Does anyone remember the ORIGINAL gbatemp?

[Sobtanian]

Hello all,

Been on these boards since 02, rarely post but lurch around almost daily

I posted today and realised I'm member 264 (I think), which got me thinking, how many people here are still active from that era?

From the time when gbatemp was exactly as it says on the tin: it had direct download links for the latest GBA rom releases, the temp being that it was the latest 10 or so, hence the ROMS
were temp there until new releases came out (daily!).

It was great while it lasted.

Anyone else remember this? Or am I the only oldie here

EDIT: it's great to see the site fledge in to what it is now, a varied and very active forum covering all our Nintendo hacking needs, and all the reviews. Great stuff!

 

[Splych]

That is pretty cool in my opinion... GBAtemp was such a small community before, and now it has out grown any flashcart discussion board~!

I am a member 125,855... Super big number, but I wish I knew about GBAtemp ever since it started. I would love to advance in a community that just starts ^^

 

[UltraMagnus]

wish I had, would never have wasted so much money on gba games

 

[tj_cool]

I'm using the GBAtemp classic skin, although I only joined this year

 

[Maikel Steneker]

Nope, but I have read the wiki, so I know about the original GBAtemp. Back then I had just discovered that I could play the newest Pokémon game before anyone else by using an emulator and the US version

 

[T-hug]

Yeah it's pretty sweet how the site has grown.
Check http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/gbatemp.net (Gbatemp.net has a traffic rank of: 4,909).

I can't find a pic of the orgiginal ROM page but here is the first forum board http://web.archive.org/web/20021127050701/gbatemp.m4d.sm/
I think shaunj has the ROM page pic.

I also think my member number is the lowest that is active.

 

[SleepingDragon]

Well, close to that time. I first started lurking around here as a guest in '03. I still remember the first time I discovered gbatemp. I was lying in a hospital bed recovering from my second surgery to fix a herniated disk in my back (soccer injury, or "football" for those outside the US). I was scouring the internet looking for something to occupy my drug-infused mind and I stumbled onto gbatemp. I thougt is was great. At the time, I had never seen a sight like this. It then took me 5 years of visiting on a daily basis to finally decide I wanted to become a member. Great place!

 

[Splych]

GBAtemp looks so... Different

@ Sleeping ~ That is a long period of time~! Imagine you became a member in 03'. You would be a known veteran~!

 

[Sobtanian]

@Thug LOL I think I remember you and might even have some PM from you about xbox/gba emulation or something

Also, we joined the same day but there's 200 members between us

I remember gbatemp as a one page thing: game/picture/link to rom. Click - download. Nothing more, but nothing more needed.

Awesome.

 

[pen15]

funny how sad ones life must be when he jacks off to his member number

 

[Justin121994]

lol im fairly new

so when did gbatemp stop hosting gba roms?

 

[Sir-Fritz]

Wat i wanna know is if costellos member number really is 255 originally and not just changed to that.

 

[shaunj66]

Wat i wanna know is if costellos member number really is 255 originally and not just changed to that.

It is originally 255. Why would he change it?

 

[robochrono09]

what happened to the shout box

 

[Issac]

Well I remember those days as well, though I wasn't a member...
strangely enough, I remember the release of megaman battle network 2... did I see it here, or was it in the #gbatemp channel?

 

[Smoko]

Wat i wanna know is if costellos member number really is 255 originally and not just changed to that.

It is originally 255. Why would he change it?

Maybe he's a white supremacist.

 

[ZenZero]

man it sounds like it was cool

but i bet that it was better when they wernt 2 afraid to host roms

 

[UltraMagnus]

Wat i wanna know is if costellos member number really is 255 originally and not just changed to that.

It is originally 255. Why would he change it?

Maybe he's a white supremacist.

I don't see the connection.

I always thought it was changed though, what with it being the largest possible 8 bit integer (FF)

 

[flashermac]

old timer here

edit: wow, only a day older than thug - what was the date when the rom hosting stopped, must have been the 23rd

 

[Smoko]

I don't see the connection.

I always thought it was changed though, what with it being the largest possible 8 bit integer (FF)

I was going on how his user number may be a subtle hint about how much he enjoys setting all RGB values to 255.