Bootleg cart at Gamestop = fail

[Hobie-wan]

I recently purchased a pirated GBA version of The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak, off eBay.

Heh, nice Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure there. *cough*

Man, they didn't even try with the text molded on the front of that cart.

[Troglodyte]

Heh, nice Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure there. *cough*

Why are we talking about Pitfall? lol
I couldn't find that game mentioned in the thread...
maybe this was a joke that went over my head (I did not try to rhyme there lol).

I suppose it makes sense... I tend to wright a lot lol

[Hobie-wan]

Heh, nice Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure there. *cough*

Why are we talking about Pitfall? lol
I couldn't find that game mentioned in the thread...
maybe this was a joke that went over my head (I did not try to rhyme there lol).

I suppose it makes sense... I tend to wright a lot lol

AGB-APFE-USA is the code for Pitfall. Like my bootleg cart, the label just has a random code from another game on it. Mine could have had the right one since the game was released for GBA, but yours just has a random one since its a bootleg port.

[noiseredux]

I recently purchased a pirated GBA version of The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak, off eBay.

Obviously, this game was only released on the NES, and not on GBA. I was really hoping that this was going to be a hacked version of The Flintstones: Big Trouble in Bedrock, which is the only Flintstones game released on the GBA. The hack would have been easy enough to achieve, noting the similarities in both graphics and game play. Instead, they decided to use a version of PocketNES, and burn it to a cart along with the original ROM. At least the front cover sticker is in good shape and a nice touch.

It plays pretty well, unfortunately the version of PocketNES they used appear to have minor graphics glitches during the talking sequences of the game. However, this does not really have an impact on the game play itself. They used some unaltered version of the v9.97 release. Even though this isn't really a "hack", I am still happy with my purchase, as this game seems very rare, and is still highly playable. It seems a nice addition to my collection.

Unfortunately, it appears by looking at the PCB, that there is no way to upgrade the version of PocketNES that is on the cart; as this does not even use a flash cart. I plan to tuck this PCB safely away in storage and use my own flash cart PCB to produce an upgraded version of the PocketNES emulator with just this ROM on the cart. This would in theory also allow me to save game states and other emulator settings; a feature I can not use on the real pirate cart.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a highly compatible flash cart?
I am also looking for one that is not much bigger than what is necessary to
hold the one ROM and the PocketNES emulator itself.
It should also not be very expensive.

I have provided pictures of this pirate cart for your enjoyment.

By the way; in addition to the real NES version I recently sold;
I also own a pirated Famicom version, and I recently won
a pirated Super Famicom version of the same (?) game.

The Super Famicom version has not arrived yet.
I am hoping that it is a hacked version of The Flintstones Treasure of the Sierra Madrock for SNES, if not its own port.

that's freakin' awesome man. I'd love to find some GBA pirate-ports!

[dedalusdedalus]

Check this out, it's a bootleg Castlevania Double Pack that I just bought from Gamestop. I figured it was a variant cover. It's a pretty good bootleg--the sticker is pretty good and the cart looks just like all my other GBA games.

The giveaway was that the cart reads "AGB-BWIE-USA," which is the item number for Winx Club, not Castlevania...

http://www.vgrebirth.org/games/game.asp?id=26445

Here's a pic:

[SpaceBooger]

After reading this post, I learned that the two GBA carts Ive ordered off ebay were bootleg - Shining Force and Lunar. Neither one have the NINTENDO screen printing... Now I know why Lunar doesn't save anymore.

[noiseredux]

does anyone else have any bootleg carts that are original... meaning not just a bootleg of an easily available GBA game. The ones that I find interesting are like the Flintsones one mentioned above: unreleased games, ROM hacks, NES games with emulator on a GBA Cart, etc...?

[Troglodyte]

Does anyone else have any bootleg carts that are original... meaning not just a bootleg of an easily available GBA game. The ones that I find interesting are like the Flintsones one mentioned above: unreleased games, ROM hacks, NES games with emulator on a GBA Cart, etc...?

I have recently acquired a real bootleg multi-cart full of NES ROMs on a GBA cart; from another seller. Like you, only bootlegs of games that are ordinarily not available, are usually of any real interest to me. I will post pictures of the outside of the cart, as well as the internal PCB, as time allows.

I have also acquired several bootleg Game Boy / Game Boy Color multi-cart's that I would be glad to take and post photos of at some point as well. A few of them are repeats that I may be interested in selling soon on GameGavel; if they do not sell there, or end up being sold to someone that is a member of this forum, I will be giving them some sort of good deal / discount. If they don't end up selling on GameGavel to anyone, I will more than likely be posting them here, in the appropriate forums, with the same sort of discount that applies to members only.

I also have a few more GBA games that will be arriving in the mail over the next couple weeks or so;
I have good reason to believe at least some of them are bootlegs.

After reading this post, I learned that the two GBA carts I've ordered off ebay were bootleg

I'm not sure if any of the other GBA carts I own are bootlegs or not; but this post has certainly inspired me to go through my entire GBA game collection, at some point, and use the product code on the front to help verify the legitimacy of each game. This is a very interesting thread, and I am looking forward to seeing other individuals post their finds as well.

[Luke]

Luke wants a bootleg GBA game.

Let it be written.

[pureevil]

yaba daba do