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Though its US logo may suggest the game is part of the [[:Category:World Series Baseball (franchise)|''World Series Baseball'' series]], it is actually part of the [[:Category:Greatest Nine|''Greatest Nine'' series]] - a franchise that up until this point had never left Japan. Unlike other entries in the series, this one has no subtitle, and is therefore simply known as '''''Greatest Nine''''' (グレイテストナイン) in that region.
 
Though its US logo may suggest the game is part of the [[:Category:World Series Baseball (franchise)|''World Series Baseball'' series]], it is actually part of the [[:Category:Greatest Nine|''Greatest Nine'' series]] - a franchise that up until this point had never left Japan. Unlike other entries in the series, this one has no subtitle, and is therefore simply known as '''''Greatest Nine''''' (グレイテストナイン) in that region.
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==Production credits==
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*'''Executive Producers:''' [[Shun Arai]], [[Takayuki Kawagoe]]
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*'''Director:''' [[Takaya Segawa]]
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*'''Game Designers:''' [[Tomoko Hasegawa]], [[Noboru Yoshizawa]]
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*'''Graphic Designers:''' [[Katsuhiko Sato]], [[Akio Sakai]], [[Aritomo Saeki]]
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*'''Programmers:''' [[Manabu Ishihara]], [[Eiji Horita]]
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*'''Audio:''' [[Teruhiko Nakagawa]] ([[Wave Master|WAVE MASTER.INC)]]
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*'''Special Thanks:''' Smilebit Technical Research Team, [[Hiroko Yokosuka]], [[Nozomu Fujita]], [[Yoshiaki Kitagawa]], [[Yuusuke Nakadaira]]
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{{creditsheader|[[SEGA OF AMERICA]]}}
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*'''Senior Product Manager:''' [[Stacey Kerr]]
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*'''Assoc. Product Manager:''' [[Sam Hopkins]]
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*'''Licensing Hag:''' [[Jane Thompson]]
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*'''Licensing:''' [[Robert Leffler]], [[Takuma Hatori]]
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*'''V.P. of Localization:''' [[Jin Shimazaki]]
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*'''Localization Manager:''' [[Osamu Shibamiya]]
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*'''Localization Producer:''' [[Howard Gipson]]
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*'''Test Lead:''' [[Jake Covert]]
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*'''Asst. Lead:''' [[Lee Lakas]]
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*'''Testers:''' Ramin Rouya, Daniel Airey, Fred Acebo, Seth Benton, Robert Anthony, Nestor Protacio, Joseph Mora, Berjes Enriquez, Chester Lee, Michael De la Cruz
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*'''Special Thanks:''' [[Peter Moore]], [[Chris Gilbert]]
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*Created by Smilebit
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*Presented by SEGA
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*Original Game © SEGA CORPORATION
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*© Smilebit/SEGA CORPORATION, 2002
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==Magazine articles==
 
==Magazine articles==

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Baseball Advance
System(s): Game Boy Advance
Publisher: Sega (Japan), THQ (US)
Developer:
Licensor: Nippon Professional Baseball (Japan), Major League Baseball Properties (US), Major League Baseball Players Association (US)
Genre: Sports

















Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code
Game Boy Advance
JP 		¥5,800 (6,090)5,800 (6,090)[2] AGB-P-AG9J
AGB-AG9J-JPN
Game Boy Advance
US 		AGB-P-ABPE
AGB-AG9E-USA
ESRB: Everyone

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Baseball Advance is a baseball game developed by Smilebit and published by Sega (THQ in the US) for the Game Boy Advance.

Though its US logo may suggest the game is part of the World Series Baseball series, it is actually part of the Greatest Nine series - a franchise that up until this point had never left Japan. Unlike other entries in the series, this one has no subtitle, and is therefore simply known as Greatest Nine (グレイテストナイン) in that region.

Production credits

Source:
In-game credits (US)

Magazine articles

Main article: Baseball Advance/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

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Publication Score Source
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Based on
0 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
80
[3]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
73
[4]
Nintendo Power (US) NTSC-U
58
[5]
Game Boy Advance
 70
Based on
3 reviews

Baseball Advance

Game Boy Advance, US
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Cover
BaseballAdvance GBA US Cart.jpg
Cart
Game Boy Advance, JP
GreatestNine GBA JP Box Front.jpg
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Game Boy Advance
✔
CRC32 339f35b8
MD5 e345a10a452e8574fa4686539e852f31
SHA-1 45dea270943584115517ef2d12e5525932d0f5fa
8MB Cartridge (US)
Game Boy Advance
 ?
CRC32 379e64d7
MD5 83c4994b6edb5ace03864f96ddeb54af
SHA-1 3dcae687a828663429b424cd54aa5a776cddabe5
8MB Cartridge (JP)

External links

  • Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Game Boy Advance (archive)
  • Nintendo catalogue pages: JP, US (archive)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=957 (Wayback Machine: 2002-08-04 15:00)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://sega.jp/gba/grenine/ (Wayback Machine: 2002-08-06 20:58)
  3. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 2002" (US; 2002-04-02), page 115
  4. ↑ GamePro, "June 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 57
  5. ↑ Nintendo Power, "August 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 147


Baseball Advance

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