As a site GBAtemp has been around for more than 20 years. Starting as a place to share the latest GBA ROMs and later evolving into the forums we know today, we’re a site that lives and dies by its community, and it’s the larger community I’m hoping to reach out to today.

What I’m wanting from this is to see the general thoughts and feelings of the folks that log into the site daily, especially when it comes to reviews, news, and editorial content. The aim of this is to use the feedback we get to better focus our content and hopefully write things people enjoy both reading and engaging with, as well as covering more topics people are genuinely interested in. I'm really wanting this to be an ongoing effort to have the front page better reflect the unique nature of the site, and that starts with this. If you've got any thoughts, you can either reply to this topic, or if you're happy to provide some more guided feedback, @shaunj66 has put together a short feedback form that you can find below. Anybody filling this out will receive 100 XP on the site for their participation, so please do check this out.

Feedback Form

Please note XP is awarded manually and may take a few days to appear on your account.

I will take a moment to clear the air on a few topics I’ve seen come up over time on the forum, if only to save people asking and speculating going forwards. As an editorial team we aren’t compensated for our contributions to the site, be it posting news, bespoke editorial content, or reviews. While we are usually able to keep the things we’ve reviewed, we aren’t paid anything from those providing the items or game codes, nor are we incentivised to score things highly. Each reviewer tackles a game or hardware review as they see fit, with the score being their own decision. The only time I’m aware of where this hasn’t been the case was with our Tears of the Kingdom review, which Costello summarised here for those curious about that.

In terms of revenue streams for the site, GBAtemp is funded by a mixture of account upgrades and advertisements (these provided via Playwire). Sponsored posts have been run in the past, but where they were posted they were clearly marked as such. As things stand today we don’t run sponsored content, nor to we use affiliate links with items we review or cover more generally.

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I also want to thank everybody above who supports the site monetarily, but also those that just keep coming back and contributing. Whether you financially support the site or not, you are an important part of what keeps things running, and I do want to acknowledge that.

If anybody has any questions about the things I’ve said above or about how things run behind the scenes in general, by all means post them too. I’ve always tried to be transparent where people have asked questions, and I’m happy to answer anything to the extent of my knowledge.

 

[DoctorBagPhD]

Done, hope all our collective feedback helps <3

 

[Slinger]

I usually mostly lurk these days. But seeing I had the chance of helping in some small way, I filled it out as soon as I could. I assume these extra XP doesn't count towards unlocking things like custom titles? (which I believe is based on number of posts, outside the EOF section?)

 

[Scarlet]

I hadnt even thought of reviewing games myself (again), but now that you put that bug in my head...
lol I was meaning for the staff to review first.

For what it's worth, the thread I mentioned is below:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/review-editorial-suggestion-box.659337/

It's stickied in the User Submitted News forum for the lack of a better place, so check it out whenever you have a burning idea.

 

[WanderingHunter]

One thing I'm actually curious about is whether users in the GBAtemp community are interested in the history of handheld console homebrew development in the Chinese region, I'm working on a history book about it myself (not finished yet, far from completion, probably won't be finished writing it until 3 years from now)

 

[Scarlet]

One thing I'm actually curious about is whether users in the GBAtemp community are interested in the history of handheld console homebrew development in the Chinese region, I'm working on a history book about it myself (not finished yet, far from completion, probably won't be finished writing it until 3 years from now)

If nothing else pop it in the User Submitted News section when it's finished. Does sound interesting.

 

[WanderingHunter]

If nothing else pop it in the User Submitted News section when it's finished. Does sound interesting.

Okay, after I'm done with work, I'll try to post a news item after work tonight to say a little bit about what I'm writing now and parts of it.

Post automatically merged: Aug 9, 2024

If nothing else pop it in the User Submitted News section when it's finished. Does sound interesting.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/regardi...ying-to-write-a-history-book-about-it.659385/

I posted it earlier, I just don't know why it was moved elsewhere

 

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[shaunj66]

Thank you everyone for your feedback! The form is now closed but feel free to still reply to this thread!

3rd and final wave of XP bonuses are going out now.

 

[Jayro]

Unless the person who signed up is under the age of 13, GBAtemp must remove this user's information in accordance with COPPA. The issue with this, however, is that someone may impersonate their age on their account, making them harder to ban.


I would love to see more hardware modding reviews/articles on the Temp, mostly its other YouTubers covering the topic.

I do love me some hardmods. Softmods could lead to legal trouble though, which is probably why it's best left to the Groups section on this forum.

 

[ChronoCrossfangirl2002]

i love this site, it's the first forum i ever used, i have a pokecommunity account but never use it, while I'm not sure
if this counts as feedback i feel like their should be more guides on how to mod specific games as there's some
cases with gaming stuff in general where you know something is possible but just haven't necessarily been
very accessible in terms of information on how to do it, for example there's not many known ways to activley mod
Pokemon ORAS, and then you see paidaixings current project and wonder how things like that were achieved or in other cases
i knew pokemon box could work on the wii based on crumbs of info i had and i made a thread aiming to achieve a smoking gun to sorta end the goosechase and make another thread so the info could be potentially mainstream.

in conclusion i do believe a dedicated sticky thread or something for those to request guides on things like this to be made for those who have information on things that aren't very well documented and whomever would like to share their knowledge can make a separate thread detailing said information and whatnot with a tutorial prefix.

while in retrospect this sounds like a bit much, i do think it would help a lot of people who want to get their hands dirty in homebrew and or rom hacking scenes more smoothly.