How'd You Hear About GBATemp?

[Matthe815]

Hello Everyone!

I haven't been here long, but I would like to know how you folk learned about GBATemp!
Though a friend? Through Google? Through some random conversation that you overheard on the street?
I would really like to know!

For the sake of this question, I heard about this place from @bennyman123abc.

Thanks,
Matthew

 

[Zhongtiao1]

I was reading reviews for Pokemon and read one on GBATemp and wanted to comment

 

[x65943]

I used to browse the site years ago to read about DS flashcards and wii hacking (2009?).

I made an account after I bought my first wiiu in 2014.

It wasn't until I made an account that I realized this site is more than just hacking - and is actually a community. Sometimes I wish I had looked into it more in highschool when I first visited the site.

My older bro has been browsing the site for year though. I remember him talking about scene releases when I was younger. He won't tell me his account name tho ;A;

 

[Chary]

I used to roam around a bit on Pokecommunity for their Pokemon romhacks back in 2007 or so. Of course romhacks were also on GBAtemp so I'd find links to the site from time to time. I didn't really find a need to register, though. Eventually I stopped playing romhacks, and stopped lurking.

Then, I learned that you could do this magic thing called "softmodding" which let your consoles play emulators. So I was reading a Kotaku article on how to hack the Xbox, and it sourced back to GBAtemp. Lurked again in 2010.

The next two years I had no internet at all, so I stopped coming to the site, again. But when I finally did get internet again, I saw things about DS flashcarts and letterbomb and such, and finally made an account.

 

[PrincessLillie]

I originally learned about it when the Sm4sh modding scene was starting to take off, and I watched some videos by SonicBrawler that had links to the site. Then, fast forward some time and I learned about TubeHax and 3DS softmodding, and how you could apply custom themes to your 3DS. So, I made an account to ask if someone could make a theme for me, and I guess I just became part of the community. (I never did get my request fulfilled...)

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Was looking into those sweet Wii h4x0rz back in 2008 when the Twilight Hack first released. Lurked for about a year, until I came across some Wii games that had issues so I joined and made a thread about it.

Hard to believe it's already been essentially 10 years since I've been around GBATemp

 

[Armadillo]

I think I stumbled across it looking for GBA flashcart reviews when I was deciding what to buy.

 

[BlackWizzard17]

"How to hack wii"
"How to install hombrew"
"Dios Mios Lite isn't working"
Literally Joined after google searching these three topics back in 2012

 

[MewAndKirby]

googled on how to get that usb reader thing on the wii, found this site and it was pretty neat

 

[bendevnull]

Hello Everyone!

I haven't been here long, but I would like to know how you folk learned about GBATemp!
Though a friend? Through Google? Through some random conversation that you overheard on the street?
I would really like to know!

For the sake of this question, I heard about this place from @bennyman123abc.

Thanks,
Matthew

Read about it in a random gaming magazine years ago.

 

[x65943]

Read about it in a random gaming magazine years ago.

Wait, really? What gaming magazine? I didn't know gbatemp got into those

 

[bendevnull]

Wait, really? What gaming magazine? I didn't know gbatemp got into those

Idk. This was about 2013. I'd love to figure it out again tho!

 

[Viri]

Wow, I don't even remember anymore. I just remember being forced to make an account by the mods to view the site, after years of lurking.

 

[CaptainSodaPop]

Around the end of 2008. when first soft mods for the Wii appeared in the wild, the best tutorials were here. Since then I was aware of the site, but would rarely lurk. After I got 3DS in 2011, I was hyped about hacking it so I thought "Why not join the community?". Soon I started to visit the website on a daily basis to check if there's anything new about 3DS hacks. Magically, one day it finally happened. I wasn't excited like that in a while, I can still feel that emptiness and boredom with my 3DS before it. It seems like it wasn't that long ago, but 6 years man... So yeah, GBATemp kind of grew on me and it's my first choice now to get all the relevant gaming news, both hacking related and the industry ones. I used to visit Kotaku every day, until it became a real drag from all the weight of information that I couldn't keep track of anymore. I get here everything that I need.

 

[The Catboy]

I actually found the Temp after buying a Games n' Music from Wal-Mart and I was looking to play DS games on it. To no shock to anyone, you can't and I bought an M3 Real for my DS ROMs

 

[Deleted User]

Really nice question! I think i got linked to GBATemp from filedropper or wahtever GBATemp's file upload service is. I was downloading themes for my R4 card.

 

[Deleted User]

Was really big into 3DS Hacking a few years ago, and made an account with the hopes that I'd be releasing small little Homebrew applications. While I have made a few releases over the years, which include a simple text file reader to serve as a warning for anyone who might pick up your 3DS, a comic reader I never quite finished, a payload swapper for Boot9Strap payloads, and, of course, the infamous FidgetSpinner3DS, this didn't really take off as well as I would've liked. While working on these homebrew apps, I learned quite a bit about C and C++, however, never to quite the level of real 3DS Scene Devs.

For quite a while, I was a regular on The Edge of the Forum (for those who don't know, it's a section on the site dedicated to shitposting). It got bad. Real bad. Once I saw that I was had posted in 5 different EoF threads within a span of minutes, I knew that I had to do something to fix it. After some time away from the site, I returned, and I'd like to think I've gotten better since, posting in the gaming and general discussion forums more often. I would call myself a "reformed shitposter," but honestly, that's being too kind.

 

[Nisem0n0]

Through google for me. I remember that I wanted to softmod my ps2 when FMCB came out and stumbled across a gbatemp thread. So it's been awhile, but I don't remember what email I used back then so just made a new account in the end. I still have the ps2 and the first memory card I put FMCB on!

 

[DinohScene]

I have no clue, lurked around for years before signing up.

 

[DeoNaught]

I think the first time I saw it, I was with my brother, hacking his Psp.

I found it really when I was hacking our old wii