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6 minutes ago, Gloves said:

With a bit of math you could always just find the central point for circles on a globe every 200 miles and feed in the latlng value.

The USPS API is free to use apparently, and if it provides similar information to the Canada Post API you could use that for your initial data gathering. You just have to create a matrix and get the data once, then iterate over it when making calls in future.

Google Maps, last I checked, has some simple "Get X within Y Radius" features. Have you looks into the Maps API recently?

i haven't worked with google maps that i remember, so i'm putting that option off as it means learning something new. i might get there eventually, but i was hoping for a shortcut to get started. 

thanks for the tip on the usps thing, i might look into that.

2 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Why not just centralize on city in that case? A list of cities is easy to obtain.

that would be more comprehensive than what i have now. but, there are lots of cities in the country, and very many of those will fall within 100 miles of the next city. you're looking at thousands of zip codes, versus maybe a few dozen i think i could get away with when optimized. as i'm feeding this into the gamestop website, which is garbage and slow as shit, execution time is a consideration. 

4 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I'm not sure, then, that I understand what you're trying to do here? Why not just literally use their website's search?

it only does 100 mile radius. so, assuming there is one of something in some store somewhere in the country, you have to find a close enough zip code to get the location with the item. i'm trying to come up with a minimum list of zip codes that I can run to check all/most of the stores.

afaik there's no way to search all stores at once, only by the radius thing.

15 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Where are you intending to get that information?

gamestop website lets you search. for example contra

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/retro-gaming/nintendo/games/products/contra/10122770.html

is apparently in stock at a store near me

16 minutes ago, Gloves said:

What's the end goal?

efficiently do a store inventory search for a given product

I haven't done that, it might help to have a complete list but it would entail a lot of cultivating. I'm trying to find zips that cover the bulk of the stores while eliminating those that are redundant. May end up having to figure out point to point distance eventually but I'm hoping for something better to start with.

1 minute ago, Tabonga said:

This is supposed to allow you to download an excel file of all the gamestop locations.   Assuming there is column for the just the zip codes you should be able to sort by that.

https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports/GameStop-USA/

i came across that, it's $75 to download

I'm trying to put together a list of zip codes to cover all (or pretty close) gamestop stores using their 100 mile search. Does anyone have a good list for this? 

I started with the 100 most populous zips but it skews pretty heavy and there are a bunch that look redundant with clustering. 

this was a free map tool i found online but the radius feature is included in the paid version. if anyone can recommend a free tool to plot points+radius i'd appreciate it

willing to put together a shared doc if anyone wants to help work on it

NES solitaire is picking up unsold listings as well as an aus maxi 15 entry

https://gamevaluenow.com/nintendo-nes/Solitaire?gameid=596

i suspect several more of the recorded sales are wrong too but they've aged out

who is looking at entries that get reported as wrong? is it better to stick to that system or call it out here?

all the snes carrier aces listings are unsold and most of them are boxed copies to boot

https://gamevaluenow.com/super-nintendo/Carrier-Aces?gameid=97

tommy moe having the same issue

https://gamevaluenow.com/super-nintendo/Tommy-Moes-Winter-Extreme?gameid=641

2 minutes ago, guitarzombie said:

This is the Gold famicom PCB.  The PRG chip has HVC and has PT-S-0 on it.  I suppose the famicom MTPO have NES as they are the same as the US NTSC versions?  

 

Also does anyone know what Famicom versions of Black Box games use "NES" chips, instead of HVC?

Something i just realized about this- the chr is the same as mtpo. That implies the tyson graphics are in that chip, even tho the prg doesnt utilize them.

A non-stamped back label implies limited or hand assembly. Ive only seen that on the yellow test carts. The konami refurb 5 screw dont have any back label

None of the 5 screw mtpo up to now have had 1st print labels afaik. Theyve all had orange bullets labels and mid-run pcb. 

Here's my 1st run cart if anyone would like to decode chip dates

Do you get game sound? Like does it sound like its playing and you can't see whats going on?

I got a shipping notice a couple days ago. Expected delivery was Saturday, then Sunday, then it showed up this morning

If you are quick saving/reloading just to avoid negative outcomes (other than game over) thats kind of against the spirit of traditional rpgs.

#1 seems pretty straightforward- are you willing to risk a fight to steal whatever they have? If you fail and always die you are probably too low level for your intended target? 

#2 is trickier, possibly a game over event if you cant get out but fallout was pretty good about having more than 1 way to do something. You can maybe blast the door open with explosives, or just attack it if you're strong enough. Its been a while since i played og fallout so i don't remember for certain.

Pretty dumb of them to shut it down without an alternative. People want that info and will get it one way or the other. If ebay doesnt want to help, itll get scraped outside their control.

It's possible its a proto, but my impression is no. Looks like a retail label, and for a game like this with relatively low distribution this kind of thing can happen. 

It could be a bugfix version though, or just hand assembled to replace someone's faulty cart. I would get it dumped and compared to known roms.

My friends finally convinced me to play gta V (online) with them. While the game play is kind of lackluster, the scale and presentation of the map is impressive. The first time flying south over the mountains at night and seeing the city lit up was pretty stunning.

1 hour ago, NESfiend said:

Dont jinx it. Nevada is far from a done deal. Its a small margin wkth lots of vote still out there. Their economy has been hit the hardest by covid regs. Its likely a desperate situation for a lot of traditional voting democrats who are unemployed or underemployed. The margins there were due to be worse for biden than they were for Clinton. 

Are you implying those people would vote for trump? Because it seems like those would be a mortal lock for biden

6 hours ago, Jeevan said:

I'm undecided on billy Mitchell as a whole.  they king of Kong portrayed him as a bad guy, I think twin galaxies is kind of a joke honestly.  not really sure.  I think he goes for the badass persona, which is fine, but I just don't know. 

Old tg had a bad rep they earned. New tg has done a lot of good cleaning and appears to take their credibility seriously.

Dude is definitely a master but also a cheater and generally dishonest. He will never meet a challenge head on, he sidesteps everything, always working an angle. There's no point in engaging him on anything, you're never going to get him on even ground. 

22 hours ago, acromite53 said:

I've been selling a lot on ebay this past month to save up for a camera. I've never had problems as a buyer or seller until now. Some guy won a 10 day auction that I listed and will not pay. Its been exactly a week and I've send multiple reminders and invoices. He has no negative feedback, but his most recent feedback was positive but stated that he didn't pay. So why was that a positive review?? I filed an unpaid item claim yesterday so I guess he has 4 more days to waste my time. This sucks. Now I have to relist the item and now I have no idea what it will sell for. Probably a lot less since this idiot bid it all the way up. Who does this shit? Someone with a compulsive buying disorder who can't afford the item and has no respect for other people's time? 

Sellers can't leave negative feedback. 

Best course is to start a case against him. He probably won't pay but you won't have to eat fees to cancel.

Gb/gbc games can develop solder cracks around the mapper that can often be fixed by reflowing the mapper pin soldering. Voultar has a video on youtube showing how yo do this. Worth a shot before trying to transplant. 

Not sure if gba games are the same deal or not.

Can we get a reasonable default tab when looking at individual game history? Like loose for carts and complete for disc games. I went thru a bunch of nes games this weekend and its very frustrating to have the sealed stuff shoved front and center. Im about to give up and go back to vgpc.

Btw the nes mega man new/sealed history is entirely not sealed nes mega man

For recorded ebay sales is it possible to indicate they were bids or bins or offers?

Id like to see the search improved, specifically click on an autocompleted entry. If there's only one exact match, i want to go right to that entry. Having to click through the list of matches again to get there is annoying.