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Baseball Advance

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Title Screen

Baseball Advance

Also known as: Greatest Nine (JP)
Developer: Smilebit
Publishers: THQ (US), Sega (JP)
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Released in JP: August 8, 2002
Released in US: March 20, 2002


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DebugIcon.png This game has debugging material.
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One of the many baseball games that wasn't released in Europe.

Pattern Test

Baseball Advance U ANIMATION TEST.png

Code 020128020D will load a pattern test screen, which was removed from the Japanese version.

Sound Test Text

Present at 0x05006C is text for a sound test. The sound test no longer exists in the final releases.

<< SOUND TEST >>....UP -, DOWN +....No:

Build Date

Prrsent at the below offsets.0x50928 - 0x5094F (US)/0x70BC8 - 0x70BF3 (Japan).

US Japan
WSB Version 0.9.3
Dec 28 2001
18:31:06
G9_GBA Version 1.0.0
May 29 2002
15:50:33

The "WSB" in the US version's text and the fact that Sega published the game in Japan may indicate this was originally intended to be a World Series Baseball title.

(Discovery: WaluigiBSOD)

Regional Differences

Hmmm...
To do:
There's more.

Baseball Advance is licensed by Major League Baseball, while Greatest Nine instead features Nippon Professional Baseball.