Baseball Advance

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 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences.

One of the many baseball games that wasn't released in Europe.

Pattern Test

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

To do: There's more.

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