Fake games flooding the market

What is up with fake games these days?
There has been a HUGE influx of (((sellers))) on eBay listing clear fakes, and reproductions, rarely is it disclosed.
If you are into collecting games do keep your eyes open for nintendo games specifically, especially first party titles, they are almost always fakes.
Pic related is a fake Doom II GBA game just listed on ebay, besides the obvious incorrect shell colour, notice anything?

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It's your fault for not emulating.

Emulation doesn't feel as nice my friend, not to mention you don't have the physical game.

Neither do you, you have a fake

>19993

>notice anything?
It's a Doom game on a Nintendo console?

Then make a fake then? Problem solved

No, I don't own this piece, I make sure all my games are real, I've only ever bought a fake once and I promptly got a refund.
Yep, also the lower print quality, this is what a real Doom II cart looks like, see pic.
That's the funny thing, both Doom I and Doom II were censored, and a lot of Doom I had removed content, a lot of the hell section is gutted, missing sprites, whole levels are gone and most are different from the MS-DOS version. But Doom II is presented almost unchanged, besides a few visual differences, and supports 4 player co-op! There is your fun fact for today.
Now that just doesn't feel right bud.

The red looks kinda cool.

I miss colored carts.

>Doesn't feel as nice

Wow you must be doing it wrong, are you trying to emulate on a toaster?

I just prefer holding the controller or console man.

Then plug in a controller.

>emulation meme
No, no thanks

Chinese are mass producing them. I wouldn't mind as much if they SAID they were fake but they fucking pass them as real. Also the batteries are always garbage. Don't ever play a fake RPG.

>garbage quality chink controller
i'd rather splice and terminate a real controller to usb

Being fake is one thing but they dont even work properly

if it's the buffalo classic, it's jap made and pretty damn good. no need to hack up a perfectly good vintage controller

Just use one of these instead.

Nah some people just prefer not to emulate if possible. If you enjoy emulators, good for you.

I like that the bootleggers didn't put Nintendo's official seal of quality on the fake. That was nice of them.

>just prefer not to emulate if possible
They're just retards. Don't try to justify their actions.

It's on the right side?

what if I want to play my gameboy advance games anywhere but where I have a computer set up

Reminder that Nintendo's anti-piracy fixation stems from the days of third-party pirate copies. Nowadays piracy has taken the meaning of simply duplicating data for free, but actual bootlegs were and still are a problem for both customers (who want a properly functioning product) and publishers (who don't get anything from the sale of a product that is theirs)

Buffalo's are clearly labeled as such.

Eww, not thanks

Yeah, it's really a pain, the laziest fakes are easy to spot, but ones that put effort in you won't be able to tell without popping open the cartridge.
Not a fan of third party controllers.
Still don't like emulating either!
That's a bitch too when it comes to RPGs, the batteries often last a week at most.
Then use an emulator, if you wanna use one, go ahead, I just don't!

are you 100% sure its fake ? i know doom for snes had red catridge. i know i bought a fake gba game but i saw that on the boxart it was really bad resolution

thanks for the catch. didn't feel like digging mine out

>They're just retards
>says the emulatorfag
Irony

here, I'm actually on your side with this one. I emulate a bunch of shit but if it's available I'll always opt to play it on original hardware.

>If you are into collecting games
you are a literal retard

>cartridge says it was released in 19993
>Real cartridge looks like

Yeah the GBA game is fake, note the trademark year. The GBA versions of doom used a plain black shell.
The SNES Doom did have a red shell though.

Emulate it on a more comfortable handheld. Preferably one with a backlight and a good form factor since no official GBA had both. You can store every GBA game ever and play them on a screen that isn't shit while also being comfortable, something that's just not possible unless you've got an original GBA with an SP screen modified into it and a flash cart ready to roll.

emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Game_Boy_Advance_emulators
Scroll down to see platforms other than PC.

