Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS) — Price Guide & Live Deals
Live Golden Sun: Dark Dawn DS deals across loose, CIB and sealed: what a fair asking price looks like and the import and strategy-guide traps to avoid.
Right now: Loose prices roughly flat over 90 days, 48 current qualifying listings.
Current qualifying listings
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Golden Sun Dark Dawn - Nintendo DS CIB
$35.00 USD
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★ 100% · 779 ratings
Listed today · checked 6h ago
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Nintendo DS Authentic Tested Working
$26.07 USD
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★ 99.7% · 1,977 ratings
Listed today · checked 11h ago
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Nintendo DS, 2010)
$25.00 USD
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★ 99.5% · 412 ratings
Listed yesterday · checked yesterday
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Nintendo DS, 2010) Complete
$20.00 USD
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★ 100% · 283 ratings
Listed 2 days ago · checked 2 days ago
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Nintendo DS Authentic Tested Working
$26.33 USD
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★ 99.7% · 1,957 ratings
Listed 2 days ago · checked 2 days ago
Golden Sun Dark Dawn Nintendo DS Authentic Tested Complete CIB
$30.00 USD
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★ 99.7% · 1,519 ratings
Listed 2 days ago · checked 2 days ago
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Nintendo DS Authentic Tested Working
$26.60 USD
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★ 99.7% · 1,940 ratings
Listed 3 days ago · checked 3 days ago
Golden Sun Dark Dawn / Nintendo DS Game With Original Case
$24.95 USD
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★ 100% · 4,472 ratings
Listed 4 days ago · checked 4 days ago
Golden Sun Dark Dawn Nintendo DS 2010 Complete CIB Manual Inserts Very Good
$34.99 USD
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★ 100% · 334 ratings
Listed 4 days ago · checked 4 days ago
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Nintendo DS Authentic Tested Working
$26.60 USD
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★ 99.7% · 1,932 ratings
Listed 5 days ago · checked 5 days ago
Nintendo DS Golden Sun Dark Dawn Video Game Cartridge Only Tested Working
$24.99 USD
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★ 100% · 8,633 ratings
Listed 5 days ago · checked 5 days ago
Golden Sun Dark Dawn - Nintendo DS
$24.00 USD
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★ 100% · 293 ratings
Listed 5 days ago · checked 5 days ago
Roughly one qualifying listing every 1.1 days.
Asking-price ranges by condition
| Condition | Min | 25% | Median | 75% | Max | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loose | $12.50 | $19.74 | $21.99 | $25.00 | $49.00 | 95 |
| Cib | $20.00 | $25.99 | $28.56 | $30.91 | $60.00 | 44 |
| Sealed | $35.01 | $49.00 | $57.95 | $76.99 | $149.99 | 19 |
Asking prices of currently-active listings. Not sold-price data.
Full asking-price history by condition →
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How we filter
Every feed has its own filter, tuned by hand for this one game. Before any change goes live, those filters are tested against thousands of real eBay listing titles. Every night, each feed is checked against every other deal page in its category, so a listing for a different game that slips in gets flagged and fixed instead of quietly shown.
Of the 33 listings we observed for this game in the last 30 days, we filtered out 6 of 33 (~18%) for quality reasons. The remaining 27 are what we'd actually surface.
- 3 seller had too few feedback ratings
- 2 matched a bootleg / out-of-scope keyword
- 1 priced above the curated ceiling
What the feed excludes
An eBay search for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS) returns far more than the game itself: controllers, T-shirts, strategy guides, imports and repro carts all mention it in their titles. These are the 96 terms we filter out to keep this feed to the real thing. A listing whose title contains any of them never reaches the feed, the price table or an alert. Many look unrelated to Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS) because they are: that's the noise.
Other titles & look-alikes 7
- -ougon
- -shikkoku
- -urushikoki
- -club nintendo
- -final fantasy
- -assassin
- -re-po
Bootlegs & repros 5
- -custom case
- -repro
- -reproduction
- -aftermarket
- -repo
Broken, untested & empty listings 15
- -for parts
- -not working
- -non-working
- -non working
- -broken
- -as is
- -as-is
- -untested
- -doesnt work
- -does not work
- -not tested
- -parts only
- -no game
- -game not included
- -cart not included
Imports & regions 8
- -japanese
- -ntsc-j
- -famicom
- -jpn
- -jp
- -pal
- -eur
- -japan
Ports, remakes & re-releases 1
- -gb-gba-nds
Lots & multi-item listings 8
- -lot
- -bundle
- -collection
- -set of
- -multiple games
- -3 games
- -4 games
- -5 games
Accessories, merch & paper 52
- -controller
- -headset
- -headphones
- -plush
- -figure
- -figurine
- -keychain
- -sticker
- -charger
- -cable
- -adapter
- -backpack
- -wallet
- -shirt
- -hoodie
- -jersey
- -poster
- -art book
- -artbook
- -soundtrack
- -vinyl
- -statue
- -amiibo
- -funko
- -pop figure
- -mousepad
- -lanyard
- -badge
- -trading cards
- -tcg booster
- -bookmark
- -instruction booklet
- -promo item
- -promotional
- -insert only
- -flyer
- -pamphlet
- -display card
- -demo cart
- -kiosk
- -case only
- -case-only
- -clamshell only
- -box and case
- -replacement box only
- -strategy guide
- -guide
- -game promo
- -nfr
- -hat
- -pin
- -ost
How often qualifying deals appear
- 15 in the last 7 days (~2.14/day)
- 27 in the last 30 days (~0.9/day)
- 27 in the last 90 days (~0.3/day)
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn: collector & reseller spec sheet
- Saves on the cartridge. Progress is stored on the cart itself, so ask a loose-cart seller to confirm a save loads. The game is a sequel to Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age on Game Boy Advance, but it is a separate DS release with its own page.
- Product code. A US cart's label code ends in
-USA(listings quote it asNTR-BO5E-USA). Check it matches the US release rather than a Japanese or European one. - CIB means the inserts too. Sellers who list a copy "with inserts" are pointing at the paper that shipped in the case. A case and manual with no inserts is not fully complete, so ask for it to be priced below a true CIB.
- Traps seen in the feed. Standalone Prima strategy guides and "cartridge and guide" sets carry the game's name and sell at much higher asking prices than the cart. Japanese copies and promo paper inserts also turn up under the same title. The feed drops all of these, along with multi-game lots and case-only listings.
Buying Nintendo DS games: what to check by condition
These checks apply to every Nintendo DS cartridge. The item notes above cover what is specific to this game.
Loose
- Compare the label, shell color and front/back markings against a photo of a known-authentic cart. Repro labels are often glossier, blurrier or slightly off-color.
- Ask for a photo of the board or the back of the cart. An opened shell is not automatically bad (battery swaps are normal), but it should be disclosed.
- If the game saves to a battery, ask whether the save holds. Old save batteries fail with age regardless of what the listing says, so budget for a replacement.
CIB (complete in box)
- Confirm the box, manual and plastic case and cover art are all shown in the photos, not just listed in the title.
- Check that the box and manual are the same region and print as the cart. Mixed-and-matched "complete" copies are common.
- Box wear (crushing, tears, sticker residue) moves price far more than the cart does. Judge it from photos, not from the word "mint".
Sealed & graded
- For a graded copy, look the certification number up on the grading company's own site and confirm the photos match the slab you are buying.
- For an ungraded sealed copy, compare the wrap and seal pattern against a known factory-sealed example. Resealing is common, and a reseal on a loose game is worth a loose price.
- Ask for photos of every side, the seams and any price stickers. Refusing extra photos on a sealed listing is a red flag on its own.
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