How can you trust buying games from ebay / amazon if they are bootlegs...

How can you trust buying games from ebay / amazon if they are bootlegs? I'm having trouble whether or not to buy used GBA games from amazon.

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Only buy from verified sellers

ebay will always be on your side if a seller doesn't give you what you want.

You can't. Even if it looks real, don't buy anything unless the seller posts pics of the cartridge from multiple angles. There's usually something on the back that can give away an obvious bootleg

Get an everdrive

good one


Next you're gonna tell him to pirate somebody's wallet

does it play?

yes?

then why do you FUCKING care, you fucking cuck

I only buy them if they come complete in box. Be especially wary of pokemon gba and aria of sorrow. Theres so many bootlegs of those

Just emulate them. It's free and GBA games can be emulated on almost anything.

>emulating

If the money from a game sale doesn't go to the game developers, there's absolutely nothing wrong with pirating said game.

>LiCFNSED

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See, this kind of shit just makes me want to pirate their games even more.

Nintendo can go fuck themselves, especially with the shit they've been pulling in recent years.

I genuinely hope they go bankrupt. Shame that'll never happen.

Like I give a fuck.

Ebay is extremely buyer friendly. You can hit not as described and get the item for free 99% of the time. I do it regularly to get free shit

From my experience, Amazon allows refunds for bootlegs. Can't speak for Ebay.

As someone who owns lots of consoles, I don't get collecting GBA games. There's no CRT elitism involved, so emulation is easier AND it looks better AND it's free.

To be fair, I already own most gameboy games I'd ever want.

I'd rather fuck over legit ebay sellers than give money to bootleggers though.

It's just a meme, don't reply to it.

I've had a number of games give me issues with emulation, sometimes with sound, sometimes with graphics. Though maybe it's just the emulator I'm using.

Are you seriously that unfamiliar with the SMA2 cartridge to not know which ones real?

I just want an excuse to use my old reaction images, sorry.

A noble endeavor.

That's a fine reason, but OP for instance should just play it on a SNES if he wants the perfect experience.

I really like how when this was posted before, I asked for source, and nobody provided it.

I will ask again: Source. There's no source? Then please fuck off and stop derailing threads.

I guess he wants the option to play as Luigi.
Or portably.

I played a lot of GBA games on both my psp and my real GBA, and yeah, there are some differences.

Maybe not on the PC emulator, though.

Not that guy, but are you really too fucking retarded to fact check something yourself? It's as simple as googling "nintendo emulation."

nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#emulator

I wanna buy F-Zero GX on Amazon, used is fine. Which sellers can I trust?

This. Check out the sellers rating etc, if someone else had a shitty experience you will find it there.

I'm sure PC emu is better (I'm using a PSP one) but then you'd lose the portable aspect. May or may not be a major deal-breaker.

I feel like bootleg copies aren't that big of a problem on anything but gameboy advance or gameboy

Good.

You don't need to reply for me two times. I was just asking source, not replies.

>He doesn't know that fake GBA games don't hold a save over a day.

Enjoy playing the first level over and over again.

sorry senpai, my bad

Okay, seriously. I'm all for doing stuff legally and I'm usually on the devs' side on this issue, but there's just too much bullshit for me to ignore here.

>not being able to download a game I already own

But AFAIK it's already legal to make your copy digital and to use it for yourself however you see fit. In the end it's the same for them whether I download a working ROM or if I make one myself.

>The introduction to emulator created to play illegally copied Nintendo software represents the greates threat to date to the intellectual property rights of video game developers

How much bullshit can a company spout? The biggest threat is having some 20-something dude make a product that is more convenient to have than yours, i.e. you're not using your big million company to make a good product.

I payed like 10 bucks to have my GBA4iOS on my iPhone for a year. I PAYED for "illegal" stuff, but what I cared about is that I have my iPhone loaded with games. If Nintendo does that then I'll switch to Nintendo.

>Agree on third point even if they don't adress it.

>Not legitimizing "piracy"

If you make it legal it's no longer piracy you dumb fuck. Contact the emu makers and make it legal, it won't hurt much the ones that already emulate stuff like GBA or SNES, those things are a bitch to have today.

Which leads to...

>it's illegal

Fuck you. I don't care. It's more convenient. Help us play your fucking games or we won't give you your money. I won't pay a random dude for a GBA to have cartiridges and shit, that's not convenient. I like playing my games at school and I don't want to look like an asshole with a GBA AND I can have more functions on a device I already have. Step it up.

>current availability irrelevant
>we don't want you to play our games if we can no longer profit from them

Fuck youuuuuuu.

That makes me question about one thing:

Were emulators first created to be able to play retail console games in PC, or pirate? Or is it both?

both.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleemcast!

As far as I understand it if they started turning a blind eye (or outright condoned) treating their old games as if they were public domain or freeware then they may not be able to hold onto their rights to the characters introduced in those old games. Imagine if Mario or Link became public domain characters that belonged to nobody, their image would evaporate into newly-legitimized fanfics and awful games.
Then you have the issues of dumbasses conflating romhacks with genuine games and getting a bad opinion of Nintendo, or people making undeserved ad revenue from the sites that host ROMs.