>tfw flash carts disgust me but I can't bring myself to pay the price people are asking for anymore
I wish I was smart enough to start collecting years ago.

haha feel really stupid now i did not notice the year

>Emulate
Eww, no thanks

Stop buying stuff from third world countries

>Buying games is stupid!
>Instead buy a new, expensive device to play roms on and either deal with a smudgy piece of shit touchscreen, or buy one of those retarded bluetooth controllers and look like the king of the jackasses!

>Now that just doesn't feel right bud.
okay at this point you're just being needlessly nitpicky
i can understand wanting to play games on the original console, but you're insane if you think there's any difference between how an original game and a replica game feels

>I'll always opt to play it on original hardware.
>Still don't like emulating either!
Why? Any rational reasons, or is it just emulation is scary?

>19993

>Game hoarding collector faggots ruin the market and allow scalpers to fester
>Why am I being milked like an asshole? ;_;
You deserve it, kill yourself.

It's only gonna get worse from here user.
>checked some game collecting reddit board to see what the community was like a while back
>one of first posts was saying no collector should play their games they buy
>tfw old games I've bought or have owned for years are all I play
>other posts are just \NES mini drama, craigslist scam warnings, or people new to the hobby complaining they got scalped.
reddit was a mistake

I actually play the games I buy, I don't resell them and my friends play them too every few weeks when they come over.
What does that make me?

>I emulate a bunch of shit
Another reason I guess a retard on Sup Forums wouldn't understand, I like being able to bring my games over to a friend's house or some shit.

What's the game though?

because with the advent of the NES and SNES classics people have started getting into "collecting" games, so fakes are experiencing a renaissance so to speak.

They were popular in the early 2000s too. It comes and goes and waves.

Also the most obvious things about that cart to me as a collector are:

>The label
wrong color, flat red is just wrong.
>The copyright date
19993? lel
>id logo
it's wrong. Too new for when the game was made.

>doom is so popular it's still being remade thousands of years in the future

The one decent person among hoarder cunts.

I have tried it but it just doesn't feel the same.
Maybe I'm autistic, I do collect old games after all.

>logo
They look the same.

As though you don't look like the king of jackasses walking around with a fucking GBA.
Aside from that you're a retard because
1. It doesnt have to be new
2. It doesnt have to be expensive
3. Even if it were the added functionality and free games more than make up for any price.

Who said anything about touchscreens or Bluetooth controllers?

You've got both PSP and DS, or at least you should, which are both far better options than original hardware unless of course you happen to have a modded original GBA with an SP screen and flash cart to go with it.

I know it's only going to get worse, but I spent so long as a money-less NEET that my wallet is tighter than a fishes asshole now. On top of that, there's barely any garage sales around here so my only option is buying from online sellers or retro game stores where they're even more expensive. God I hate Australia.

>says collecting games is for retards
>mad that people collect games because it makes it hard for people to collect games

>put some things on eBay a while back
>original gba with a replacement plastic cover for the screen
>games listed seperate that were 100% authentic as well
>take tons of photos, go into great detail about condition and even put in listings to not be shy if you have additional questions
>worked at a fucking vidya store for years before the collecting craze, know my shit and how to spot fakes
>some guy buys this gba and a few games
>leaves positive feedback but says all of it is bootleg or fake

I think this is perfectly fine, you can buy games all day for under five bux a piece on Aliexpress, people selling them for 50 bux on Etsy are scum sure but I don't have a problem with the cartridges existence
Gives people an avenue to enjoy cheap physical copies of games that otherwise wouldn't be on cartridge, plus if you have the know-how they're all reflashable
you can do stuff like put SMA4 with the eReader levels on them
also the batteries are fine, they're just the same kind of battery as in any other cartridge, and if you're still superstitious you can replace the battery
Publishers don't deserve shit for neglecting their back catalogue, I don't get the rationale behind 1:1 copies of released games either but the people making repros of rom hacks and fan translations are doing the community a service
you get a full physical copy for the price of a virtual console title, it's really a no-brainer
>proceeds to post PAL version with all the shit in the wrong place when the bootleg uses the correct NTSC label
pal sucks shit
>I make sure all my games are real
>not buying repro and fan translation titles for your collection intentionally

I like you user. I kinda know how you feel on gba games at least, since I had one as a kid and collected the cartridges since this was before emulation was as widespread and easy as it was now, my GBA SP saw a lot of use. Though even back in those days fakes were common, especially when you go to asian countries. Most of the time you can tell from the shitty plastic and clearly photocopied label. I wouldn't even mind the fakes were it not for the fact that the battery in them that keeps the save data alive dies really quickly.

