Hi everyone
As you may have noticed i have been quite active in the bargain department lately. The reason for this is that i got tired of checking round sites all day for prices, so i wrote a small application to check prices for me, the prices are checked every hour and hence any bargain that appears is spotted quickly.
At the moment the program is checking 12 online shops for 41 different Xbox360 games. However, the configuration is manual (i have to go and find each game on each website) and hence adding new games is quite time consuming, and doesn't leave me much time to work on the program itself.
Although at the moment it does everything i want it to do, if the support was there then i'd be happy to makes changes to it, e.g. upgrade it to search for PS3 and Wii games. What i'm asking from you, the people of NTSC-UK, is to help me out by finding the games to add to the program, hence helping share out the administration time. I'll detail below the information needed to add a new game, and depending on how much support this gets, i will look to push it on further and give you all more good prices to spend your hard-earned on.
At the moment, these are the games that i am tracking:
Ace Combat 6, Army Of Two, Assassins Creed, Bioshock, Blue Dragon, Bully, Burnout Paradise, Call Of Duty 4, Colin McRae DIRT, Command and Conquer 3, Conan, Dark Sector, Devil May Cry 4, EDF, Endwar, Eternal Sonata, FIFA 08, Flatout, Grand Theft Auto 4, Guitar Hero 3, Halo 3, Kane & Lynch, Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga, Lost Planet Colonies, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Mass Effect, Medal Of Honor Airborne, Mercenaries 2, Need For Speed Prostreet, Overlord, Project Gotham Racing 4, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, Sega Rally, skate, The Club, The Orange Box, Timeshift, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Too Human and Turok.
These are the stores that i'm checking:
Play, GAME, ShopTo, SoftUK, Powerplay Direct, BlahDVD, DVD.co.uk, Gamestation, The Hut, Amazon, HMV and SendIt.
When adding a new game, the configuration i need looks like this:
The number associated with each shop replaces the $$ in the following base URL's:
http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/$$/Product.html
http://www.game.co.uk/Xbox360/~r$$/
http://www.shopto.net/page.php?page=...p;codart=XB2$$
http://www.softuk.com/Xbox_360_Produ...?ProdID=36UK$$
http://www.powerplaydirect.com/asp/i....asp?prodID=$$
http://www.blahdvd.com/blah/Games_Pr...uctid=GAMES-$$
http://www.dvd.co.uk/product.asp?id=$$
http://www.gamestation.co.uk/product.asp?id=$$
http://www.thehut.com/hut/$$.product
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/$$
http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayP...ails.do?sku=$$
http://www.sendit.com/game/item/$$
Right, i think that's everything. Any questions please fire away, if no-one is bothered then i'll carry on just adding the odd 360 bargain here and there.
Thanks all
Chunky
As you may have noticed i have been quite active in the bargain department lately. The reason for this is that i got tired of checking round sites all day for prices, so i wrote a small application to check prices for me, the prices are checked every hour and hence any bargain that appears is spotted quickly.
At the moment the program is checking 12 online shops for 41 different Xbox360 games. However, the configuration is manual (i have to go and find each game on each website) and hence adding new games is quite time consuming, and doesn't leave me much time to work on the program itself.
Although at the moment it does everything i want it to do, if the support was there then i'd be happy to makes changes to it, e.g. upgrade it to search for PS3 and Wii games. What i'm asking from you, the people of NTSC-UK, is to help me out by finding the games to add to the program, hence helping share out the administration time. I'll detail below the information needed to add a new game, and depending on how much support this gets, i will look to push it on further and give you all more good prices to spend your hard-earned on.
At the moment, these are the games that i am tracking:
Ace Combat 6, Army Of Two, Assassins Creed, Bioshock, Blue Dragon, Bully, Burnout Paradise, Call Of Duty 4, Colin McRae DIRT, Command and Conquer 3, Conan, Dark Sector, Devil May Cry 4, EDF, Endwar, Eternal Sonata, FIFA 08, Flatout, Grand Theft Auto 4, Guitar Hero 3, Halo 3, Kane & Lynch, Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga, Lost Planet Colonies, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Mass Effect, Medal Of Honor Airborne, Mercenaries 2, Need For Speed Prostreet, Overlord, Project Gotham Racing 4, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, Sega Rally, skate, The Club, The Orange Box, Timeshift, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Too Human and Turok.
These are the stores that i'm checking:
Play, GAME, ShopTo, SoftUK, Powerplay Direct, BlahDVD, DVD.co.uk, Gamestation, The Hut, Amazon, HMV and SendIt.
When adding a new game, the configuration i need looks like this:
<Game name="Bioshock">
<Shop name="Play" ext="3440268" />
<Shop name="GAME" ext="328591" />
<Shop name="ShopTo" ext="BI01" />
<Shop name="SoftUK" ext="772105340" />
<Shop name="Powerplay" ext="1395935" />
<Shop name="Blah" ext="TT46841-JR" />
<Shop name="DVDcouk" ext="TT45852" />
<Shop name="Gamestation" ext="101278348473334" />
<Shop name="TheHut" ext="8630713" />
<Shop name="Amazon" ext="B000V1VZMK" />
<Shop name="HMV" ext="695261" />
<Shop name="SendIt" ext="6000000003904" />
</Game>
<Shop name="Play" ext="3440268" />
<Shop name="GAME" ext="328591" />
<Shop name="ShopTo" ext="BI01" />
<Shop name="SoftUK" ext="772105340" />
<Shop name="Powerplay" ext="1395935" />
<Shop name="Blah" ext="TT46841-JR" />
<Shop name="DVDcouk" ext="TT45852" />
<Shop name="Gamestation" ext="101278348473334" />
<Shop name="TheHut" ext="8630713" />
<Shop name="Amazon" ext="B000V1VZMK" />
<Shop name="HMV" ext="695261" />
<Shop name="SendIt" ext="6000000003904" />
</Game>
http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/$$/Product.html
http://www.game.co.uk/Xbox360/~r$$/
http://www.shopto.net/page.php?page=...p;codart=XB2$$
http://www.softuk.com/Xbox_360_Produ...?ProdID=36UK$$
http://www.powerplaydirect.com/asp/i....asp?prodID=$$
http://www.blahdvd.com/blah/Games_Pr...uctid=GAMES-$$
http://www.dvd.co.uk/product.asp?id=$$
http://www.gamestation.co.uk/product.asp?id=$$
http://www.thehut.com/hut/$$.product
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/$$
http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayP...ails.do?sku=$$
http://www.sendit.com/game/item/$$
Right, i think that's everything. Any questions please fire away, if no-one is bothered then i'll carry on just adding the odd 360 bargain here and there.
Thanks all
Chunky
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