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General / Re: Does anyonw know what causes yellowing without sunlight?

« on: March 15, 2025, 09:04:45 pm »

Yellowing is actually not caused by sunlight exactly.

Watch this video: https://youtu.be/8P1OVj0IcqY?si=Nf17oelzH7DCnt59

It will blow your mind.

I mean in terms of consoles such as the snes and Nes with them plastics I'd believe that for sure. can yellow withouth any sunlight. probably cause of the heat when used allot

in terms of cardboard and paper. it will turn white in full sun light. any reds and yellows will go extinct the fastest. I see far too many collectors having said collection in direct sunlight. allot of stuff gonna sunfaded quite a bit in just a a year or two. quite a waste.

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General / Re: Does anyonw know what causes yellowing without sunlight?

« on: March 15, 2025, 06:50:22 am »

Hello, I have been collecting video games for years now and I have noticed that my Wii games paper artwork have turned an off white / yellow color (not the plastic case) and I have been wondering why? I store my games in a storage cabinet and closet in my room  that is temperature controlled away from sunlight and I don't smoke? None of my games have any warping or waviness but could moisture or heat still cause this? I really care for my games condition and want to prevent the yellowing to happen again.

post some pictures on imgur and post em on the forum. Show us how bad this issue is. or if it's barely noticable.

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General / Re: Does anyonw know what causes yellowing without sunlight?

« on: March 14, 2025, 02:34:40 pm »

Hello, I have been collecting video games for years now and I have noticed that my Wii games paper artwork have turned an off white / yellow color (not the plastic case) and I have been wondering why? I store my games in a storage cabinet and closet in my room away from sunlight and I don't smoke? None of my games have any warping or waviness but could moisture or heat still cause this? I really care for my games condition and want to prevent the yellowing to happen again.

I've seen this happen with some, but it's mostly cause they painted said storage cabinet in which it affected the wii cases. otherwise it should not really happen from my knowledge

Perhaps oxygen lvl's or extreme temperature swings?

moisture is definitely bad though. so if you got issues with that. might be the culprit

maybe them games got super dusty in which the edges get dirty?

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News / Re: Site Status

« on: March 10, 2025, 01:13:53 pm »

These are the numbers from round 2 (March 3rd) so it won't include the 4k images restored prior to that.

249,272 items were marked as having a front image in the DB
41,359 front images were missing
32,226 images were not archived

guess I have been more unlucky than average even if I where to reduce the numbers with other stuff had to alter 31% of my collection in terms of front images.

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News / Re: Site Status

« on: March 09, 2025, 07:16:47 am »

I'm pretty sure we lost 30% of all front images

32,000 entries out of about 280,000 would be about 11.5% of total affected entries, but I imagine that number to be closer to 12.5%–13% Not all of those 280,000 entries are live as some have, over the years,

Depending on luck it's going to be far worse than that.

I rarely have any pages in which I don't have to update 7+ items or way worse. and each page is 25 items and it's some of the best games that are missing images. I think the number is far worse than just 12%

if it was just 12% I'd only have to update 2 to maybe 4 games per page. reality is far far worse. and considering the titles that are hit it's definitely not as low as data suggests

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News / Re: Site Status

« on: March 08, 2025, 01:15:10 pm »

I'm pretty sure we lost 30% of all front images 

if only we lost back covers instead 

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News / Re: Site Status

« on: March 08, 2025, 08:08:51 am »

This is a nice detail for everyone to know. is this message somewhere on the board for all to see aside from just this small message here?

No. This is only temporary. The final restoration has been staged and this part that I posted will not be relevant once those images were stored.

Nevertheless, 5k entries with missing front images seems quite a low estimate now; out of my 2344 items front images have no_art.jpg for 433 of them. Assuming this is a representative sample (might not be), that amounts to roughly 51k for the whole database.

It was pretty close to that actually. In the first restoration attempt, we only looked at site traffic to determine what was missing. That is where the numbers I posted came from. But earlier this week we were able to directly compare the database vs what we had, and so round 2 of an attempt was done. So between the two restoration attempts, the total amount missing was indeed around 50k, with 12k able to be restored. As I said, the bulk of that is currently staged and hasn't been moved yet. So that leaves around 32k front box art images that were not archived.

It will be annoying for quite awhile to deal with it. I'm personally going to first focus on manually fixing my own collection, and then I will go into the game sections I primarily had worked on in the past, such as the Sega categories and PS2 hardware, since I kept all of the images I have ever uploaded to the site. Unforuntately I didn't really organize those images in any manner that makes it easy for me to find what goes where, but at least they are already present and cropped and all that.

32K front images not archived. oof. Makes sense why so many where missing but a tough pill to swallow 

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News / Re: Site Status

« on: March 07, 2025, 02:54:40 pm »

Users can now feel free to update front art on any entries that show the gray "No Art" image when viewing from the browse, search, collection or list views.

