NOVEMBER 2003

November 1st 2003:

Before anything else, I'd like to use this opportunity to thank Tena for sending me a free copy of Super Mario Advance 4 with the Wal-Mart exclusives. In fact, you should all thank her, because her generous gift made me reconsider my decision to shut down this web site at the end of 2003. Instead, I'll keep working on it for at least another year! To start things off, I'll be adding a new section to this web site next week, which will require your participation! So stay tuned! :-)
All the scans of the Super Mario Advance 4-e and Pokémon Battle-e series have been added to the e-Card Catalog! Special thanks go to Mark Raby for scanning the SMA4-e Wal-Mart exclusives.
Mark also sent me a link that still puzzles me even now. I mean, if they're going to release the e-Reader in Europe after all, why did they remove all the e-Reader features from Super Mario Advance 4??? I must admit, I'm having a hard time believing that article...
I also added the scan of the "Grovyle Winner 004" e-Card (PN 00979) to the e-Card Catalog.
You'll find some interesting information about the Super Mario Advance 4-e cards on nintendo-e-reader.com (click on the "All Cards" tab on the front page to access it), including PDF checklists, which incidently don't even contain the Wal-Mart exclusives! Are they in denial or something?? I hope it's just a phase... ;-P
Just a little correction about the Game & Watch-e series: Last week, I said that the "Collector" cards were modified versions of the "Color" cards, but looking at the Game & Watch-e article in the latest issue of Nintendo Power, it is clear that they are actually modified versions of the "Classic" cards! Thanks go to Neocoff for pointing this out.
I fixed a couple of typos in the Pokémon Battle-e checklist. You might want to download the new version from the Checklists section.
The news items for October have been moved to the News Archive section.

November 8th 2003:

LAST MINUTE UPDATE: I've just received word that a new e-Reader promo card is being given away at Nintendo's Mall Tour events. The encoded e-Reader application is supposedly a Kirby slide puzzle game. You can read the details by checking out this link, but I would really appreciate it if someone could confirm this for me. (And please get me a copy of the card, if you can!) ;-)
As announced last week, a new section has been added to the site: The Software Catalog! If you ever wanted to contribute something to this site, this is your chance, because this new section depends on the contribution of visitors like yourself! Be sure to read the instructions carefully though...
A new promotional Pokémon-e card with the "WINNER" stamp has surfaced this month, namely "Marshtomp (011)", which has been added to the e-Card Catalog. I've also been informed that a special "Latias" promo card will be released soon, but I'm waiting to know more about it before adding it to the catalog.
By the way, the palgn.com article I mentionned last week is actually australian, not european. Thanks go to Liam for clearing this up. :-)

November 15th 2003:

The promotional e-Card which I mentionned in my "last minute update" last week has been added to the e-Card Catalog. Nin10do DuDe (the one who originally posted about the card on the gamefaqs.com e-Reader forum) picked up a copy of the card for me and told me he would send it to me ASAP, which hopefully means I'll be able to add the scans of this card to the catalog within the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, if you want to see what this card looks like, just do a search on eBay with the keywords "Kirby e-Reader".
I also have some bad news related to this Kirby promo card: I've received reports that the e-Card is not available at every Nintendo Mall Tour location. There are supposedly two of these tours going on simultaneously, but only one of them has (or had) cards to give away. Suffice it to say that if you go to one of these "Mall Tour" events, there's no guarantee that you'll find one of these ellusive Kirby Fox Box e-Cards. (Thanks go to NintendoFreak and Tena for the reports.)
As the official release date of the Game and Watch-e series draws near, I've decided to do my part in helping you complete your collection: If you look at the top of this section, you'll notice links to two special IGN forum threads. One is for discussing, the other is for trading. Hopefully, you can use these forum threads to your advantage. :-)
Someone sent me an anonymous tip about three e-Cards being packaged with the upcoming Pokémon Channel game for Game Cube (which will be released on December 1st 2003). I did some research, and I came across a picture of the game's box at GameStop.com which confirms this. I sent some e-mail to Nintendo, and this is the reply I received:
I added a mention of this new series of e-Cards to the Future Releases section, and I'll add those three Pokémon Channel promo e-Cards to the e-Card Catalog once I've learned more about them.
A few days ago, I also received some interesting information from Zander Flash about the recent release of the e-Reader in Australia: It seems the promotional e-Cards packed with the device are not the same as the ones for North America:
You'll notice that the four promo cards listed above are NOT found in the regular Pokémon Battle-e packs sold in North America! I asked Zander to give me more details, but he hasn't replied yet. If you have any information, or better yet, if you have these cards and can scan them for me, please let me know.
The official release of Pokémon-e EX Dragon is still over a week away, but Nintendo has already updated both nintendo-e-reader.com and pokemon-tcg.com with information on the new TCG expansion set. Every day between November 14th and 24th, you will find a new "featured card" on the front page of pokemon-tcg.com.
Tena has been a very busy bee this past week: She optimized all the card scans of the e-Card Catalog, which has reduced the size of each picture file by 50%! You may notice a slight loss in picture quality, but I think it's a small price to pay for the increase in available web space. Thanks Tena! :-)
I have already received some documents for the new Software Catalog section, but unfortunately, I've been too busy lately with other things to convert these documents to HTML and integrate them into the site. Hopefully, I'll have it all done by next week. No promises though.

