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Another part of the problem is how users search All Categories will get results in a forced-selected category. Ebay will decided that you meant to filter results in a certain category to cut the chuffa from other categories. This may be normy-friendly, but not power users who don't notice ebay did that at first. A lot of items can be missed since there are a lot of similar categories. Collectibles, Toys, and Electronics, in particular have a lot of overlap. Of course you can pay extra to list in multiple categories. The quote searches have definitely become perverse. Even that is a suggested synonym for ebay (which I believe uses Google's engine). I do notice that the search takes into account details listed in the section above the description, such as model, theme, connectivity, etc., depending on the type of item listed. Even Google has become a beast to fight. In recent searches it treated my -blah like +blah. Maybe the problem with ebay's search lies in Google's corrupted search. I read they are forcing search results now for particular matters. There are price tracking sites other than PC, GVN, and ebay's built-in tracking. It requires upkeep to have data across all territories, let alone the US. The built-in tracking also drops a lot of data from searches, included items forcibly ended by sellers. I think it's nice that GVN attempts to capture pictures of listings, but it doesn't do it for every data point.

Does anyone have a firm date when they switched to cardboard? I remember some of the first games I bought with cardboard appeared in 1995 like Kirby's Dream Land 2. The Player's Choice series, I remember premiering around the same time of 95-97, all use cardboard. I'm also curious about the Natsume and Sunsoft reprints . They have cardboard. My Natstume reprints of Bubble Bobble don't have an updated copyright dates. Does anyone know when the Natsume and Sunsoft reprints were released?

I can confirm this as well. People buy the sealed copies because why not if they are as cheap as loose and they get CIB. The only available copies left will be loose. Sellers will usually price higher their CIB and sealed copies from that moment. One title I was sitting on a while before grabbing it at the very last moment before the spike was Juka and the Monophonic Menace (GBA). Sealed copies were like $20 from those clearout sellers. Cart only listings were going for around the same amount. The alarm bell went off, and I was able to get it before everyone realized it was an interesting game they wanted to pick up but were sitting on their hands. I will caution though. This past year has made this decision a little more cloudy. It really depends on how many titles are out there. Hype will keep prices high, but I don't know how long this can last realistically when there are tons of listings. The newbies right now are keeping widely available PS3 at a high price on ebay. I'm specifically thinking of Puppeteer and 3D Dot Game Heroes.

You can email the owners of both sites to add sales that were not caught. You can even request they add entirely new listings if they aren't there. I notice some special editions aren't added. They have different UPCs. Email the info. The tools only catch so much. I do like how GVN save screencaps for some listings, at least, for a little bit. I'm not sure how long they sit, before the database dumps that data.

Check out http://videogamemm.com/ as well. It handles all videogame merchandise / promo items. The main site is dead, but the people still use the forums occasionally, last I checked. It's a good place to search and ask questions.

This is very common. I've seen many GBA carts with multi-line codes. I never cataloged them so I am uncertain whether there are any commonalities between releases of a game (USA, USA-1, USA-2, etc.). It was very difficult to catch the stamp on this cart, but check out my attached image of Ms Pac-Man. Placement of the stamps are always on the right however spacing from the edges vary wildly.

Here's my copy of Racing Gears Advance. It has a shiny / slick label. This is completely authentic. It is the only GBA cart I've seen with a slick finish. Are there any other GBA games with slick labels? I'm not interested in the Pokemon games. Those are more like foil. This label feels more like plastic than paper so maybe it's a different stock than standard GBA games.

I don't use instagram, plus you can't lurk on instagram like you can on this forum. It requires registration to browse.

I search room, titles only, everywhere, and get a few piddly results that show off a game room, but where is the pic-heavy thread, showing posts with those same Ikea Billy shelves plump full of vidyagame merch? I really prefer seeing people who take a different approach, but it's all good right? Games! I can delete this thread (I think) when I'm directed to the post everyone bookmarked.

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Stock, without mods, most 2600 jr's I've come across have a cleaner RF than any woody--heavy, light, 4-,6-. I'm not sure what each goes for, but I'd bet people value those less because they are not the image of a 2600 people see in their mind when they think of the 2600. I love the tiny thing. I don't like the 7800 much, and the worthwhile exclusives are expensive as expected since that market is even smaller. Tangent; for a while, the 5200 market was small too and prices were low. Now things are getting very expensive. The 7800 uses a proprietary plug which I have not seen in other electronics, so replacing it can be more expensive too. The 1/8" jack the 2600 use are more prevalent and you don't need to get the Atari brand. Simply match the polarity, voltage, and have at least the minimum amps for the model you choose. Anyways, the older you go with 2600 models, the more likely you will have a crummy picture. You won't really notice fuzz in sound since they are short bursts, although some great games like Moon Patrol rock more than bleeps and bloops. It sounds like you want the typical woody which would benefit from servicing. If you're paying for a stock woody that has had its board refurbed with new caps or improved circuitry, you might as well get the composite mod.

In all carts I've seen, both Sunsoft and Data East have DMG-T6E-0 stamped on their ROM, so I guess there are no differences. I do notice the memory bank chips are different, but I'm not sure if that's factory-dependent. On a side note, I'd like to know when they officially stopped using the plastic trays. One of the first games I remember having cardboard is Kirby's Dreamland 2 and that is 95. Jurassic Park is 93 and it had plastic. I believe all Player's Choice have cardboard. Both my Natsume reprints of the Bubble Bobble games have cardboard trays and I believe both of those were post-95. It's unfortunate that memory is failing me, but I believe most of the plastic tray games came with at least one more item beyond the manual, NP sub card, and health / safety booklet. Maybe this info was preserved on the old NA database. I remember that had pictures of cards and other extras.

Klonoa crashed hard when the Wii-make was announced then subsequently released. The PS1 version shot back up again afterwards--even before 2020 hit. This same sentiment was passed around for all those VC titles too. Oh, Earthbound will plummet because the title has a legitimate vendor for a ROM now. The same was said for Suikoden II when it hit PSN. There's a dip then a climb. People want the actual physical goods. What's a "shoot up dramatically" value, cuz? I mean, Nintendo printed tons of Mario 1, 2, and 3, yet they go for $10-$20. That's pretty good return for games that people were using as frisbees in Funco because they were 99c. PS1 has black labels, variants, GH, lenticular cards, etc.. It's a new scene, but the same old scene.

Ok, I'm glad other people are experiencing weirdness and it's not just my setup. Yes, I believe it has only started this past week, including today when I tried "dishonored 2" and got no completed listings, but without quotes returns 505. This is a very annoying bug as workarounds for titles on multiple PlayStation platforms or things on a specific Game Boy are really annoying to type or may be impossible without sweeping through a lot of irrelevant results.

I've tested this on my phone and desktop. I've been having trouble getting any results on completed listings for the last few days / week, but the results are inconsistent. Sometimes I'll enter a search and I'll see a few results then a blue banner stating "Results matching fewer words" then results which match some or all of my keywords. I noticed this when searching ps2 nba live 07. I also have completed searches that show ZERO results for queries that return lots of relevant results when not checking the completed listings box. I noticed that if one of my keywords is in quotes like in the search "shadow the hedgehog" ps2, I get zero results. However, I noticed that if I have a term I want removed from your results by putting a hyphen in front, using quotes for those remove keywords still works such as contra -"mega drive" I think there are other cases that return zero results, but I haven't nailed down what's causing this. I've tried Firefox and Chrome. I've turned off ad blockers and virus scanners with their built-in ad blockers. Is anyone else experiencing strange behavior with complete listings search?