this import feature is an awesome feature here and I wish I could take advantage of it but I use a different site. www.Itrackmine.com. not sure if they have direct links to collections. doesn't seem that way back on back info for my collection?


here's the link -
http://www.itrackmine.com/userarea/l...=4651&sGP=1288

Edit: they do apparently have public pages but it seems you have to page thru them?

Originally Posted by Firecrest http://club.ign.com/b/list/custom?li...e=view&sortC=6 Just be prepare to get bombarded by some crappy cell games and such.

I finished added all the obscure platforms to the scanner, it shouldn't ignore anything now - try running it again. (I've deleted all the games you imported yesterday.)

Originally Posted by DuelLadyS Ok, so I imported yesterday and got a message saying it's in a processing queue which should take up to an hour to complete. I got up today- no games, same message. What gives? Just crazy-slow since everyone's uploading, or did mine 'break' somehow?

Originally Posted by Jasonlydon I'm in the same boat. Assuming just some kinks being worked out.

Check again, you should be good to go.

Is that Ty? OMG is he adorable!

Wow I was just thinking of doing my collection here since IGN's has been broken for months. Nice timing.

Originally Posted by John I finished added all the obscure platforms to the scanner, it shouldn't ignore anything now - try running it again. (I've deleted all the games you imported yesterday.)

Thanks alot, John- you're the man. I still have some games to confirm, but overall, it worked without a hitch.

It didn't import my "Public Notes" for all my games.

I spent many hours writing mini-reviews for my games, so I was hoping this would fetch that data as well.

Also, about 3/4 of my games didn't match. If I add more to IGN and import again later, will it detect duplicates?

Originally Posted by John Check again, you should be good to go.

Mine are still getting the processing queue error, unfortunately.

SI

I am also getting the processing queue error. It's been sitting at the processing screen since early yesterday. My IGN list is at http://club.ign.com/b/list/custom?&l...en88&mode=vown

I only have a collection at the Backloggery.
http://backloggery.com/main.php?user=spectro

Boy, this would have come in handy a year ago! This will help many others I am sure. With 2200+ it would have saved oodles of time. Great idea and good job!

Originally Posted by sterlingice Mine are still getting the processing queue error, unfortunately. SI

Fixed.

Originally Posted by John Fixed.

Well, I thought I should try it again to see if I break something this time. It's not seeing my collection, near as I can tell (username in IGN is also SterlingIce so it should be pretty simple)

Any idea what I did wrong last time? Also, I tried again and I am back to the processing queue screen- not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

SI

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Originally Posted by sterlingice Well, I thought I should try it again to see if I break something this time. It's not seeing my collection, near as I can tell (username in IGN is also SterlingIce so it should be pretty simple) Any idea what I did wrong last time? Also, I tried again and I am back to the processing queue screen- not sure if that's a good or bad thing. SI

Alright, I may have an idea as to what's causing the problem for both of us. I noticed when I wasn't logged into IGN my public list didn't work at all. After some tinkering around while I was logged in I saw a check box in the "Edit Mode" of the list on the top and bottom left of the page that said "Public List". Once I selected this my list started showing up when I wasn't logged in via the link I posted earlier in the thread. As a side note, IGN seems to be fairly broken as I was able to get to a point where this check box simply stopped showing up, but I digress.

On the CAG side, it seems that if the system adds 0 games (or gets sent to a profile that has 0 games?) it somehow breaks and gets stuck in the processing queue phase. Not really sure if this is 100% accurate, but based on the info we have it seems to be the culprit.

Hopefully this information helps everyone out.

Originally Posted by John Fixed.

Is backloggery.com importation possible?

Originally Posted by tekalien88 Alright, I may have an idea as to what's causing the problem for both of us. I noticed when I wasn't logged into IGN my public list didn't work at all. After some tinkering around while I was logged in I saw a check box in the "Edit Mode" of the list on the top and bottom left of the page that said "Public List". Once I selected this my list started showing up when I wasn't logged in via the link I posted earlier in the thread. As a side note, IGN seems to be fairly broken as I was able to get to a point where this check box simply stopped showing up, but I digress. On the CAG side, it seems that if the system adds 0 games (or gets sent to a profile that has 0 games?) it somehow breaks and gets stuck in the processing queue phase. Not really sure if this is 100% accurate, but based on the info we have it seems to be the culprit. Hopefully this information helps everyone out.

Sounds like pretty sound logic. I went and did see that my have list was private but my want list public- that's certainly strange and I don't remember doing that but maybe I did once upon a time. Both are now public so hopefully that eliminates those issues.

(also, IGN has mucked up their site with so much garbage that even my more open browsers, IE and Chrome, won't add games unless I tinker significantly with security. Firefox, forget about it- with noscript, even moreso)

My CAG collection is still stuck at the "queue screen" from last night so, yeah, I suspect it's broken again on my account. That said, if we've figured out a possible cause- good deal.

SI

Originally Posted by dumlaox Many thanks, CAG crew! I need to see if I even have any games to import from IGN as I had stopped doing that quite some time ago. While I haven't been updating my CAG list, I have been updating my list at Backloggery.com. Since the URL was asked for: http://www.backloggery.com/dumlaox Hopefully more sites will get added to the process, saving us time when maintaining lists. Thanks again.

I second this recommendation. I used to use IGN but it hasn't worked quite right for a while, so I switched to Backloggery. For example: http://backloggery.com/km3k

The import option worked well for me. I did make sure to make my IGN list "public" before trying it. Had to do a little bit of clean up - but still much faster than trying to do this manually!
Only had to submit 1 game to the CAG DB - Wing Commander (the original) for PC.

A lot of games with an extra space or lacking an extra space came up unconfirmed (e.g. Outrun2 vs Outrun 2) and didn't offer any suggestions.

I think we need a new thread for hilarious import suggestions like these.

Imported "Darius Gaiden", we think it's
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden

Imported "Jeopardy! 2003", we think it's
Bird Hunter 2003

Imported "NHL 2003", we think it's
Bird Hunter 2003

Overall, it's a great addition to the site and an easy way to build the database. Is there a simple way to weed out misspellings and duplicates from the database?

John, would it be possible for you to somehow reset my account so that I can try again after having fixed my IGN settings? I've been stuck in the processing queue for 4+ days and really want to try this feature out. Thanks again for all your hard working in making this possible for the CAG community.