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Announcing kiban.alamone.net - PCB price tracker

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Announcing kiban.alamone.net, a free, non-commercial price-history reference for used arcade PCBs.

It continuously gathers prices from public auction (Yahoo! Auctions JP) and shop listings, plus the Internet Archive for older data, and charts each board's price over time — keeping asking and realized (sold) prices separate. Bilingual (English/日本語), with search, maker/genre/year browse, currency conversion, and optional accounts to sync your favorites. No ads, no trackers.

I'm planning to expand each game's page into a broader info hub: high scores (built on the Gamest/Arcadia/JHA lineage), mod / repair notes, DIP settings and instruction-card links, how to tell originals from bootlegs, high-quality close-up PCB photos, and more.

Take a look: https://kiban.alamone.net
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Very Nice but honestly your methodology makes this way less useful than i could be. Disregarding tons and in most case the most accurate (western) sources for prices distorts the data to a point where it's straight up no longer accurate. And all that just to play nice with big corporations who love big data except in the rare cases when the public could benefit from the data they hold.
 
Mageta the Lion said:
Very Nice but honestly your methodology makes this way less useful than i could be. Disregarding tons and in most case the most accurate (western) sources for prices distorts the data to a point where it's straight up no longer accurate. And all that just to play nice with big corporations who love big data except in the rare cases when the public could benefit from the data they hold.
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Actually, there are plans underway to integrate forum sales from western sources. However, I don't want to be the person announcing it unilaterally, so please wait for further developments with regard to this.
 
Look at you being cool as hell.
Much appreciated. This rocks.
I'm certain the bugs will get worked out soon.
This will disregard the 2x & 3x ebay sellers too.
 
New features!

- Newly listed auctions or shop listings for favorited games. The front page will bring to your attention any new auction or PCB shop listings for games or makers that you've favorited. You can also go to a specific page to see the most recent activity.

https://kiban.alamone.net/favorites

- Mods are now listed for each associated listing. (The visibility of mods is disabled by default for JP users, as they seem to be sensitive to this kind of gray area. However, they can manually enable visibility if they wish.) If I'm missing any mods, please let me know!

https://kiban.alamone.net/mods

- A "Repair" section has been added. I'm negotiating with repair specialists to have their services added. If a game falls under their supported categories, their repair services will surface for related games. If you are a repair specialist, you can submit your services to be listed (login required).

https://kiban.alamone.net/repair
 
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