Yeah someone was selling aria and harmony on amazon as individual carts (not the one that's both of them) for like 20 quid, sucks they weren't real, but glad i noticed. Pretty shit fakes if you don't even bother to get the age rating right

Does it look real?

Shit forgot pic, what is WRONG with me today

Would they actually lose their rights to the ACTUAL IP and not the game itself?

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Do fakes have a problem with being able to work properly, or do you just want the authenticity? I was considering getting repro carts for things like mother 3, terranigma, and the ff4 retranslation.

Amazon will help you out if you get sent a fake game.

Only buy games from Ebay top verified sellers, which isn't hard. Also, take time to research the photo to see if it's fake.

Looks real to me.

Can you see a small number imprinted in the label? I think legit games have something like that.

Look at the ESRB rating and you can tell it's made with a cheap printer.

I sometimes go for bootlegs if it's something we never got like Mother 3. I'm still trying to find a $5 Metroid 2 DX, I should have bought one when I had the chance but it looks like AliExpress cracked down on all the sellers.

Any seller with a 95+ rating

This is actually a really fucking terrible thing for good sellers, because as of now, buyers have retarded amounts of power to where you can make any shit up about what you bought, and claims always require an impossible burden of proof to where they're just security theater, and you always lose. They even changed things to where you can't leave negative feedback towards buyers at all, so scammy buyers are free to continue being scammy buyers with nothing negative on their end happening

While I absolutely understand that sort of thing, I'm still annoyed as hell about them taking down that Metroid II remake that was entirely a fanmade passion project when Nintendo themselves weren't doing jack shit for Metroid's 30th Anniversary, as well as taking down that comprehensive archive of the first half of Nintendo Power issues. Protect your IP from being in shitty mobile apps, but don't stop fans from celebrating your IP when they're doing things you aren't willing to do

>current availibility irrelevant
THEN FUCKING SELL DIGITAL COPIES OF YOUR GAMES YOU CUNTS
IM NOT SHELLING OUT HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS FOR GAMES THAT ARE OVER A DECADE OLD
WHAT ABOUT WHEN THE GAMES STOP WORKING ENTIRELY? TOUGH SHIT? EAT. FUCKING SHIT
200% MAF

This, I'm just a regular guy with lots of old games that I don't want anymore. I took good care of my stuff when it was new and I know for a fact that I've never sold anything that was seriously fucked up or didn't work on my machine. But still I get all these buyers like "I had to slam the disc on the table it before it would work. s.m.h." leaving neutral feedback with impunity

One small point to mention too: FUCKING SELL GBA GAMES FOR THE FUCKING 3DS. THE 3DS AMBASSADOR SHIT/GBA INJECTIONS ON HOMEBREW CLEARLY SHOW THAT THE 3DS CAN HANDLE GBA GAMES, YET YOU'RE FORCING PEOPLE TO PLAY THESE HANDHELD GAMES ON THE FUCKING WII U. FUCK. YOU.

>ET YOU'RE FORCING PEOPLE TO PLAY THESE HANDHELD GAMES ON THE FUCKING WII U. FUCK. YOU.
What's wrong with the Wii U?

>Not requiring you to return the product in order to get a refund
Sounds like a shit hole.

Ideally, they would make them available for both and add support for cross buy but Nintendo is retarded.

Right now, Nintendo has both the SNES and the GBA port of Super Mario World on the Wii U eshop. There is no reason for the GBA version to be on there because most of the changes made to that version were to compensate for it being on a handheld.

Meanwhile, we still haven't gotten Mario Kart 64 in the US while Europe has had it since Christmas.

>The problem is that it's illegal.

I tried to buy some of the GBA Pokemon games on Ebay awhile back. Tried multiple sellers and always wound up with obvious counterfeit cartridges with wrong shaded plastic and wrong ID numbers that wouldn't even save properly. The pictures advertising the item were never what I actually got. Called the sellers out on it and got my money back but the experience turned me off using eBay for that stuff.

What about Amazon?

Handheld games should be made available to play on a handheld. It's cool that WiiU's an option, but it's completely fucked that 3DS isn't one.

>Gameboy Advance is in thick letters
Looks legit to me

To be fair, AM2R's creator hasn't been C&D'ed. It's only places hosting the project that have been shut down.

Easy. If you get a bootleg, report them to eBay.

Is there a comprehensive source for good pictures of legitimate Advance game cartridges, or does just googling usually do the job? I'm getting awfully paranoid now. I feel like I need to check my boxed Super Star Saga I got a couple years ago now.

It is. Unless you're a tip top seller with THOUSANDS of positive feedback AND eBay certified you WILL lose most of the time when fighting with shit buyers.

Much safer usually if you are buying from a store and not an individual but legit mint condition GBA games can go for $70+ easily there.

Handhelds suck tho, so nothing of value was lost.