ Games Web software, but… today we are introducing the same feature in the CLZ Games mobile app:
the app now includes automatically generated eBay search links, that let you find eBay listings for that particular game.

These eBay links can be useful to:

• easily get a feel for a game’s value, by finding its’ Completed/Sold listings on eBay.
• easily find available copies on eBay (e.g. for your wish list items)

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Five updates for all five CLZ Web flavors today, in which we introduce a new super useful database management tool, called “Transfer Field Data”.

In short, this tool lets you copy or move field values from one field to another, in batch, for your entire database, or for a selection of items.

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Various fixes and improvements

Improved:

• More robust image downloading during downsync: failed image downloads will now retry automatically

Fixed:

• Barcode scanner would sometimes stop picking up barcodes until you exited and re-opened the Add screen
• Going back from a details page to the images view sometimes jumped frantically to the top
• Update Values now also works for unlinked games that do have a PriceCharting ID filled in

Two weeks ago, we introduced the new “Automatic eBay search links” in your CLZ Web software. After launch, we received quite a bit of feedback about this feature, both positive and… let me say… less positive 🙂

So we sat down, went over all feedback, and then came up with some tweaks to make everyone happy!

First, I have to repeat: this feature is OPTIONAL.
Most users love having the quick and easy access to eBay listings for their collectibles, either to:

• easily get a feel for an item’s value, by finding its Completed/Sold listings on eBay.
• easily find available copies on eBay, useful for your wish list items.

However, if you don’t see the value in this, if you don’t find this useful, then you can easily DISABLE this feature in the CLZ Web’s Settings screen, on the bottom right, under “eBay search links”.

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New in your CLZ Games Web software today:

In the game details panel, to the right of the cover image, it now includes an automatically generated eBay search link, that lets you find eBay listings for that particular game.

This is a new feature we know many users will find useful, others may go “meh” and a small group of users may absolutely hate it 🙂
That is why this feature is optional. You can switch it OFF using the Settings screen.

Automatic eBay search links

These eBay links can be useful for two reasons:

• For the games you own: easily get a feel for a game’s value, by finding its’ Completed/Sold listings on eBay.
• For the games on your wish list: easily find available copies on eBay, for you to purchase.

Please note: the eBay links include our CLZ Partner ID, which means that we may earn a commission on any purchase you make after clicking the link.

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Three weeks ago, we did a huge “more compact design” update. Today, we are continuing with another update that improves the design, layout and performance of your game details panel.

Here’s what has changed:

• Flexible layout: the layout now fully adapts to the width of your details panel.
• Fields moved: we moved some fields around, to make sure the most important fields are at the top. For example, the Index field has been moved down to the “Personal” block.
• New (or updated) Platform icons: Platform icons are now available for a lot more platforms and are now displayed on a white background to make them stand out more.
• Youtube trailers: trailer videos now show up as a video thumbnails that links to the video on the Youtube site. No more embedded videos, as these often did not work (embed not allowed) and made the details panel load very slow.
• Faster loading: the details panel now loads much faster, as it now delays the loading of the backdrop and because the trailer video is not embedded anymore

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New:

• New sort options for Toys: When browsing your list of toys, tap the AZ button top right to select one of these 3 new sorting options:
  • Toy Type, then Title
  • Toy Type, then Subtype, then Title
  • Toy Type, then Series, then Title
• Sort order is now remembered per collection type (games, hardware or toys)
• A small text link to “Add Manually” has been added on the Title tab in the Add Games / Add Hardware screens
• Add Hardware Manually is now accessible again for “grandfathered” users. Just choose Add Hardware from the menu

Good news for CLZ Games Web users who collect amiibo, Skylanders, Disney Infinity or other Toys-to-Life (TtL) figures. The CLZ Scanner app has been updated to support scanning TtL barcodes into the Barcode queue of your Add Toys from Core screen.

Here’s how to add toys by scanning their box barcodes with CLZ Scanner.

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Fixed:

• Completeness field was not set correctly when adding/editing items
• Toys: barcodes with multiple results didn’t work
• Updated messaging/wording
• Toys: Updated Values screen didn’t show the “total” (iOS only)

It’s live, the promised big update for your CLZ Games Web web-based software. You can now finally use the software to catalog your Toys-to-Life figures! The app comes with full support for:

• amiibo
• Skylanders
• Disney Infinity
• Lego Dimensions
• Starlink
• Rumble U
• UB Funkeys

This has been quite a project. First, our content team has worked for many months to create our own Toys-to-Life database in Core, including images of both the loose figures and the boxes. Nicely grouped into series for easy cataloging and browsing. When that Core database was close to completion, the development team started on the online search engine, the Web software and the mobile apps. And today, we can finally release the big new updates and show it to you all!

