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Game Boy Advance information needed
Does anyone know if it is still being made? I havent seen the handheld for sale for quite a while. No games have been made for it in a while either. I think we need to update the category for it (seen here: Category:Game Boy Advance). I did some searching, but I can't find an exact year for when production stopped on the handheld (as well as it's newer models: Micro and SP). The information in the category should be updated as soon as possible, as it's probably not accurate currently. RobJ1981 20:49, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The last ones made were the Micros to my knowledge (only 2 models). They started focusing on the DS since they could also play GBA games. (Zaiqukaj has a history of buying too many Game Boys and normally keeps an eye on whats available at the stores.) --Zaiqukaj 04:26, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Old product. Copyright on gameboy.com lists 2006 as the expiration (bottom of the page), but that's not a good indicator of the actual end of production. -- 04:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Popular Wii guides.
I looked at it a thousand times and for some reason, Dead Rising is part of it. I don't know if you agree with me and if I'm not clear, when you click the Wii category at the beginning, the popular guides goes from 10 to 1. To me it doesn't fit in because Dead Rising is a fair game but I'm not sure if we should still keep it and expect people to go to that guide for help. I mean I loved to rework it but really, the only thing I would challenge myself is changing times. With The Conduit coming and more games coming, I just need clarity about Dead Rising and at least know what makes that as a popular guide. If I want to keep Dead Rising, I would work towards Wii players who never played this game before for help. It might be a topic not worth discussing but I do like to know what you guys think about it anyway because I'm still thinking about it and I wouldn't give a go ahead if I want to offend people who likes Dead Rising. Johnnyauau2000 07:08, 17 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The popular guides listing is automatically generated by the server. The results are based on how many people go to a certain guide. Therefore, if more people go to a guide, it literally is more popular than a different guide. We don't choose them, readers do (but it really comes down to popularity versus guide completion; if a guide isn't complete, people won't tell others to read it). -- 08:17, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Dead Rising is on the top 10 is because the view counts are not divided by system; a title's position will not necessarily reflect its popularity on that specific system. The totals also do not reset over time, which means that heavily-viewed games that have become less popular will not drop away until other guides surpass their overall view counts. Despite these limitations the most popular games for each system tend to occupy at least the top few positions, so it works quite well. Completion stage 0 and 1 are excluded; these may be commonly searched for but have little or no useful content and so are not something that is worth advertising to visitors. GarrettTalk 08:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok. That's all I needed to know. I guess every kind of system is different so ok. Johnnyauau2000 10:54, 17 June 2009 (UTC)