Originally posted by: Abelardo

I tried it yesterday and it's really impressive, thanks Hogie!

Have some observations:

Manually adding a game is really fast and intuitive, couple of clicks I think and you're done, but I added a few by mistake and to remove them I had to go to the collection click on the item, click edit, and hit the delete button, then hit the confirmation, I wish the manual add functionality was instead a manual add/remove.

The import collection from xls/csv/etc functionality, tried exporting my NES collection from NA and import in GVN but had a couple of problems:
-My collection is cart only so the export didn't contain the instructions quantity nor the box quantity and the import was expecting them (it auto filled all the fields since I selected NA import), had to empty those fields so the importer would work.
-The importer failed to recognize about maybe 10% of the games in the case of NES and performed worse with my Neo Geo MVS collection (I have the Japanese title in parenthesis besides the English title, so I ran a regexp replace to help it a bit, replaced \(.*\) for empty string). At the end is nice you can download a .csv to see which titles failed, but I wish there was some fuzzy string matching because most titles were failing because small details like having "The" at the beginning or a non-alphabetical character like ":" or ",", it would be awesome there was a screen that showed all the titles that failed along with fuzzy search results so the user can confirm the matches.

Originally posted by: rlh

@Hogie, your last comment regarding my suggestions was spot on.

A million thanks for keeping us proto-collectors in your considerations. I can wait and I certainly have no complaints.

Your service is awesome and well appreciated. Thank you, thank you!

Originally posted by: guitarzombie

While you're here, I just happened to look at your N64 list and you spelled Jet Force Gemini (grey) wrong. You have it Gemeni  

Originally posted by: Hogie1418
 
Thanks Pegboy, it is pulling in the CIC price where it should be the CIB. I'll get that switched up. 

I would have no problem tracking Japanese games. Just simply haven't found the time to gather a list of them at this point. Starting with exclusives would probably be best though. The best way to get these added is to use the "Add a Game Manually" feature. While getting the game info added you would then want to click the switch for "Suggest Gamevaluenow Track This Game". This will streamline the process for getting games added to GVN so that its value can begin to be tracked.
 

Originally posted by: Hogie1418
 
Thanks Pegboy, it is pulling in the CIC price where it should be the CIB. I'll get that switched up. 

 

Originally posted by: Galdius

I'm really liking the tracker.
But of 1852 games, the tracker only imported 1122 games.
With time I think it's going to get better at recognizing game titles.
It would be nice if there was a feature that would take the name of the game that didn't get imported and suggest a game.

Originally posted by: Galdius

I'm really liking the tracker.
But of 1852 games, the tracker only imported 1122 games.
With time I think it's going to get better at recognizing game titles.
It would be nice if there was a feature that would take the name of the game that didn't get imported and suggest a game.

Originally posted by: rlh

I''m going to have to +1 one this. I hesitated to mention this but, yeah, I saw that with my Game Boy library.  I think it missed about 24 or so, so I removed the list and over a few days I manually entered them.

The import feature is nice, but even if it misses, say, 5 out of 1,000, that last 5 would take quite a search to find.

Originally posted by: Hogie1418
 
You got it. We are working on adding better detection for game titles. I plan to dive into it pretty heavily on Tuesday and see where we are lacking. I have had a number of users who were gracious enough to send me their spreadsheets and I plan to put them to good use in testing the feature. If you do not mind me asking, was there a specific console that it seemed to struggle with the most?
 

Originally posted by: Hogie1418
 

Originally posted by: Galdius

Not really. I also got a lot of "errors" because some games weren't released in NA, specially on Vita.
If you want I can send you my spreadsheets.
 

Originally posted by: rlh

Nah, it wasn't that bad.  I just scrolled through my spreadsheet on my laptop, and added them on my phone while watching TV.  Plus, my non-GB library was never added to any list online or in a spreadsheet, so I had to manually search and find half of what I own.  Kuddos for making it quick and easy and I REALLY appreciated the ability to default entry options.  Some of my collections (like for the PS1) are CIB, where others are just carts.  When I switched to my PS1 collection, it was nice having the option to default to CIB and then revert back to just C when I moved on.

I'm reallying enjoying the service.  I'm not going to ask for one more thing, but I will ask if there is another feature coming soon-- sub lists that can be shared so you can make "For Sale" and "For Trade" lists.  At a minimum, will you provide a means for allowing a "Share My Collection" link?  Again, I'm not asking for this, but curious if it's on your TODO list.

Last, what I hope is a positive question.  Do you have any plans to monetize this service?  It seems so far it's a labor of love.  I really like it, so I hope you have a way of making enough income to be worth your while to continue to improve this service.  Is Patreon under consideration?

Originally posted by: SoDangeresque

Any chance of adding a log out button or link? A friend put up his collection for me to see, and I had to delete cookies to get out of his so I could get back to mine.

That brings me to my side request... either an export feature or a display feature. I'd love to be able to send friends a link that displayed my collection... doesn't have to show values, just the games themselves.

It's a great site though. Kudos to any and all involved in it.

Originally posted by: Hogie1418
 
You got it. We are working on adding better detection for game titles. I plan to dive into it pretty heavily on Tuesday and see where we are lacking. I have had a number of users who were gracious enough to send me their spreadsheets and I plan to put them to good use in testing the feature. If you do not mind me asking, was there a specific console that it seemed to struggle with the most? 
 

Originally posted by: zeldaboy

First off, great site! I added most of my games, however I could not find Alien Chaos 3D for the 3DS in the database. If you could add that one that would be great. Keep up the good work  

Originally posted by: cma2032
 
Not OP but I noticed it was the worst with NES. I noticed if you don't put a space after the game name, it seems to find them more readily. It also doesn't seem to do a suggested search, so you have to spell the name exactly right. 

Overall I think this is awesome, and I've put the majority of my collection in here, except for non-NA stuff. Is there any plan to include Japanese or even PAL stuff at some point, or is there no infrastructure set up for that?
 

Originally posted by: ALTQQ

Great so far to keep track of my games. Any chance of it working with home brews at some point? 8bit Xmas etc?

Originally posted by: LifeGame

For the Jaguar i cant see a picture for nba jam. for supercross 3d the picture shows wolfenstein.

Ill be adding more since jaguar is the first system i entered

Originally posted by: Hogie1418

Japanese and PAL stuff most certainly is an avenue we would like to pursue. The struggle would be the time and effort that it would take to maintain the prices.  Right now the main focus is the collection tracker for NTSC games. Once that gets fully rolling, we will sit down and see what features will be most beneficial to our users and go from there. I can tell you that I have received quite a few requests for import games. :-)
 

Originally posted by: LifeGame

Ds games with no picture : mario vs donkey (both games), mr. driller, mx untamed, mystery p.i., new super mario bros, penguins of madasgascar returns, plants vs zombies, ringling bros, snk vs capcom, spongebob robotic revenge, syberia, t.a.c. heroes, texas hold em poker pack, theresia, thinksmart chess, tropix, warioware d.i.y., done for ds

Having so much fun adding my collection and helping out at the same time

Originally posted by: LifeGame

Ds games with no picture : mario vs donkey (both games), mr. driller, mx untamed, mystery p.i., new super mario bros, penguins of madasgascar returns, plants vs zombies, ringling bros, snk vs capcom, spongebob robotic revenge, syberia, t.a.c. heroes, texas hold em poker pack, theresia, thinksmart chess, tropix, warioware d.i.y., done for ds

Having so much fun adding my collection and helping out at the same time