Some entries do not show a No Art image on those views but DO show the No Art image when viewing the entry directly. Do not update front arts on entries that are like this, they will be automatically updated soon.

This is a nice detail for everyone to know. is this message somewhere on the board for all to see aside from just this small message here?

First, thanks for the time and efforts spent in restoring the database so quick and thoroughly, that’s a huge relief!

Nevertheless, 5k entries with missing front images seems quite a low estimate now; out of my 2344 items front images have no_art.jpg for 433 of them. Assuming this is a representative sample (might not be), that amounts to roughly 51k for the whole database.

That raises the question, considering the obvious collaborative aspect of the database, is there any plan to ease the possibility to any one of us to backup at least the whole content of our collection (not just a selection of fields in a CSV), perhaps of the whole database? (assuming that’s not the case today, as such backups would have obviously helped in restoring everything I guess).

Sorry if that sounded harsh in any way, but the recent events obviously have me concerned about the perennity of what I list and contribute to here.

All the best and thanks again for all the work.

It is what it is. fortunately most images are still intact but ye it does seem to effect certain area's more than others.

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News / Re: Site Status

« on: February 25, 2025, 11:13:27 am »

Fixed the Edit Item Image upload issues

When do you estimate the site to be fully fixed. allot of images don't seem to function

This may take some time to restore the remaining images. We've also backed up the images we still have in two separate places.

That's good to hear that it's backed up

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General / Re: February 2025 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: February 23, 2025, 04:27:43 pm »

Some pickups this year, nothing huge

majora's mask lamp 40 loss
mk 7 throphy 40 loss
super off road 40 loss
Justice league sega cib 40 loss

DBZ hyper dimension cib 80 loss

free deals

zool sega cib
yggra union sealed psp
hoaki blade psp
YS chronicles upgraded to premium version with soundtrack cd
castlevania 64 soundtrack sealed
dreamcast scart cable cib
kunio kun dodgeball collection
International karate no cart
powerpuff girls blue no cart
powerpuff girls green cib
Metal gear shirt to complete my premium edition version that was missing it



It's cool to complete the european dbz snes set. quite tricky to get and they look pretty sweet 

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News / Re: Site Status

« on: February 23, 2025, 09:38:00 am »

Fixed the Edit Item Image upload issues

When do you estimate the site to be fully fixed. allot of images don't seem to function

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News / Re: Site Status

« on: February 17, 2025, 01:52:16 pm »

Thought this site was gone for a sec.

glad it's back, hope stuff gets fixed soon.

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Site Feedback / error request when looking at collection page of big collections

« on: February 15, 2025, 03:36:18 pm »

Getting an error request when I try to check my own collection and other sizable collection like theflea or say wartoy or ignition365

this is the message I get



Don't have this issue with the average to small collection

site works fine otherwise

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Modern Video Games / Re: Forza Horizon 5 coming to PS5. Is it safe to say Xbox is going SEGA route soon?

« on: February 09, 2025, 08:05:24 pm »

4. Ori and the blind forest on Switch

Both Ori games have been on the Switch for several years now

not to mention all the Rareware games on the Switch's N64 emulator

Also all of this "Is Microsoft done?" is starting to get really annoying now Especially since the Playstation has basically doing the same thing having all but... Astrobot? either being available or going to be available on PC. I really don't see a reason to really be excited about either system ATM.

If they do integrate. I was more asking if anyone would be happy if it does. Or more mourne the era. Xbox going full publisher is bigger imo then when Atari and Sega did that. And if they do merge with playstation entirely. Id imagine that would be great for xbox as a game publisher and sony as a console juggernaut. I feel gaming is ready for the proverbial wall to collapse.  If I were playstation id be trying to lock Xbox into a partnership software wise and ice out Nintendo from getting those Xbox titles. Now that would be cold blooded lol.

For non xbox fans It would probably be plus. some new games to try out that one has never played on a console of choice. however considering the meltdowns that have happened I think allot of the hardcore xbox fans are on life support 

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Modern Video Games / Re: Forza Horizon 5 coming to PS5. Is it safe to say Xbox is going SEGA route soon?

« on: February 09, 2025, 07:26:07 am »

4. Ori and the blind forest on Switch

Both Ori games have been on the Switch for several years now

not to mention all the Rareware games on the Switch's N64 emulator

Also all of this "Is Microsoft done?" is starting to get really annoying now Especially since the Playstation has basically doing the same thing having all but... Astrobot? either being available or going to be available on PC. I really don't see a reason to really be excited about either system ATM.

It is true that many sony exclusives end up on pc eventually. but pc is a bit different compared to the console crowd. Allot of people rather play on console than on pc that ain't gonna change it is a different experience and vice versa many people rather play on pc instead of consoles. However if you release everything on all consoles, why still buy an xbox? allot of people will just shift to sony and Nintendo. This is a pretty sizable deal and I kinda question if they even gonna get a next gen console at this point.