If you are into amiibo figures, or Skylanders or any other toy type, I am sure you will love this update.
Here’s what’s new:

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It’s live, CLZ Games v10.0! You can now finally use the app to catalog your Toys-to-Life figures! The app comes with full support for:

• amiibo
• Skylanders
• Disney Infinity
• Lego Dimensions
• Starlink
• Rumble U
• UB Funkeys

This has been quite a project. First, our content team has worked for many months to create our own Toys-to-Life database in Core, including images of both the loose figures and the boxes. Nicely grouped into series for easy cataloging and browsing. When that Core database was close to completion, the development team started on the online search engine, the Web software and the mobile apps. And today, we can finally release the big new updates and show it to you all!

If you are into amiibo figures, or Skylanders or any other toy type, I am sure you will love this update.

Here’s what’s new:

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Coming up soon: CLZ Games 10.0, with support for cataloging amiibo, Skylanders, Disney Infinity, etc…

For amiibo (and possibly Skylanders on Android only), we are introducing a super cool new way to add your figures:
Just scan their NFC with your phone!

Check out the Sneak Preview video below:

A huge update for your CLZ Games Web software today, which dramatically improves the look and usability:

• A new, more compact, design and layout, so that you fit more data on screen
• Improved layout of the “game details” panel, with better support for back covers

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Our web-based software has been around since 2009, first called “Connect”, but renamed in Oct 2024 to simply “CLZ Web”. The Web software is currently the most popular solution for use on your computer, far exceeding the number of users of the legacy “Collector” desktop software.

However, through the years, there is one particular piece of feedback we kept receiving from both new users *and* from users who switched from the desktop software, but phrased in different ways:

“It is all so BIG!” or “I can’t fit a lot of items on my screen”

And they’re right. CLZ Web has been designed to be “big and bold”, as is common with web-based software. Large fonts, big buttons, etc… It looks nice, but the side effect can be that you can fit less collectibles in your on-screen list. Especially when:

• Using a low-res laptop screen
• Using a tablet device
• Using several layers of toolbars in your browser

To resolve this, we were initially planning to introduce an optional “Compact View” or “Compact Skin”.
But when we starting working on that, we liked the results so much that we decided to make it THE new look of CLZ Web for everyone. It looks so much better, more compact, more items on screen. But never too small to read.

Here’s what we did:

• New font style to fit the new CLZ styling
• Slightly smaller fonts everywhere
• In the main screen, we combined toolbars and made them “lower” overall
• Lower list rows in List View, by slightly reducing the spacing
• Reduced the height and width of all input boxes in the Edit screens
• Reduced the height of the screen titles of all popup screen
• Reduced the height of the collection tabs at the bottom

This new compact look is going live for CLZ Web within a few weeks. But today, I can share more sneak preview screenshots of the most important screens, with a nice BEFORE (left) and AFTER (right) comparison. Enjoy!

Main screen

Edit screen

As announced earlier, a big update is coming for both the mobile and web editions of CLZ Games, in which we will introduce the ability to catalog your “toys to life” figures. That is:

• amiibo
• Skylanders
• Disney Infinity
• Lego Dimensions
• Starlink
• Rumble U
• UB Funkeys

Today, we can finally show you the first sneak preview screenshots of the CLZ Games 10.0 mobile app!

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A major upgrade is coming up for the CLZ Games mobile app (as v10.0) and the CLZ Games Web web-based software, with one big new feature:

Catalog your Toys To Life figures:

amiibo, Skylanders, Disney Infinity, etc…

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Fixed:

• The bottom collection tabs were invisible

Fixed:

• A crash could happen on start-up
• A crash in the Add Hardware screen

What’s New:

• Optimized startup process for a quicker launch
• Improved Sync with CLZ Cloud: Smoother and faster, especially with image downloads

Fixed:

• Problems could occur when updating to new app version with an incorrect login

BOOK ONLY FIXED:
* Rare crash when showing keyboard in Add by Title/Author