Grondorr

Why is everything WATA?

Well, that would be true for traditional advertising, but perhaps sponsorship ads might be more lucrative. That said, I hope we can avoid ads, and cover costs via the optional subscriptions. Ignoring the fact that ads can be annoying, they also create a sense of obligation to the advertisers. @Gloves please try to keep us posted on if you need more subscriptions. (I'm hoping that like wikipedia we can be 100% supported by donations.)

Three weeks into BoTW (WiiU). (Technically two weeks, as I haven't been able to play this last week due to work schedule.) I have 13 towers, solved Ruta and have the master sword. This is actually my first time picking the game up. (I was waiting untill I beat some other games, but a friend talked me into not waiting any longer.) The games I was playing and will now eventually need to get back to are (These are all first time play throughs).: - Zelda Minish cap (I'm at the Gyorg Pair, which is the boss for the Palace of Winds, so I am pretty far along) - Zelda LttP (Not that far) - Zelda OoT (guessing about a 3rd of the way through) - Zelda LbW (Not that far.) - Zelda Link's Awakening DX (Not that far.) - Metroid Fusion (pretty far) - Metroid Zero Mission (stuck on Kraid) - Metroid Samus Returns (not that far - not sure if I will play through)

A complete MINT set of US GBA releases. This includes Games, GBA Video and eReader. I understand this goal is not a short term goal, and may take longer than a lifetime, and I will need to be patient, and plan to start with whatever condition I can get (hoping to at least start with nice CIB copies except maybe the rare stuff), and will continually do condition upgrades over time. I'm putting it out there, in case anyone has GBA games they need to get rid of, and wants to help me out. (As far as I know only DreamTR has a boxed GBA set. If anyone has done this before, I'd love from hear from you.) In parallel I am hoping to complete a US GBA NFR set as well. I have other collecting goals, but they aren't my focus right now.

Quick update (02/11/2024).. I finished the boxed GBA set. I'll be updating my wishlist soon. Still open to games on the sealed wishlist though. (Updated 05/10/21) So for those few folks following me, know I've been working on a full boxed set of GBA for at least a couple years now. Fatigue is setting as I'm very much into the junk end of the set, so I'm taking a break to revitalize and focus on other goals. One other transition I've been going through is shifting from largely CIB collecting to sealed and graded collecting. This transition started some time in 2019, but really cemented itself in the second half of 2020, when I somehow made the transition into a graded collector. (I guess my small graded collection had grown big enough, and "collection-y" enough, that I could focus on growing it.) I've sent my first two batches of games to VGA in pursuit of this. (I won't get them back this year.) Update: I'm now working on my 6th batch. For fun and excitement, I've begun exploring other consoles looking for GOAT sealed games that I really want to collect. I also have a few great GBA games that I still need sealed. No surprises here, other than maybe the lack of Mario games on my wishlist. I do prefer VGA to WATA, but am open to both now that there is cross-grading data published. Ungraded is totally fine, but we'd just need to work through more pics/review. Priority 1 (looking for NM+/M graded/NIB, unless otherwise noted): NES 1986 Metroid (TM, Round SOQ, No Rev-A) (*) condition flexible NES 1987 The Legend of Zelda (TM, Round SOQ, No Rev-A) (*) condition flexible DMG 1991 Metroid II: Return of Samus (*) condition flexible SNES 1992 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 1st print (*) condition flexible DMG 1993 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (*) condition flexible SNES 1994 Super Metroid DMG 1998 Pokemon Blue White ESRB 1st print DMG 1998 Pokemon Red White ESRB 1st print N64 1998 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Collector's edition DMG 1999 Pokemon Yellow GBC 2000 Pokemon Gold GBC 2000 Pokemon Silver N64 2000 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Collector's edition GBC 2001 Pokemon Crystal GBA 2002 Metroid Fusion GBA 2003 Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow GBA 2003 Fire Emblem GBA 2003 Pokemon Ruby GBA 2003 Pokemon Sapphire GCN 2003 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Walker GBA 2004 Metroid: Zero Mission GBA 2004 Pokemon Fire Red GBA 2004 Pokemon Leaf Green GBA 2005 Pokemon Emerald GBA 2005 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Priority 2 (looking for NM+/M graded/NIB): NES 1987 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link DMG 1991 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge SNES 1995 Chrono Trigger (*) condition flexible PSX 1997 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night GBC 1998 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (Holo) GBA 2001 Advance Wars GBA 2001 Castlevania: Circle of the Moon GBA 2001 Golden Sun GBC 2001 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Ages (Foil) GBC 2001 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Seasons (Foil) GBA 2002 Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance GBA 2002 Kirby Nightmare in Dream Land GCN 2002 Metroid Prime GBA 2002 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords GBA 2003 Advance Wars 2 GBA 2003 Final Fantasy Tactics Advance GBA 2003 Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga GBA 2003 Ninja Five-O GCN 2003 Soul Calibur 2 GCN 2003 The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition GCN 2003 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest GBA 2004 Astro Boy: Omega Factor GBA 2004 Kirby & the Amazing Mirror GBA 2004 Mario vs Donkey Kong GBA 2006 Drill Dozer GCN 2006 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess NDS 2009 Pokemon HeartGold Pokewalker bundle NDS 2009 Pokemon SoulSilver Pokewalker bundle