That said, some bootleg games were kinda cool to play like pic related. I got the game in box and everything.

Nowadays I emulate, but I understand the appeal of playing it on the original hardware. The GBA consoles were nice to hold and play on. I mostly used a cfw PSP and later an Xperia Play to emulate GBA games for that reason since my original SP died.

Game collecting is fine if you actually fucking play what you collect.
Game collecting for the sake of jerking off to your shelf and trying to attain a "perfect collection" for a specific console makes you a faggot.

>As though you don't look like the king of jackasses walking around with a fucking GBA.
I've seen plenty of people hauling around SP's and GBC's and shit as recently as this year, even normies are down with shit like that.

>plus if you have the know-how they're all reflashable
Any links to places where I can read how to do this?

Oh you're totally right on that one then. Even for comics and vinyl and shit I don't see the point of having something you've got no interest in aside from completing a checklist.

Is emulation somehow incompatible with bringing games over to a friend's house? You can emulate games on more than just a PC, and a simple USB stick can hold entire game library's along with emulators needed to play them. If anything carrying a single USB stick and a USB controller is far simpler than an entire console, all the cables needed to hook it up, double that if he's only got a modern HDMI TV and you need to convert the analog signal to digital plus all the games you want to play. That's a fucking hassle and a half.

>it just doesn't feel the same.
>Maybe I'm autistic
I guess that's a good a reason as any.

yea i play games on the original hardware if i've access to it, but don't really care too much if the game itself is "real". most of the time i just use modded consoles

but one thing about cheap replicas is that you pay money for those and sometimes those don't even work properly.

Newest generation of bootlegs work every bit as well as real carts, don't believe the misinformation
The labels on N64 repros actually look better than the real ones now because they have laminate the originals didn't have

So what do I play the emulators on when I bring them over to my normie friend's house who only has a laptop, because if you say we should just crowd around his fucking netbook you're a true rube.

bennvenn.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/reader-writer-gen2
these things support reading and writing cartridges and their save data

I'm from Australia too, so I have to pay out the ass for everything as no one here actually has anything, and anyone that does charges so much god damn money for it.
I got no problems with reproductions, as long as they are clearly disclosed, people that list them without disclosing are dick heads.
Also god I wish there was an English release of Mother 3.
Yeah, I always liked GBA because to me it's so cool how they crammed so much shit into those tiny things, whereas GB and GBC carts are pretty damn big.
That did make for some awesome huge cardboard boxes with the latter two though.
They have been "better" these past few years but they still don't work as well, at least according to friends and numerous forum posts, why can't chinks make saving work in RPGs?

Just Emulate

Its much easier

Theres r4 for ds line too, if you want to be a fag about "how it feels unffff"

For cartridge based consoles just buy a flashcart at this point, honestly
Unless you want to collect games, and loose cartridges are kinda meh to collect honestly, so you'll want them CIB which is much less common for bootlegs to come up unless it's something like neogeo

i've ran into problems with multiplayer with repro cards on GB, with the pokemon ones.

>pass up on some games years back
>figured I could find them in the future no problem

I was right but prices are so fucking insane I refuse to pay what people are asking now. There was a point in time when I bought Snatcher for $100 and thought it was too pricey. That's a joke and far away dream now for most and that's fucked.

>his fucking netbook
If your friend is a total tech illiterate just bring your laptop/raspi/whatever hook it up to his HDMI TV and play from that. This shit isn't rocket science and still far easier than lugging around original hardware, all the shit needed to hook it up to a modern display, plus whatever games you want to bring over.

