Baseball Advance

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Baseball Advance
System(s): Game Boy Advance
Publisher: Sega (Japan), THQ (US)
Developer: Smilebit
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 JP 2002-08-08 ¥5,800 (6,090)5,800 (6,090) AGB-P-AG9J AGB-AG9J-JPN US 2002-03-01 AGB-P-ABPE AGB-AG9E-USA

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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

SMILEBIT

• Executive Producers: Shun Arai, Takayuki Kawagoe
• Director: Takaya Segawa
• Game Designers: Tomoko Hasegawa, Noboru Yoshizawa
• Graphic Designers: Katsuhiko Sato, Akio Sakai, Aritomo Saeki
• Programmers: Manabu Ishihara, Eiji Horita
• Audio: Teruhiko Nakagawa (WAVE MASTER.INC)
• Special Thanks: Smilebit Technical Research Team, Hiroko Yokosuka, Nozomu Fujita, Yoshiaki Kitagawa, Yuusuke Nakadaira

SEGA OF AMERICA

• Senior Product Manager: Stacey Kerr
• Assoc. Product Manager: Sam Hopkins
• Licensing Hag: Jane Thompson
• Licensing: Robert Leffler, Takuma Hatori
• V.P. of Localization: Jin Shimazaki
• Localization Manager: Osamu Shibamiya
• Localization Producer: Howard Gipson
• Test Lead: Jake Covert
• Asst. Lead: Lee Lakas
• Testers: Ramin Rouya, Daniel Airey, Fred Acebo, Seth Benton, Robert Anthony, Nestor Protacio, Joseph Mora, Berjes Enriquez, Chester Lee, Michael De la Cruz
• Special Thanks: Peter Moore, Chris Gilbert
• Created by Smilebit
• Presented by SEGA
• Original Game © SEGA CORPORATION
• © Smilebit/SEGA CORPORATION, 2002

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In-game credits (US)

Magazine articles

Main article: Baseball Advance/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 80 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 73 Nintendo Power (US) NTSC-U 58

	70
Based on 3 reviews

Baseball Advance

Game Boy Advance, US
Cover
Cart

Game Boy Advance, JP
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 339f35b8 MD5 e345a10a452e8574fa4686539e852f31 SHA-1 45dea270943584115517ef2d12e5525932d0f5fa	8MB		Cartridge (US)
?	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)