I have to say.. I'm very relieved that you all created this site. I was confused at first because it seemed like people were overreacting, as in my mind there was "no way they are taking down nintendoage, as they would piss of so many people". Boy was I wrong! Thank you to everyone involved!

Oh I definitely plan to own the full GBA Video set, but I consider them separate. Remember, they were packaged in different packaging, used different color plastic housings and weren't distributed to entirely the same stores. It's also been well advertised that they were made to compete directly with UMD video disks. (In my opinion poorly compete, as the video quality isn't great.) The 3DO Vivid disks are FMV games, which is a genre of games, so clearly part of the main set. I also consider software like the organizers and whatnot part of the main set, mostly because that's how they were packaged and sold, and also because there seems to be a strong consensus to count them. Thank you for the viewpoint, as having this discussion helped me clarify how I feel about it. I'd also love to hear from the hundreds of collectors who own full GBA sets. (Where are they?!)

For those that consider the GBA Videos part of the set, do you also consider the 700 or so UMD movies and UMD music discs, which are only playable in PSPs, part of the PSP set? If not, why the difference? If so, must suck to be a PSP full set collector! After thinking this all through, in my mind the full set of US Retail "media" for the GBA consists of three subsets. 1) GBA Game set. If you get these all, I consider you to have what most people would call a full set of GBA games. 2) GBA Video set. Note: As I understand, these do use a different cartridge technology, via a codec and storage technology developed by NERD (Nintendo European Research & Development). The largest games were 32MB, and the largest Videos were 64MB, which required a different storage technology to support. Also note they DO NOT work with the Game Boy Player for the Gamecube. 3) eReader card set. (Arguably, this could be considered a separate system like 32X or Sega CD) The walls blur a bit when we consider pack-in bonus cards. (IE: Are they part of this set, or are they inserts for a CIB game?) In addition there is the non-retail NFR set, but that's clearly its own thing.

That's very cool. I have a very small collection of actual handhelds. However, I have recently decided that it's a reasonable life goal to acquire a complete Mint GBA US retail set. (Talking 900+ games all graded at 95.) I'm actually decades away from even being close to such a feat, but I could see completing the set (ignoring condition) within 5 years. Note, I am talking all three subsets: games, e-reader cards and gba video.

Looking at what's happening, I'm pretty sure mostly all they wanted was GameValueNow and maybe the game and rarity databases. Obviously they wouldn't mind if people kept using their forums, but pretty sure they want the conversations to be different. P.S. - I have thoughts that I'm not quite ready to share on community ownership of this site, and really would love to see community owned content regarding game/rarity lists, and pricelists. I expect we'll need to explore "creative commons" licensing. (There are a number of different types of CC licenses, some of which have restrictions.)

Wait what? None of the links work: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=98939

FTR - I fully support allowing these topics in the "Off Topic" forum. Of course, I'd still expect that people would follow the site rules and be civil to each other.

So, considering what happened to NintendoAge, and how people have felt about everything that was taken away, I think that if it hasn't already been addressed publically, we should talk about who owns VGS and the VGS content. (I'm sure we don't want to pour our hearts and souls into a new site, only to have someone's life circumstances change, and accept an offer that they can't refuse.) I'm wondering if it makes sense to have some soft of nonprofit/community/coop ownership of the site, and have the content be licensed using licenses similar to Wikipedia (Creative Commons)? Thoughts? (Apologies if this has already been addressed, but I didn't find anything in the announcements other than a general pledge of non-affiliation with certain entities.) P.S. - I think it was insane what happened. (Old ColdFusion could have been supported indefinitely by third party support companies.)

I'm mostly asking in the case of GBA Video carts. If someone was going for a full GBA US retail set, would GBA Video be considered part of that set? (And out of curiosity would the answer be any different for PSP video UMDs?)