Why do you come on here just to lie?

>I'm from Australia too,
my man

Yeah, recently I notice a bunch of retro game shops opened up. They buy and sell old games but the prices vary wildly depending on the game, especially N64 games. Bad if you want to collect, though I already have a big collection from when I was a kid that includes some games now considered rare including two copies of Snowboard Kids 2

So instead of bringing over shit I already own, I should spend money on more hardware.

Maybe he went to a retro game collector's convention?

Hey I had a real sperg of a coworker who brought in a GBC and it actually got some of our more normie coworkers talking to him. Like I know niggas here don't have jobs or shit but it happens.

I saw one near Brisbane that had retarded prices, they sold old vinyls for bands no one has heard of.
The absolute state of Australia

So not only is your friend a total tech-illiterate retard but you are as well? Jesus, what a unending nightmare you must live.

How does not owning a raspberry pi make me tech illiterate.

A netbook surely can be hooked up to a television and loaded with roms, right?

>I'm from Australia too, so I have to pay out the ass for everything as no one here actually has anything
It's honestly fucking horrible. I went to a local market maybe 4 years ago looking for a SNES, found 4 of them but all of them were $180+. The friend I went with was looking for a DKC2 cart, found one, it was chewed on by a dog and was missing the label with the name written on in marker. The guy trying to sell it was asking for fucking $85. Even the few times I've found shit at random garage sales, they're still at shitbag prices because even 75 year old fucks can check ebay for a price and still throw $10 on top of that.

Considered learning Japanese at one point so I could just import most games for $20~ but that's way too much effort.

Why should I buy USB controllers if I already have all the hardware I need to play the games?

I wouldn't imagine even 1 out of 500,000 people that you see day to day on the bus or subway having a GBC of GBA with them to play let alone playing it in public.
Your retard friend did some novelty stupid shit and it was a conversation starter, like all novelty things are. Doesn't mean those people are all heading out to buy and play Gameboys by any means.

Also we didnt even take into consideration your job demographic either, I'm willing to bet this didn't happen at a construction site.

You kinda can't disclose them on eBay or you'll get fucked in the ass by their own rules
My preferred term to describe it is "aftermarket" myself

We're talking about whether or not my coworker having a game boy makes him look like a jackass, and it obviously doesn't. Do you think pulling out a controller you carry around to play phone games would look more normal at a construction site?

Does anyone remember this monstrosity?

You asked what to play the games on and said you didn't want to crowd around a tiny screen. I said a netbook might have some video out and enough power to emulate. I was simply answering that question and making a suggestion.

If you don't have USB controllers and don't want to go down the emulation route that's fine dude. Not even the same user that was calling you tech illiterate, just trying to offer advice.

It doesn't, having absolutely nothing and knowing absolutely nothing is the problem.

I mean I said "laptop/raspi/whatever" and apparently you don't even have 'whatever'. You've got no laptop, your friend doesn't have a PC comparable to a $35 microcomputer, you don't either apparently, you don't have a USB stick, you don't have a PSP, you don't have a phone. All you apparently have is a 20+ year old console that you lug around with you in a caveman sack as you go over to your friend uguluk's cave to talk, presumably about rocks.

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>What's up with fake games these days?
Collecting retro games is in now, so there's money to make with fakes. It's not rocket surgery.

you're so intelligent bro I hope you use that brain power to make raspberry pi emulation tolerable

My b thought I was arguing with that tech illiterate guy.

I have a desktop. I don't need a laptop because I already can do anything I'm interested on any other hardware I own. My muscles aren't all fucked and atrophied so it doesn't fuck up my arms to carry a super nintendo and a couple games to my friend's house once in a while. If it costs $0 to just do what I've been doing, why pay $35+ to change that?

BECAUSE DUDE RASPBERRYS LMAO

what else would they use their impulse micro computer purchase on?

That's what fucks me up, there's plenty of cool projects you can use those things for, and these small-minded faggots use it to play super nintendo.

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