Hey everyone,

I wanted to post a separate thread to let everyone know about some of the recent (and upcoming) improvements to the VGPC integration here on the site. In recent weeks, you may have noticed a couple of new features:

• Support for Japan and Europe region games
• Added VGPC support for some smaller libraries: Arcadia 2001, Bally Astrocade, Fairchild Channel F, Game & Watch, Game.com, Mattel Aquarius, Sega Pico

Those two are already on the site, but I have another one that's going to be unleashed in the next release (which will be later this weekend): Automatic daily VGPC pricing updates.

For those that aren't aware, up until now, I would need to purchase an export file from VGPC and then load it in. While I had this process scripted out, it still required some manual intervention to massage the data and dump it into the database. I would do this every 1-6 months (yes, it really was that large of a range). I've changed this up so the process is fully automated and will run every night.

On a day-to-day basis, you won't notice much by this change, but now your estimated values won't get out of date! Please note that as new games are released, there will still be a manual action required to map the VGPC entry to the one here on Completionator. This is by-design and I have no plans to ever automate this component so we can have better control over accuracy. But, as always, if you find something that's missing a value, you can post here in this thread and we can fix things up for you.

I've already tested the automation and I do not anticipate any issues, but once it runs (starting tonight), let me know if you see any weirdness around the integration.

Additionally, I'm going to be working on adding support for some more outlier platforms, namely Jaguar CD, Sega CD 32X, and TurboGrafx CD. These platforms are, unfortunately, lumped in with their base platform (so Jaguar CD is considered to be Jaguar on VGPC), so I will need to find a way to split these out. I've looked at it and some will be easy, some will not. I don't have a timeline for this yet, but it's on my radar!

This is a great update, thanks moho_00! I know a lot of people will be happy to have more consistently updated price info for their collections, myself included :)

Hi I've just joined today but I'm a bit confused about this announcement. From what I can see, the pal games I have tested with (game boy) aren't showing estimated value, even though they are available on VGPC (e.g. https://www.pricecharting.com/game/pal-gameboy/donkey-kong-land).
I can see that another of my games is showing the estimated value (https://www.pricecharting.com/game/pal-nintendo-switch/zelda-skyward-sword-hd), so I'm wondering if the issue is a platform specific issue?

Also, even though this post is from 2020, the questionmark on the collection, is still stating that only NTSC game values are supported.

So I'm wondering if this is a bug or just a work in progress? And if it's still being hopefully worked on? It's one of the features I'm most looking forward to, and not sure if I'll go through the trouble of putting my whole collection if this is never going to be supported (PAL games I mean).

Thanks in advance!

Hi, no it wasn´t a bug, but it should work now.

How the system works in easy terms is that in fixed intervals the list from VGPC is getting pulled and updated. In the next step someone from the Curator Team needs to link our games to the VGPC entries. So If you find an entry for a game on VGPC but it isn´t showing on your collection just leave a quick post here: https://www.completionator.com/Forum/PostList/2355 and we will take a care of it. :)

Sounds promising, thank you :)

Awsome to hear about all these updates.