November 22nd 2003:

I've made quite a few updates to the catalog this week! First of all, the scans of the "Kirby Slide Puzzle" card (PN 01078) have been added to the e-Card Catalog. Special thanks go to Nin10do Dude for sending me a free exemplary of this card!
Also, while we're on the subject of this Kirby promo card, it will be packed with the January 2004 issue of Nintendo Power magazine (vol. 175). In case you haven't noticed, this card is actually a promotional vehicle for the "e-Mazing Morning! Sweepstakes" held by the FoxBox. There are quite a few e-Reader-related prizes to win in this contest, so I suggest you click here and here for all the details. :-)
Kelly Opfar (a.k.a. dooskoop on PokeGym.net) supplied me with information and scans of the infamous "Pokemon-e Sample" promo cards, which have all been added to the e-Card Catalog. (I say "infamous" because each card in this group of 10 cards (PN 01078 to 01088) is extremely rare!)
The four promotional Pokémon Battle-e cards (currently only available in Australia) have also been added to the catalog.
I also added the "Gyarados" pre-release promo card to the catalog. (Thanks to Alvaro Riera for the heads-up!)
Jason Bowers informed me that I mixed up the SMA4-e Series 1 and Series 2 cards in both the catalog and the SMA4-e checklist: To be precise, I marked the Series 1 cards as being part of Series 2 and vice-versa. This has all been fixed now, so you might want to download the new version of the checklist... (I believe someone else told me about this mistake some time ago, but I didn't believe I was at fault at the time. Real sorry, whoever you are!)
I added two guides to the Software Catalog section (namely Neocoff's Air Hockey-e guide, and Mark Raby's Mario Party-e FAQ), and I also added a seventh rule to the instructions for submitting documents to this section of the site.
I've got some shockingly bad news for all of you: The release of the Game & Watch-e series has been postponed, and pushed back to an undetermined 2004 date. GameStop.com says that the cards will be released in April, but I'd say it's pure speculation at this point. I don't know about you, but I'm ANGRY! So angry in fact that I've decided to protest by not adding any more e-Card scans to the e-Card Catalog until Febuary 15th 2004! I figure if Nintendo is in no hurry to give me what I want, I shouldn't be in any hurry to give them free publicity. You'll note that I also removed the dedicated IGN forum links at the top of this page. (Thanks go to Mark Raby for the report.)
To end today's update on a happy note, I'd like to mention that the site counter passed 20000 hits last Thursday morning! It seems to me like it passed 10000 just yesterday! Thanks a lot for your support! :-)

November 29th 2003:

All the cards of Pokémon-e EX - Dragon have been added to the e-Card Catalog. (I'd like to thank UncleBob for giving me the list of cards in the "Fire Fang" and "Wind Blast" theme decks.)
There's also a new checklist for Pokémon-e EX - Dragon in the Checklists section.
Pokemon-tcg.com now sports a new "greener" look to go with the release of Pokémon-e EX - Dragon. And in the "Collecting" section of the site, there is a special announcement about some new promo cards:
By the way, did you know that the Japanese version of Pokémon Pinball Advance has e-Reader support? I sure didn't. That's one of the things I learned by visiting the e-Reader section of serebii.net. It seems Pokémon Colosseum for Game Cube will also have e-Reader support (the japanese version anyway).
Also, the latest issue of Nintendo Power (the January 2004 issue) confirms that there will be three promo e-Cards packed with Pokémon Channel for Game Cube. As if we needed any more confirmation... ;-P