966720 No.16875926
My Minish Cap cartridge has a small circular indent on the front under the sticker which my other GBA game (Rayman 3) doesn't have. The Game Boy animation also appears without the Nintendo logo and freezes but loads normally with the Nintendo logo and starts the game if I turn the system off and back on.
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966720 No.16875932
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a13284 No.16875943
Take it apart and see the print near the pins, the top is real and the bottom one is fake.
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f19b57 No.16875966
The indent on the front isn't that suspicious, most carts have it.
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9d7d02 No.16875970
Does it run? Yes, it's legitimate.
The only reason you'd care is if you want to resell it like a dirty jew
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f19b57 No.16875973
>>16875970
Fakes have stability issues.
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2bbe54 No.16876039
The nintendo on the inside isn't a garantee anymore but I've never seen a fake with the little number intended on the cover, check for that.
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e9151c No.16876059
>>16875926
Mine has that indent too and mine is definitely real since I got it new back in the day.
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76ca28 No.16876082
>>16875926
I can see that it's different from my NTSC cart, but the sticker looks like the one I know it to be out there. Bigger point of concern I find is the cartridge color. Maybe that's what they're like in PAL, but here in North America they're a dark gray rather than almost black as that photo makes it seem.
Most accurate way to know would probably be to find what the inside of a legit print of the cartridge looks like, and compare it against it. Note that not all GBA games have the same innards (hence why you'd have to find that specific cartridge).
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c1f996 No.16876122
>>16876059
The indent is actually a byproduct of both parts of the shell being injection molded, same thing with GB/C carts
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59fe39 No.16876264
I remember years back, someone trying to say my Metroid Zero Mission was a bootleg, when it came from fucking Walmart.
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76ca28 No.16876274
>>16876264
Looks like those contacts could use some cleaning.
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59fe39 No.16876278
>>16876274
That's a reflection, on the right side. The rest is mild abrasion from being used in my GBA.
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ae3b99 No.16876293
>>16876264
Honestly, there’s so many versions and reproductions of GBA carts that it’s damn near impossible to tell if it’s legit or not unless there’s something obvious going on like a clear case or the game won’t save. Unlike the fake DS carts China got pretty good at making fake GBA games.
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ae3b99 No.16876303
>>16876293
And that extends to the chips inside the carts obviously. The worst is that sometimes the US and EU chips had a different Nintendo text on the chip, and third party games has numerous versions of the Nintendo text on them.
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461085 No.16876405
I remember when I was a kid at my first con some fucker sold me a fake GBA cartridge of Pokemon. My DS couldn't even read it.
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e9151c No.16876406
>>16876264
You actually took it apart and took a picture just to prove some guy on the internet wrong?
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59fe39 No.16876422
>>16876406
No, someone asked if their version was a bootleg, so I took a pic of mine to show them what a guaranteed legit one looked like. The contrarian idiot chimed in later.
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154a53 No.16878345
>>16875973
I actually make a point to buy repros because I just want to play games on my SP, and after buying about fifteen not one has had a problem. I'm just going to start making my own in a couple months though.
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59fe39 No.16878622
>>16878345
Why not get an Everdrive, so you can play everything without dicking around with bootlegs? You can also play hacked and translated games on the actual hardware. Costs less in the long run, I would imagine.
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76ca28 No.16878651
>>16878622
>Costs less in the long run, I would imagine.
Considering how stuff like Pokemon Emerald and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow are like $50+ where I live now on their own, it wouldn't shock me. But are those even still be produced for the GBA, or have they been discontinued, the way various DS carts have been?
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59fe39 No.16878671
>>16878651
Considering the GBA has been out of production for at least a decade, I'm pretty sure games aren't still being produced.
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76ca28 No.16878705
>>16878671
I'm not talking about official games, I mean whether those GBA Everdrives are still being made.
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59fe39 No.16878721
>>16878705
Of course, but the easiest way to find out would have been to simply visit Krikzz's site.
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154a53 No.16879133
>>16878622
Because I think making my own repro carts would be fun.
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a004fd No.16889638
>>16878705
Ez flash omega and ez flash jr have the same features as the everdrives for cheaper, I'm thinking about getting them and I have an Ezflash iv and gb and gba everdrives, for perspective
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815246 No.16890703
>>16875926
It has been awhile OP, is your GBA cart legit or not?
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