I got ripped off a few times with 'new' games. Especially with DS ones - they had the manual and everything, but they were packaged in a strange shrink wrap and the game kept crashing before I could reach the next save point, so I ended up giving up.
TL;DR: be careful when buying cheap new games on ebay.
Fake / Reproduction Nintendo Game Boxes?
Re: Fake / Reproduction Nintendo Game Boxes?
- Shmuk Lidooha
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darkNiGHTS
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Re: Fake / Reproduction Nintendo Game Boxes?
Fake GBA And NDS games are very common and easy to get. If you're ordering on eBay, never order from China, you can be 100% sure it's a fake. They're very cheap to produce and can sometimes work very well, but the part about a fake game is that you're trusting a battery that was chosen because of price, not because of known reliability. I had a fake GBA game that I bought and got the refund from eBay and I decided to play it anyway. I had about 5 hours into the game and the save battery died.
- BurningDoom
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Re: Fake / Reproduction Nintendo Game Boxes?
It says "Custom" box in the description, he's not trying to pass it off as the real-deal.Hobie-wan wrote:Definitely. The front of the box has all that barren black space. If one reads the description does say 'custom' down there for the people paying attention.
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Consoles Owned: Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Super GB, N64, Gamecube, GB Player, Wii, Sega Power Base Converter, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, TurboGrafx-16, PlayStation, PS2 Slim, XBox, XBox 360, Game Boy, GBC, GBA-SP, DS, Game Gear, GG Master Converter