This has become rather childish...
To validate any of OMGba's (or their 'fanbase's') claims, one needs to step back and offer evidence that a dump and a pre actually happened. To tell the brutal truth, there were no mentions of the game being dumped by OMGba between 2-4 days ago (after they 'pre'd' and before Sir VG released their dump). The sad fact is that there is none of this proof...the 'proof' only started appearing after Sir VG had dumped and released the game, and only in the form of "Uh...OMGba did it first. Yeah." or "This is a dupe, noob!".
Even if you work under the assumption that OMGba did, genuinely, dump the game, and "spread it to the gba romsites" (as people like TPi and Admiral keep monotonously chanting), what reason did said "gba romsites" have for not posting the rom? I mean, show a dog a piece of meat and he'll jump for it, right?
Considering this, we come to the ultimate conclusion that OMGba may have indeed dumped and packed the game, but failed to release it at all (ie 'hoarding'); Sir VG releases the game 4 days later without any action by OMGba to secure the game they worked to get and dump (through any means; I don't really care how groups get their cartridges) and a few fans/members of the group become infuriated over the possibility of 'dupage' when OMGba is at fault for not releasing their game properly
4 days before Sir VG. Their pack
still hasn't come to light, so they may not have gotten as far as packing, or even dumping! If they have the cartridge at all, it could very well still be sitting, undumped, on a desk somewhere.
You can't expect to be given a gold medal by sitting in front of the finish line.
So here we are now. Sir VG's dump spreads like wildfire (like they always do) within 2-3 hours of pre. OMGba's dump is still absolutely nowhere to be seen, supposedly after
4 days. There's 2 reasons for this: 1) OMGba really, really sucks at releasing, and should find a new means of doing so, or 2) Their Shrek 3 dump is a myth, perpetuated by TPi (who indeed formerly worked with Sir VG, now works with OMGba...but that's a story for another day).
Concerning the theory of Sir VG repacking or relabeling the rom, that's impossible. Not only would OMGba's dump have to have been available
at least somewhere for Sir VG to find it, but considering Sir VG's standard procedure of including a cartridge scan with the games, which is unique to Sir VG, proves that Sir VG had a cartridge, and had no reason to repack. Checksums matching between the 2 files is evidence of it being a good, clean dump, not repacking.
OMGba? If you're listening...I'd pre that MLB game right quick...it's still fair game, you know...
Edit: Rephrased certain bits to work better with online translators, just in case
i like to disagreee. i have not seen the -SirVG release anywhere so i dunno how you can say it spread like wildfire. especially when i see the omgba one on like 4 sites.
also all major pretime-dbs have the -OMGba release listed, so they should've noticed that.
anyway, more proof that omgba was first
[17:40] starting all-search for "omgba" ...
[17:40] Handheld Console:
[17:40] 2007-05-15 04 4 mb 1 05a 10Shrek_the_Third_USA_GBA-OMGba
[1] 200- Doing case-insensitive search for 'Shrek_the_Third_USA_GBA-OMGba':
[1] 200- --> Shrek_the_Third_USA_GBA-OMGba (1F/4.0M/5d 13h)
omg-sttu.zip
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  ÂIT IS FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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